Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia – Local Government Services Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
British Columbia – Riverview Hospital Historical Collection Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
British Columbia – Riverview Hospital Patient Assessment and Treatment Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
France – Décret relatif aux conditions de récupération des documents et données stockés par un service de coffre-fort numérique
NARA – Guide to the Inventory, Scheduling, and Disposition of Federal Records (Updated Version)
Government of Western Australia – State Records Commission Annual Report 2017-2018
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Statement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Copyright in Canada: IFLA Comments on the Review of the Copyright Act
Archival Platform – A Ground of Struggle: Four decades of Archival Activism in South Africa
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Enhancing Research Impact in Heritage Conservation
Knight Foundation – Disinformation, Fake News and Influence Campaigns on Twitter
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers – An Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Publishing
Article – Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research
Article – Digital Archiving as Social Protest
Paper – Rock Art as a Contextual Archive
Publications
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 39, no. 3 (2018)
Administration & Society, vol. 50, no. 9, 2018 (Issue Initiated by the Swiss Federal Archives)
Data Technologies and Applications, vol. 52, no. 4 (2018)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 6 (2018)
National Library of Wales – The Welsh Political Archive Newsletter 2018
Society of American Archivists – Congressional Papers Section Newsletter (2018)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 42 (2018)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 29 (2018)
Livre en ligne – Penser le faux (Moyen Âge – Temps modernes)
Book – Digital Curation Fundamentals
Book – Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion
Book – American Tantrum: the Donald J. Trump Presidential Archives
Book – Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians
Book – Remedies for Breach of Privacy
Book – Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences
Book – Diverse Applications and Transferability of Maturity Models
Book – Digital Revolution Tamed: the Case of the Recording Industry
Book – Making Medieval Manuscripts
Livre – Mystérieuses archives : enquêtes au coeur de l’inexpliqué
Livre – Mettre en place une charte documentaire : méthode et outils pour gérer les documents et les données
Livre – La généalogie en 100 clins d’oeil
Livre – La Grande guerre des Français à travers les archives de la Grande collecte
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Library Workers Day
October 19, 2018
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Home Movie Day
October 20, 2018, Edmonton
Art Gallery of Ontario Archives: the Canadian Illustrated Collection
November 1, 2018, Toronto
1982 Canadian Everest Expedition Collection and Archivist’s Talk
November 4, 2018, Banff
La numérisation : les meilleures pratiques
7 décembre 2018, Montréal
Hackaton des Archives nationales de France
8-9 décembre 2018, Paris
Webinar – An Introduction to Feminist Librarianship
October 18, 2018
Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
October 24-29, 2018, Pyongyang
Mapping History with the Layers of London Project: Partnership, Public Engagement and the Art of Looking up
November 1, 2018, London (UK)
Documenting Student Activism Now
February 21, 2019, Atlanta
Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age
June 27-30, 2019, Luxembourg
Entre écrits personnels et discours sur le monde : correspondances, carnets et récits de voyage
8-9 novembre 2019, Neuchâtel (Suisse)
Sur le web / On the web
Diocese of Hamilton Library & Archives – New Blog
New Website – Digitizing our Shared Unesco History: Project for Safeguarding and Promoting Unesco’s Documentary Heritage
Vidéo – L’archivage électronique dans les collectivités territoriales
Vidéo – L’aventure des textes, de leur naissance à leur lieu de repos
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode: Artificial Intelligence, Accountability and Archives
Slides – Software Heritage : the Great Library of (Python) Source Code
Slides – Solid: Linked Data for Personal Data Management
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s Crown Copyright: Outdated and unnecessary
Canadian Music Group Proposes Copyright Tax on Internet Use
How Canada Surrendered Policy Flexibility for Data Localization Rules in the USMCA
Privacy czar asks Federal Court to settle right to be forgotten issue
The secret to successful public sector transformation: information management
Ushering parliamentary history into the digital age
More than a dozen federal departments (including Library and Archives Canada) flunked a credit card security test
Library and Archives Canada – The Jamaican Canadian Association and women’s involvement
Library and Archives Canada – The aeronautical engineers at A.V. Roe Ltd.
Library and Archives Canada – Captain Coulson Norman Mitchell, VC
Library and Archives Canada – Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC
Exhibition cracks code on secret science of encryption
Historical images touring North to gather stories
25 ans d’histoire pour l’Archives Association of Ontario
Archives of Manitoba – Edith Rogers and the war effort on the home front
Celebrate Canadian Library Month and National Cookbook Month
Memorial University – Queen Elizabeth II Library Digital Archive Initiative Restored After System Failure
The origin of monsters: University of Toronto library exhibit explores sources of supernatural creatures
University of British Columbia – Web archiving: a student’s experience
University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections – The Beckwiths of New Brunswick
Western University – Barnett Legacy Digitization Project
McGill University – Data Mining and Security (DMaS) Lab Develops Artificial Intelligence Tools to Defend the Cyberspace of Canada
From the Beagle to the Bookshelf: Darwin at McGill University Library
Concordia University archive photos: going back in time
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Au-delà de 3000 photos
Indigenous prof critical of University of Manitoba land acknowledgement
Vancouver Archives – Merging Time: Past & Present Combined
Vancouver Archives – 2010 Olympic Torch Relay Photographs Now Available
Archival photos: 130 years of Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Saskatoon – Bridges cover: time stops in the archives for Jeff O’Brien
Polio and the City of Winnipeg Archives
Website upgrades give Edmonton’s City Archives a digital dusting
Edmonton online archives uncovers crazy kitten rescue
Archives de la ville de Québec – Le commissariat aux incendie fête ses 150 ans
Coquitlam (British Columbia) – Library’s digitization station preserves memories
Richmond Archives (B.C.) – What’s in a Name: Brighouse
Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) Launches New Collections Search
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – The Battle of Cambrai
La cartographie des routes impériales françaises: le cas du fleuve Saint-Laurent au XVIIIe siècle
The memory remains: Capturing the Echoes of the First World War
Your ancestor could be a Middlemore child and you might not know
Freshly Minted: Camille Ginnever, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Afrique / Africa
Eritrea establishes a National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Rwanda – New digital platform to ease access to Genocide archives
South Africa – How copyright bill will affect musicians, academics and the visually impaired
Amériques / Americas
Mexico’s National Archive Discloses Documents on 1968 Movement
Young Nahuats from El Salvador contribute to the safeguarding of their living heritage
NARA – Celebrating NASA’s 60th Anniversary
NARA – Americans All by Leon Helguera: Appealing to Hispanics on the Home Front in World War II
NARA – Honoring First Lady Laura Bush
NARA – Smoke(y) Signals
NARA – Towards a History of Mexican American Participation in World War I, Part I
New Digitally-Enabled and User-Centered Plan Enriches the Library of Congress Experience
Library of Congress – Data Mining Memes in the Digital Culture Web Archive
Library of Congress – The Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act
Library of Congress – Hispanic Heritage Month: Mexican-Americans and Baseball
Library of Congress – Archive of Hispanic Literature Launches New Online Recordings
https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2018/10/archive-of-hispanic-literature-launches-new-online-recordings/
Behold! The Library of Congress’s audacious plan to digitize and share the nation’s treasures
Ronald Reagan is waving to crowds again as a hologram at Presidential Library
National Library of Medicine – Clarity across languages: the art and science of translating health information
ARMA and the Information Coalition Merge: what Comes Next?
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Change in Law Affecting Retention of Precinct Election Records
Interview with Mark Myers on the Texas Digital Archive part 2
The Fascinating Story of the Texas Archives War of 1842
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Historical Society Announce the Discovery of Long Lost Census Records
A Look Inside Georgia Archives Virtual Vault
Texas State University’s Wittliff Collections now home to vast Tejano music archives
George Washington University – Of Python and Pandas: Using Programming to Improve Discovery and Access
Crowdsourcing success at East Carolina University
Q&A: Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive talks film preservation, education
American Alliance of Museums – Decolonizing the Museum Mind
The Mormons are making major changes to their genealogy database to recognize same-sex families
The Internet’s keepers? Some call us hoarders, I like to say we’re archivists
Internet Archive expands access to millions of books for people with disabilities
The Archive Corp Saves Things Before they Disappear
New York Catholic records online: what you need to know
Harley Museum Archivist Takes to Twitter and Drops Knowledge
Amateur archivist takes on a quest through history and the D.C. region’s extensive tunnel system
John Deere – An Archivist’s Life
A Record Center is Not an Archives: some thoughts from an interview
New Humanist archive shows how digital publishing can preserve cultural history
Hidden Writing on 500-year-old Scrolls Reveals Secrets of First English Voyage to America
The Beats’ Holy Grail: the Letter that Inspired on the Road
This 20-Year-Old Is Archiving Thousands of Flash Banner Ads from the Early 2000s
Albert Einstein’s God Letter at Christie’s
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Patients’ heavy records cost hospital $11m
Archives New Zealand’s new Christchurch repository officially opened
Archives New Zealand – Alien registration files: they’re becoming easier to find, and easier to access
The big picture: a rooftop moment in postwar Japan
Cambodia’s Anti-Archive Film Initiative Boosts Local Helmers
World’s largest collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature now available on the Internet Archive
Pakistan – 3500 artifacts digitalised to preserve cultural heritage
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/08/3500-artifacts-digitalised-to-preserve-cultural-heritage/
Radio Pakistan: home to forgotten music instruments, archives
Europe / Europa
Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union
Europeana – Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards
New to Transkribus? Master the platform in just 10 steps
Unearthing the vanished: dossiers from KGB archives answer decades-old mysteries
Latvia to release KGB card files to public
Lavish Manuscript on Vellum Sold at Frieze Masters for €3 Million
Who Will Write our History: the Incredible True Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Archives
National Archives of Slovenia get collection on diaspora in Australia
Hungarian Researchers Gain Access to Powerful Genocide Testimonies
Estonia shares e-governance experience at United Nations
Pope authorizes thorough study of Vatican archives into ex-Cardinal McCarrick scandal
A 500-year-old map used by Columbus reveals its secrets
800 illuminated medieval manuscripts digitized, to go online in November
Swiss Federal Archives – Project Online access
Luxembourg – Projet de numérisation commun entre les Archives nationales et la Chambre des députés
Pour une définition négociée des archives définitives
National Library of Scotland – Getting to know the UK domain crawl
Scotland – Author Ian Rankin to gift his archive to the nation
UK – Ministers must do own Freedom of information email searches
Inside the building guarding Britain’s nuclear secrets
UK National Archives – Myth-busting the women’s suffrage movement
The British Library: the Place where Vastness and Warmth Meet
Windrush Stories: British Library web space launches for Black History Month
Victoria and Albert Museum’s new photography centre brings history of the medium into view
BBC to make classical music archive available
Meet the digital historians on a mission to preserve data for future generations
Terry Farrell donates his archive to Newcastle University
Fan donates Cadbury memorabilia to company archives
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Remarkable Photo Collection From Pre-state Israel Went Missing. Until Now
Eugene man’s photos of 1973 Yom Kippur War accepted into National Library of Israel’s archive
The National Archives of United Arab Emirates participates with a documentary exhibition in the the Saudi Embassy’s celebrations marking the 88th National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Cartographier les systèmes d’irrigation à partir de photographies aériennes d’archives : mise en application au Yémen
International
Amnesty International to Create Human Rights Archive
Metadata Best Practices
There is Always a Bigger Fish. Acquisitions of Academic Infrastructure and how Libraries Can Help Circumvent Them