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Documentary Heritage News
October 10, 2025

Vol. 19, no. 6

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

National Records of Scotland – Annual Report & Accounts 2024-2025
http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/annual-report-accounts-2024-2025/

Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (for Comments)
Appraisal Report: http://www.archives.govt.nz/files/etfoy87fj9he/ajtJJGxcJEV9QMopSlRIR/375f72e648032ea5bd5030a9b153dd16/app2023-0039-guardians-of-nz-superannuation-_gnzs_-appraisal-report.pdf
Disposal Schedule: http://www.archives.govt.nz/files/etfoy87fj9he/6Ue27CRulhGZgBBfzxaqVR/af856d6ac02e75cce1181942f6e2d452/app2023-0039-guardians-of-nz-superannuation-_gnzs_-disposal-schedule.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Conseil international des archives – Gestion des situations d’urgence et préparation en cas de catastrophe : un manuel pour la protection des archives (traduction française)
http://www.ica.org/fr/new-french-translation-of-the-emergency-management-and-disaster-preparedness-a-manual-for-protecting-archives-released/

UNESCO – Documentary Heritage for Intercultural Dialogue: a Case Study of AlUla, Saudi Arabia
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-publishes-research-alulas-documentary-heritage-and-intercultural-dialogue

Scottish Council on Archives – Scottish Archives and Records Year in Review 2024-2025
http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/scottish-archives-and-records-year-in-review-2024-25/

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Levels of Digital Preservation Environmental Sustainability Guide (for Public Comment)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QqSznpgEtZOs2ODQqqA1WBuhCx5Qx9xIgPjq71BR4v0/edit?tab=t.0

Society of American Archivists – Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation
http://www2.archivists.org/standards/principles-in-indigenous-archival-repatriation-pinar

Copyright Infrastructure Task Force – Interoperable, Trustworthy, and Machine-readable Copyright Data in the Artificial Intelligence Era
http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/166483

Convergences: Library, Archive, and Museum Collaboration and Future Trends
http://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/e76fdfac-a702-4f9f-b8b5-b823a1f08b30

Structure of the ORCID Identifier Whitepaper
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1awd6PPguRAdZsC6CKpFSSSu1dulliT8E3kHwIJ3tD5o/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.n4gh01ccn1yv

Article – Transcrire et indexer les archives : évolution du rapport entre archivistes et usagers : l’exemple des Archives nationales de France
http://journals.openedition.org/insitu/45572

Publications

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Newsletter, no. 168 (2025)
http://arsc-audio.org/arsc-news/13548662

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 9 (2025)
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2025

Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 51, no. 3 (2025)
http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/51.3.MHSep25.pdf

Mémoire de maîtrise (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) – La gestion patrimoniale des archives dans les maisons du luxe : entre mémoire, image et défis contemporains
http://dante.univ-tlse2.fr/s/fr/item/42068

Report – Survey of Cataloging & Metadata Librarians: Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools
http://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=862&

Open Access Book – Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education
http://uclpress.co.uk/book/object-based-learning/

Book – Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives
https://wvupressonline.com/node/1003

Book – Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/trespassing-in-the-archive-9781793646095/

Book – The Taking of Vimy Ridge: First World War Photographs of William Ivor Castle
http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/T/The-Taking-of-Vimy-Ridge

Book – Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature
http://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/

Book – Radical School Librarianship: a Global Response
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/radical-school-librarianship/?k=9781783307913

Book – White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02816-7

Book – The Secret Milestones of Black History
http://scholasticlibrary.digital.scholastic.com/9781546178026.html

Book – Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683405498

Book – Heritage Building Conservation: Sustainable and Digital Modelling
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032413174

Livre – Hommes et femmes du livre à Rouen au XVIe siècle
http://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503618425-1

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Library and Archives Canada – Unveiling of the Restored Sir Arthur Doughty Statue
October 20, 2025, Gatineau
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sir-arthur-doughty-statue-event-statue-de-sir-arthur-doughty-tickets-1738266986349

Queen’s University – 43rd Annual Archives Lecture – Arthur Lower and I: An Archive Story in Three Parts
October 20, 2025, Kingston
http://archives.queensu.ca/43rd-annual-archives-lecture

