Vol. 19, no. 49

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Library and Archives Canada – 2SLGBTQIA+ Related Resources: Research Guide
http://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/social-history/2slgbtqia-communities-guide.html

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador – Government Records Committee Action Plan 2026-2029
http://www.gov.nl.ca/exec/ocio/files/GovernmentRecordsCommitteeActivityPlan2026-2029.pdf

UK National Archives – Frontend Library
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/digital/our-first-frontend-library-milestone/

Archives fédérales suisses – Guides thématiques
http://www.bar.admin.ch/fr/themes-news

Archives de l’Etat du Valais (Suisse) – Rapport annuel 2025
http://www.vs.ch/documents/33695260/33710158/RA_AEV_2025.pdf/34758128-b3a1-bf88-baa6-771c1a91d6c1?t=1785887081989

Bangladesh Directorate of Archives and Libraries – Report on Seminar on Archives and Library Management Capacity Building of Bangladesh
http://nanl.gov.bd/pages/reports/6a702c017380d57bc691180b

Audit of NARA’s Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 in Fiscal Year 2025
http://naraoig.oversight.gov/reports/audit/audit-naras-compliance-payment-integrity-information-act-2019-fiscal-year-2025

De la communauté / From the community

Digital Preservation Coalition – Prospectus 2026-2027
http://www.dpconline.org/news/dpc-prospectus-26-27-published

Association des archivistes suisses – Rapport annuel 2025
https://vsa-aas.ch/fr/association/travail-de-comite/rapport-annuel-de-laas-2025/

Society of American Archivists – Encoded Archival Description 4; Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons and Families 3; and Encoded Archival Context – Functions
EAD4: https://www.loc.gov/ead/
EAC-CPF: https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schemata-and-tag-library/
EAC-F: https://github.com/SAA-SDT/eas-schemas/tree/main/xml-schemas/eaf

Working with the 2030 Agenda: a Survey of IFLA Units
http://repository.ifla.org/items/308c8a27-0b93-4f3b-8da9-ca368745d8d7

IFLA 100: the History and Strategic Role of the Management of Library Associations Section
http://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-100-the-history-and-strategic-role-of-the-management-of-library-associations-section-mlas/

Paper – From Archive to Dataset: AI-Assisted Mass Digitisation of Historical Photographic Collections, Using the Sven Simon Archive as a Case Study
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Golomb_From_Archive_to_Dataset_EN.pdf

Paper – Finding Change in Satellite Archives from Text: how to Combine Before-and-After Images Efficiently
http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28571

Publications

Information & Culture, vol. 61, no. 2 (2026)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57378

Livre maintenant en libre accès – Aux marges de l’archivistique : exploitation des archives et cinéma de réemploi
http://www.puq.ca/catalogue/themes/aux-marges-archivistique-4465.html

Book – Counter-Collections: Dialogues Between Urban Space and Archives
http://www.onomatopee.net/product/counter-collections/

Book – Digital Curation in the Data Age: a Multidisciplinary and International Exploration
http://link.springer.com/book/9783032191267

Book – Decolonial Approaches to Data Ethics and Re-Storying: from Biocultural Landscapes at Risk to Archiving the Dead
http://www.wiley.com/en-in/shop/general-introductory-anthropology/decolonial-approaches-to-data-ethics-and-re-storying-from-biocultural-landscapes-at-risk-to-archiving-the-dead-p-9781394153336

Book – Early Light: Photography’s First Century in Atlantic Canada 1839-1939
http://www.blurb.ca/b/12938001-early-light

Book – Community Oral History Toolkit (Second Edition)
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032941684

Book – Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change
http://www.getty.edu/publications-reports/item/2F27JF

Book – Grassroots Reconciliation Activism from a Comparative Perspective: Rewilding Peace
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781036476748

Book – Collecting Data among Paramilitaries: Ethnographic Fieldwork on Pro-Government Volunteers
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032877334

Book – Privacy and Property: Rethinking Rights, Dignity, and Liberty in an Age of Technology
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/privacy-and-property-9781666981117/

Book – Digital Transformation and the Future of Privacy
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367110628

Livre – Colonisation et guerre d’Algérie : les archives du silence
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/colonisation-et-guerre-d-algerie/86258

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

NeuroGLAM 2026
August 21, 2026
http://tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/JHxpk9VHSVqDG7QphA_UaA#/registration

The Tradecraft of Acquisitions and Appraisal
August 24, 2026
http://mysaa.archivists.org/nc__event?id=a0lUV000007wzyLYAQ

Sur le web / On the web

Petition to the Government of Canada: Canadian Register of Historic Places
http://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7594

Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Online Exhibit – So Very Sociable: Saskatchewan Sports Days & Community Picnics
http://www.saskarchives.com/exhibits/so-very-sociable-saskatchewan-sports-days-community-picnics

New Website – Our Stories, Our Voices: Oral Histories of Hazara Canadians
http://hazaraheritage.org/

Video – Everyone’s History: Inside the Gibraltar National Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg4-ZEvqAlc

Discord Server – Popular Culture Archives & Archivists
http://discord.com/invite/xvhWAhhkw

Presentation – Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World
http://fr.slideshare.net/slideshow/preserving-knowledge-in-a-shifting-world/288852806

Survey – Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences
http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfl8YMRrgseHGsPbFdwTHwDvKegr9lYuktdd4Xk2MdsRWtx4Q/viewform

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Weir(d?) Times at Library and Archives Canada
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2026/08/05/weird-times-at-library-and-archives-canada-3/

Association of Canadian Archivists – Bill C-3: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Meeting Summary
https://archivists.ca/Blog/13662990

Provincial archives of New Brunswick helping flood of Americans seeking citizenship
http://tj.news/new-brunswick/provincial-archives-helping-flood-of-americans-seeking-citizenship

BAnQ – La résistance LGBTQ+ de Montréal dans l’ombre des Jeux olympiques de 1976
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/resistance-lgbtq-montreal-jeux-olympiques-1976/

À Montréal, le Traité de la Grande Paix sort de l’ombre après 25 ans d’absence
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-format/2273103/traite-grande-paix-montreal

University of Winnipeg – The Indigenous Course Requirement Collection wants your stories
http://news.uwinnipeg.ca/the-indigenous-course-requirement-collection-wants-your-stories/

L’Université du Québec à Montréal acquiert le fonds d’archives Madeleine Monette
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2026/luqam-acquiert-le-fonds-darchives-madeleine-monette/

University of British Columbia – Crime, Cults, and Murder in Open Collections: Sources on Historical Crime
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/2026/08/06/sources-on-historical-crime/

Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – History of Malls in Pitt Meadows
http://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/muse-news/history-of-malls-in-pitt-meadows

Manitoba – Genealogy centre in Interlake hub of history searching for new home
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/history-genealogy-metis-selkirk-9.7286338

Portage history goes digital with Manitoba photo archive
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/portage/portage-history-goes-digital-with-manitoba-photo-archive/article_0747b125-37e1-54fb-95bb-d778d24d87d3.html

Preserving the fakes: 50 counterfeit Morrisseau archived
http://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/preserving-the-fakes-50-counterfeit-morrisseau-archived-12615623

Afrique / Africa

International Council on Archives – How FIDA Funding Helped Strengthen Archival Risk Management in Senegal
http://www.ica.org/how-fida-funding-helped-strengthen-archival-risk-management-in-senegal/

UNESCO is providing support to Senegal in safeguarding its culinary heritage
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-providing-support-senegal-safeguarding-its-culinary-heritage

Le Bénin réclame 35 œuvres et archives coloniales à la France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGM3WgkOTg

République démocratique du Congo : un accord signé pour moderniser et numériser les archives foncières
https://www.opinion-info.cd/politique/2026/08/06/rdc-un-accord-signe-pour-moderniser-et-numeriser-les-archives-foncieres

The hidden victims of climate change: South Africa’s archives
https://witsvuvuzela.com/2026/08/06/the-hidden-victims-of-climate-change-south-africas-archives/

Amériques / Americas

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Let’s play: designing the preservation of video games
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/stories/articles/lets-play-video-games

More than just objects: Australian booksellers raise alarm over horrific destruction of rare titles to feed artificial intelligence
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/02/australian-book-sellers-alarm-destruction-rare-titles-ai-supply-chain

Vietnam – Les archives, alliées de la quête des martyrs
http://lecourrier.vn/les-archives-alliees-de-la-quete-des-martyrs/1352618.html

South Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tokyo Institute to trace Korea-Japan art exchanges through archives
http://www.koreaherald.com/article/10830435

Sri Lanka President says cultural heritage is key to sustainable national development
http://www.onlanka.com/news/sri-lanka-president-says-cultural-heritage-is-key-to-sustainable-national-development.html

India – Digital Transformation of Museums and Cultural Institutions
http://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2293811&reg=48&lang=2

