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August 22, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 51

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Tableaux de tri
Ministère de l’économie : https://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/meco-convention-tableau-de-tri-v101.pdf
Centre national sportif et culturel : https://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/cnsc-convention-tableau-de-tri-v101.pdf
Centre psycho-social et d’accompagnement scolaires : https://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/cepas-convention-tableau-de-tri-v101.pdf

United States National Security Agency – Secret Messengers: Disseminating SIGINT in the Second World War: the Story of the British SLUs (Special Liaison Units) and American SSOs (Special Security Officers)
http://media.defense.gov/2025/Jul/25/2003761271/-1/-1/0/SECRET_MESSENGERS.PDF

State Records of South Australia – Operational Records Disposal Schedule: Roxby Council: Electricity Supply, Sewerage and Water Services
http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1171919/RDS-2025-05-Version-1-Municipal-Council-of-Roxby-Downs-Records-Disposal-Schedule-Endorsed-PDF.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Digital Governance Standards Institute – CAN/DGSI 103-0:2025, Digital Trust and Identity – Part 0: Techniques – Code of Practice
https://dgc-cgn.org/establishing-confidence-in-the-digital-age-can-dgsi-103-0-now-a-national-standard-of-canada/

British Art Network – Grace, Piety and Memory: the Material Culture of British Catholics 1534-1850
http://britishartnetwork.org.uk/research/british-catholic-material-culture-1538-1829/

European Digital Rights – Public Consultation on Retention of Data by Service Providers for Criminal Proceedings
http://edri.org/our-work/public-consultation-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-answering-guide-for-civil-society-organisations-and-individuals/

An Open Framework for Archival, Reproducible, and Transparent Science
http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08171

Publications

Archival Science, vol. 25, no. 4 (2025)
https://link.springer.com/journal/10502/volumes-and-issues/25-4

University of Toronto iSchool – iJournal, vol. 10, no. 3 (2025)
http://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/issue/view/2939

Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 41, no. 3 (2025)
https://www.emerald.com/dlp/issue/41/3

Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 (2025)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55231

Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 41, no. 3 (2025)
http://www.aao-archivists.ca/News/13533580

Book – Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives
http://uncpress.org/book/9781469691343/noisy-memory/

Book – Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space: Legacies of Michael Bourdeaux and the Keston Archive
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782725/freedom-of-conscience-in-postsoviet-space/

Book – AI and Information Access: Benefits, Challenges and Lessons
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/ai-and-information-access/?k=9781783307722

Book – The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-world-heritage-9780198912767

Book – True Colors: Color in Photography from 1849 to 1955
http://www.hirmerverlag.de/eu/titel-88-3/true_colors_farbe_in_der_fotografie_von_1849_bis_1955-2708/

Book – Collecting the Other Americas: Ancient Americas Collections in Art Museums
http://shop.denverartmuseum.org/products/collecting-the-other-americas-ancient-americas-collections-in-art-museums

Book – EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime: Data Retention and Policymaking
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/eu-data-privacy-law-and-serious-crime-9780198837169

Book – Copyright and Patent Laws for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Authorship and Inventorship Revisited
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/copyright-and-patent-laws-for-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-9781509976232/

Novel – National Archive Hunters 2: Eternal Flame
http://holidayhouse.com/site/pixel-ink/?book=national-archive-hunters-2-eternal-flame

Livre – Archives de nos amitiés imparfaites
http://groupenotabene.com/publication/archives-de-nos-amities-imparfaites/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Canadian War Museum Conference 2025: Oral History and the Veterans’ Experience
October 2-5, 2025, Ottawa
http://www.warmuseum.ca/events/conference-2025

Archives Association of British Council and Yukon Council of Archives Joint Conference
October 7-9, 2025
http://aaobc.wildapricot.org/2025-Conference

National Archives of Australia – Searching Papua New Guinea Collections
September 3, 2025
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/searching-papua-new-guinea-collections-tickets-1539086833149

International Council on Archives – Oral History as Archives and the Laws that Apply
September 5, 2025
https://www.ica.org/event/ica-eglm-webinar-oral-history-as-archives-and-the-laws-that-apply/

Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries: Re-entangling the Visual Archive: Cambridge University Libraries
September 23, 2025
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/event/icil-visual-archive-cambridge/

Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries: Towards Equity and Inclusion through Special Collections and Archives: Part II
October 20, 2025
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/event/icil-equity-speccolls-p2/

Reckoning with the Past: the Arolsen Archives and Transitional Justice
March 3, 2026
http://www.keene.edu/news/events/detail/20114/

Sur le web / On the web

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre – Fragments in Focus: a History of the Holocaust
https://www.fragmentsinfocus.ca/en/

Video – The Importance of Preserving Palestinian Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcIAbkcxT10

Hiring Librarians Podcast – Archives Adjacent Work with Lydia and Marcella
http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/08/14/hiring-librarians-podcast-s02b-e16-archives-adjacent-work-with-lydia-and-marcella/

Join the Campaign to Protect the Future of Independent Research at the BBC Written Archives Centre
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1ekRDSSmUv19pyevfkp8UEBA5GgR38Ed4ywkNpXuvgXg/edit?tab=t.0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada – A new chapter for our blog
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/08/21/a-new-chapter-for-our-blog/

Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – The Northern Saskatchewan Archives
http://scaa-outsidethebox.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-northern-saskatchewan-archives.html

Billionaire David Thomson interested in buying Hudson’s Bay charter, donating it
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/2025/08/21/cp-newsalert-billionaire-david-thomson-interested-in-buying-hudsons-bay-charter

BAnQ – À la découverte des ponts couverts du Québec
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/la-decouverte-des-ponts-couverts-du-quebec/

BAnQ – Quand les Canadiens français s’exilaient aux États-Unis
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/quand-les-canadiens-francais-sexilaient-aux-etats-unis/

University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – Processing, Shipping, Receiving
http://library.usask.ca/uasc/news/2025/processing-shipping-recieving.php

University of Waterloo – New Special Collections & Archives collection strengths support emerging research areas
http://uwaterloo.ca/lib/news/new-special-collections-archives-collection-strengths

Université de Montréal – Nouveau guide des bonnes pratiques pour la gestion des courriels
https://archives.umontreal.ca/a-propos/nouvelles/nouvelle/news/detail/News/nouveau-guide-des-bonnes-pratiques-pour-la-gestion-des-courriels/

CBMA, CKUT Radio, and University of Toronto Partner to Archive Black Montreal Music
http://cashboxcanada.ca/features-music/cbma-ckut-radio-and-u-t-partner-archive-black-montreal-music/7342

IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award 2025 announced: Gabrielle-Roy Library, Quebec City
http://www.ifla.org/news/winner-announced-for-the-ifla-baker-taylor-public-library-of-the-year-award-2025/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – A Rainbow Lodge Wrangler
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/08/19/a-rainbow-lodge-wrangler/

Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – A Summer of Scanning with Marion
http://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/muse-news/a-summer-of-scanning-with-marion

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – 119 Years of the Salvation Army in Vernon
http://vernonmuseum.ca/119-years-of-the-salvation-army-in-vernon/

Chilliwack Museum + Archives (British Columbia) gathering stories, objects for Collecting Memory exhibit
https://www.theprogress.com/local-news/chilliwack-museum-archives-gathering-stories-objects-for-collecting-memory-exhibit-8206708

Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – Stratford’s Sundial Saga
https://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#Sundials

New collection of poet John Newlove’s letters reveals the man behind the words
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/john-newlove-letter-collection-1.7608773

Afrique / Africa

L’épineux projet de numérisation des archives historiques du sous-sol congolais
http://www.africaintelligence.fr/afrique-centrale/2025/08/20/l-epineux-projet-de-numerisation-des-archives-historiques-du-sous-sol-congolais,110511542-art

Kinshasa : l’Académie des beaux-arts célèbre la photographie comme véhicule de l’identité congolaise dans le monde
http://actualite.cd/2025/08/19/kinshasa-lacademie-des-beaux-arts-celebre-la-photographie-comme-vehicule-de-lidentite

Nigeria Launches Groundbreaking Digital Museum to Revolutionize Cultural Preservation and Tourism: here’s what you Need to Know
http://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/nigeria-launches-groundbreaking-digital-museum-to-revolutionize-cultural-preservation-and-tourism-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Goethe Institute’s Post-Memory, Post-Archive Programme Reimagines Nigerian Film Archives through New Cinema
http://whatkeptmeup.com/nigerian-film-news/goethe-institutes-post-memory-post-archive-programme-reimagines-nigerian-film-archives-through-new-cinema/

Un trésor historique offert à la Tunisie : Abdelaziz Daoulatli fait don de sa bibliothèque à la Bibliothèque nationale
http://lapresse.tn/2025/08/15/un-tresor-historique-offert-a-la-tunisie-abdelaziz-daoulatli-fait-don-de-sa-bibliotheque-a-la-bibliotheque-nationale/

La France refuse de restituer les archives algériennes : l’histoire en otage
http://www.elmoudjahid.dz/fr/actualite/la-france-refuse-de-restituer-les-archives-algeriennes-l-histoire-en-otage-238875

Amériques / Americas

Invisible, Silenced, and all but Abandoned: the Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on its 20th Anniversary
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatemala/2025-08-20/invisible-silenced-and-all-abandoned-guatemalan-historical-archive

Hair-based recordkeeping system may have been used by Inka elites and commoners alike
http://phys.org/news/2025-08-hair-based-recordkeeping-inka-elites.html

National Archives Recovers & Preserves Rare Pearl Harbor Navy Logbook
http://www.archives.gov/news/articles/national-archives-recovers-preserves-rare-pearl-harbor-navy-logbook-1

NARA – The Value of Record Inventories
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2025/08/20/the-value-of-record-inventories/

Obama Presidential Center sparks backlash from Chicagoans
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/19/obama-presidential-center-sparks-backlash-chicagoans/

Library of Congress – Ten Million Books… and Counting
http://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2025/08/ten-million-books-and-counting/

Library of Congress – From Communications Studies to Captured Content: a Junior Fellow’s Contribution to the Mass Communication Web Archive
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/08/from-communications-studies-to-captured-content-a-junior-fellows-contribution-to-the-mass-communication-web-archive/

Library of Congress – How Do we Know you’re Not a Communist? The Red Scare that Ripped America Apart
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/08/how-do-we-know-youre-not-a-communist-the-red-scare-that-ripped-america-apart/

Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on how bad slavery was
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slavery-museum-smithsonian

History Is Not a Hallmark Card: Scholars Condemn Trump’s Smithsonian Review
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/08/14/history-is-not-a-hallmark-card-scholars-condemn-trumps-smithsonian-review/

American Council of Learned Societies Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums
http://www.acls.org/news/acls-statement-regarding-the-white-house-review-of-smithsonian-institution-museums/

First they Came for Black History
http://hyperallergic.com/1035834/first-they-came-for-black-history/

Association of College and Research Libraries – Keeping up with… Research Information Management Systems
https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/research_information_management_systems

Delaware Public Archives – 2025 Third Quarter Accessions
http://archives.delaware.gov/2025/08/15/2025-third-quarter-accessions/

University at Buffalo – From Transcripts to Descriptions: Using Consumer Artificial Intelligence Tools for Audio Collection Metadata
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/from-transcripts-to-descriptions-using-consumer-ai-tools-for-audio-collection-metadata/

Clark University – Bringing them out of the archives
http://www.clarku.edu/news/2025/08/14/bringing-them-out-of-the-archives/

Chapman University – Repository Tour Spotlight: the Hilbert Museum
http://archives2025anaheim.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/repository-tour-spotlight-the-hilbert-museum/

Finding the Lost Papers of the Conservative Movement
http://spectator.org/finding-the-lost-papers-of-the-conservative-movement/

Archivist Nygel Simons Is Preserving Black Fashion History
http://www.complex.com/style/a/dori-walker/archivist-nygel-simons-is-preserving-black-fashion-history

Digitizing History: my Internship Experience at PBS North Carolina
http://blog.americanarchive.org/2025/08/15/digitizing-history/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

