Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – New Access to Information Act
Library and Archives Canada – Annual Report 2018-2019
BAnQ – La numérisation de documents administratifs : méthodes et recommandations
Audit of NARA’s Oversight of Electronic Records Management in the Federal Government
NARA – Use Cases for Social Media (Draft for Comments)
UK National Audit Office – Challenges in Using Data across Government
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Guideline and Disposal Authorisation for Records Relating to the Safety and Wellbeing of Children (Draft for Comments)
Queensland State Archives – Recordkeeping Maturity Assessment Tool
De la communauté / From the community
National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance – First Nations, Metis and Inuit – Indigenous Ontologies (Draft)
National Information Standards Organization – KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings
Association of European Research Libraries – FAIRness of Repositories & their Data: Research Data Management Working Group Report
Sedona Conference – Commentary on Legal Holds: the Trigger & the Process (Second Edition)
Paper – Is there a Digital Archivist in the Room? : the Preservation of Musique Mixte
Article – Escaping the Archive: Utilising Escape Room Games in a Constructivist Approach to Showcasing Archives and Special Collections
Article – Digital Curation at Work: Modeling Workflows for Digital Archival Materials
Article – Modeling Digital Humanities Collections as Research Objects
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 82, no. 1 (2019)
The Library, vol. 20, no. 2 (2019)
Le Cri du Portail international archivistique francophone, no 19 (2019)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationale de France, no 35 (2019)
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter (2019)
Thèse de doctorat (Université Paris-Saclay) – Archives, fragments Web et diasporas : pour une exploration désagrégée de corpus d’archives Web liées aux représentations en ligne des diasporas
Book – Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens
Book – Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
Book – The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women, Representation and Reception in Fourteenth-Century England
Book – Text Analytics with Python: a Practitioner’s Guide to Natural Language Processing
Book – Serving Library Users from Asia: a Comprehensive Handbook of Country-Specific Information and Outreach Resources
Book – A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Book – Automating the News: how Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
Book – Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate
Book – Literary Paris: a Photographic Tour
Book – International and Comparative Librarianship: a Thematic Approach
Book – Digital Humanities and Buddhism: an Introduction
Book – Cornerstone on Information Law
Book – Digital Cash: the Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists who Created Cryptocurrency
Livre – Droit public et patrimoine, le rôle du Conseil d’état
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Mémoires sherbrookoises
Depuis le 27 juin 2019, Sherbrooke
Designing the Archive
October 21-25, 2019, Adelaide (Australia)
e-Records Conference 2019
November 15, 2019, Austin (Texas)
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Happy Anniversary Guy Berthiaume: Interview
Podcast – History at Work: Emily Macdonald, Library and Archives Canada Archivist
Video – Archangel Project: Trusted Digital Archives
Stories of AV Archives Podcast – Episode Two
Slides – Digital Manuscripts without Borders: a Discovery Platform of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Présentation – Écrire, documenter et publier : nouvelles techniques pour l’édition scientifique
Slides – Dataverse in the European Open Science Cloud
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Unbalanced Witness List: why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part Three
Ignoring the Evidence: why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part Four
Better Data, Better Results: Comparing the Gap Between the Copyright Review and Heritage Study on the Music Industry’s Policy Proposals
The Copyright Board Game
Treated like mines: Feds mull stronger rules for Indigenous cultural property
Library and Archives Canada – Treaties with Indigenous peoples: past and present
Library and Archives Canada – The Winnipeg General Strike trials: a new Co-Lab challenge
Guy Berthiaume prend sa retraite
Ian E. Wilson: Order of Canada Promotion
Archivists poring over 75,000 hours of legends, stories collected by CBC
Diaries Found at Provincial Archives
Provincial Archives of Alberta presents showing of lost silent film
New app makes it easier to discover Alberta
White, male, settler history: British Columbia’s museum considers how to display past as it looks to future
Curator Julie Crooks on Art Gallery of Ontario’s Acquisition of 3,500 Historic Caribbean Photographs
Quebec Websites: a Decade of Harvesting
BAnQ – Perdue et retrouvée : la lettre de Louis Riel écrite à la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal en 1874
Queen’s welcomes new University Archivist and Associate University Librarian
University of British Columbia’s X_wi7x_wa Library Decolonizes Library Practices
Ryerson University – Photo collection brings Canadian history into focus
