Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
City of Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia) – Annual Report 2017
Luxembourg – Loi relative à l’archivage
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Preservation Metadata Dictionary 2.0
Flemish Institute for Archiving – Digitisation Wave 7: DV Cassettes
Archives New Zealand – Selection Statement: Identifying and Selecting Public Archives (Draft for Comments)
UK National Archives – Archives Unlocked: Delivering the Vision 2018-2019
National Archives of Australia – Submission on Copyright Consultation Modernisation Paper
NARA – Information Security Oversight Office: Annual Report to the President 2017
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – 2017 Annual Report
IFLA – Annual Report 2017
Association of Research Libraries – Spec Kit 359: Library Development
Publications
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 39, no. 2 (2018)
Information Management, vol. 52, no. 4 (2018)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , vol. 38, no. 1, 2018 (Special Issue: Palestine: Doing Things with Archives)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 30, no. 2 (2018)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 6 (2018)
Lettre d’information des Archives nationales du monde du travail (Juillet 2018)
Trent University Archives News, no. 63 (July 2018)
Ph. D. Thesis (Queen’s University) – A Preface to Perversion: Foucault, Archives, Evidence
Free eBook – Fair Use in the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Librarians
Book – In Pursuit of the Archival Endeavour: the Story of the Archives Association of Ontario
Book – In Crime’s Archive: the Cultural Afterlife of Evidence
Book – Tracing the Mbira: Sound Archive in Zimbabwe
Book – Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Book – Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Policies
Book – History, Memory and Public Life: the Past in the Present
Book – Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary Society
Book – Planning Library Orientations: Case Studies from Around the World
Book – Massimo Listri: the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
Book – Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge
Book – The Changing Academic Library: Operations, Culture, Environments (Third Edition)
Livre – Archives judiciaires et généalogie
Livre – Penser / classer les collections des sociétés savantes
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibition Tour for Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada
July 26, 2018, Toronto
National Capital Region Fall Information Management Days
November 14-16, 2018, Ottawa
OCLC – Free Webinars: Research Resource Sharing, Wikidata, Web Archiving Metadata, Research Data Management
Refugee Rights in Records Symposium
August 9, 2018, Belfield (Ireland)
Records of Charities and Voluntary Organisations: how to Care for, or Deposit, your Archives and Records
September 17, 2018, Brighton (UK)
Tracing and Documenting Victims of Nazi Persecution: History of the International Tracing Service in Context
October 8-9, 2018, Bad Arolsen (Germany)
Second Annual Digital Archives in the Commonwealth
November 30, 2018, Virginia
Forum des Archivistes français
3-5 avril 2019, Saint-Étienne
The Uses of Truth: Truth Commission Archives, Justice and the Search for the Disappeared in El Salvador (Video Available)
April 23, 2018, New York
Association of European Research Libraries Conference 2018 (Presentations Available)
July 4-6, 2018, Lille (France)
Sur le web / On the web
City of Ottawa Archives – Time Traveller App
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Practicing Kindness and Gratitude
Queensland Government (Australia) – Recordkeeping and you eLearning
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas Series: Archives and Linked Data
UK National Archives Podcast – Semantic Capital: what it Is and how to Protect it
Baladodiffusion – Rwanda, les archives de la réconciliation
Podcast – Collectors, Keepers, and a Kitchen Sister
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada: Copyright Quarterly
Why public libraries can’t buy some of Canada’s top audiobooks
We must not treat data like a natural resource
Government Mail Free of Postage: Scholars’ letters to Parliament Hill
Chatbot aids firms’ privacy compliance by finding client exposures within data breach laws
Library and Archives Canada – Imagining Canada: Metsia’at ha-Arets ha-Hadashah
Secret Bench of Knowledge: Creator of Iconic Sculpture Visits Library and Archives Canada
RCMP lags in open government access to information posts; zero so far in 2018
Putting a name to a face: archive photos from Whitehorse Star travelling to Yukon communities
Yukon Archives project aims to identify First Nations individuals in historical photos
NDP tries to block information requests from British Columbia Liberals
Manitoba Online Historical Photos Research
BAnQ – Punaises de lit à la Grande Bibliothèque
On the path of Napoleon: maps at McMaster University likely contributed to his fall
University of British Columbia – Teach me how: handle and Preserve Family Photographs and Documents
Chocolate Around the Clock: McGill University Rare Books and Special Collections cookbook collection
McGill University Rare Books and Special Collections – Introducing the Goodman Intern
McGill Library – A peek into the daily life of an English doctor in Versailles, 1819-1824: the diaries of Jonas Asplin, M.D.
