Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Preparing Pupils’ Cumulative Records for Microfilming Directives
University of Toronto – Working from Home: Records Management Guidelines
Library of Congress – Machine Learning + Libraries: a Report on the State of the Field
UK National Archives – Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20
Bibliothèque nationale suisse – Rapport annuel 2019
Washington State Archives – State Government General Records Retention Schedule (Version 6.1)
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC – Archives and Special Collections Linked Data: Navigating between Notes and Nodes
Realm Project – Test 2: Natural Attenuation as a Decontamination Approach for SARS-CoV-2 on Five Paper-based Library and Archives Materials
Fondation SAPA, Archives suisses des arts de la scène – Rapport annuel 2019
Network of European Museum Organisations – Digitization and Intellectual Property Rights in European Museums
IFLA – Library Return on Investment: Review of Evidence from the Last 10 Years
Swisspeace – Coordinating the Search and Criminal Investigations concerningDisappeared Persons
Libraries Connected – Covid-19 Safer Libraries Guide
Article – Reverting Hegemonic Ideology: Research Librarians and Information Professionals as “Critical Editors” of Wikipedia
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 2 (2020)
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 15, no. 1 (2020)
IFLA Journal, vol. 46, no. 2 (2020)
The Indexer: the International Journal of Indexing, vol. 38, no. 2 (2020)
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol. 52, no. 3 (2020)
Free eBook – Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Book – Practical Data Science for Information Professionals
Book – Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’, Photography: Picturing Privilege
Book – Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities
Book – Beyond the Master’s Tools? Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching
Book – Open Access in Theory and Practice: the Theory-Practice Relationship and Openness
Book – Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse
Book – Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma
Book – Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments
Book – Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections
Livre – Les mormons et la généalogie : FamilySearch : trouver ses ancêtres dans le monde (deuxième édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Association of British Columbia Webinar – Privacy 101: Managing Personal Information in Collections
July 29, 2020
Moving Archives: Book Launch & Moderated Discussion
August 6, 2020
Australian Society of Archivists – Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkit
Society of American Archivists – Black Lives and Archives Listening/Strategy Session
July 24, 2020
Getty Images Webinar – The Archives: Unearthing History to Tell Modern Stories
July 28, 2020
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Archive Engagement Outside the Searchroom
July 28, 2020
Webinar – Planning a Virtual Conference for Archival Organizations
July 29, 2020
Webinar – Capture and Digital Transformation in a Work-from-Anywhere Environment
August 6, 2020
2020 Arolsen Archives Online Research Seminar
October 6-7, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Author Addendum Conundrum: Trying to Solve Author Rights Negotiation Mysteries
Shekon Neechie: an Indigenous History Podcast – Episode 1: Pandemics
http://shekonneechie.ca/2020/07/18/shekon-neechie-an-indigenous-history-podcast-episode-1-pandemics/
Indigitization Website Redesign
Video – IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation Chile Shares Tips for Preserving Family History at Home
Video – OSSArcFlow Resource Release
Video – The Neil deGrasse Tyson Problem: Methods for Exploring Base Memes in Web Archives
Baladodiffusion – De la petite à la grande histoire : la mémoire de l’intime
American Library Association – COVID-19 Recovery Website
Discord Channel – UK Archive Postgrad Network
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Team with Canadian military intelligence unit data-mined social media accounts of Ontarians during pandemic
Reopening Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update for July
Tracing the History of Northern Ontario at the British Library
British Columbia Archives – Reference Room Re-opening
New museum to tell story of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia
Alberta – Province stalls on handing over records about Carpere Canada
Réouverture progressive des 10 centres d’archives de BAnQ, de BAnQ Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie et de la Collection nationale à la Grande Bibliothèque
BAnQ – Les Dix explorateurs de notre histoire
BAnQ – Le croiseur-école Jeanne d’Arc en visite au port de Montréal
BAnQ devient une agence ISNI au Québec
BAnQ – Voici 10 métiers d’antan disparus (ou presque) au Québec
Increased access to University Archives Saskatchewan and Special Collections
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – These are a few of our favourite things: Jack Layton Library
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – The Diaries of Caroline Louisa Lock
McGill University Library – Canadian Flowers Week
Whistler Museum & Archives Society – Whistler Mountain’s Expressions
Lake Country Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – The Importance of our Lakes
Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel – Anecdote de l’archiviste
Cascade City (British Columbia) cover sells for $240
Mississauga Nation launches online culture and language initiatives
New Haislakala Language Revitalization Program aims to preserve and revitalize Haisla language
Church member chronicles cathedral’s story: St. John’s is Winnipeg’s oldest Anglican parish
Interview with Paul Seesequasis explores how photography book preserves Indigenous identity
Niagara historian finds life in the stories of the dead
L’école de la vie n’a point de vacances
Afrique / Africa
Congo : les travaux engagés se précisent
Amériques / Americas
National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – Invitation to Tender: Digital Storage Solutions
NARA – Food and the War Effort
NARA – I Scream, you Scream, we All Scream for Ice Cream
NARA – The Draggin’ Wagon: an All American Soap Box Derby
Library of Congress – Can I Copyright this?