Memorial University digitizes doctor’s diaries
Western University acquires digital gold mine of magazines
L’été au Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse
More Voices, New Sources: Using Historical Documents to Diversify a Survey Syllabus
What exactly is a university librarian? Glad you asked
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Celebrating Corpus Christi
Photos – Voici 10 épisodes de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Québec au fil du temps
First items in LGBTQ2 collection on display at Western Development Museum (Saskatchewan)
History comes to life at Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario)
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Renaming the Past, Reclaiming their Stories: Indigenous Records at the South Peace Regional Archives
L’avenir de l’archiviste abordé autrement
Humanités numériques et archives : le paradigme qui continue d’émerger
Les travailleurs du clic et l’intelligence artificielle
Afrique / Africa
Conservators restore Africa’s first animated film in colour
Amériques / Americas
Statement of the International Council on Archives on the Situation of the Historical Archives of the National Police of Guatemala
The Modern National Archives of Jamaica
Researching abortion laws in Chilean archives
NARA – Update on Immigration and Customs Enforcement Schedule
NARA – Summer Road Trip 2019: the Other Fortification in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Library of Congress – Appraisal of the Library of Congress Commissioned Composers Web Archive
Library of Congress – 25 Years of LOC.gov
Library of Congress – The Will of Claudia Izard: an Uneasy Antebellum Testament
National Library of Medicine – On the Ethics of Using Social Media Data for Health Research
Georgia v. Public.Resource.org: Ending Private Copyright in Public Statutes
New Digital National Security Archive Document Collection Covers Nonproliferation Policy from 1954 to 1968
American Library Association to remove Dewey name from medal over his anti-Semitism and misogyny
History on sale: North Dakota State Archives offering books, newspapers and records
Appeals court rules against University of Michigan in bid to keep immigration Foe’s documents private
Hurricane detectives comb archives for clues to storms past and those to come
Artists sue Universal for $100m over fire that destroyed thousands of recordings
New York Times publishes list of over 800 artists potentially affected by Universal archive fire
New York Mets announce MetsHeritage.com: a completely free digital archive of historical material
Nerdy Jobs: DC Comics Archivist Benjamin Leclear
Archives Aware – An Interview with Micaela Blei, Award-Winning Storyteller and Educator
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia’s top librarian tells how the National Library fosters a culture of in-house innovation. In two words: radical incrementalism
State Library of Victoria (Australia) – The Chief Librarian and the soap thieves
New Zealand – Treaty of Waitangi proclamation of sovereignty to be auctioned
What does the revamped National Archives of Singapore building have to offer?
Europe / Europa
Historical Archives of the European Union – The Archives of the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice Chancellors are now open for consultation
European Research Libraries and Digital Humanities: a Survey
Russian Academy of Sciences archive reopens after debts forced it to close in March
Ukraine will Open Citizens Access to the Secret Archives of the Soviet Secret Police
Estonia: the Inside Story of Building a Digital Nation
Now online : general inventory of the music archive fonds of the National library of France
La gestion électronique du courrier : une étape incontournable de tout projet dématérialisation
Ireland – Boston tapes (oral history): Ex-IRA man to take case to Supreme Court
National Library of Scotland – Geocoding the Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland
UK National Archives – Milestones to Peace: the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
British Library – The Stonewall Riots: I wouldn’t have missed it for the world
More than 100 public libraries close every year due to Tory cuts
Book lost for over a century found in Durham Cathedral archives
Digital archiving : preserving history one page at a time : follow up interview
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Treasure trove of United Arab Emirates: Free Gulf Archives now online
National Library of Israel – The Archivists and the Forgotten Boxes: Rediscovering the Victims of the Sajmište Concentration Camp
Oman – National Museum Signs Agreement for Records Management System
Kuwait parliament okays copyright law
Turkey, North Macedonia’s state archives sign cooperation protocol
International
Le goût de l’archive à l’ère numérique
Scientists Create Universal Computer Memory that could Change the Way we Store Data
How Historians Can Now See Invisible Text on Ancient Manuscripts
Tips for Calculating Archival Project Costs
Why is there an engraving in the history of photography?
How Instagram accounts like @lgbt_history and @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y are weaving queer history into everyday life.
Ouya Preservationists Race to Save its Games before the System’s Final Demise
Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change?
What do we do about deepfake video?
Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.