University of Toronto Scarborough librarian uses research skills to confirm Indigenous roots
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Toronto’s Archbishops Live at Massey Hall
Toronto Public Library – Digital City Directories: a Great Resource to Research Ontario Places
Toronto Public Library – Belleville: Vintage Postcards and Rare Photos
Gatineau – Petite victoire pour le propriétaire du 79 Fraser pour l’accès à des documents
Oshawa – Scouting, Guiding stories sought for Parkwood archives
Wetaskiwin (Alberta) – Council hears plea to preserve local archives
Archives go to Elgin County Museum (Ontario) and Report of Canada Day
Cambridge (Ontario) – Crowds pack downtown Galt for digital library launch party
Yarmouth County Museum and Archives (Nova Scotia) – Fundraising Campaign
Explore some of the photographs of Forteau, Labrador
Career Spotlight: what I do as Copyright and Reserves Supervisor (Lauren Bourdages, Copyright and Reserves Supervisor at the Wilfrid Laurier University Library)
Japanese-Canadian artist Emma Nishimura breaks her family’s silence about being interned during WWII
De Winnipeg à Hollywood : l’histoire du père de Bugs Bunny
Krista McCkracken – Open Educational Resource and Exploring Pressbooks
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda to get a National Archives Centre
Zimbabwe – Government officials use private emails for work, making them vulnerable to hackers
Nigeria Needs Enabling Laws to Accord Proper Recognition for Information Management
Cameroun : vers une numérisation des archives au Ministère de la fonction publique
Patrimoine national : la France s’implique dans la numérisation des archives du Congo
Maurice – Archives : quand la mémoire de la nation se désagrège
Maurice – Aux Archives nationales : le Public Bodies Appeal Tribunal désavoue l’ancien Director of Culture en annulant une nomination
Sierra Leone just became the first country in the world to use blockchain during an election
Djibouti mobilizes national stakeholders to safeguard its intangible cultural heritage
Comoros launches activities to safeguard intangible cultural heritage
Benin – Watch the throne: why artist Thierry Oussou faked an archaeological dig
Amériques / Americas
Nonprofit Presses National Archivist on Record Preservation
Inside, Inside Baseball: a Look at the Construction of the Dataset Featuring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Science of Saving the Declaration of Independence
Pepper Hamilton Files Action Seeking FBI Records of US Troops’ WWII-Era Heist of Crown Jewels
Declassified Documents Include Eisenhower’s Briefing to President-elect Kennedy on the Satchel Containing Information Needed to Conduct Nuclear War
CIA archives outline the pre-history of the infamous OPM hack
Freedom of Information Act One of the Last Tools for Clarity on the Family Separation Crisis
Researchers find stolen military drone secrets for sale on the dark web
Society of American Archivists – Letter to the New York Times Editor: Migrant Family Records
State Archives of North Carolina – FAQ: Triggers for Retention
Utah Division of Archives and Records Service – Classification and the Purpose of General Retention Schedules: RIM v. Government Records Access and Management Act
Princeton University – Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files
Stolen W.B. Yeats letters identified at Princeton University
Knight Fellow’s project leads to a new collection at Stanford University Libraries
Virginia Tech is leading a grant-funded project to make web archives more valuable to researchers
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Acadian Archives displays Evangeline exhibit
Blockchain Applied: Impact on the Information Profession
The Internet Archive is helping these artists get inspired by digital history
Metropolitan Museum of Art – Fashion Back Stories: Linking Archival Material to Costume Institute Objects
Morgan Library & Museum – Not your Average Autograph Collection
Getty Museum Acquires a Rare, 700-Year-Old Torah
The Odd Literary Paraphernalia of the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection
In an online world, postcards help preserve Las Vegas history
Milking cows for data: not just dairy products
There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with May Haduong, Public Access Manager, Academy Film Archive
The Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade
Of Rich Kids and Rare Book Theft: American Animals and the Various Nonfictions of a True Crime
Jehovah’s Witnesses official says to destroy records because Satan’s coming after us
Queering the Archive with Kate Messer
Roll Initiative: Role Playing Games and the Archives
Beats, bucks and bling: the first stars of hip-hop in pictures
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
South Australia – Why does the Mormon Church want state records? And what do they do with them?
