Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative – embARC: Metadata Embedded for Archival Content (Beta Release)
De la communauté / From the community
Radical Collections: Re-examining the Roots of Collections, Practices and Information Professions
Association of Research Libraries – White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
Educopia Institute – Collaboratively Maintaining Scholarship: Addressing Socio-Technical Scholarly Communications Challenges
Article – Faculties Approach Towards Assortment Measures on Digital Archives: a Study
Paper – Copyright and Digital Collections: a Data Driven Roadmap for Rights Statement Success
Publications
Archives and Records, vol. 40, no. 1 (2019)
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 47, no. 1 (2019)
Outreach: the Newsletter of the Friends of the UK National Archives, vol. 6, no. 2 (2019)
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter (Winter Spring 2019)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 15, no. 5 (2019)
Free eBook – True Biographies of Nations? The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Book – Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015
Book – Belleville in the First World War: Reports from the Intelligencer
Book – The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present
Book – Of Privacy and Power: the Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Book – The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Residual Futures: the Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
Book – The Laws of Transparency in Action: a European Perspective
Book – Cameraless Photography
Book – Creating the V&A: Victoria And Albert’s Museum (1851-1861)
Book – Archaeologies of Listening
Livre – Culture numérique
Livre – L’ADN, un outil généalogique (deuxième édition augmentée)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Jewish Journeys: Stories of Immigration
May 9, 2019, Ottawa
La gestion intégrée des documents sans logiciel
13 mai 2019, Québec
British Library – Writing: Making your Mark
Until August 27, 2019, London (UK)
Free Online Course – Introduction to Digital Humanities
April 30 – October 31, 2019
Webinar – Advancing Art Libraries and Curated Web Archives
May 20 and 30, 2019
Ghost Writers: Collectors, Creators, Archives, and Memory
June 12, 2019, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Sur le web / On the web
Baladodiffusion – Nouveaux regards sur notre histoire : entretien avec Hélène Samson, conservatrice en photographie au Musée McCord
University of Würzburg (Germany) – OCR4all: Free Historical OCR Software
Vidéo de la Bibliothèque nationale de France – Pionnières ! Séverine
Video – Archival Advocacy at Home Preparing and Messaging for Visiting District Congressional Offices
Podcast – Digging through the Archives with Geoff Edwards by Cincinnati Art Museum
Slides – Software Heritage: Building the Universal Software Archive for Open Science
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
La France aux Amériques: Library and Archives Canada is pleased to participate in this unique Web project
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update
Ingenium: Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation – Uncovering family history aboard a Canadian Pacific steamship
Ontario – An attack against libraries: officials react to loss of inter-library loan program
Ontarians Fight Back against Province’s Cuts to Library Services
Ontario – Government defends cuts to library service
Lancement du Réseau ADN : une communauté de pratique professionnelle pour accélérer la transformation numérique du secteur culturel au Québec
10 ans d’archivage web au Québec
Préserver la mémoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec
La vieille prison dans la mire de la Société historique du Saguenay et de BAnQ
Hydro-Québec c. Bell Canada: Spoliation of Evidence Results in the Dismissal of a Claim for the First Time in Québec
British Columbia – Indigitization: Supporting an Indigenous Path to Digital
Agreement Between Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire and the University of Toronto to Extend Ontario Council of University Libraries Research Data Repository Service to Quebec Researchers
Website launched by Archives and Special Collections traces University Calgary’s built history
University of British Columbia – B.C. History Digitization Program: 2019 Projects
University of British Columbia – Invitation to Participate in Research on Archives, Archival Work, and Grief
McMaster University – Scientific texts by Galileo, Leonardo and Newton among the Library’s many hidden gems
McMaster University’s rare book collection
Thunder Bay’s Finnish Archives at Lakehead University – Minutes of the Hoito Restaurant, March 27, 1918 to May 2, 1920
Université de Montréal – Reconnaissance de la discipline archivistique à l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information
McGill University Archives – The Colourful Journey of George Mercer Dawson
McGill University – Content Warning: this Library Contains Colourful Language
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Remembering an Easter Tradition: Agnus Dei
City of Vancouver Archives – The Henry Mole Diaries: Chronicling a pioneer, farmer and councillor
The little-known history of Squamish Nation land in Vancouver
Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawénna Roatitiohkwa Language and Cultural Center (Quebec) – Unveils New Digital Photo Archive
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Bonnets for Easter
Lakes District Museum (British Columbia) to digitize all archives
Centre d’archives régionales de Nicolet : 200 ans d’histoire à la portée de tous
I love you because I know you: century-old love letters found in Winnipeg
New Brunswick – Asian Heritage Society wants to tell immigrants’ stories
Newly discovered DNA quirk could reveal mysteries of Newfoundland’s first settlers
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dna-quirk-could-reveal-mysteries-of-newfoundlands-first-settlers
Exploring the intersection where Indigenous tradition and technology meet
Débat: le gestionnaire de documents, une bullsh*t job?
Krista McCracken – Archival Practicum Projects
Canadian Association of Law Libraries – Five Questions with Josette McEachern
Afrique / Africa
The Zambian Women’s History Museum is Returning to Africans What Colonialism Stole
Amériques / Americas
Uphold human rights of Indigenous peoples, allow traditional knowledge to lead land decisions, United Nations delegates say
Mexico releases spy agency’s files on current president
More Common Questions about NARA’s Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
National Archives and Monuments Men Foundation Announce Donation of WWII Diary
NARA – Legislative Issue Files Opened in the Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
Become a Wiki Scholar! Work with records from the National Archives to expand coverage of women’s suffrage in the United States in Wikipedia
NARA – Hidden in Plain Sight
Unseen Hitler’s Photographs Kept in the United States Archives
Library of Congress – Crowdsourcing the Clara Barton Diaries? Let Miss Barton Come to Your Aid!
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Carolyn Bennett, Teacher-in-Residence
Library of Congress – My Job: Raymond White
American Archive of Public Broadcasting – Watch Old PBS NewsHour Episodes on your TV
Legal Information Preservation Alliance – Preservation Week 2019
Law Review Preservation: http://lipalliance.org/2019/04/22/day-one-law-review-preservation/
A Battle Over California’s Public Records Law
New Hampshire – State launches online tool for historic records research
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – De-Duplicating Software: an Introduction
An Interview with Erica Titkemeyer, Project Director and AV Conservator at the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina
The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University
Princeton University Manuscripts Division – Peter C. Bunnell and Modern Photography
In wake of blackface scandals, Gonzagua University launches review of archives
Getting tenure with digital history
Geneva Bible stolen from Carnegie Library traced to pilgrim museum in Netherlands
Calling Marie Kondo! The archives at the Kennedy Center and the National Theatre are a mess
New Museum – A web art exhibit forces visitors to confront the past
Steering Share: a Reading List for Practicing Allyship in Archives
Encountering the archive
Working as a librarian gave me post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms
Archival Innovators: Helen Selsdon, Archivist, American Foundation for the Blind
Meet Maggie Hoffman, Archivist at the Cambridge Historical Society
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia review begins as agency races to save at risk records
Australian Television Archive – Warning! Your Archival Videotapes Are Expiring
New Zealand becomes first country to hand over genocide archives to Rwanda
Japan – The National Diet Library is now accepting applications for approval to receive the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries
The Japan Times Archives expanded to include The Japan Advertiser 1913-1940
China’s national library to archive 200 billion Weibo posts in project to preserve country’s digital heritage
Sri Lanka – Ancient manuscripts from around the country under one roof
Pakistan – This Peshawar Man Is on a Quest to Collect Old Quranic Manuscripts
Europe / Europa
What the Europe Union’s copyright overhaul means and what might change for big tech
How did the scroll of the ancient world evolve into the modern book? (and what is a codex?)
Germany – 600 stolen books returned to University and Regional Library of Bonn
Poland – Warsaw synagogue makes a virtual reappearance on anniversary of ghetto revolt
Russia returned communist party archive to Israel almost secretly
Risking death, Jews smuggled literary treasures from Nazi-occupied Lithuania
How to apply eArchiving to the Spanish e-government and electronic archive model
Suisse – Patrimoine à portée de clics: les archives de la presse romande bientôt en libre accès
Les documents du Service des tourniquets ou comment faire un e-learning sur les archives
France – C’est un monument au mort de papier : la mémoire préservée à Caen au Service Historique de la Défense
Architect left detailed guide to restore Notre Dame before his death almost 140 years ago
Ireland – Movement of Extremists: the secret police records from the 1916 Easter Rising
UK National Archives – Peel’s Police: Raw Lobsters and Blue Devils
White Queen died of plague, claims letter found in National Archives
British Library – Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection
They’re not property: the people who want their ancestors back from British museums
Manchester Metropolitan University – The Clockwork Condition: Lost sequel to a Clockwork Orange discovered in Anthony Burgess archive
Case study: Digitising the Birmingham City Councils burial & cremation records collection (Phase 1)
Diary of explorer David Livingstone’s African attendant published
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Short visit at the National Archives of Tunis: looking for traces of the revolt
Turkish government: Armenia fears opening archives from 1915
Turkey urges study of its archives in its dispute of Armenian genocide
International
Traditional Knowledge and Copyright: an Interview with Wend Wendland, Director of the World Intellectual Property Organisation Traditional Knowledge Division
OpenGLAM principles: ways forward to open access for cultural heritage
Why reinventing the wheel for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)?
Archiving the Net: Preserving the web isn’t impossible
Pourquoi Internet aime autant les archives ?
Disc-Free Gaming Is an Archival Nightmare
Here be dragons: Open Access to Research Data in the Humanities
A Blockchain Bandit Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions