Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Research Priorities at the UK National Archives
NARA – International Boundary and Water Commission Records Management Program Inspection Report
Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres (France) – La gestion des archives territoriales
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – Investigation into the Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – Democracy Disrupted? Personal Information and Political Influence
De la communauté / From the community
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – Research Collections with Cold War-era Radio Materials
Society of American Archivists – Best Practices for Internships & Best Practices for Volunteers in Archives (for Comments)
Association of Research Libraries – Statistics 2015-2016
IFLA – Get into Blue Shield
Open Government Partnership – Opening Justice: Access to Justice, Open Judiciaries, and Legal Empowerment through the Open Government Partnership (Draft)
Ithaka S+R – Library Acquisition Patterns: Preliminary Findings
Article – Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolving Digital Preservation Landscape: Reflections from Portico
Article – Disentangling Gold Open Access
Publications
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 32 (2018)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1 (2018)
In situ: revue des patrimoines, no 34 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Archival Outlook (July-August 2018)
Discover: the Magazine of the National Library of Scotland, no. 38 (2018)
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter (Spring 2018)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Lyon) – Bibliothèques et écologie : les bibliothèques de lecture publique françaises et les enjeux environnementaux
Report – Data Warehouse in the Cloud Benchmark
Book – Records, Information and Data: Exploring the Role of Record-Keeping in an Information Culture
Book – Who Will Write our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Second Edition)
Book – The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840
Book – Deaccessioning and its Discontents: a Critical History
Book – Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: how to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age
Book – Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom
Book – Secure the Shadow: Somerset Photographers 1839-1939
Book – Creating Heritage for Tourism
Book – We Can Do I.T.: Women in Library Information Technology
Livre – Archives départementales mode d’emploi (deuxième édition)
Livre – Calenge par Bertrand, parcours de lecture dans le Carnet d’un bibliothécaire : du blog au book
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exposition – Photographies de Thibault Carron et des Archives de Montréal
Jusqu’au 23 août 2018, Montréal
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Morris Two-Gun Cohen
August 5, 2018, Calgary
La vie et l’oeuvre du docteur Armand Frappier (par François Cartier)
5 août 2018, Mascouche
Communications Security Establishment – Decipher Travelling Exhibition
October 5-31, 2018, Ottawa
Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies – Scholarships for Transnational Access to Special Collections and Archival Documents
Call Open until August 19, 2018
NARA – Industry Day for Electronic Messages
August 6, 2018, Washington D.C.
Association of Research Libraries – Spec Survey Webcast on Library Development
August 8, 2018
Symposium: the Fairfax Media Archive
August 10, 2018, Syndey (Australia)
Australian Library and Information Association eCourse – Calling Bullshit
August 13 – September 21, 2018
Accessing Archives: a Study Day for First World War Community Heritage Researchers
September 21, 2018, London (UK)
Resilience of Heritage in Resilient Cities
November 15-16, 2018, Prague (Czech Republic)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Two Row Wampum: Preserving Indigenous Languages in Toronto
Association des archivistes de l’Église de France – Nouveau site
Video – Legislative Data Transparency Conference
British Library – Classical Podcast No. 2 – Rob Cowan Shares his Passion for the Artistry of Violinist Bronislaw Huberman
Baladodiffusion – Jules Michelet, tirer le sang des peuples des archives
Slides – Research Writing: how, what, where, when
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The first rule of copyright reform: don’t mess with free speech and net neutrality
Effacer le passé: un droit?
Privacy laws must catch up with technology
California’s New Privacy Law and what it Means for Canadian Businesses
Who is the average ebook reader?
Library and Archives Canada – Recent documents digitized through the DigiLab
Radio-Canada déménage : nous faisons le ménage dans les albums photos
British Library – Summer reading: Canada in the Frame
Canadian Urban Libraries Council Responds to Tor Library Embargo
Study Reconsiders Public Domain in the Protection of Traditional Knowledge
http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/07/11/study-reconsiders-public-domain-protection-traditional-knowledge/
A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don’t Call it Indian
Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515
Archives of Manitoba – Canadian Corps Championships, France, Dominion Day, July 1st 1918
Newfoundland and Labrador government breaking its own laws on access to info requests: commissioner
No Update on the Status of Nova Scotia’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Portal Website 100 Days Later
Analyse du Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec sur les différences salariales dans le secteur parapublic : des écarts importants qui pénalisent les institutions culturelles
McMaster University – New Bertrand Russell Archives and Research Centre Opens
McGill University – McIntyre fire damage: building closed, library holdings sustained some damage
The Beatles’ Treasure Found by University of Calgary Archivists
University of Toronto – Ontario librarian creates online guide for teachers to find available Indigenous course content
University of British Columbia – Teach me how: Metadata and Digitization
Top Tips for Research Trips: Making the Most of your Visit to the Archives
Land of the Lost: Digital Projects and Longevity
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Record of the Week: Aboat Time for the Weekend
Ottawa – City dedicates future site of central library branch, Library and Archives joint facility
Archives de Montréal – Saint Henri au coeur de l’industrie du disque : l’oeuvre d’Emile Berliner et la RCA Victor
Pieces of Calgary’s past left sitting in city storage lots to be sorted through by heritage authority
London Free Press Archives: 60 Years of Stratford Festival Coverage
Halifax – Thousands to gather for Africville’s 35th annual reunion
City of Oshawa apologizes for lack of transparency with access to information requests
Richmond (British Columbia) – The North Arm of the Fraser: Industry in 1918
Eaton’s Store Remembered at Brandon General Museum and Archives (Manitoba)
http://www.discoverwestman.com/local/eaton-s-store-remembered-at-brandon-general-museum-and-archives
Saanich (British Columbia) seals history with time capsule
Rare edition of Mary Poppins book flies home to Alberta library
Retour sur la 5e journée des archives du Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec
Three Things I Miss About Working in Archives
Afrique / Africa
L’Agence marocaine de presse lance maparchives.ma, une plateforme dédiée à la commercialisation des archives de l’Agence
South Africa gets digital archive
South African History Archive – Madiba’s Memory: preserving memory of the man rather than the icon
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Baseball Records Provide Historical Perspective on All-Star Game
Law Library of Congress and Peace Palace Library of the Hague Agree to Form Information-Sharing Relationship
Library of Congress – Virtual Card Catalog Phase II
National Library of Medicine – What is the academic health sciences library’s role in the learning health care system?
Bipartisan group of senators discussing bill to keep Iraqi Jewish Archive in U.S.
Society of American Archivists Signs on to Coalition Call for Urgent Investigation of Destruction of Records on Family Separation Crisis
Society of American Archivists – Council Approves Position Statement on Congressional Records as Public Records
Society of American Archivists – Act Now to Save Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities
Group asks court to force agencies to release Kavanaugh files
FBI Wish List: an App that Can Recognize the Meaning of your Tattoos
D.C. Court of Appeals Breaks New Ground on Freedom of Information Act Pattern and Practice Claim
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Benefits and Limitations of Auto Classification in Records Management
Massachusetts Archives – Processing Metadata with Python: an “os.walk” through
State Archives of North Carolina – Administrative Office of the Courts’ Electronic Records and Imaging Policy: Part 2
Harvard Library Innovation Lab Fellowship, Part One: what we Talk About when we Talk about PII
British Library extends grant for University of Texas at Arlington led project to digitize endangered colonial documents in Cuba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Data mining reveals fundamental pattern of human thinking
University of Michigan Digital Preservation and Research Data – Mold is Weird: Part 1
Digitization project reveals unseen guerrilla footage that revolutionized TV
The archives that hold America’s history: one of the only places you’ll find ethnic, immigrant, and working class history is in Catholic religious communities’ archives
New York – Century-old messy divorce records unsealed
Providence Public Library Special Collections: Acquisitions Policies and Practices, part 1
Archivists on the Issues: Answering the Call for Inclusivity
Nightcrawling with Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beatniks in pictures
Archivist-Electronic Musician Cruel Diagonals Embraces Curiosity
Archives + Audiences: Wendy MacNaughton on “Leave me Alone with the Recipes: the Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles”
Einstein Letter on Immigration Up for Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia spends up in fight over John Kerr’s letters to Queen
Australia – Preserving records of endangered languages through digital archives
Australian Library and Information Association intensifies its focus on Indigenous matters
Australian Catholic heritage in safe hands with diocesan archivists
The voice of Indigenous data
An awful lot of it hasn’t got old: New Zealand’s music history to be kept safe at national archive
Fascinating find at Archives New Zealand
Japan document scandals highlight country’s growing pains as a democracy: archivist
The National Archives of Japan
Japan – Ultra-technologists to open digital-only museum in Tokyo
Old bus tickets among 400 items of historical significance donated to National Archives of Singapore
Solomon Islands’ World War II Records inscribed in the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific Register
China launches campaign against online copyright infringement
India – First-ever survey adds priceless records to Kerala Archives
Archives of south Asian oral history housed in India
Europe / Europa
Explore these Captivating Libraries in Europe
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – New resources for German-speaking Transkribus users
Procedure against Slovenia over European Central Bank archives continues
Spain launches truth commission to probe Franco-era crimes
Hungary – Discover the archive photo project blending past and present in Budapest
Albania Signs Agreement to Search for Communist Victims’ Bodies
Vatican – Secret Archives: Priest Documents Humanae Vitae Preparation
Luxembourg – La nouvelle loi sur l’accès à l’information a été votée
France – L’Assemblée nationale inscrit la protection des données personnelles dans la Constitution
France – Concertation des archivistes : bilan mitigé
France – Archives du Front National : Jean-Marie Le Pen mitonne son Institut national de l’audiovisuel personnel
Online claims service being piloted in England and Wales
UK House of Commons library: 200 years of history
UK National Archives – Where do I start my research?
UK National Archives – The Home Guard
UK National Archives – Behind the Scenes of Organising an Exhibition: Modern Brazilian Paintings (1944)
UK National Archives – 100neHundred: dancing to remember the fight for the vote
British Library – Crowdsourcing comedy: date and genre results from In the Spotlight
British Library – The mysterious death of Captain Archibald Anderson
Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto
Elizabeth Denham, UK information commissioner: data crimes are real crimes
New Brighton revisited: three decades in pictures
Antiques Roadshow caught in legal row over rare $178k manuscript
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Archivist Demands State Files Be Kept Separate From Prime Minister’s Office
Residents of Arab Village Demand Israel Open Archives on 1956 Massacre
Palestine – The national library that turned into a training facility
Papers stolen in a daring Israeli raid on Tehran archive reveal the extent of Iran’s past weapons research
Turkey – Digital transformation of libraries, archives, museums underway
International
White people, Let’s talk: Diversity in Archives and Libraries
Why Digital Archives Expand Access and Awareness
Qu’est-ce que le numérique fait aux historiens ?
How the Use of Document Management System Software Can Benefit your Business
App Preservation: Saving the App Store’s History
Do you really need to properly eject a USB drive before yanking it out?