Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – 2017 to 2018 Report on Fees
City of Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia) – Annual Report 2018
Archives New Zealand – Disposal Moratorium on Records Relevant to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions
Library of Congress – Fiscal 2020 Budget Justification
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – @Risk North 2 (Digital Collections): Report of the Open Forum
A Statistical Profile of Artists in Canada in 2016 (with Summary Information about Cultural Workers)
A Public Record at Risk: the Dire State of News Archiving in the Digital Age
Report on the Survey of Digital Data Management Practices at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Northeast Document Conservation Center – Digital Preservation Assessment: Peer Assessment
Association of European Research Libraries – Voting Recommendations on the Digital Single Market Directive
Paper – Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2017, no. 2 (2019)
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 48, no. 1 (2019)
Bulletin de l’Association française des archives orales sonores et audiovisuelles, no 45 (2019)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 34 (2019)
Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada, no. 8 (2019)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 38, no. 2 (2019)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 15, no. 4 (2019)
Book – History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research
Book – Migration and Refuge: an Eco-Archive of Haitian Literature, 1982-2017
Book – Pierre Werner and Europe: the Family Archives Behind the Werner Report
Book – Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Book – Scientists Under Surveillance: the FBI Files
Book – Digital Humanities and New Ways of Teaching
Book – New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction
Book – Searchable Storage in Cloud Computing
Book – Online Film Production in China Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts: the Development of Collaborative Platforms for Emerging Creative Talents
Book – Splendor Solis: the World’s Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript
Livre – L’immigration oubliée des Belges en France : XIXe-XXe siècles
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Journée contributive Art+Féminisme
30 mars 2019, Montréal
Introduction to Archives Workshop
April 13, 2019, Winnipeg
ARMA Winnipeg Chapter Event
April 18, 2019, Winnipeg
Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto – Researching the Toronto Archives
April 24, 2019, Toronto
Symposium École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information – School of Information Studies
29 avril 2019, Montreal
Archives Association of British Columbia & ARMA Vancouver Chapter – Digital Directions
May 2-3, 2019, Vancouver
Webcast – Appraisal for Arrangement and Description
May 1, 2019
NARA – Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
May 10, 2019 – January 3, 2021, 2019, Washington D.C.
École d’été 2019 de l’Institut d’histoire du livre
24-27 juin 2019, Lyon (France)
Online Course – Introduction to Web Archiving
July 15 – August 25, 2019
De l’hypertexte aux humanités numériques
16-18 octobre 2019, Montbéliard (France)
Webinar – Trustworthiness of Electronic Records: Approaches from Archival Science and Jurisprudence (Recording Available)
March 21, 2019
Sur le web / On the web
LawBytes Podcast – Going Inside Canada’s Copyright Review
Photostories Canada: a New Website Created by the Canadian Photography Institute
Rappels : les productions théâtrales professionnelles du Québec
Video – Applying a Feminist Open Government Lens to Action Plans
Baladodiffusion – Les archives de l’État en Belgique
Association des archivistes français – Baladodiffusion : retour d’expérience sur la collecte et l’exploitation d’archives orales en entreprise
Numahop: outil de gestion des chantiers de numérisation
Born-Digital Ethical Collecting: a Living Resource List
Slides – Challenges in the Search of European Cultural Heritage
Slides – Accessibility in Cultural Heritage
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Critics say government hiding history by holding onto Cold War documents
Guy Berthiaume announces departure from Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada and Sir Arthur Doughty
Researching in the 1926 Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
Opportunity to provide input on Royal British Columbia Museum modernization
Budget du Québec 2019 : le Centre de services partagés du Québec aboli
BAnQ acquiert les archives de Pierre Laporte
BAnQ souligne la Journée mondiale du théâtre
BAnQ – La Gaspésie au temps du choléra
Revue de presse : programmes d’agrément : archives privées
Association des archivistes du Québec – Découvrez Cynthia Viau-Mainville, directrice région Montréal
Association des archivistes du Québec – Découvrez Frédéric David, directeur Certification et perfectionnement
The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives Is Now Available Online and Accessible from Anywhere
University of Toronto gets $100M donation for innovation centre studying artificial intelligence
University of British Columbia Library acquires the personal archives of Hanne Wassermann Walker
Mickey Mouse Comes to McGill’s Visual Arts Collection
Université McGill – Révolution! Le mouvement McGill français a maintenant 50 ans
University of Alberta digitization project aims to make valuable research accessible to all
Archives Unleashed Project: 2018 Progress Report
Canadian Committee on Women’s History – Digitizing the Pedestal
How are scientific artifacts preserved? Exploring new and traditional conservation methods
Quelques réflexions concernant Wikimedia Commons
Jewish Public Library Archives – Philanthropy for the Masses: the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Stand Up and Be Counted
Toronto Public Library – Cool Vintage Maps from Digital Archive Ontario
Ontario – Alive with the enthusiasm of our past: archive awareness week honours those volunteers who preserve our history
British Columbia – Exploration Place looking to digitize its archive
British Columbia – This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books
Living archives theatre piece unearths Japanese-Canadian internment stories
Flood waters drain Cochrane Historical & Archival Preservation Society (Alberta) bank account
What 100-year-old research by Nova Scotia children tells us about climate change
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alexander-mackay-climate-change-children-science-1.5063352
Keeping culture alive: British Columbia Indigenous couple inducted into Dance Hall of Fame
Regina man lands out-of-this-world NASA job after work on Apollo 11 documentary
Afrique / Africa
Sénégal – Comment Lionel Mandeix a infiltré les archives du Palais
Ethiopian National Archives Agency, British Library Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Cooperation
Tunisia truth commission says many rights abuse cases yet to reach court
How the Gambia is going about its search for truth and reconciliation
Burundi Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s new missions
Amériques / Americas
Declassification Diplomacy: Trump Administration to Turn Over Trove of Declassified Records to Argentina on Human Rights Violations Committed During Military Dictatorship
NARA – Holdings Highlight! RG 167: Submissions to the National Inventors Council
NARA – Robert Bob Wolfe: Captured German Records Expert
NARA – The United States Army Buys its First Aeroplane, 1909
NARA – Navy Nurse Sara M. Cox
Library of Congress – Moving Forward with the Copyright Office
Library of Congress – Suffragists in Song
National Library of Medicine – Artificial intelligence is coming. Are the data ready?
The American Civil Liberties Union sues FBI for records related to black extremists report
Deep Hanging out as Historical Research Methodology: the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution
Preservation Is Key at Delaware Public Archives
Volunteers can help North Carolina State Archives transcribe archival records
University of Washington – With a hello, researchers demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
University of Neveda Libraries using Virtual Reality technology to preserve the past
University of Florida unveils Joel Buchanan Archive
University of Oregon – New collection helps preserve the legacy of a civil rights trailblazer
Shoshone Nation collaborates with Utah State University Archives to host digital historical collection
Wake Forest University – Performing the Archive: Omeka and AWS
Inspired by University of California’s decision to drop its big deal with Elsevier, university librarians are laying the foundation to follow suit
The Digital Humanities Debacle
Capturing History, 280 Characters at a Time
Assessing the Digital Forensics Instruction Landscape with BitCuratorEdu
Hidden in Plain Sight: Institutional Amnesia and the Archives
Blaze tears through St. Louis museum of rare documents
Inside the Lou Reed archive: you can walk directly into his world
Archivists: the Superheroes of Time Travel
Three Einstein letters on antisemitism to be auctioned
Meet Nate Smith, Chief Archivist of the Boston Planning and Development Agency
Meet Meg Winikates, Director of Engagement at the New England Museum Association
Meet Molly Brown, Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
An Interview with the Hosts of Society of American Archivists’ “Archives in Context” Podcast
This Beer Was Developed to Process Kodak Super 8 Film
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia concerned with capability to become cyber resilient
Former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott’s tour letter bought at auction by Western Australia Government for $14,000
Love letters and contraceptive devices: what the New South Wales State Archives (Australia) tell us about marriage
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Transfers and RDA projects update
1919 Great Air Race Winners’ Archive Digitised
Researching arrivals to New Zealand: some additional sources
Japan – Efficient, appropriate system needed to handle public records, archives
New book of photography opens window to Hong Kong’s colonial past
Korea – Seoul opens municipal archives, public secondhand bookstore
Thousands of Indonesians have opened their own libraries
India – Understanding Bhagat Singh, one writing at a time
Europe / Europa
European Copyright Directive passes, setting dangerous precedent for the open Internet
The new Copyright Directive is a lost opportunity for Europe
European Union Copyright Directive Adopted: the Fight for Libraries and Freedom of Speech Passes to the National Level
Russia – Admiral Alexander Kolchak’s Archives Have Been Declassified. Why is the White Army Leader still so Controversial?
Two letters by inventor Nikola Tesla surface in Serbia
Sweden – Uppsala University : the goal is to be able to automatically read enciphered, historical manuscripts
Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using Artificial Intelligence and X-rays
Nearly 18,000 Ancient Manuscripts from the Vatican’s Archives Published Online
France – Archivage numérique : Vitam 2 est finalisé
Les métadonnées de gestion dans Vitam
Université de Bretagne occidentale – Une grande collecte de manuscrits en breton lancée par le Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique
La Tondue de Chartres, un documentaire réalisé avec des fausses archives, et c’est troublant
Compte-rendu du colloque international les Mondes de la généalogie
Northern Ireland civil rights history website launched
Ireland – Galway dominates National Museum archive of community history
UK National Archives – The White Crow: Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West
UK National Archives – Meet our new Collection Care research staff
UK National Archives – The saviour of the sewers
British and Chinese library leaders to share knowledge in Chengdu
British Library – When the personal gets political
Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts
University of Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism
King John royal charter found in Ushaw College Library
Second World War veterans’ voices recorded for online sound archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – I have the coolest job in the world, says curator of the world’s largest collection of Judaica
Israel – Yad Vashem to build $50 million Heritage Campus, archive
The Lebanese National Library: the Path
Rare literary works digitized in central Turkey’s Konya
International
Archival Projects: Evaluating and Acknowledging Performance
Blockchain Time Capsules: why Family Chains should Replace Family Trees
Let’s fight some more about the digital humanities
A Seven Minute History of Digital Publishing
How to Unlock Empathy to Make Library Marketing Mean Something
Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds
The history of the fax machine (and why it’s not dead yet)
Eight ways sci-fi imagines data storage
Why you Shouldn’t Use Personal Messaging or Email Apps for Business