India – Assam floods damage heritage sites, endanger over 1,000 priceless manuscripts
http://assamtribune.com/assam/assam-floods-damage-heritage-sites-endanger-over-1000-priceless-manuscripts-1615063

Europe / Europa

Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – The 1936 Olympics: a Victory for Propaganda
http://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/the-1936-olympics-a-victory-for-propaganda/

Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – At last, his story can be told in full: personal effects of a victim of Nazi persecution returned to his family in France
http://www.stolenmemory.org/en/at-last-his-story-can-be-told-in-full-personal-effects-of-a-victim-of-nazi-persecution-returned-to-his-family-in-france/

A blow to Ukraine’s publishing industry: in less than four months, Russia destroyed nearly 10 million books
http://root-nation.com/en/news-en/it-news-ua/en-russian-strikes-wipe-out-nearly-10m-books/

Poland – Hidden for centuries: how newly identified St. Augustine sermons were found
http://www.catholicregister.org/item/4218-hidden-for-centuries-how-newly-identified-st-augustine-sermons-were-found

Archives: Vatican Scholar Unearthed a Jesuit’s Role in Informing the Holy See about Nazi crimes
http://www.usccb.org/news/2026/archives-vatican-scholar-unearthed-jesuits-role-informing-holy-see-about-nazi-crimes

À Berne (Suisse), la mémoire maçonnique se donne un avenir
http://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/243547/

France – Qui sauvera les archives des chasseurs de nazis ?
http://www.streetpress.com/1785415522-archives-chasseurs-nazis-extreme-droite-militants-conservation-memoire-travail-sauvegarde-documentation-antifascisme/

Ireland – Archivists forced to restart work on institutional abuse files as departments stalled transfers over legal and data protection concerns
http://www.thestory.ie/2026/07/31/archivists-forced-to-restart-work-on-institutional-abuse-files-as-departments-stalled-transfers-over-legal-and-data-protection-concerns/

It would represent an irreversible loss to Scotland’s cultural record: potential sale of Glasgow art centre’s archive sparks outcry
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/03/it-would-represent-an-irreversible-loss-to-scotlands-cultural-record-potential-sale-of-glasgow-art-centres-archive-sparks-outcry

British Library – Beyond Disney: Jiří Trnka and Czech fairytale illustration
http://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/beyond-disney-jiri-trnka-and-czech-fairytale-illustration

British Library – Thanking the orishas
http://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/thanking-the-orishas

Churchill Archives Centre – New archival material now available online
http://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-archival-material-now-available-online/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – The People in the Safe Room
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/safe_room_documentary/

National Library of Israel – The Articella: the Little Art that Changed the World of Medicine Forever
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/articella_medicine/

Saudi Arabia – King Abdulaziz Public Library Unveils First English Translation of Ibn Battuta’s Travels
http://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2645136

Oman – National Records and Archives Authority Open to the Public during Khareef
http://www.omanobserver.om/article/1193927/oman/nraas-archives-open-to-public-during-khareef

Turkmenistan and Iran are strengthening their cooperation in the study of manuscripts
http://vestiabad.ru/en/news/turkmenistan-and-iran-are-strengthening-their-cooperation-in-the-study-of-manuscripts

Türkiye manuscripts institution opens access to 6,388 works
http://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiye-manuscripts-institution-opens-access-to-6388-works-3225312

International

IFLA President’s Message
http://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-presidents-message-july-2026/

Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?
http://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-solve-the-problem-of-losing-data-2000792386

Ramblings of a File Format Researcher – Ready, Set, Go!
http://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/07/31/ready-set-go/

Decoding Magic School Lunar’s Save Game Format
http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/decoding-magic-school-lunars-save-game-format/

What’s Up with that Song from the Duck Game on Amiga CD-32 Anyway?
https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/06/whats-up-with-that-song-from-the-duck-game-on-amiga-cd-32-anyway/

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Voir aussi les Nouvelles archivistiques francophones : http://www.piaf-archives.org/nouvelles-archivistiques-francophones

Bibliographie Archives numériques / Digital Archives Biliography: http://www.zotero.org/groups/1649718/digital_archives__archives_numriques/items

Archival Bibliography / Bibliographie archivistique (2017-2023):
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1xEYck9l30WJa5DHrcb-32wbeYwv9dZBH/view

Archival Bibliography / Bibliographie archivistique (2024-2026):
http://www.zotero.org/groups/1663921/archives_dhn