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Documentary Heritage News
November 13, 2020May 2, 2021

Vol. 14, no. 11

                                                                Ressources / Resources


De l’État / From the State
National Library of Wales – Annual Review 2019-2020
http://www.library.wales/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/amdanom_ni/dogfennaeth_gorfforaethol/Adolygiad_LLGC_Saesneg_terfynol_2019_20.pdf

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Stage 2 Email Appraisal, Disposal and Preservation Project 2019-2020: Summary Report
http://prov.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/Govt%20Services%20General/Email-Stage2-Project-Summary-Report-2020.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Access Policies for Native American Archival Materials in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Case_3_Access_Policies_for_Native_American_Archival_Materials.pdf

Guide to Using Special Collections at Yale University: Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description
http://guides.library.yale.edu/specialcollections/statementondescription

Association of Research Libraries – Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning
https://www.arl.org/news/arl-cni-educause-release-building-and-managing-learning-and-collaboration-spaces-final-installment-of-emerging-technologies-report/

American Academy of Arts and Sciences – The Humanities in American Life
http://www.amacad.org/publication/humanities-american-life

Article – Challenges in Providing Reference Services in Small Archival Institutions
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol11/iss1/9/

Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 43, no. 2 (2020)
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43205

Emerging Library & Information Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 1 (2020)
http://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/elip/issue/view/1137

Data Technologies and Applications, vol. 54, no. 5 (2020)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2514-9288/vol/54/iss/5

Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 9, no. 5 (2020) 
http://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2020_1112.pdf

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 10 (2020)
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2020

British Columbia Regional Digitized History Newsletter (Fall 2020)
http://mailchi.mp/ab3ce5fd4c5a/bcrdh-fall-2020-update

Book – Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501752155/crafting-history/ 

Book – Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781138586192

Book – Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918
http://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/heard-amid-the-guns/ 

Book – A Brief History of the Bodleian Library (Revised Edition)
http://bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/coming-soon/products/a-brief-history-of-the-bodleian-library-1 

Book – The Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Poland: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Ghettos-of-Nazi-Occupied-Poland-Paperback/p/18566 

Book – Disaster Planning for Special Libraries
http://www.elsevier.com/books/disaster-planning-for-special-libraries/robertson/978-0-08-100948-2   

Book – Forensic Handwriting Identification: Fundamental Concepts and Principles (Second Edition)
http://www.elsevier.com/books/forensic-handwriting-identification/morris/978-0-12-409602-8 

Book – Time in Maps: from the Age of Discovery to our Digital Era 
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo52781741.html 

Book – Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: the Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
http://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/reuse-misuse-abuse/9780813599267 

Book – Fashion and Family History: Interpreting how your Ancestors Dressed
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Fashion-and-Family-History-Paperback/p/18558 

Book – Cyber Privacy: who Has your Data and why you Should Care
http://www.benbellabooks.com/shop/cyber-privacy/  

Book – Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538143148/ 

Book – The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781138999251 

Livre – La généalogie pas à pas : comment retrouver ses racines aujourd’hui ?
http://editions.flammarion.com/Catalogue/librio/memo/la-genealogie-pas-a-pas

Livre – Les valises de Jean Genet
http://www.imec-archives.com/editions/les-valises-de-jean-genet/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
To Look with Love: Emerging Themes on Records and Grief Work
November 13, 2020
http://ischool.arizona.edu/events/look-love-emerging-themes-records-and-grief-work-presented-jennifer-douglas

Developing a Culturally Appropriate Digital Archive for Métis Archaeological Heritage
November 13, 2020
https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1166%26reset%3D1

Quarantine Qapsule: Archiving Asian-Canadian Stories
November 18, 2020
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/quarantine-qapsule-archiving-asian-canadian-stories-tickets-121741709731

The Vatican, the Archive and the Holocaust: on Power and Truth-Seeking in the Catholic Church
November 18, 2020
https://umlearn2.webex.com/webappng/sites/umlearn2/meeting/download/4a54a21239824804bf3cadc976111fb6?siteurl=umlearn2&MTID=mcd58a40b4c9b28806af4a6a74e5d8fac

