Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de France – Note d’information relative à la mutualisation et à l’externalisation de certaines fonctions dans le cadre de systèmes d’archivage électronique
Library of Congress – Mandatory Deposit Laws in Selected Jurisdictions (2017 Update)
Dorset History Centre (UK) – Digital Content Research Findings
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC – The Realities of Research Data Management Part Three: Incentives for Building University RDM Services
IFLA – Libraries and the Cultural Rights of Women
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) – Study of Practices and Tooling for Web Data Standardisation
Article – Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates
Free Book Chapter – Black Folk Magic: an Autoethnography of Digitally Archiving Black Millennialhood
Article – Une petite histoire d’indexation alternative
Paper – Revisiting a Summer Vacation: Digital Restoration and Typesetter Forensics
Publications
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, vol. 4 (2017)
The Journal of Western Archives, vol. 9, no. 1 (2018)
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 12, no. 2 (2017)
The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, vol. 17, no. 1 (2018)
Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 34, no. 1 (2018)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 74, no. 1 (2018)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 69, no. 1 (2018)
First Monday, vol. 23, no. 1 (2018)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 7, no. 1 (2018)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 2 (2017)
Society of California Archivists Newsletter, no. 165 (2018)
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 43, no. 4 (2017)
Book – Ethics for Records and Information Management
Book – Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage: the Role of Local Governance in Economic Development
Book – Managing the Multigenerational Librarian Workforce
Book – The Social Dynamics of Open Data
Book – Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory
Book – The Lean Electronic Health Record: a Journey Toward Optimized Care
Book – The French Air Force in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings: Volume Two: World Music (Fourth Edition)
Livre – Guide d’archivage pour les hôpitaux et établissements de santé
Livre – Ces ancêtres oubliés : domestiques, nounous, gens de maison
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
A Brief History of Hadoop vs. the Cloud
January 17, 2018, Toronto
Information without Borders Conference 2018
February 13, 2018, Halifax
The Walrus Talks Canada 150: what Next?
February 28, 2018, Ottawa
Good Practice Takes Practice: Certification and Accreditation for Digital Preservation
January 9, 2018, London (UK)
International Principles of Access to Archives
March 1, 2018, Iowa City
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives 49th Annual Conference
October 1-4, 2018, Accra (Ghana)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Provincial Archives of Alberta: Inside Vault #4
Podcast – Historical Reminiscents EP 10: Goal Setting and Building Communities of Care
Vidéo – Les Archives nationales de France vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour l’année 2018
Video – The Black Art: Wet Plate Collodion Photography
Video – The Book Thieves: the Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries & the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
Podcast – Exploring Australia’s Archive Systems
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas Series: Surfacing the Page
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Census War is now over
Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the European Union, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant
Hollywood Is Setting Up a Legal Machine to Sue Pirates in Canada
Former PM Stephen Harper set to get big tax credit for handing over documents to Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – New additions to the Virtual Gramophone: Roméo Beaudry
Canadian ambassador deletes tweet, photos of New Year’s Day visit to Myanmar beach
Claude Roberto (32 ans aux archives provinciales de l’Alberta) parmi les personnalités francophones les plus influentes au pays
Preserving Alberta’s historical record
Royal Newfoundland Regiment postcard and photograph album now online
Archives of Manitoba – Lt.-Col. R. M. Dennistoun: New Year 1918 in London
Association des archivistes du Québec – Convergence: un blogue influent: bilan de l’année 2017
BAnQ – Sondage sur l’état de la gestion documentaire dans les organismes publics centralisés du gouvernement du Québec
BAnQ – Marion Deichmann, Hélène Stevens et l’archiviste Marthe Léger à Pas banale, la vie
BAnQ – Marcel Portal : homme de science et homme de lettres
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Request for Proposals: Museum Feasibility Study Consultant
Seven surprises of history you’ll find at the McMaster University archives
University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – The 12 Days of Archives
University of Victoria – International Mountain Day and the Mountain Legacy Project
University of Toronto’s Leonard Cohen collection digs up diamonds in the mine
University of Toronto, Faculty of Information – Obituary: Former Dean, Francess Halpenny (1919-2017)
University of Calgary -The massive effort of cataloguing EMI Music Canada’s entire history
Western University archives shed light on Labatt
École de biliothéconomie et de sciences de l’information de l’Université de Montréal – Archives 21 en 2018
To combat soaring textbook costs, look to an open-source approach
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – From Atlantic to Pacific, Gee the Traffic is Terrific
Unbelivable vintage photos of snow of Toronto
Gabor Szilasi’s candid photographs document Montreal art world’s coming of age
Rare colour footage surfaces of 1939 royal visit to Winnipeg
18 Photos of Vancouver in 1918
Faut-il conserver les collections de nos grands penseurs?
