Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Institut de la statistique du Québec – Évolution de statistiques clés de la culture et des communications
Institut de la statistique du Québec – Nombre d’établissements culturels de certains types
Université de Montréal – Directive concernant l’archivage des contrats
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Rapport annuel 2018 sur la surveillance archivistique
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Le tableau de tri des communes wallonnes
Rules of the National Library of Finland
NARA – Preservation Strategy 2019-2022
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology – Privacy Framework: a Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (for Public Comment)
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Documenting in Times of Crisis: a Resource Kit
Council on Library and Information Resources – The Foundations of Discovery: a Report on the Assessment of the Impacts of the Cataloging Hidden Collections Program, 2008-2019
Digital Science – Making Science Better: Reproducibility, Falsifiability and the Scientific Method
Article – Uncertain Archives: Approaching the Unknowns, Errors, and Vulnerabilities of Big Data through Cultural Theories of the Archive
Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 14, no. 1 (2019)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 31, no. 3 (2019)
IFLA Journal, vol. 45, no. 3 (2019)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 8. no. 5 (2019)
Outreach: the Newsletter of the Friends of the UK National Archives, vol. 6, no. 4 (2019)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 3 (2019)
The Rocky Mountain Archivist, vol. 36, no. 2 (2019)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 9, no. 8 (2019)
Report – Profiles of Collection Cataloging & Documentation Efforts by Museums, Archives & Library Special Collections
Book – Collecting Activism: Archiving Occupy Wall Street
Book – Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket
Book – Shooting Vietnam: the War by its Military Photographers
Book – Intellectual Property and Information Rights for Librarians
Book – Combating Plagiarism: a Hands-On Guide for Librarians, Teachers, and Students
Book – Libraries before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions
Book – Exhibitions as Research: Experimental Methods in Museums
Book – Argument Mining: Linguistic Foundations
Book – Menus that Made History: 100 Iconic Menus that Capture the History of Food
Book – The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place
Book – Hector: a Boy, a Protest, and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid
Livre – Faire de la généalogie avec les jeunes
Livre – Histoire d’une (r)évolution : l’informatisation des bibliothèques genevoises 1963-2018
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Association for Manitoba Archives Annual General Meeting
October 3, 2019, Winnipeg
The Challenges Facing Federal Records Today
October 9, 2019, Winnipeg
Congrès de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
27 au 29 mai 2020, Québec
Webinar – Universal Virtual Interactor: Algorithmic Recommendations for Accessing Software-dependent Data in our Collections
September 26, 2019
Reimagining Archives through Refugee Memories and Subjectivies
October 9, 2019, Minneapolis
A Concise History of Photography
November 9-10, 2019, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
New Website – University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus: Special Collections & Archives
Podcast – D’Archive (by Graham Stinnett, Archivist at the University of Connecticut and Former University of Manitoba Student)
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Virtual Talks and the Cost of Travel
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Video – Managing Social Media Records: State and Local Records Management
Video – Innovating the Ways Metrics Are Applied, Responsible Metrics & Measuring Openness
New Podcast – Archive Fever
Open-Heritage: the New Cultural Heritage Platform of Reach Project
Slides – Data mining in the times of the General Data Protection Regulation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s New CyberSecure Canada Certification Program
Dozens of MPs’ websites can track visitors for targeted campaign ads
Library and Archives Canada goes quiet
Three Outstanding Collections Added to the Canada Memory of the World Register
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archives added to UNESCO world register
BAnQ, gardienne de la mémoire du Québec
BAnQ – Voyager au Québec, d’hier à aujourd’hui : venez explorer l’histoire du tourisme par les documents anciens
University of Waterloo – Archives Database
University of British Columbia Library’s Chung Collection is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register
Regroupement des archivistes religieux – Message d’automne du président
Archives de la ville de Québec – Septembre 1944 : les yeux du monde tournés vers Québec
Vancouver Archives – A Quick update: BC Gay and Lesbian Archives photo identification
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – Letters of Loss: a Sense of Presence
North Battleford (Saskatchewan) – Historic Archives group requests city hire salaried archivist position
Funding for North Battleford archives position to come up at budget
Red Deer (Alberta) – Michael Dawe: it was 40 years ago that a young archivist learned his way
Athabasca (Alberta) – Upgrades to library, archives and theatre is essential
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Soldier Spotlight: Eva Nadkrynechny
Okotoks Museum & Archives (Alberta) Premiers two New Exhibits
Exhibition celebrating Mt. Revelstoke coming to Revelstoke Museum & Archives (British Columbia)
British Columbia – Municipalities not adhering to information access laws
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario) – Double Deckers in Quinte
Larry Dohey was unforgettable. We can honour him by protecting the archives he loved
Nurse’s timely memoir of 1950s Yukon dusted off and republished
Une nouvelle plateforme sur les Archives éditoriales : entretien avec Anthony Glinoer
Un photographe acadien à la rencontre de onze nations autochtones
The public library and Indigenous reconciliation
Afrique / Africa
Truth and reconciliation commission begins first public hearings in Seychelles
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Collection Opening: Francesca LaMonte Personal Papers