New York State-Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association Annual Meeting
November 19, 2020
https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/mpage/nyso_meetings

Webinaire – Partage d’expérience sur les services en gestion des données de recherche aux bibliothèques de l’Université de Montréal
24 novembre 2020
http://fmdoc.org/evenement/formation-fmd3s-24novembre2020/

ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Historical Inequities Community Consultation
November 25, 2020
http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu6upzMsHNYqgOsn20eq3pFx7lr_OWPw

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Annual General Meeting
November 26, 2020
http://anla.nf.ca/agm-2020

38th Annual Queen’s University Archives Lecture
November 27, 2020
http://archives.queensu.ca/38th-annual-queens-university-archives-lecture

What’s in a Data Story?  Understanding the Basics of Data Storytelling
November 30, 2020
http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI-Fo55TeSVv7L3TBR0coyJJeB4Eti43buK_y-n-PPZqjSQg/viewform

The Art of Forgetting: Memory, Loss, and Revision
March 5-7, 2021, Ottawa
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/11/06/the-art-of-forgetting-memory-loss-and-revision

Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Gestion documentaire en cas de crise
http://go.pardot.com/l/699653/2020-11-02/3cz4s6

The Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge with Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian
November 16, 2020
http://libcal.princeton.edu/event/7165312

Taxonomy of Information Risk
November 17, 2020
http://www.boisearma.org/2020-bvc-arma-november-meeting-featuring-william-saffady-presenting-taxonomy-information-risk

Web Archiving in Times of Rapid Change
November 17, 2020
http://tinyurl.com/y3mfnycc

Managing Compliance Throughout the Document Lifecycle in Office 365
November 18, 2020
http://armadetroit.org/meetinginfo.php?id=90&ts=1603480667

GIS Day 2020 at the Library of Congress: Mapping a Pandemic
November 18, 2020
http://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-073/

Information and Records Management Society – Improving Healthcare through Data Linkage Programmes 
November 19, 2020
https://irms.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1447633

Rescuing Australia’s Lost Literary Treasures
November 24, 2020
http://events.unimelb.edu.au/MLS/event/9102-rescuing-australias-lost-literary-treasures

Empowering Archives and the Profession Webinar: International Council on Archives Strategic Plan and Constitutional Reforms
November 27, 2020
http://www.ica.org/en/empowering-archives-and-the-profession-webinar-ica-strategic-plan-and-constitutional-reforms

Beginner’s Web Archiving Training
December 2-3, 2020
http://www.dpconline.org/events/members-only-briefing-day-and-webinar/beginners-web-archiving-training

Digital preservation goes nuclear: project highlights and future directions
December 3, 2020
https://www.dpconline.org/events/members-only-briefing-day-and-webinar/nda-webinar-dec20

Archival Management of Oral History Collections
December 7-8, 2020
http://www.ohs.org.uk/events/archival-management-of-oral-history-collections-online/

Archives : laboratoire de méthodes
8 décembre 2020 au 15 juin 2021
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/archives-laboratoire-de-methodes-reprise-du-seminaireseminaire-organise-par-l-ecole-nationale_98649.php

DAM and Museums
February 10, 2021
http://www.henrystewartconferences.com/events/events-dam-and-museums

Fourth Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials Conference
June 17-18, 2021
http://www.resaw2021.net/

Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – Bibliothèque et Archives Canada : entrevue avec Marcelle Cinq-Mars, archiviste militaire (à partir de 5:30)
http://www.rogerstv.com/show?lid=12&rid=5&sid=121&gid=592530

McMaster University Video – First and Second World War Propaganda
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/virtual-talk-explores-the-world-of-wartime-propaganda/

Video – Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) Presents: Dr. Julie Young on the Refuge Canada Exhibit
http://www.galtmuseum.com/articles/the-galt-presents-dr-julie-young-on-the-refuge-canada-exhibit

Australian Society of Archivists Video – Supporting and Activating the Adelaide Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous Archives
https://www.archivists.org.au/news/recording-now-available-panel-supporting-and-activating-the-adelaide-tandanya-declaration-on-indigenous-archives

Vidéo – Présentation des Archives fédérales suisses
http://youtu.be/yUql-ALAV0Q

Vidéo – Tutoriel Wikidata
http://drive.google.com/file/d/19Ro_QAGkLE8RaGiN3SxaTiPatgg-hQu4/view

Council on Library and Information Resources – Season Two of Material Memory Podcast, Cultural Memory and the Climate Crisis
http://www.clir.org/2020/11/clir-launches-season-two-of-material-memory-podcast-cultural-memory-and-the-climate-crisis/

Rap des archives
https://soundcloud.com/user-764823820/rap-des-archives

Archives départementales du Gard – Jeu de l’oie
http://archives.gard.fr//nc/toute-lactualite/detail/article/archives-du-gard-le-jeu-de-loie-des-archives-1/retour/1995.html

Archives départementales des Yvelines – Application mobile : La paix ? sentiers sonores
http://francearchives.fr/fr/actualite/261993727

Rare Books / Book History Discord Group
http://discord.com/invite/uf9dDgm

Survey by the UK National Archives on the Effects of COVID on the Sector
https://archivesportaleurope.blog/2020/11/12/survey-by-the-uk-national-archives-on-the-effects-of-covid-on-the-sector/

Slides – Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library
http://www.slideshare.net/BLdrct/archiving-interactive-narratives-at-the-british-library-by-lynda-clark-giulia-carla-rossi-and-stella-wisdom

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Public’s Right to Know More Important than Ever During Pandemic
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/public-s-right-to-know-more-important-than-ever-during-pandemic-805355998.html

Library and Archives Canada – It made you intensely proud to see it standing there: how the Vimy Memorial survived the Second World War
http://thediscoverblog.com/2020/11/11/it-made-you-intensely-proud-to-see-it-standing-there-how-the-vimy-memorial-survived-the-second-world-war/

Library and Archives Canada – Dressing the Troops: Knitting During the Wars
http://thediscoverblog.com/2020/11/10/dressing-the-troops-knitting-during-the-wars/

Preserving the bits : Library and Archives Canada’s Pre-Ingest workflow
https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-heather-tompkins-wdpd

Guy Berthiaume awarded the IFLA Medal
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2020/Guy-Berthiaume-awarded-IFLA-Medal.aspx

19th-century gospel written in Inuktitut syllabics added to Unesco world register
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/19th-century-gospel-written-inuktitut-syllabics-added-unesco-world-register-1.5784261

Dear Canadians postcard project aims to capture the pandemic moment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dear-canadians-postcard-project-1.5787329

Province launches Manitoba Remembers to bring online celebrations to Remembrance Day
http://chvnradio.com/articles/province-launches-manitoba-remembers-to-bring-online-celebrations-to-remembrance-day

BAnQ – Consultation du milieu archivistique québécois sur la révision de la Loi sur les archives
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/interactions/2020/11/06/consultation-du-milieu-archivistique-quebecois-sur-la-revision-de-la-loi-sur-les-archives/

BAnQ – Roger Varin et l’Ordre de Bon Temps
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2020/11/09/roger-varin-et-lordre-de-bon-temps/

How to search newspaper articles (and more) at BAnQ
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2020/11/how-to-search-newspaper-articles-and.html

Fédération des milieux documentaires – Lettre pour la protection des archives de St-Sulpice
http://fmdoc.org/2020/11/09/st-sulpice-lettre-2020/

Ontario – In search of missing and forgotten Indigenous children
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/opinion/contributors/2020/11/09/in-search-of-missing-and-forgotten-indigenous-children.html

University of Manitoba – In Perpetual Motion: Web Archiving Ongoing Social Phenomena
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-natalie-vielfaure-wdpd

Preserving Digits for Good: Turning Strategy into Practice at Concordia University
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-john-richan-wdpd

University of British Columbia – Processing Emotions
http://blogs.ubc.ca/hardfeelings/2020/11/06/processing-emotions/

University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – We are all Treaty People
http://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/blog/post/we-are-all-treaty-people

McMaster University – Soldiers’ letters home now available digitally, thanks to lockdown transcription project
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/soldiers-letters-home-now-available-digitally-thanks-to-lockdown-transcription-project/

