Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Supreme Court of Canada – Keatley Surveying Ltd. v. Teranet Inc. (Crown Copyright)
Ministère de la culture (France) – Ouverture des données publiques culturelles : guide pratique
NARA – Federal Agency Records Management 2018 Annual Report
NARA – Department of the Air Force Records Management Program Inspection Report
NARA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research and Development Records Management Inspection Report
NARA – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Development Records Management Inspection Report
De la communauté / From the community
Labour Market Information Study of Canada’s Cultural Workforce
OCLC – The US and Canadian Collective Print Book Collection: a 2019 Snapshot
Society of American Archivists – Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Digital Public Library of America – Strategic Roadmap, 2019-2022
Accelerating Scholarly Communication: the Transformative Role of Preprints
Article – #MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality
Article – Computational Intelligence to Aid Text File Format Identification
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 255 (2019)
Journal of the South African Society of Archivists, vol. 52 (2019)
The Library, vol. 20. no. 3 (2019)
The Indexer: the International Journal of Indexing, vol. 37, no. 3 (2019)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 36 (2019)
National Library of Wales – Welsh Political Archives Newsletter, no. 50 (2019)
Book – Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past
Book – Unbecoming Nationalism: from Commemoration to Redress in Canada
Book – Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire
Book – Beyond Market Value: a Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital
Book – Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices, and Investments after Marilyn Strathern
Book – Elvis through the Ages: Images from the Hollywood Photo Archive
Book – Japan Triumphant: the Far East Campaign: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – The Intelligent Organisation: Driving Systemic Change with Information (Second Edition)
Book – Music, Memory, Nostalgia and Trauma in European Cinema after the Second World War
Book – Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine
Book – Playing with the Past: Exploring Values in Heritage Practice
Book – Big Data: a Beginner’s Introduction
Book – Winisis Effective Tool for Digitization: Digital Storage & Retrieval of Documents using Winisis
Livre – Les collabos : 13 portraits d’après les archives des services secrets de Vichy, des RG et de l’épuration
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – How to Create Inclusive and Accessible Open Educational Resources
October 14, 2019
Access + Care: Indigenous Knowledges and Archival Practice
October 23, 2019, Toronto (and Webcast)
Webinar – Islandora 8 and Research Data Management at University of Prince Edward Island
November 7, 2019
Atlantic Canada Oral History Symposium
November 22-23, 2019, Charlottetown
Dans un monde d’hommes : femmes, archives et histoire de l’imprimé au Québec
Entre le 2 et 8 mai 2020, Sherbrooke
Association for Recorded Sound Collections 54th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2020, Montreal
Massive Open Online Course – Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools
October 14 – November 24, 2019
Les Archives au défi du numérique
17-18 octobre 2019, Paris
Webinar Series – Open GLAM now
November 4 – December 11, 2019
Information and Records Management Society Annual Conference
May 2020, 17-19, 2020, Birmingham (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Recovering ’90s Data Tapes: Experiences from the National Library of the Netherlands Web Archaeology Project
Online Exhibit – Peacekeeping Records and History at the United Nations Archives
British Library – New Online Learning Resource: Discovering Sacred Texts
Society of American Archivists – Season Two of Archives in Context Podcast
UK National Archives Podcast – Lawrence of Arabia and beyond
Podcast – Andrew Kovacs on Archive of Affinities and Postmodernism
Slides – Reclaiming Place: Community History at the Shingwauk Site
Slides – Operationalising Artificial Intelligence at a National Library
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
A Broad and Liberal Interpretation: the Supreme Court of Canada Expands Copyright Users’ Rights
Citizens can’t be sued for filing access to information requests, court rules
Europeans have a right to be forgotten online. Should Canadians?
Library and Archives Canada – Co-Lab update
Bringing Archives to the Communities they Serve: Three Takes from the Association of Canadian Archivists conference
Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s Indigenous programming set to grow
BAnQ acquiert des documents d’archives du XVIIIe siècle
BAnQ – Touchante missive d’un veuf éploré
Message concernant la revitalisation du Réseau des services d’archives du Québec
ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – The Pussy Palace Raid: a Brief Herstory
Scholars Portal – Introducing the Data Curation Tool
OurDigitalWorld – Announcing the Abolitionists Collection
Algoma University – New digital access to archived residential school records
University of British Columbia Digitizer’s Blog – Salmon in Open Collections
McGill University – Celebrating 65 years of the Beatty Lecture
Mourning Robert Blackburn, University of Toronto’s pioneering former Chief Librarian, 1919-2019
Inside Western University’s enormous archives
Western University – Grad class photos available through new Digital Photo Archive
Memorial University – Uncovering the past
Mennonite Archives of Ontario Symbolic Closure in Support of the Global Climate Strike
Audio tour opens ears to Holocaust survivors’ stories in Montreal
How Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts has attracted a broader visitor base
Vancouver – Shaughnessy Elementary uncovers 100-year-old time capsule
British Columbia – Mission Community Archives: your cultural hub for 30 years
Revelstoke (British Columbia) – Library launches new Indigenous collection
Kamloops Museum and Archives talk will focus on 19th-century Montreal photographer
New Guelph exhibit reveals history of eugenics education in Ontario
Advisory group formed to weigh new funding plans for Almonte’s Naismith museum (Ontario)
Incredibly rare, centuries-old book on insects returns to Newfoundland
A perfect storm of poetry, struggle and library science by Hamilton poet/librarian Paul Lisson
Negotiating the Personal: Working with the Diaries of Ida Martin
Comment gérer ses archives familiales
Gestionnaires : trois clés pour donner du sens au travail de votre équipe
Accession, Arrange, Take Action! Archivists and Climate Change
Respect (Family historians and Archivists)
Subjectivity and Objectivity: Photography, Family, and the Historian
Afrique / Africa
Archives nationales : le Cameroun sous protectorat allemand numérisé
Ghana’s copyright law for folklore hampers cultural growth
South Africa – Copyright Bill: Saving our cultural heritage
University of Cape Town – The Jewish Digital Archive project
Amériques / Americas
International Council on Archives – Solidarity with Caribbean Archivists after Hurricane Dorian
NARA – Digitized Records in the National Archives Catalog: How Do they Get There?