Library of Congress – Remembering John Lewis: the Power of Good Trouble
Library of Congress – Introducing the 2020 Staff Innovators
Library of Congress – Diving into Digital Content Management: an Interview with Mark Lopez
National Library of Medicine – It’s my Birthday: an Ode to Aging and to Lifespan Research
Reimagining Searching in Chronicling America
Archives of American Art – Acquisitions: Athena Tacha Papers
Cornell University – Digital Object Modeling
University of North Carolina Greensboro launches effort to document local Black Lives Matter protests
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media – American Jewish Life: a Pandemic Religion Project
Libraries have been bringing older books to digital learners: four publishers sue to stop it
Hmong women sold their embroidery in refugee camps for $1 apiece. The culture they documented is beyond value.
One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Survey Finds
Portland – Libraries chronicling personal impacts of Covid-19
Online Map Collection Provides a Peek at New York Over the Centuries
Archivists on the issues: archives and the rural-urban divide
A Look Inside Deere & Co ‘s Archives
Archives of Disc Jockey Who Broke the Beatles in America Head to Auction
An Archivist’s Exploration of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
There’s no way we can save it all: National Archives says audio-visual records will be lost
Jenny Hocking: the Australian historian who took on the Palace and won
Family history research booming amid coronavirus pandemic as more people uncover secrets
New Zealand – Archivist Gareth Winter delves through layers to brings history alive
Island Culture Archival Support – The Inaugural Kiribati Language Week
Thailand – Hundreds of ancient manuscripts stolen from Nakhon Si Thammrat Rabhabhat University
Singapore – Beyond Covid-19: the new roles libraries can play
National security law: Hong Kong’s librarians must stand firm to protect intellectual freedom
Reopening of the National Library of China
Silenced in China: the Archivists
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Private and Public Letters
Europeana – European Capital of Culture: celebrating a continent’s culture
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Mengele picked me and they took me to a hospital: the Compensation Claims of Hungarian Victims of Pseudo-medical Experiments
Eat Like you’re in the USSR with the Soviet Diet Cookbook
Czech website on the Holocaust launches database of victims labeled “cikáni” by the Nazis and their accomplices
National Library of Ireland – Behind the Scenes: Pests in your family papers
Irish government funding saves Derry-based Troubles archive from closure
Ireland – It becomes immense: one man’s solo effort to document every death in the Troubles
Trinity College Dublin – Living in lockdown: an archive of the present
National Library of Scotland – Zoom into the Orkney Islands
Digital Preservation at University of Glasgow – Theses preservation update
UK National Archives – Quantifying digital preservation risks using statistics
UK National Archives – Covid-19 and the challenge it presents to volunteering
UK National Archives – The Royal Naval inspiration behind Jane Austen’s work
UK National Archives – The voyage of HMS Dolphin: The first Europeans on Tahiti
UK National Archives – Archives and agency: Sex work and the state
British Library – We can’t wait to see you again
British Library – World of Wikimedia
British Library – Unlocking our Sound Heritage preserves 200,000 endangered sounds
British Library – Gilbert White’s influence on science
British Library – Defender of the Faith
British Library – The Perils of Diplomatic Protection in the Early 19th Century
British Library – Oral History of British Science and Transnational History
British Library – Horses for (Digital Preservation) Courses
Exposing legacy project datasets in Digital Humanities: King’s Digital Lab experience
A new initiative from the Board of Deputies will bring together material on Jewish history from all over the UK
Sir Winston Churchill: Chauffeur’s archive sells for £520
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Hejaz Railway: the Train that Connected an Empire
National Library of Israel – The Siddur that Survived the Nazis
National Library of Israel – The Nazis Failed to Destroy the Artist David Friedmann
United Arab Emirates – New York University Abu Dhab Art Gallery launches fifth digital archive
United Arab Emirates – Louvre Abu Dhabi’s permanent collection will be available online by end of this year
Turkey urges Armenia to provide archival documents about 1915 events
International
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Initiatives affected by Covid-19
Open Preservation Foundation – Virtual Research Environment for Preservation Tools
Digital Preservation Coalition – Preserving semi-current records: why are we worrying?
Why Covid-19 Has Put Records Management in the Spotlight for Healthcare Insurers
Managing email records in M365
A Small Business Guide to Records Management
Google launches hieroglyphics translator powered by artificial intelligence