Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Don’t Know much about Geography: Perspectives on Local, Regional and Territorial Archives
U.S. Council of State Archivists – Attracting and Retaining Great Talent: Government Records Archives and Records Management as a Career
State Archives of North Carolina – Functional Schedule for State Agencies
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia) – Final Report: Volume 8: Recordkeeping and Information Sharing
National Library of Scotland – Annual Report and Financial Statements 2016-2017
Archives’ Call to Digital Humanities: a Case Study of Portuguese Municipal Archives
De la communauté / From the community
Royal Society of Archivists in the Netherlands – Archives in Liquid Times
Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values (for Community Feedback)
University of California Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description
Ontario Council of University Libraries – Open Educational Resources White Paper
OCLC – Convenience and Compliance: Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management
OECD – Reports: Sustainable Research Data Repositories & International Research Nets
The Evolving Landscape of Federated Research Data Infrastructures
Paper – Archives without Archives: a Window of Opportunity to Build an Inclusive Archives in South Africa
Article – Difficulties of Timestamping Archived Web Pages
Publications
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 46, no. 4 (2017)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 35, no. 4 (2017)
Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, vol. 67, no. 4 (2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 11 (2017)
National Library of Scotland Discover Magazine, no. 36 (2017)
Cathedral Archives, Libraries & Collections Association Newsletter (Winter 2017)
London Metropolitan Archives Quarterly Newsletter, no. 31 (2017)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 43 and 44 (2017)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 60 (2017)
ISO 18626:2017 – Information and Documentation – Interlibrary Loan Transactions
Livrel – Livre d’or : 50 ans de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
Book – Lost and Living (in) Archives: Collectively Shaping New Memories
Book – Defining Documents in World History: Women’s History (1791-2017)
Book – Rare Treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum
Book – The Museum in the Digital Age: New Media and Novel Methods of Mediation
Book – Reference and Information Services: an Introduction (Fourth Edition)
Book – Performing the Remembered Present: the Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music
Book – The Practicalities of Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Book – The U.S. Freedom of Information Act at 50
Livre – Historien à l’âge numérique
Livre – Mémoire d’une élite : histoire de la bibliothèque du Collège classique de Thetford
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Massive Open Online Course – Research Data Management and Sharing
Starting January 1, 2018
Library 2.018: Design Thinking
March 8, 2018, San Jose
International Internet Preservation Consortium – Web Archiving Histories and Futures
November 13-15, 2018, Wellington (New Zealand)
Library Associations: a Call to Action: National Advocacy and the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (Recording Available)
December 4, 2017
Les archives : quoi de neuf ? (vidéo disponible)
12 décembre 2017, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Jewish Museum & Archives of B.C. Podcast – What is Hanukkah?
Ligne du temps – 50 ans de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Peace River Country Land Settlement Database
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Demystifying Archival Labour: Preservation
Library of Congress Video – Concert: Archives Challenge
UK National Archives – Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of the Empire
Baladodiffusion – La Fabrique de l’histoire : série sur les archives
Le métier d’archiviste, les archives départementales : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-14-le-metier-darchiviste-les-archives-departementales
Les archives de la recherche, des associations et des partis politiques : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-24-les-archives-de-la-recherche-des-associations-et-des-partis-politiques
Les archives audiovisuelles : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-34-les-archives-audiovisuelles
L’État et les archives : https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-44-letat-et-les-archives
Video – Indigenous Recording Project Symposium
Video – AV Archiving in the Cultural Heritage Sector
Slides – Supporting Data Literacy
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Supreme Court says your text messages could be considered private even after you send them
The Fight for Fair Copyright Returns: Canadian Government Launches Major Copyright Review
Comments Regarding the Response to the e-Petition on Crown Copyright
Open data standards will improve public information
Residential-school survivor gets permission from government to donate documents
Don’t destroy gay-sex records, historians urge as bill moves through Commons
Canadian media organizations grapple with requests to unpublish articles
Library and Archives Canada wins innovation award at Francophone libraries’ Livres Hebdo
Library and Archives Canada – Portraits on Metal: Tintypes from Library and Archives Canada, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Katie Cholette
Sir John Thompson’s Hollywood moment
British Library – The 1867 British North America Act
Radio-Canada recherche des partenaires pour assurer la pérénnité de son patrimoine
Modernizing the Canada Science and Technology Museum through Open Heritage
Cold vault included in Yukon Archives $6M expansion
Saskatchewan – Amendments to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Proclaimed
Prince Edward Island – Preserving government text messages is easy, Green MLA tells legislature
Friends of the B.C. Archives – Christmas in the Archives
Archives of Manitoba – First World War postcards
Québec : lancement d’une base de données des avis de décès
BAnQ – Pas besoin d’être détective pour construire son arbre généalogique
BAnQ – Noël, de Sept-Îles à Schefferville
Les 202 numéros de la revue les herbes rouges désormais en ligne sur le site de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Hundreds of Indigenous human remains at Canadian universities
Saint Mary’s University historian creating Halifax Explosion database
University of Northern British Columbia – Northern BC Rail Transportation: from Backlog to Foreground
Decolonizing the museum: University of Toronto graduate student looks at ways of honouring Indigenous artifacts
Out of the dark, into the light: McGill University to get visible storage gallery
McGill University – Open data: more standards, more useful
McGill University – Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages
University of Victoria – Historic photos show how Canada’s mountains have changed in 150 years
University of Saskatchewan – Open Access is just the Beginning
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – À l’approche de Nöel
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Hand of God Has Been Laid Heavily Upon Us: 100 Years Since the Halifax Explosion
Toronto home to largest independent LGBTQ2 archive in world
Archives de la ville de Québec – La Collection Beauregard
Region of Waterloo refuses records to lawyer
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/author/alex-robinson/region-of-waterloo-refuses-records-to-lawyer-15074/
Dufferin County Museum & Archives (Ontario) to close its doors during renovations
Arrow Lakes Historical Society (B.C.) – Nakusp’s history being perserved in digital form
B.C. – Local historian Greg Scott awarded Nelson’s Heritage Award
Exploration Place (Prince George, B.C.) – Ben Ginter a big part of B.C. brewing history
10 millions de négatifs à vendre
La mémoire en photos
Insertion sociale en contexte d’archives : une expérience gratifiante
Re-imagining Archival Exhibit II
From poutine to windchill: which Canadian cultural intangibles are worthy of UNESCO’s recognition?
Afrique / Africa
Kenya – Access to information blocked
Burundi: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Faces Several Problems
Les détails de la remise du patrimoine de l’Instance équité et réconciliation aux Archives du Maroc
La bibliothèque et les archives nationales de Tunisie présentent un fonds numérique et documentaire consacré à la révolution tunisienne
Amériques / Americas
Developing a low-cost, fast book digitization workflow for use in Michoacán, Mexico
Next Generation Records Management Comes to the US Federal Government
The U.S. Has Way Too Many Secrets: a Q&A with Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive
Keeping public information public: an introduction to federal records laws
NARA – Memorandum: Unauthorized Disposition Web Pages
Library of Congress – 2017 National Film Registry Is More than a Field of Dreams
Library of Congress – Select National Film Registry Titles Now Available Free Online
Library of Congress – Memory Lab Network: an interview with Project Manager Lorena Ramirez-Lopez
Department of Justice on the hunt for ancient artifacts now in the hands of ISIS
National Library of Medicine – Models: the Third Leg in Data-Driven Discovery
Archivists on the issues: net freedom and the Federal Communication Commission
Are text messages among government officials public records? Missouri’s top lawyer says yes
Tennessee – State Breaks Ground on $120M Library And Archives Along Bicentennial Mall
Florida – Criminal charges rare in public records violations
University of Texas – Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online
University of Texas – Harry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection
Stanford University – Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Tulane University adds digital archives to document LGBTQ+ history
The Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive comes to Aga Khan Documentation Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Houston launches oral history project to chronicle human impact of Hurricane Harvey
Fil-Am activists, scholars, artists start Philippine’s Marcos Martial Law era archive
Henry Jenkins interviews Abigail De Kosnik on Rogue Archives
How a New York museum inadvertently built one of the largest archives of Indian cinema
Digital Archives and Historic Broadcasts Released to Celebrate New York Philharmonic’s 175th Birthday
Why Experts Don’t Believe this Is a Rare First Map of America
Take a behind-the-scenes look at Hallmark’s archives, including two of the first mass-produced Christmas cards
Inside Herman Miller’s Vast Archives
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-herman-miller-vast-archives-midcentury-modern-design
Judge denies heirs request to move Prince’s archive amid California wildfires
Baseball Hall of Fame’s digital strategist lands at HistoryIT as chief tech officer
Being a Black Archivist: Six Years in the Profession
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Notice of intention to issue a records disposal freeze in relation to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry
National Library of Australia embraces digital future
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) looks to machine learning
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Annual records round-up: disposal
Archives New Zealand and National Library bursting at the seams
Taiwan’s Transitional Justice: Reconciliation and forgiveness ought to be the guiding principles
Vietnam – Colonial records on display
Emergence of modern, democratic Thailand displayed in Memory of the World collection
Malaysia: new silver coin celebrates National Archives anniversary
Nepal – Old ways working well for National Archive
Three Indonesian Archives Recognized as Collective Memory of the World
India – Captured in 2 petabytes, 23,000 hours of beloved music, dance and cultural pieces
Europe / Europa
Dive into Europeana to listen to the sea
Unique archive of secret Yiddish books return to Lithuanian library
Italie – Venice Time Machine, un canal à remonter le temps
Suisse – Vers une numérisation accélérée des actes authentiques électroniques
Suisse – Lire d’anciens documents scellés sans les ouvrir
L’interminable et coûteux chantier du site Richelieu de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – Un chercheur réclame l’ouverture du verrou des archives de l’Elysée sur le génocide rwandais
Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose
Ireland – Military Archives unveil remarkable new collection
The Origins of Scottish Copperplate Engraving
UK National Archives – Citation Capture research project announced
UK National Archives – Disabled British Army Great War veterans, 1918-1939
UK National Archives – Deaf and dumb: disabled Victorian civil servants
UK National Archives – Post-war Thailand and the onset of the Cold War in Southeast Asia
UK National Archives – The battle for heavy water
British Library – Hostess with the mostest… and so much more: introducing the Ishbel MacDonald Archive
An Introduction to the Peking Gazette at the British Library
Advocating for digital preservation
Digitisation, Contract Negotiation, Rights Management and you
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Emptying Libraries Weakens Democracy: IFLA Statement on the Destruction of Library Books in Turkey
Names Written in Blood and Rust: Documenting Syria’s Disappeared
Push Underway to Keep Jewish Artifacts From Returning to Iraq
Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
United Arab Emirates – The National Archives trains government entities employees on files inventory
International
League of Nations archives being digitised
Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
Archiving my Archives: Removing Ancient Emails from Google
Archaeologists Are Only Just Beginning to Reveal the Secrets Hidden in these Ancient Manuscripts
The Time and Place for PDF: an Interview with Duff Johnson of the PDF Association
Knowledge management : de quoi parle-t-on ?
Thirteen Wonderfully Specific Libraries Reveal their Oldest Treasures
The Death of Storify, Difficult Alternatives, and the Need to Steward our Data Responsibly
Enriching Book Metadata is Marketing in the Digital Age