University of British Columbia – This Glass Cage Filled with Light: Archives, Shelves, and Connecting with Indigenous Pacific Texts
October 30, 2025, Vancouver
https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/this-glass-cage-filled-with-light-archives-shelves-and-connecting-with-indigenous-pacific-texts/

Journée de formation du Regroupement des archivistes religieux
7 novembre 2025, Trois-Rivières
http://regroupementarchivistesreligieux.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/journee-de-formation-du-rar/

Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good
October 14, 2025
http://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/534/-/dpclinic-october-catalyzing-african-community-archives-for-social-good

Archives are Hot! Artists in the Archive
October 17-18, 2025, Melbourne
http://www.artshub.com.au/event/symposium-archives-are-hot-artists-in-the-archive-2825043/

How to Access One of the Continent’s Largest Indigenous Archival Collections: Stories from the American Philosophical Society Library
October 19, 2025
http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4r2vyLtHQE6ikvahasWg-g#/registration

OCLC – Building Effective Workflows for Oral History Projects: Collaboration, Structure, and Innovation
October 21, 2025
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2025/building-effective-workflows-for-oral-history-projects.html

Voices: Letters from the Holocaust
October 29, 2025
https://www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar-29-oct-voices-letters-from-the-holocaust/

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres 2026 Conference
28 June – 3 July 2026, Thessaloniki
http://www.iaml.info/news/iaml-2026-call-papers-and-posters

Sur le web / On the web

Law Bytes Podcast – Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/law-bytes-podcast-episode-245/

Archives de France – SimplEAD (nouvelle version)
http://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/actualite/1100555413

Research Data Alliance – Knowledge Base
http://www.rd-alliance.org/news/welcome-to-the-rda-knowledge-base/

University of Scheffield Video – Digitally Preserving their Architectural Heritage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3J2np3dBWg

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Excess Copyright – The Blacklock’s Federal Court of Appeal Hearing
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-blacklocks-fca-appeal-hearing.html

Library and Archives Canada’s Creator in Residence showcased at the Canada Pavilion during Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/lac-s-creator-in-residence-showcased-at-the-canada-pavilion-during-expo-2025-in-osaka-japan-821811136.html

Yukon First Nation uses holograms to preserve the knowledge of elders
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-na-cho-ny%D3%93k-dun-first-nation-hologram-project-1.7650021

Northwest Territories advocacy group preserving memory of residential school legacies
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6927187

Helping Indigenous communities digitize old recordings to preserve culture
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6928020

BAnQ – La musique de film au Québec : Cristobal Tapia de Veer et François Dompierre
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/tapia-de-veer-francois-dompierre/

University of Northern British Columbia – Sawmills and Small Communities in the Upper Fraser Valley: Interview with Dr. Greg Halseth
http://libguides.unbc.ca/about/news/Middle-North-podcast

University of British Columbia Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s Second Folio
http://about.library.ubc.ca/2025/10/06/ubc-library-digitizes-william-shakespeares-second-folio/

University of British Columbia – A Closer Look at the Conservation and Digitization of Shakespeare’s Second Folio
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/a-closer-look-at-the-conservation-and-digitization-of-shakespeares-second-folio/

University of Toronto – A Legacy for Listening: the Ruth Pincoe Research Fellowship
http://library.utoronto.ca/news/legacy-listening-ruth-pincoe-research-fellowship

McGill University Libraries partners with Abu Dhabi on exhibition of ancient Islamic manuscripts
https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-libraries-partners-with-abu-dhabi-on-exhibition-of-ancient-islamic-manuscripts/

Les Archives de l’Université McGill mettent en valeur les écrits du professeur de droit John Peters Humphrey qui viennent d’être reconnus par l’Unesco
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/28/les-archives-de-luniversite-mcgill-mettent-en-valeur-les-ecrits-du-professeur-de-droit-john-peters-humphrey-qui-viennent-detre-reconnus-par-lunesco

Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Displaced Histories, Reclaimed Visions: Michelle Mohabeer and the Art of Representation
http://arquives.ca/displaced-histories-reclaimed-visions-michelle-mohabeer-and-the-art-of-representation/

Resilience baked in Curve Lake First Nation archives, says author of new book
http://anishinabeknews.ca/2025/10/resilience-baked-in-curve-lake-first-nation-archives-says-author-of-new-book/

City of Vancouver Archives – Unbuilt Vancouver, Part 1: Mawson Plan for Stanley Park
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2025/10/09/unbuilt-vancouver-part-1-mawson-plan-for-stanley-park/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Mountain Washrooms: Whistler
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/10/07/mountain-washrooms-whistler/

Preserving the past: Okanagan obituary project connects generations
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/local-news/preserving-the-past-okanagan-obituary-project-connects-generations-8290719

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – The Night Vernon Took on the Soviets (and Kelowna)
http://vernonmuseum.ca/the-night-vernon-took-on-the-soviets-and-kelowna/

Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – John William Stephen: a Remembrance Day Tribute
http://lakecountrymuseum.com/john-william-stephen-a-remembrance-day-tribute/

Ontario – Why small town museums matter in preserving local heritage
http://www.timminstoday.com/column/back-roads-bill/why-small-town-museums-matter-in-preserving-local-heritage-11303708

Thunder Bay – Walk of Fame tiles move to the archives
http://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/walk-of-fame-tiles-move-to-the-archives-11297995

Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Depression Pies
http://archives.oxfordcounty.ca/blog/posts/new-depression-pies/

A peek inside Collingwood (Ontario) library’s special rare books cabinet
http://www.villagereport.ca/village-picks/a-peek-inside-collingwood-librarys-special-rare-books-cabinet-11293291

The Association of Canadian Archivists Mourns the Passing of Paulette Dozois
https://archivists.ca/Latest-News-Announcements/13549561

Afrique / Africa

Preserving Tanzania’s Collective Memory: National Committee Advances Nominations for UNESCO Memory of the World Register
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/preserving-tanzanias-collective-memory-national-committee-advances-nominations-unesco-memory-world

Nigeria – Oniru of Iruland, Adebowale, others receive Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau awards for contributions to archiving, history
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/oniru-of-iruland-adebowale-others-receive-lasrab-awards-for-contributions-to-archiving-history/

Mali : deuxième édition du concours dédié aux manuscrits et aux archives islamiques africains
http://www.medi1news.com/fr/article/367359

Senegal Adopts Access-to-Information Law, Joining Africa’s Transparency Wave
http://www.ecofinagency.com/news-services/0610-49323-senegal-adopts-access-to-information-law-joining-africa-s-transparency-wave

Futures_Past: how France and South Africa are revolutionising archival storytelling
https://iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/2025-10-08-futurespast-how-france-and-sa-are-revolutionising-archival-storytelling/

South Africa – The Art of Dialogue: Living Archives, Memory and Practice
https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-art-of-dialogue-living-archives-memory-and-practice/

Amériques / Americas

71 nominations received in the 2025 Call of UNESCO´s Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/71-nominations-received-2025-call-unescos-memory-world-regional-register-latin-america-and-caribbean

Building Queer Community-Based Digital Archives in the Caribbean
http://medium.com/community-archives/building-queer-community-based-digital-archives-in-the-caribbean-03d75958a046

NARA: 1 in 5 Federal Agencies Turn to Artificial Intelligence for Freedom of Information Act Requests
http://www.meritalk.com/articles/nara-1-in-5-federal-agencies-turn-to-ai-for-foia-requests/

Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
http://thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flickr-commons/

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/amelia-earhart-fbi-employees-record-search

White House dismisses majority of National Council on the Humanities
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5533922-white-house-national-council-humanities-staff/

Libraries can’t Get their Loaned Books Back because of Trump’s Tariffs
http://www.404media.co/libraries-cant-get-their-loaned-books-back-because-of-trumps-tariffs/

University of Wisconsin-Madison lab creating archive of historic, significant locations for Black Madisonians
http://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2025/10/02/uw-madison-lab-creating-archive-of-historic–significant-locations-for-black-madisonians

Yellowstone Creator’s Archive Finds Permanent Home at Texas State University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPmSwE43E

A University of Pennsylvania physicist accidentally created X-rays over 130 years ago. His family is now donating some of the earliest known images
http://whyy.org/articles/upenn-physicist-x-rays-pennsylvania-donation/

Lafayette College – Special Collections & College Archives Announces New Materials Available
http://library.lafayette.edu/special-collections-college-archives-announces-new-materials-available/

Hebrew Union College, Ohio Attorney General reach deal to protect 600,000 rare books, papers in Jewish collection
http://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-869694