Krista McCracken – Reading that changed my thinking in 2017
A Nigerian, a Library, and Lawmakers
Blogging as a Special Librarian
Afrique / Africa
South Sudan: archivists fear loss of legacy texts
Amériques / Americas
Baby girl’s remains surprisingly reveal new Indigenous group that once thrived in North America
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018?
Feds stiff-arms taxpayers requests for information
Government Publishing Office Digitized Bound Congressional Record 1873-1890 Now Available
Dan Cohen: The Significance of the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress Acquires Archive of Humorist, Political Commentator Art Buchwald
National Library of Medicine – Adventures of a Computational Biologist in the Genome Space
Data Mining Reveals Historical Events in Government Archive Records
American Library Association President’s Response to USA Today
Free online records database aims to identify unknown troops from WWII
Society of American Archivits – Federal Funding Impact Story #8
American reams: why a paperless world still hasn’t happened
Rhode Island – Little Known to the Public, Archives Contain Treasures of State History
Illinois State University – More than 250,000 items added to Circus Collection
NISO to Manage U.S. Group Dedicated to Document Description and Processing Languages
Repository Spotlight: the Durst Organization Archives
New York City commits to open data and open code
Preserving Long Island’s history in the digital age
Historic Tombstone documents subject of theft investigation
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives Western Australia office update
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Peephole Murder: Files on Killing of Wild Rose Opened to Public After 75 years
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – 1987’s Cabinet minutes reveal pivotal year for Queensland
Culture Victoria project Many Roads: Chinese on the Goldfields shows both the hardships and successes of mining
Rescued radar maps reveal Antarctica’s past
Vietnam – Les archives impériales de la dynastie Nguyên inscrites au patrimoine documentaire mondial en 2017
Vietnam – La Direction d’État des archives, une passerelle entre le patrimoine et le peuple vietnamien
Island Culture Archival Support – Historical Pacific Films
National Film Archives of India acquires orginal negatives of all RK Studios films
India – Jammu and Kashmir: announcement about archiving vital Government record of last 32 years remains on papers
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/announcement-archiving-vital-govt-record-last-32-years-remains-papers/
India – Culture ministry orders probe into manuscript thefts in Rajasthan institute for over two decades
Europe / Europa
Slovenia – Former secret police members withdraw suit against archives researcher
http://english.sta.si/2467324/former-secret-police-members-withdraw-suit-against-archives-researcher
Germany – Stasi files: scanner struggles to stitch together surveillance state scraps
Researching Queer Archives from the Soviet Union
Netherlands – Rijksmuseum Digitizes 600,000+ Works of Art, Making Masterpieces Available Online
Switzerland – Telling the world about historic peacekeeping efforts
Un nouveau catalogue numérique des Archives nationales d’Andorre a été publié en Andorre
France – Les noms des collabos de la seconde guerre mondiale déclassifiés
Association pour le développement des documents numériques en bibliothèques – Une aventure qui prend fin
Le fonds Pierre Boulez de la Bibliothèque nationale de France s’enrichit
Les lettres de Marcel Proust bientôt en ligne
Student scores video hit by matching Dunkirk archive pics with scenes from blockbuster movie
Church of Ireland Gazette Archive Online
The Archivist Preserving Irish Whiskey’s History
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s Papers from 1992 released
UK National Archives – Cricket, tanks and panda-monium: files released from 1992
UK National Archives – The civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives (part three)
British Library – Forfeiting a Victoria Cross
University of Oxford – The Hunt for Centuries-Old Books Reveals the Power of the Printed Word
Scientists set to unlock secrets hidden inside an ancient scroll
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israeli archaeologists find 2,700-year-old governor of Jerusalem seal impression
Bibliotheca Alexandrina to rebuild Egypt’s memory
Syrian paper collectors find refuge in photography in Adana in Turkey’s south
International
A new platform to explore statistics about Wikimedia projects
L’importance du contexte de la recherche dans les systèmes d’information documentaire
Public Domain – Class of 2018
Remembering and Forgetting: Finding the Right Balance
Scientists warn we may be creating a digital dark age
Nintendo’s wonderful Miiverse has been preserved for posterity by enterprising Internet archivists
Artist in the Archive
Curation versus Fair Use: how to keep your content safe
Ancestry.com suffers big data leak: 300,000 user credentials exposed
Data Breaches are Records Management Problems
Experts hope high-tech 3D image analysis will help save deteriorating paintings
Is the era of management over?