University of Melbourne – Botanical time machines: artificial intelligence is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections
http://theconversation.com/botanical-time-machines-ai-is-unlocking-a-treasure-trove-of-data-held-in-herbarium-collections-253236

Can Artificial Intelligence Save Centuries of Kurdish History?
http://hackernoon.com/can-ai-save-centuries-of-kurdish-history

China – Shanghai Archives releases new book of city memories
http://www.citynewsservice.cn/news/Shanghai-Archives-releases-new-book-of-city-memories-okwvalwn

Tibetan archivist preserves history in retirement
http://www.chinadailyglobal.com/a/202508/18/WS68a2e184a310b236346f231d.html

Indian – Digital Preservation and Promotion of Indian Art, Culture and Heritage
http://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2157465

Europe / Europa

Baltic Region Archives Unite to Preserve History through Digital Transformation
https://www.ica.org/baltic-region-archives-unite-to-preserve-history-through-digital-transformation/

Des archives ukrainiennes lèvent le voile sur le sort des Tchécoslovaques déportés dans les goulags soviétiques
http://francais.radio.cz/des-archives-ukrainiennes-levent-le-voile-sur-le-sort-des-tchecoslovaques-8859899

National Archives of Georgia digitizes over 1.5 million documents in six months
http://georgiatoday.ge/national-archives-of-georgia-digitizes-over-1-5-million-documents-in-six-months/

Austrian National Library Published 46,000 New Aerial Photographs Online
http://www.vol.at/national-library-published-46000-new-aerial-photographs-online/9610451

polsan AG reprend la gestion de l’Association des archivistes suisses
http://vsa-aas.ch/fr/association/polsan-ag-reprend-la-gestion-de-laas/

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Les archives d’Henry Le Bœuf désormais accessibles au public
http://www.bruxellestoday.be/culture/archives-henry-le-boeuf-public.html

Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Plongez dans le passé : des milliers d’actes notariés de l’Ancien Régime désormais en ligne
http://anlux.public.lu/fr/actualites/2025/archives-notaires.html

National Library of Ireland – Born Digital Archives
https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections/born-digital-archives

Faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia recreated by artificial intelligence
http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp89egm7ze9o

UK National Archives – Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/wind-in-their-sails-750000-grants-boost-for-archives/

UK National Archives – Shakespeare family will found by historian
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/shakespeare-family-will-found-by-historian/

University of Oxford – Unseen WWII letters and diaries released for VJ Day’s 80th anniversary
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08-15-unseen-wwii-letters-and-diaries-released-vj-days-80th-anniversary

Shining a Light on the Photographic Collection of Edward Chambré and Margaret Hardman
http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/shining-a-light-on-the-photographic-collection-of-edward-chambre-and-margaret-hardman/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Remembering Jawad Amer: the War’s First Fallen Druze Soldier
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/remembering_jawad_amer/

National Library of Israel – Leo Frank, 1915: the Case America Still Reckons With
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/leo_frank/

National Library of Israel receives manuscript of iconic Naomi Shemer song
http://www.jns.org/national-library-of-israel-receives-manuscript-of-iconic-naomi-shemer-song/

Gaza artists turn to digital archives to preserve Palestinian identity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JViOUAeVZ_s

International

Digital Preservation Coalition – Archiving Facebook, Right Now
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/archiving-facebook-right-now

ARMA – The Gamification of Records Management
http://magazine.arma.org/2025/08/the-gamification-of-records-management/

Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Members Vote in Favor of Merger
https://sla.org/news/708517/-SLA-and-ASIST-Members-Vote-in-Favor-of-Merger.htm

From Documentation Strategy to Design by Default: an Archival Idea Ahead of its Time
http://metaarchivist.substack.com/p/from-documentation-strategy-to-design

Web Archives as Big Data: experimenting with the internet as a historical source
http://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/08/12/web-archives-as-big-data-experimenting-with-the-internet-as-a-historical-source/

How Vintage Postcards Can Help Researchers Understand a Neighborhood
http://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2025/08/how-vintage-postcards-can-help-researchers-understand-a-neighborhood/

The Rise of the Digital Fashion Archivist
https://fashionista.com/2025/08/fashion-archivists-instagram-digital-creators

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