McGill University – Wartime correspondence in the Madeleine Parent Fonds
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/wartime-correspondence-in-the-madeleine-parent-fonds/

Remembrance with McGill Library collections
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/remembrance-with-mcgill-library-collections/

Western University Library – Banting, Before Insulin
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/news/2020/banting.html

Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – Remembrance Day: Student Voices from 2000
http://library.ryerson.ca/asc/2020/11/remembrance-day-student-voices-from-2000/

University of Victoria – Librarian Justin Harrison pauses to imagine a library tour with John Lennon
http://www.uvic.ca/library/home/home/news/current/conversation-with-justin-harrison.php

University of Victoria – A love of music guides Librarian Bill Blair’s librarianship
http://www.uvic.ca/library/home/home/news/current/conversation-with-bill-blair.php

Black soldiers from Guelph honoured in digital project
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/black-canadian-soldiers-guelph-project-1.5797029

Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Nouveau fonds d’archives (P39)
http://archivesdutravail.quebec/2020/11/11/nouveau-fonds-darchives-p39/

Ontario Jewish Archives – Researching the Contributions of Jewish Servicewomen through Archival Resources
http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Blog/Researching-the-Contributions-of-Jewish-Servicewomen-through-Archival-Resources

Toronto Public Library – Merril Collection at 50: Stories from the Spaced Out Library
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2020/11/merril-collection-at-50-stories-from-the-spaced-out-library.html

Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Wartime letters
http://wartimeletters.thestarphoenix.com/p/1

Sault Star (Ontario) archives get a new home
http://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/sault-star-archives-get-a-new-home

Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Des décennies d’archives du journal The Record sauvées
http://mhist.org/actualites/des-decennies-darchives-du-journal-the-record-sauvees/

Cornwall – Newspaper digitization project hopes to preserve history
http://www.thewhig.com/news/local-news/newspaper-digitization-project-hopes-to-preserve-history/wcm/0337e554-8e5e-4854-addf-7622593d7a8a

Dundas Museum and Archives (Ontario) receives Covid-19 emergency support grant
http://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/10219481-dundas-museum-receives-covid-19-emergency-support-grant/

Remembrance at the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta)
http://southpeacearchives.org/2020/11/10/remembrance-at-the-archives/

Snowmageddon memories sought for Lambton (Ontario) archives
http://www.theobserver.ca/news/local-news/snowmageddon-memories-sought-for-lambton-archives

Strathcona County Museum and Archives (Alberta) – Local WWII soldier carried the spirit of the Canadian army in their fight for freedom
http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/news/local-news/local-wwii-soldier-carried-the-spirit-of-the-canadian-army-in-their-fight-for-freedom

New Strathcona County Museum and Archives mural captures sense of community
http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/news/local-news/new-museum-mural-captures-sense-of-community

Cumberland Museum and Archives (British Columbia) planning renovations
http://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/cumberland-museum-planning-renovations/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Blackcomb’s First Season
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2020/11/10/blackcombs-first-season/

Museum of Dufferin (Ontario) launches new online climate exhibit
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/11/05/museum-of-dufferin-launches-new-online-climate-exhibit.html

Vie d’archiviste : René St-Pierre
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/vie_archiviste/

Military Resources: Digitized Yearbooks 1943-1995 Victoria, B.C. Naval College
http://mygenealogylife.ca/2020/11/01/military-resources-victoria-b-c-naval-college-1943-1995/

Curator tells young Winnipeg soldiers’ Second World War stories
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/curator-tells-young-winnipeg-soldiers-second-world-war-stories-573023521.html

Wartime diary of early Greater Victoria resident depicts life during First World War
http://www.saanichnews.com/community/wartime-diary-of-early-greater-victoria-resident-depicts-life-during-first-world-war/

Long lost Bible with Fort Saskatchewan family history discovered in British Columbia motel
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/long-lost-bible-with-fort-saskatchewan-family-history-discovered-in-b-c-motel-1.5783943

The comfort of strangers: how a British family kept a slain Canadian airman’s memory alive
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/war-graves-commonwealth-second-world-war-veterans-remembrance-1.5794144

Afrique / Africa
Maroc – Accès à l’information : le gouvernement renforce le dispositif
http://leseco.ma/acces-a-linformation-le-gouvernement-renforce-le-dispositif/

Amériques / Americas
International Council on Archives (ICA) and Association of Latin-American Archivists (ALA) are pleased to announce they have signed a cooperation agreement
http://www.ica.org/en/ica-and-ala-sign-a-cooperation-agreement

NARA – National Archives Launches Voting Rights Records Portal
http://www.archives.gov/news/articles/voting-rights-portal

NARA – Civil War Veterans Remembered in the Records of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/09/civil-war-veterans-remembered-in-the-records-of-the-national-home-for-disabled-volunteer-soldiers/

Using NARA’s Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers
http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/10/using-naras-index-to-naturalizations-of-world-war-i-soldiers/

NARA – A Framework Enabling the Preservation of Government Electronic Records
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-nara-wdpd

NARA – Foreign Reaction to Reforming the Supreme Court, 1937
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/12/foreign-reaction-to-reforming-the-supreme-court-1937/

NARA – Righting a Wrong: The Return of Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblo
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/10/righting-a-wrong-the-return-of-blue-lake-to-the-taos-pueblo/

NARA – Posters of Early 20th Century Passenger Ships
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/10/posters-of-early-20th-century-passenger-ships/

Library of Congress – Generating STEAM with Copyright
http://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/11/generating-steam-with-copyright/ 

Library of Congress – Lynd Ward’s Eerie, Early Graphic Novel, “Gods’ Man”
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/11/lynd-wards-eerie-early-graphic-novel-gods-man/

National Library of Medicine – Making Connections and Enabling Discoverability: Celebrating 30 Years of Unified Medical Language System
http://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2020/11/11/making-connections-and-enabling-discoverability-celebrating-30-years-of-umls/

House Committee Chairs Tell Federal Agencies and White House to Preserve Records
http://historycoalition.org/2020/11/10/house-committee-chairs-tell-federal-agencies-and-white-house-to-preserve-records/

Destroying Federal Documents During a Presidential Transition Is a Federal Crime
http://www.justsecurity.org/73265/destroying-federal-documents-during-a-presidential-transition-is-a-federal-crime/

Supreme Court weighs public records law as Sierra Club challenges Freedom of Information Act exemptions
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/524055-supreme-court-weighs-public-records-law-as-sierra-club-challenges

US rights group lawsuit seeks COVID-19 records for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/6/us-rights-group-sues-to-get-covid-19-plan-for-ice-detention

Judge orders return of Alexander Hamilton letter to Massachusetts archives; says family that owned it for 75 years is owed nothing because it was stolen
http://www.universalhub.com/2020/judge-orders-return-alexander-hamilton

Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Records Managers vs. Archivists: what’s the Difference?
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/slrm/blog/2020/11/records-managers-vs-archivists-whats-the-difference/

OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=8643

University of Texas – Archival Fever offers a collaborative model for humanities research
http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2020/11/05/archival-fever-offers-a-collaborative-model-for-humanities-research/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
http://news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029

New York University Special Collections Library by CannonDesign
http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14855-new-york-university-special-collections-library-by-cannondesign

The Paper Chase: how W.E.B Du Bois’ Papers came to University of Massachusetts  
http://bookmarkmagazine.library.umass.edu/the-paper-chase/

A temple of sound awaits in the University of California Santa Barbara’s collection of early music and sound recordings
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-11-12/a-temple-of-sound-awaits-in-the-ucsbs-collection-of-early-music-and-sound-recordings

Ball State University Libraries open COVID-19 Pandemic Archive
http://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/11/ball-state-libraries-open-covid-19-pandemic-archive

City College of New York Libraries completes digitization of Hatch-Billops Oral History collection
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-libraries-completes-digitization-hatch-billops-oral-history-collection

Simmons College – Can you Fit an Archivist in a Backpack?
http://slis.simmons.edu/blogs/lis476/2020/11/09/can-you-fit-an-archivist-in-a-backpack/

Elizabethtown College – Archival work during the Covid-19 pandemic
http://www.etownian.com/features/archival-work-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research’s COVID-19 Data Repository
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-chelsea-goforth-wdpd

Getty Institute – To Hold Nature in the Hand: Revealing the Wonders of the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/to-hold-nature-in-the-hand-revealing-the-wonders-of-the-mira-monumenta-calligraphiae/

Repatriating the Archives: Lumbee Scholars find their People and Bring them Home
http://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/repatriating-the-archives-lumbee-scholars-find-their-people-and-bring-them-home

George Eastman Museum is hard at work restoring a large and unusual collection of films from South Asia
http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/eastmans-south-asian-treasure-trove/

Poor mummies: pandemic sidelines conservators and their care of such museum artifacts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/science/egyptian-mummies-museum–closings/2020/11/06/37218dd0-1939-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html

Archives as Community-Building Spaces: an Interview with Sophie Glidden-Lyon
http://medium.com/metropolitan-archivist/archives-as-community-building-spaces-an-interview-with-sophie-glidden-lyon-7b52320b39cc

Dispatches from a Distance: the New Normal is Not Normal
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/dispatches-from-a-distance-the-new-normal-is-not-normal/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Parliamentary committee calls for overhaul of Australia’s data-retention regime
http://www.themandarin.com.au/143754-overhaul-of-australias-data-retention-regime/

National Archives of Australia signs $4.4m contract to digitise World War II service records
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7007184/faces-and-tales-of-war-saved-forever/

Preserving the bits: a salutary tale from the National Archives of Australia
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/james-doig-preserving-the-bits

National Archives of Australia – An engineer at war: William Veale
http://www.naa.gov.au/blog/engineer-war-william-veale

Australian Defence Force turns a page on its paper archives with mammoth digitisation project
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-11/australian-defence-force-digitises-archives-wwii-to-1970s/12866796

Australia – Looks like a conspiracy: department emails tried to discourage evidence from staffer who shredded documents
http://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/department-emails-tried-to-discourage-evidence-from-staffer-who-shredded-documents-20201030-p56a2a.html

Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – A stinker of a problem: film and vinegar syndrome
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2020/11/09/a-stinker-of-a-problem-film-and-vinegar-syndrome/

New South Wales (Australia) state archives investigates shredding of documents related to $252m grants scheme
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/11/nsw-state-archives-investigates-shredding-of-documents-related-to-252m-grants-scheme

New South Wales government forced to recover deleted docs
https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw-govt-forced-recover-deleted-docs-231453793–spt.html

Minecraft and augmented reality helping Indigenous elders keep stories alive for the next generation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-08/indigenous-stories-come-to-life-with-indigital-augmented-reality/12858252

How the 50 Words project is using technology to bring language to the world
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2020/11/08/how-50-words-project-using-technology-bring-language-world

US embassy supports collaboration between Turkmen and American organizations to preserve historical manuscripts
http://www.timesca.com/index.php/news/23115-us-embassy-supports-collaboration-between-turkmen-and-american-organizations-to-preserve-historical-manuscripts

Europe / Europa
Openness of State Archives in Post-Soviet Republics and Eastern Bloc States During the Coronavirus Pandemic
http://idfi.ge/en/openness_of_state_archives_in_post-soviet_republics_and_eastern_bloc_states_during_the_coronavirus_pandemic

National Library of Russia – Exhibition Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Antarctica
http://nlr.ru/eng/RA3721/Exhibition-Marking-the-200th-Anniversary-of-the-Discovery-of-Antarctica

Norway digitally freezes national treasures and stores them in Arctic archive
https://www.thelocal.no/20201111/norway-digitally-freezes-national-treasures-and-stores-them-in-arctic-archive

Finland – Artificial intelligence dives into thousands of WW2 photographs
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/au-aid102820.php

Poland seizes communist-era security files headed for US
http://www.startribune.com/poland-seizes-communist-era-security-files-headed-for-us/572922401/

Comprehensive van Gogh Database Launched by Dutch Museums
http://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/van-gogh-worldwide-database-1234575961/

Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/08/vatican-enlists-bots-to-protect-library-from-onslaught-of-hackers

Italie – 30.000 documents et photos inédites : découvrez les archives de Charlie Chaplin
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/30-000-documents-et-photos-inedites-decouvrez-les-archives-de-charlie-chaplin-20201111

Luxembourg – The memory of a country
http://luxtimes.lu/culture/42212-the-memory-of-a-country

France – Ouvrir en grand les archives : ces camps avec vue sur mer que la France a longtemps refusé de regarder
http://www.franceculture.fr/histoire/ouvrir-en-grand-les-archives-ces-camps-avec-vue-sur-mer-que-la-france-a-longtemps-refuse-de-regarder

Le manuscrit de Ceux de 14, de Maurice Genevoix, entre à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://www.actualitte.com/article/patrimoine-education/le-manuscrit-de-ceux-de-14-de-maurice-genevoix-entre-a-la-bnf/103696

Super rare 100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/super-rare-100-year-old-carrier-pigeon-message-found-in-france

Belfast – Woman who lost both parents to Covid-19 launches online archive of grief
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/health/coronavirus/woman-who-lost-both-parents-covid-19-launches-online-archive-grief-3033139

National Library of Scotland – Three Copy Nirvana? A Climb into the Clouds
https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-lee-hibberd-wdpd

University of Glasgow – Doing First World War research in a pandemic
http://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/doing-first-world-war-research-in-a-pandemic/

Visit old Edinburgh with striking pictures unveiled by new online archive tool
http://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/gallery/visit-old-edinburgh-striking-pictures-19237384

The UK National Archives joins the Climate Heritage Network
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-joins-the-climate-heritage-network/

UK National Archives – Many adventures! British archivists in Italy during the Second World War
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/many-adventures-british-archivists-in-italy-during-the-second-world-war/

UK National Archives – LGBTQ+ visibility and archives: History between the lines
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/lgbtq-visibility-and-archives-history-between-the-lines/

The British Library teams up with Yorkshire artists to create digital activity and encourage cultural engagement
http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2020/november/light-night-leeds-2020

British Library – The UK Web Archive website over time: 15 Years of UKWA
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2020/11/the-uk-web-archive-website-over-time-15-years-of-ukwa.html

British Library – A tale of two web archives: challenges of engaging web archival infrastructures research
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2020/11/a-tale-of-two-web-archives-challenges-of-engaging-web-archival-infrastructures-research.html

British Library – Data Debates: Bots in the Polling Booth
http://blogs.bl.uk/science/2020/11/data-debates-bots-in-the-polling-booth.html

Imperial War Museum approximate the end of WWI
http://metro.co.uk/video/imperial-war-museum-approximate-end-wwi-1798600/

Royal College of Physicians mulls sale of rare books despite protest
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2020/11/royal-college-of-physicians-mulls-sale-of-rare-books-despite-protest/

Owners’ joy as rare £2.5m books stolen in London heist returned
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-54885299

Historical detectives discover more first editions of Isaac Newton’s Principia
http://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/historical-detectives-discover-more-first-editions-of-isaac-newtons-principia/

UK Digital Forensics Report
http://www.top10vpn.com/research/investigations/uk-digital-forensics-report/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – A Sufi Journey to Jerusalem
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/sufi_journey/

National Library of Israel – In Memoriam: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and “The Home of the Book”
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/rabbi-sacks-home-of-the-book/

Turkey saved Palestinian archive during Arafat era
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkey-saved-palestinian-archive-during-arafat-era/2038525

International
Digital Preservation at the United Nations
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-aleksander-geland-wdpd

Unesco – Our Common Digital Future: Digital Preservation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-eng-sengsavang-wdpd

International Collaboration to Digitize Archive of Dylan Thomas
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/news/international-collaboration-digitize-archive-dylan-thomas

From Starchives to RED Files: the Depiction of Archives in Film
http://www.historyassociates.com/archives-in-film/

10,000 Rare Vintage Cookbooks Now Available for Free Online
http://mymodernmet.com/historic-cookbooks-recipes-archive/

How to help an organisation understand that it has problems that records management can solve
http://informationgovernance.blog/2020/11/09/how-to-help-an-organisation-understand-that-it-has-a-problems-that-records-management-can-solve/

Archival Program Management
http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2020/11/09/archival-program-management

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