NARA – The First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
NARA – Chewing Gum in WWI (Photos)
NARA – Propaganda, Politics, and the Personification of Franklin D. Roosevelt: the Uncle Sam Poster Controversy
NARA – Spotlight: Elephants in the Archive, Eek
Library of Congress – Freud’s Last Days in Vienna as Nazis Approached
National Library of Medicine – Biomedical Discovery through Sequence Read Archive and the Cloud
CIA unveils Cold War spy-pigeon missions
National Security Archive: the Vela Flash: Forty Years Ago
The long night: Project Van Winkle comes to an end
State Archives of North Carolina – Appraisal 101: Historical Value and Statewide Significance
http://ncrecords.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/appraisal-101-historical-value-and-statewide-significance/
Yale University – New Fortunoff Archive podcast shares stories of Holocaust survivors
Tulane University – Newcomb Archives now accessible online through Digital Repository
University of South Florida – A digital archaeologist helps inaccessible collections be seen
Sequoyah National Research Center preserving Native documents
Internet Archive and Center for Open Science Collaborate to Preserve Open Science Data
Boston’s Archdiocese expands effort to digitize archives
Forgotten Treasures: New York Police Department Unearths Over 100 Years of Photos Documenting New York City History
The historical profession’s greatest modern scandal, two decades later
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Film and Sound Archive to start collecting video games, launches Game Masters
Conserving Australia’s Cultural Record
The new tools that will help return Indigenous ancestral remains to Australia
Pass it on: preserving Indigenous languages
Archival decolonist – Your neutral is not our neutral
Archival decolonist – Engaging with the Uncomfortable
Archival decolonist – Diversity means Disruption
New Zealand – How do we solve a problem like the Official Information Act?
Taiwan – Transitional Justice database launch to happen this year
Mormons turn over four centuries of digitized Philippine Catholic records to Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
India – Over three crore (thirty million) pages digitised by National Mission for manuscripts
India – Pandit Ravi Shankar’s memorabilia found in Mumbai scrap shop
Europe / Europa
Google wins right-to-be forgotten fight with France
Europe’s right to be forgotten shows legislators what not to do
IFLA – Right to Information Recognised in New European Court Rulings
Europeana – Taming the rivers: log driving in Sweden and Finland
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Printed vs. handwritten text lines: automatically separated
30 years on, German MPs to decide fate of vast Stasi archive
Poland – Hiding place of priceless Warsaw Ghetto chronicle to be marked by memorial
Czech National Museum Searching for Early Czech Sound Recordings in US
Belarus’, Russia’s archive agencies to exchange experience in Vitebsk
Archivists to publish collection of documents on Belarusian, Russian history
Director Sergei Loznitsa on digging through Soviet archives and the challenge of dissecting the past
Armenian National Archive, Shoah Memorial of Paris to conduct studies for genocide prevention
Venise veut stopper le projet européen Venice Time Machine
Give me all my data Facebook: Interview with professor Ruben Verborgh
Deep (Hi)storytelling
La France va déclassifier des archives secrètes sur la guerre d’Algérie
Sur YouTube, l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel transforme ses archives vidéos en or
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (France) – Deux nouvelles formations expertes autour de la gestion documentaire
Des lettres de Marcel Proust dispersées aux enchères
Woman discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen
Vast archive of early Irish history digitised and put online
Ireland – Personal archive of adviser to Michael Collins donated to Cork City
Explore Innergourie, Meffen and Scoun on new interactive Scots language map
Map of Scots women accused of witchcraft published for first time
UK National Archives – Latest MI5 files released
Confession of British spy for the Soviets made public for first time
British Library – Finding zines on climate change
The digital challenge: are National Health Service organisations on track to meet paperless goals?
Centuries-old mystery filofax returned to New Forest church
The love letters returned after 70 years thanks to Facebook romantics
My Favourite Tools: Bethia Varik, paper conservator, National Maritime Museum
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Archives of United Arab Emirates launches Bachelor programme in Records Management and Archival Science
National Library of Israel – Gandhi’s 1939 Rosh Hashanah Greeting to the Jewish People
National Library of Israel – The Strange Connection Between a Medieval Shopping List and a Divorce Contract
National Library of Israel – The Simple Grain that Saved the State of Israel from Starvation
Hebrew University manuscripts offer insights into scientist
https://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/articles/hebrew-university-manuscripts-offer-insights-into-scientist/
Bahrein – How Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation Designs Archives in the 21st Century
International
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Research Archives Section Launches Welcome to our Archives Project
A great loss: Louis Joinet (1934 – 2019)
Maintaining Sustainable Archival Collections
There’s one crucial way tape still trounces SSDs and hard drives when it comes to storage
Email Encryption and Email Archiving: how Can the Two Be Combined?
Digital Assistants Could Learn a Lot From Reference Librarians
Libraries and climate change
Forget metadata, artificial intelligence will eventually be the perfect way to search footage
A Database of 100,000 Artificial Intelligence Generated Faces Is Changing the Way we Think about Stock Photos
Mondo Museum is a museum management game with Sims-like building tools