NARA – Researching Foreign Aerial Photography
NARA – Seasons Change, but Football Remains
NARA – Road Trip Wrap-up and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Library of Congress – Crime Novelist Laura Lippman: Empathy, Not Violence, Makes a Great Story
National Library of Medicine Scientists Contribute to Artificial Intelligence for Medical Image Interpretation
National Museum of American History – Preserving and displaying layers of history: The stock certificate nearly destroyed on September 11
Cooking with Freedom of Information Act: the declassified ham sandwiches of the CIA archives
Declassified CIA Cables Recount “A Poignant Moment” with KSM, Legal Group’s Commitment to Lawfully Employ Methods “Even the Israelis May Not”
The Ghosts of Past Wars Live on in a Critical Archive
Editor’s Comments about Brown Bag Lunch Article Controversy at Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting: Listening and Learning
Inclusive Processing of Indigenous Collections at SAA/COSA 2019
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Legislative Changes for Local Government Records Management Compliance
Helene Pilibosian Papers Now Available in Harvard Archives
University of Pennsylvania – Crowdsourcing 10,000 years of land use
Rice University – Historic board game finds home in Houston Jewish History Archives
Boston University – African Studies Center Completes Research Project on Mandinka Archives
These Sherlock Holmes films have gone missing. University of California at Los Angeles and Robert Downey Jr. are on the case
Recap: Emulation in the Archives Workshop, University of Virginia
American Legion – National convention resolutions on Digital Archive
Historic Recordings Revitalize Language for Passamaquoddy Tribal Members
Reclaiming the bodies of children who died at Carlisle Indian School
Historians push to create public archive of documents from massive opioid litigation
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books that Are Secretly in the Public Domain
Florida Panthers Announce Partnership with Heritage Werks to Archive Team History
Museum Helps Black Chicagoans Digitize their History
How College Students Helped to Save a Part of New Orleans’ History from the Flood
A is for Archive: the Future of the Archive
Resourceful Records Managers! Courtney Bailey, Chair, Society of American Archivists Records Management Section 2019-2020
Responses & Retrospectives: Rachael Woody’s Annual Conference Coverage on the Value of Archival Labor Sessions
Thinking about the Art and Science of Image Description: an Interview with textBOX Founders
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian artefacts go global in new digital archive
Australia – Human Rights Commission scoops artificial intelligence for records management
Australian National University – Archiving cultural heritage for current and future generations
Rwanda Genocide: New Zealand hands over diplomatic archives
Vietnam – Archives: le Président Hô Chi Minh au cœur d’une exposition à Hanoï
The mystery of Kerala’s Sri Lankan Ramayana manuscripts
Odisha State Archives India’s first to launch YouTube channel
Why a 15th-century manuscript of Indian recipes lists eight kinds of samosas, none with potatoes
India – This Hyderabadi archivist has 19,022 Ganesha idols
Europe / Europa
Europeana – The role of community-generated content in the digital legacy of the First World War
The Nazi archives: where Germany’s dark past is stored on paper
Germany plans photography archive to preserve visual memory of our society
Secret diary of Polish Anne Frank Renia Spiegel to be published
Finland to Set up Truth Commission for the Sami People
Russian Defense Ministry declassifies Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact archives
I longed for the moment you would write: the gulag penpals whose love lasted 60 years
Hungary Lacks Information Sovereignty: to Save Freedom, Americans will Open a Radio Station that Operated during the Cold War
Swiss Film Archives inaugurates new research centre
Les Archives de la Maison de France déposées aux Archives nationales
À la Bibliothèque nationale de France, les défis de l’archivage
Ouverture des archives françaises concernant la disparition de Maurice Audin, militant communiste disparu en 1957 en Algérie
Agnès Varda’s Daughter on her Mother’s Death and the Future of her Archive
1957 film of jazz legend Miles Davis found in France
Ireland – Court hears call for unlocking of sensitive documents in case of Irish People’s Liberation Organisation man shot by IRA
Ireland – Archive shows rare photographs of IRA men patrolling streets of west Belfast
UK National Archives – Record copying: Processing orders, promulgating discoveries
UK National Archives – Milestones to peace: the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye
British Library – Visualising newspaper data
BBC will make thousands of classic TV clips available on new archive website
University of London – Welcome to your digital Ministry of Information
Bournemouth University – The importance of preservation and sustainability of digital data in the arts
Jesuits in Britain – From the Archives: Work Experience in the Province Archives
This tape rewrites everything we knew about the Beatles
Right to be forgotten… in 60 years’ time
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Strange Correspondence Between Albert Einstein and a Lawyer from Bnei Brak
Beyond the Trial: Investigating Kafka in Jerusalem
The secret to miraculous preservation of a Dead Sea Scroll could be salt coating
Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts’ origins
Kuwait recovers 42,000 books belonging to its national archives recently found in Iraq
Oral History, which Records Once-Silenced Voices, Gains Ground in the Arab World
International
IFLA – For Everyone, Everywhere, at Every Age: Libraries and Adult Literacy
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – What is Holocaust Distortion?
Curation and Preservation: Teaching, Practice and Inquiry
Archival Description: an Annotated Bibliography
The Many Ways Planned Obsolescence Is Sabotaging how we Preserve Internet History
Should Art Museums Be More Ideological? After Pushback, a Museum Summit Decides to Put off Making a Decision
L’International Council of Museums n’a pas adopté sa définition politiquement culturelle des musées
We ask people in the art world what the future of museums could be
Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures