Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
House of Commons – Response to Petition on Crown Copyright
Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) – Recordkeeping Assessment Tool (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
South African History Archive – Accessing Information: when Private Sector Performs Public Functions
American Association of University Professors – National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom
Authors Alliance – Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors
Association of Research Libraries – Assessment Program Visioning Task Force Recommendations
Publications
Archives: the Journal of the British Records Association (Autumn 2017)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 11, no. 1 (2017)
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 38, no. 1 (2017)
The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, vol. 3, no. 1 (2017)
The Library, vol. 18, no. 4 (2017)
Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada, no. 5 (Fall/Winter 2017)
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/publications/signatures/Pages/Signatures-2017-fall-winter.aspx
Doctoral Thesis (Malmö University) – Para-Archives: Rethinking Personal Archiving Practices in the Times of Capture Culture
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Lyon) – Numérisation d’un fond sonore à vocation de préservation
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Lyon) – Du leak en tant qu’archive, ou comment le leak est devenu une archive
Report – Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, 2018 Edition
Book – Emerging Trends in Archival Science
Book – How to Trace your Family Tree in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: the Complete Practical Handbook for All Detectives of Family History, Heritage and Genealogy
Book – The Politics of Data Transfer: Transatlantic Conflict and Cooperation over Dataprivacy
Book – The Impact of Print on Demand on Academic Books
Book – Raiders of Rock: the Pursuit of Rock and Roll Memorabilia in America
Book – Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature
Book – Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums
Book – Feminism and Museums
Livre – La prescription littéraire en réseaux : enquête dans l’univers numérique
Livre – L’analyse du discours numérique : dictionnaire des formes et des pratiques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Yukon Archives 45th Anniversary and Vault Opening
December 11, 2017, Whitehorse
Archives Unleashed #Toronto Datathon
April 26-27, 2018, Toronto
Webinar – Building American Archive of Public Broadcasting Participation into Digitization Grant Proposals: Requirements, Recommendations and Workflows
December 12, 2017
Webinar – Big Ideas Seminar: in their own Write
December 12, 2017
Le fonds numérique et documentaire de la révolution tunisienne : un champ inédit ouvert à la recherche scientifique et à l’art
12 décembre 2017, Tunis
Introduction to GitHub for Librarians and Archivists
December 13, 2017, New York
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-github-for-librarians-and-archivists-tickets-39167597338
UK National Archives Webinar – Riots and Rebellions, Murders and Militias: Exploring 19th century Home Office Records
January 18, 2018
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (Proceedings Available)
October 13-16, 2016, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Sur le web / On the web
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – New Online Complaint Form
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Demystifying Archival Labour: Description
New Podcast – Artist in the Archive (by Library of Congress’ Innovator-in-Residence Jer Thorp)
UK National Archives Podcast – Black Power and the State
Antigrapheus: Online OCR for Ancient Greek and Latin
Queen Mary University of London – New App: The Story of Joseph Merrick, the So-called Elephant Man
Vidéo – L’histoire publique à l’ère numérique : changements et continuités
Slides – Europeana 1914-1918 Wikimedia Challenge Results
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
First Nations call on Liberals to scrap information access bill
Liberals’ want to be global leader on open government, but face complaints at home
Interview: Mapping the displacement of 60s Scoop adoptees
2016 Census and the Library and Information Science Community
Library and Archives Canada launches 2018-2019 funding cycle for Documentary Heritage Communities Program
Library and Archives Canada – New archival fonds: Ambassador Arthur R. Menzies
Library and Archives Canada – The Halifax Explosion: Records at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Incited to Potlatch
Guy Berthiaume appointed Officer of the Order of the Arts and Letters of the French Republic
Three Things: Hockey Hall of Fame Archive Tour
Spotlight: Amateur Film Collections at the BC Archives, Royal BC Museum
Royal B.C. Museum – The personal records of Lawrence James Wallace
Archives Society of Alberta – Access to holdings grants are now available
Nova Scotia Archives – New Research Holdings
Archives of Manitoba – A Soldier’s Farewell
Vers une stratégie d’acquisition à BAnQ
BANQ: amie, partenaire d’affaires ou les deux?
BAnQ – Chapeau, coup de chapeau, tirer son chapeau, chapeau bas
BAnQ – Barbus et moustachus / A Hair Affair
Can archives be decolonized?
Settler Records, Indigenous Histories: Challenges in Indigenous Genealogical Research
Mapping Canada’s history of residential schools with Google Earth
Why does Canada spy on its own indigenous communities?
Rare, historical book collection donation caps University of Lethbridge 50th Anniversary
University of Toronto – Jewish archives project analyzes benefits of memory preserving
University of Northern British Columbia – Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection Now Available
University of Alberta – Folklore archives, folklore in archives
Queen’s University Library, Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), and Ontario Council of University Libraries partnering to make CORA polling data freely available to all
Montreal universities – Indigenous student librarians: a step in the right direction
http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2017/12/04/library-new-indigenous-librarian-program.html
Active History website aims to get history out of the university
Vancouver Archives – Legacy Open Data Sets Now Available
Colourized photos of the Halifax Explosion’s aftermath
B.C. – Richmond’s Chinese-Canadian history displayed
Abbotsford (B.C.) – The Reach launches new website for heritage photos
Photos captures magic of Christmas past in Saanich (B.C.)
New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) library celebrates centennial
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Christmas at the Archives
Ontario – What happens to archives of community newspapers shut down in the Torstar-Postmedia deal?
Ripon – Un nouveau registre pour la Paroisse Saint-Casimir
Three Examples that Prove the Potential of Blockchain Technology in Creative Industries
Flowers from the front: exhibit engages senses to convey emotion of Great War
Jeux de piste archivistiques : retour d’expérience
The diaspora that never happened: searching for portraiture in the archives of the Komagata Maru
La famille d’un soldat manitobain mort pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale récupère son casque
Destitute, unemployed and an impostor: my family’s journey after the Halifax Explosion
I’ve just been in the right place at the wrong time: among last of the Halifax explosion survivors
Neil Young’s Huge Online Archival Project Is Now Open
France – Deux Québécois sur la piste de leur ancêtre
Freshly Minted: Emily Carlisle, MLIS Candidate, Western University
Allana Mayer – Projects ‘n’ stuff
Afrique / Africa
Protection du passé: la documentation comme outil de préservation du patrimoine en Tunisie et en Libye
La France n’a remis que 2% des archives à l’Algérie
Maroc – La directrice des archives royales Bahija Simou reçoit la Légion d’honneur française
Amériques / Americas
200,000 died in Guatemala’s civil war: this digital archive is finally bringing families closure
Haïti – Le Centre d’art sacré patrimoine documentaire régional
NARA – Metadata Requirements for Permanent Records on Shared Drives
NARA – The Adventures of American Diplomat Walter William Orebaugh in Italy 1942-1944, Part I
NARA – So, what did the U.S. Army do with the Prussian Regimental Flags found at Bernterode?
NARA – Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), Phase II (November 2017-October 2019)
National Library of Medicine – On the importance of librarians in the age of Google
Archivist reveals treasures, surprises and mysteries in ABC film, video and sound collection
Society of American Archivists – California Wildfires: Resources for Collections
Secretary of Washington State’s Digital Archives passes 200 million milestone
Pearl Harbor comes to life in Ohio History Connection archives
University of Texas – Harry Ransom Center adopts new online platform for materials
Decolonial Mapmaking: Reclaiming Indigenous Places and Knowledge
Inside Coca-Cola’s secret archive
Society of American Archivists – Asserting the archivist, no. 1
An archive, Chicago born: what is it like to sort through the personal papers of one of America’s most celebrated writers?
Community archivist shares stories of Austin’s black community
Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates musical history with CONTENTdm
Brothers in arms: four siblings wrote hundreds of letters to each other during World War II
Archival Attention: Visualizing Archival Appraisal
New York – Emperor Hirohito’s Manuscript is the Top Lot at Bonhams
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Inside the National Library of Australia’s make-or-break digital transformation
Battling with old technology to keep State Library of Western Australia’s digital archive alive
Physical and digital records held across Victoria Government
Archives New Zealand – Managing records during changes to the machinery of government
Archives New Zealand and National Library bursting at the seams
Island Culture Archival Support – Preserving Indigenous Pacific Languages
Malaysia – National Archives 60th anniversary commemorative coins issued
Vietnam – Le chef du Département des archives d’État chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
China – Judicial case database goes online
Shri Pritam Singh: New Director General of National Archives of India
India – Call to preserve ancient manuscripts
Saving India’s photo studios in the digital age
Pakistan digitizes over 55m landowners’ record
Europe / Europa
The right to be forgotten: majority of employees likely to exercise General Data Protection Regulation rights
Developing Europe’s Digital Platform for cultural heritage: public consultation on Europeana opens
Europeana Migration, to show that culture is the product of multicultural influences down the centuries
Auschwitz inmate’s notes from hell finally revealed
Reading other people’s diaries in Russia
Slovakia – Bratislava City Archive: Archivist is officer and detective in one
Germany refuses to recognize Dead Sea Scrolls as Israeli property, museum exhibit nixed
Step Into the Vatican’s Secret Archives
Émile Zola, the photographer: personal collection goes under the hammer
Irish folklore archive inscribed into UNESCO register
University of Glasgow – Research Blog Series: Archives, Digitisation & Copyright
A New Professional’s Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation
UK National Archives – Medieval army pensioners: the Poor Knights of Windsor
UK National Archives – Do you have a suffrage ancestor?
UK National Archives – The Beveridge Report and the foundations of the Welfare State
British Library – A New (Beta) Interface for the UK Web Archive
Penelope Fitzgerald’s papers acquired by British Library
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/01/penelope-fitzgeralds-papers-acquired-by-british-library
Cambridge University – Unesco adds Sir Isaac Newton’s papers to world register
University of Oxford – Have Jesus’ secret teachings been found in our archives?
University of Nottingham create first ever archive to document how street art has played a part in the anti-slavery movement
Is digitisation the answer or is digital preservation the question?
Anti-slavery song uncovered in Gloucestershire Archives now ranked alongside some of the world’s most significant historical documents
Handwritten letters belong to you like your DNA
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
1,600 year old manuscript reveals Jesus’ secret teachings to his brother James
Secrets of ancient Egyptian writing revealed in 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls
Dubai Land Department archives go digital
Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv
International
Persist: a Global Dialogue on Digital Preservation
International Tracing Service – Maps of burial sites online
The world’s most popular audio file format arrives at Wikimedia
Open Source Tools for Validation in the Digital Archive Workflow
Rescuing the Past: the Fall and Rise of Silent Film
The Research Software Project Manager
Losing the Battle to Archive the Web
Future Historians Probably won’t Understand our Internet, and that’s Okay
Le dictionnaire des archivistes de fiction
Don’t Buy Anyone an Echo