Penn Museum creates archive of newly digitized photos to document Yazidi history
http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-museum-yazidi-archive-exhibition

This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-adoptee-discovered-a-trove-of-documents-in-a-nuns-basement-the-rare-vietnam-warrecords-rewrite-the-story-of-operation-babylift-180987435/

Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sells for over $5M
http://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/oldest-known-stone-tablet-inscribed-with-the-ten-commandments-sells-for-over-5m/ar-AA1w9XQc

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

State Library and Tasmanian Archives (Australia) – The Great Comet of 1843
http://libraries.tas.gov.au/slat/blog/the-great-comet-of-1843/

Japan completes full records of Empress Kojun
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/19/japan/empress-kojun-full-records/

Japan – Official record of Empress Kojun’s life covers wartime duties
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16081585

Japanese mobile game archivists make it easier to get stuck in, just as lost Kingdom Hearts game gets English patch
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/jnews-apanese-mobile-game-archivists-make-it-easier-to-get-stuck-in/

Fiji holds National Archives exhibition to mark 55 years of independence
http://english.news.cn/asiapacific/20251007/39fa7e316b99416cbe1d19e4062a6ee3/c.html

India – 2.5 Lakh (250 000) Manuscripts Digitized So Far: Union Minister Shekhawat
http://www.pressnote.in/-India-_522382.html

India – Bridging archives: the role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/bridging-archives-the-role-of-iiif-in-global-manuscript-preservation/

Europe / Europa

Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
http://www.noemamag.com/reclaiming-europes-digital-sovereignty/

National Library of Finland – Copyright Infrastructure Task Force network emphasises importance of identifiers in the artificial intelligence era
http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/citf-network-emphasises-importance-identifiers-ai-era

Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification
http://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thousands-germans-access-stasi-files-112431875.html

Artificial intelligence helps German historian identify Nazi killer in infamous Holocaust image
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/ai-helps-german-historian-identify-nazi-killer-in-infamous-holocaust-image/

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/07/the-pushkin-job-unmasking-the-thieves-behind-an-international-rare-books-heist

Robert Badinter à travers les fonds des Archives nationales de France
http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/dossiers-thematiques/robert-badinter-travers-les-fonds-des-archives-nationales

La Bibliothèque nationale de France lance une souscription pour acquérir les manuscrits de la « madeleine » de Proust
https://www.la-croix.com/culture/la-bnf-lance-une-souscription-pour-acquerir-les-manuscrits-de-la-madeleine-de-proust-20250917

Inside Ireland’s Freemasons
http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/newstalk-daily/inside-irelands-freemasons

New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/10/new-digital-image-library-for-amgueddfa-cymru-museum-wales/

UK National Archives – Cataloguing Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service records from the Second World War
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/the-collection-blog/cataloguing-ats-records-from-the-second-world-war/

Bodleain Library – The Algorithmic Archive: a project overview
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2025/10/03/the-algorithmic-archive-project-overview/

The endless unearthing of Tolkien’s archive needs to stop
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/best-novels-to-read-october/

Almost unheard of: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/07/experts-find-music-english-composer-henry-purcell

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online
https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-aberdeen-bestiary-one-of-the-great-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-now-digitized.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – David’s Light Still Shines
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/david_meir/

National Library of Israel – Life On an American University Campus, in the Immediate Aftermath of October 7
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/columbia_october_7/

Electrosteen ou l’ambivalence des archives sonores palestiniennes
http://imageson.hypotheses.org/5902

La Radio Alhara et le Wonder Cabinet à Bethléem, une nouvelle enseigne de rayonnement de la musique palestinienne par l’archive
http://imageson.hypotheses.org/5970

Coopération franco-libanaise pour restaurer les archives du cinéma libanais
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/fr/education/813710/coop%C3%A9ration-franco-libanaise-pour-restaurer-les-ar

Kyrgyzstan, Iran discuss translation of ancient manuscripts
http://akipress.com/news:854902:Kyrgyzstan,_Iran_discuss_translation_of_ancient_manuscripts/

The Foot-Licking Demons & other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran
http://www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-foot-licking-demons-other-strange-things-in-a-1921-illustrated-manuscript.html

International

Creating a personal wrapper around yt-dlp
http://alexwlchan.net/2025/yt-dlp-wrapper/

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