Have you herd about the new space for Australasian Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums?
New Zealand – Index of historic Maori Land Court records now open access
Nepal – 30,000 manuscripts secured through National Archives
Race to restore Myanmar’s film classics for a second screening
Singapore – Parliament: National Library Board no longer needs written consent to archive online content with historical value
India – This archival project wants you to talk to your grandparents
Pakistan – Historical archives of Inquilab go online
Europe / Europa
Europe’s copyright plan: why was it so controversial?
The European Commission’s new proposal for re-use of public sector information: improving but some fixes still required
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Transkribus recognises early modern German correspondence
National Library of Sweden becomes the first national library to fully transition to linked data
In Russia’s Archives, a Soccer History Cloaked in Contradictions
The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto as Told by the Jews, Not the Nazis
Representatives of the Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Georgia hand over materials related to the search for victims of Soviet repression in Georgia
Germany – Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Interview with Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh and Alia Mossallam
Poisonous Renaissance manuscripts discovered in Denmark
Polish Historian Calmly Conducts a TV Interview while an Orange Cat Climbs on his Shoulders
Public Libraries as Open Data Labs: the Atheneums of Data in the Barcelona pilot
Greece – Ancient find may be earliest extract of epic Homer poem Odyssey
Ambassador of Mongolia to Italy Meets Prefect of Vatican Secret Archives
Luxembourg – Nous avions du retard en termes d’archivage
France – Thomas Sankara et la Révolution aux archives diplomatiques
Letters on 17th and 18th Century Welsh life to be digitised
Olivia Colman, the UK Parliamentary Archives and Who Do you Think you Are?
UK and France to strengthen ties in artifical intelligence and data
UK National Archives – What’s new in UK archives?
UK National Archives – Why can’t I find what I’m looking for?
How National Archives Digital Director John Sheridan is digitising government records
UK National Archives – The National Health Service at 70, part 2: publicising national health
UK National Archives – The National Health Service on film
Steve Baker, Minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union, visits the National Archives
British Library partners with Impactstory for open access discovery
British Library – Anglo-Saxon charters online
Announcing the British Library’s new Translator in Residence
British Library – Cataloguing James Berry
British Library – Funding Victory: French posters from the end of the First World War
Digital Archiving at the University of York – Accessibility and usability report for AtoM
Museum snaps up panorama of lost London landscape
Original 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh map sells for record £430,000
Harry Potter auction: how much are signed books worth?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egyptian Cinematic to archive Egyptian cinematic heritage
Conspiracy of Silence: Israeli Government Still Covering Up Historic Atrocities
International
Arrêtons d’opposer données et archives
Archives: Digital Imaging and Resolution Recommendations
Triumph of the trophy hunters at rare books auctions
The hot new archaic music format is 3.5” floppy disks
Exposing the Secret Office 365 Forensics Tool
Why Sci-Hub is Illegal, and what you Can Do about it
YouTube Announces New Copyright Match Tool To Protect Creators Against Re-Uploads
What tech giants really do with your data