Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Heritage Collections During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Version 2)
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Audio, Video and Data Recording Media (Revised Edition)
Canadian Conservation Institute – Electronic Media Collections Care for Small Museums and Archives (Revised Edition)
Canadian Conservation Institute – Video and Audio Recordings and 8mm Films: FAQ (Revised Edition)
Archives de France – Identification et validation de formats de fichiers
NARA – Semi-Annual Report of Records Management Oversight Activities
Alan Turing Institute (British Library) – The Challenges and Prospects of the Intersection of Humanities and Data Science
De la communauté / From the community
Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – #StolenMemory
World Bank – Records Management Roadmap
Digital Preservation Coalition – 2020-2021 Prospectus
Society of American Archivists – Revised Core Values and Code of Ethics for Archivists
ARMA – Information Governance Maturity Index Report 2020
National Information Standards Organization – Strategic Plan 2020-2023
Paper – The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives
Chapter – Ethical Cataloging and Racism in Special Collections
Publications
Archives: the Journal of the British Records Association, vol. 55, no. 1 (2020)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 86, no. 1 (2020)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 72, no. 2 (2020)
Humanités numériques, no 1 et 2 (2020)
Numéro 1 : http://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/280
Numéro 2 : http://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/407
International Image Interoperability Framework Newsletter (July 2020)
Descriptive Notes: Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists Description Section (2020)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 16, no. 6 (2020)
Bulletin des archives des Frères maristes de la province du Canada, vol. 10 no. 2 (2020)
Free eBook – Digital Preservation without Tears
Book – The Anarchivist
Book – Can we Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data
Book – A User’s Guide to Data Protection: Law and Policy (Fourth Edition)
Book – Information Graphics
Book – The Adidas Archive: the Footwear Collection
Book – Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society
Book – The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization
Book – A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection
Book – Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives
Book – Empowering the Visibility of Croatian Cultural Heritage through the Digital Humanities
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Circle of Indigenous Languages Website: Build it and they will Come
August 10, 2020
Démystifier Wikipédia: les bases pour s’y retrouver et contribuer
14 août 2020
Le Chronoscope: une machine à explorer l’envers de l’histoire
16 août 2020
The Methodology of Indigenous Digital Storytelling: a Healing Journey in Data Collection Registration
August 18, 2020
University of Waterloo – Using Archival Resources in your Online Instruction
August 19, 2020
Athabasca University and ICCROM – Heritage Conservation and Learning in the Covid World: Challenges and Opportunities
September 22, 2020
Archives Association of Ontario – The Basics of Copyright
November 25, 2020
Thinking Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and Archival Recognition
August 8, 2020
Online Training – Digital Curation and Digital Preservation
August 12, 2020
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland Virtual Training Programme – Parchment and Stationery Bindings
August 12, 2020
Online Training – Developing and Implementing Classification Schemes
August 18, 2020
Webinar – Emerging eDiscovery and Compliance Considerations in a Microsoft Teams-centric Modern Workplace
August 19, 2020
Webinar – Using TheirStory for Conducting Remote Oral History Interviews
August 20, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Technology, Process, & Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives
Video – In Conversation with Alan Corbiere, Scholar of Indigenous History in Canada and the United States
LawBytes Podcast – Colin Bennett on What the Schrems II Decision Means for Global Data Transfers and Canadian Privacy Law
McMaster University – Guide to the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections
Website – Indigenous Library and Information Studies in a Canadian Context
Video – Re-opening the UK National Archives
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland Section on Archives and Museum Podcast – Episode One: Freelancing in Heritage
Slides – Towards Knowledge Maintenance in Scientific Digital Libraries with the Keystone Framework
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Working while parenting isn’t new, most of us are just out of practice
Secret UFO files? In Canada the truth is out there online and searchable
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan opens reading room in new Regina location
BAnQ – Une activité de marche historique pour soi-même
Canadian Centre for Architecture – The Digital Now: Architecture and Intersectionality
Confederation Centre Art Gallery and University of Prince Edward Island – L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables manuscript going online
McGill University Library – Emancipation Day and painful legacies in the teaching of science, medicine, and art
Brock University researchers looking for Canada Games stories
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – 19th Century Broadside Ballads
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Manuscript album of twentieth-century photographs of Rio de Janeiro now available to explore through digital collections
Ottawa – Super library goes through design critique with panelists encouraging ‘lantern’ effect for landmark building
Burnaby museum’s local Indigenous history guide wins national award
New clue unlocks mystery of Halifax Explosion photo
Comox Archives and Museum (British Columbia) – Lorne Hotel Collage
Whistler Museum & Archives Society – A Dairy at Alta Lake
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Rehoming History
Revelstoke Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Mount Begbie
Kootenay (British Columbia) – A picture postcard romance
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – We Are Living in Historic Times
Something that’s ours: Tlingit language courses catching on in Whitehorse
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute – Reflections on Painted Caribou Hide Workshops
How museums can play a role in the fight against future pandemics
Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) photographer drives people down memory lane with his streetscape images
British Columbia couple finds war medals, photos in hidden Jumanji treasure chest
The Sounds of Solidarity: an Oral History of Rhythm Activism’s Oka and Oka II
Dématique et SAE (26) : La Fonction conservation sécurisée des données (6) : processus de conversion de formats de fichiers
Afrique / Africa
Liban – Double explosion à Beyrouth : des musées et des galeries d’art détruits ou fortement endommagés
Nelson Mandela Foundation – #MyCovid19Story: being an archivist during a world pandemic
Maurice – Port-Louis : incendie à Fon Sing Building, bâtiment abritant la National Library
Algérie – Archives nationales : hommage au collectif d’avocats du FLN
Hommage à Mohamed Sadek Moussaoui à la Cinémathèque : l’homme qui a sauvé les archives filmiques algériennes
Amériques / Americas
Des principales archives marquant l’histoire d’Haïti au cours des siècles sur le point d’être digitalisées, annonce la Bibliothèque Nationale
NARA – Do you Smell Smoke? Fire Houses, Fire Lookouts, and Fire Observation Towers
NARA – Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
National Archives investigators in pursuit of stolen valor
Library of Congress – Keep Moving Forward: Performance of the Copyright Office during Covid-19
Library of Congress – Counting Down with #19Suffrage Stories: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Hiroshima, 75 Years Later: a Survivor’s Account, Now at the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Introducing the National Institute of Health Guide Notice Encouraging Researchers to Adopt United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard
Firing of state historian latest Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum controversy
Former Smithsonian Staff Speak out Against Culture of Racism at African Art Museum
State police to escort Rhode Island’s oldest documents to new home
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – My Record Is Nowhere to Be Found on a Schedule Now What?
Maine museum, archives building to close for repairs
Yale University – Off the Path Revisited: the Voynich Manuscript
Newly Acquired Queer Film Collection at Harvard Film Archive Celebrates Butch Identity
Old Dominion University – Historical Twitter Follower Count Via Web Archives
Special Collections and University Archives at Iowa State University – Voices in Color now online
University of Texas – Archive Highlights Religious Practices, Traditional Knowledge of Baniwa in the Amazon
American Photography Archives Group – Digitizing Negatives
A digital archive is collecting lockdown letters from South Asian Americans to their future selves
Plumbing the Secrets of the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art
Long-lost 1923 silent movie turns up at Chicago Film Archives
The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing 40,000 anti-slavery documents from the 19th century
A Green New Deal for Archivists
Dispatches from a Distance: New Avenues for Empathy
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Japan – Atomic-bomb survivors seek new ways to keep their memories alive
After Atomic Bombings, these Photographers Worked under Mushroom Clouds
Brunei – Museums Dept receives over 30,000 photos from BSP archives
Malaysia – National library to display ancient Malay manuscript
Inner Mongolia compiles century-old Manchurian archives
Europe / Europa
Phases in the Development of Estonia’s Archival System and Services
Fascist banners worth millions of pounds stolen from state archive in Italy
Historical archive of the Covid-19 pandemic in Luxembourg
France – Sexe et pouvoir : Marie-Antoinette, des billets doux très politiques
Un agent de la Bibliothèque nationale de France se suicide sur son lieu de travail
What the Tuam Oral History Project tells us about Ireland’s past
National Library of Scotland – Zoom into the Shetland Islands
UK Parliamentary Archives – Emancipation: what Does it Mean to me?
UK National Archives – The defence and loss of Crete, 1940-1941 (Part 1)
British Library – LGBTQ+ Lives Online
British Library – Attending my first International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly
British Library – The maps of Matthew Paris
British Library – John Dean: Celebrity shipwreck survivor of the 1740s
British WWII soldiers use early video to send messages home
A Medieval Potion Proves Its Worth as an Effective Bacteria Killer
Breakfast at Tiffany’s manuscript sells for £377,000 at auction
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel to suspend services and put 300 workers on unpaid leave
National Library of Israel – Abraham the Pilgrim: an Islamic Perspective
International
Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry, Leading Online Family History Business, for $4.7 Billion
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
The Next Console War will Be Over User Experience