Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – 2016-2017 Departmental Results Report
De la communauté / From the community
World Intellectual Property Organisation – Draft Action Plans on Limitations and Exceptions for the 2018-2019 Biennium
Statement of Society of American Archivists’ Representative at World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright
Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (Draft)
Storage Networking Industry Association – Data Protection Best Practices Technical White Paper
White Paper – Digital History and Argument
Publications
Program, vol. 51, no. 4 (2017)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 70, 1 (2018)
ISO 20614:2017 – Information and Documentation – Data Exchange Protocol for Interoperability and Preservation
Book – Nova Scotia Cookery, then and Now
Book – Watermarked Paper from the Archives in Ravenna (1287-1693)
Book – The Organization of Information (Fourth Edition)
Book – Library and Information Center Management (Ninth Edition)
Book – Heritage and Archaeology in the Digital Age: Acquisition, Curation, and Dissemination of Spatial Cultural Heritage Data
Book – Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium
Book – The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Book – Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography
Book – Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict: Historical Memory as a Variable
Book – #Fundraising: how to Raise Money for your Library Using Social Media
Book – Unpacking my Library: Artists and their Books
Book – Managing your Research Data and Documentation
Book – Wiki Works: Teaching Web Research and Digital Literacy in History and Humanities Classrooms
Livre – Mémoires, traces et archives en création dans les arts de la scène
Livre – Droit de la donnée : principes théoriques et approche pratique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
I Am Canada: New Exhibit Celebrating the Art of Canadian Picture Books
Until January 21, 2018, Toronto
Alaska Highway: the Yukon Perspective, 1942-2017
November 20, 2017, Whitehorse
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities: Gathering Diversities
May 26-28, 2018, Regina
Community, Diversity, and Education: Academic Librarianship in Challenging Times
May 29-31, 2018, Regina
Digital Preservation in the West of Scotland
November 30, 2017, Glasgow
Good Practice Takes Practice: Certification and Accreditation for Digital Preservation
January 9, 2018, London (UK)
Patrimoines et design d’expérience à l’ère numérique
13-15 mai 2018, Constantine (Algérie)
British Library Labs Symposium 2017 (Videos Available)
October 30, 2017, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Former Enemies Are Now Friends
British Library – The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts
Addext: Python Script to Add File Extensions to Files without them
Video – Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation: Building for the Future of Free Knowledge
Al Jazeera – Video: Legacy Archive Tape Migration Project
Podcast – Excavating the CIA Archives
Slides – Navigating Data Privacy in Canada
Présentation – Usages illustratifs et créatifs des archives audiovisuelles
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Forget iris scans, Canadians to use Blockchain for digital IDs
Create some good: sixties Scoop adoptee mapping out Indigenous movements
Saskatchewan government email fiasco a scandal that’s going to get worse
Old drawings could assist new earthquake plan at the B.C. Legislature
Archives of Manitoba – Messages by Wire: Telegrams from the Time of the First World War
Quelques-unes des plus anciennes photographies conservées à BAnQ Québec maintenant en ligne
Québec – Preuve de l’intégrité de documents technologiques
Alberta family’s donation of wartime letters enriches University of Calgary’s Archives and Special Collections
University of Toronto – Students to benefit from new agreement with Library and Archives Canada
Université de Sherbrooke – La professeure Martine Pelletier impliquée dans l’inscription des archives de Marshall McLuhan au Registre de la Mémoire du monde
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – We Remember
Sur les traces de Louis Riel à Winnipeg
Archives de la ville de Québec – Il y a 40 ans, Jean Pelletier était élu maire de Québec
La Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel dénonce des compressions budgétaires
A soldier’s story: virtual records at Dufferin County Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Cobourg (Ontario) – Legacy at Victoria Hall as volunteers pitch in for Canada 150 project
It suddenly feels very, very close: colourized archival film shines new light on Vimy Ridge soldiers
Who were these men? New photo exhibit tells the story of Eaton’s employees who fought for Canada
The heavens were filled with these little devils: Winnipegger’s diaries chronicle WW I experience
Archivist stunned after unearthing family’s WWI history
First World War in vivid detail: how a B.C. man is bringing history to life by colourizing old photos
A Nova Scotian’s quest to make sure no fallen soldier is left forgotten
The flyboy and his girl: whatever happened to Had and Dody? J.E. Hewitt tries to unravel the mystery of a wartime love letter
An untold story of WWII’s Great Escape: I retraced my father’s war and found out what really happened
Newfoundland – Correcting an error: how a spelling mistake cost a Regiment veteran recognition for decades
A taste of the past: chefs recreate 200 years of Nova Scotian recipes
Read Neil Young’s latest update on his archives
Introducing Donna Richards: South Peace Regional Archives’ New Archives Technician
Les trois clés de la description : contexte, contexte, contexte
Afrique / Africa
Reclaiming Liberia’s heritage, one document at a time
La documentation sur l’abolition de l’esclavage en Tunisie 1841-1846 sera exposée à l’Unesco en 2018
La France restitue au Maroc les archives du judaïsme marocain
Amériques / Americas
How to Fight Format Rot: the Library of Congress has your back
Christopher Nolan in Conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
American Film Institute, Library of Congress Celebrate 50 Years of Film Preservation
Electronic filing coming to the Supreme Court
How the military is making it hard to remember our wars
How a Trove of Nazi Art Wound Up Under Lock and Key on an Army Base in Virginia
FBI Consults Public Affairs Office, Not Advisory Board, for Removing Public Info from Website
Society of American Archivists’ Records Management Section – Dispostion and its Discontents
Society of American Archivist – Federal Funding Impact Story #7
Society of American Archivists – November Twitter Chat: Collecting Women’s March Materials and Women’s Collections in Archives
Harvard professor unveils Romantic-era archives
Stanford University’s Hoji Shinbun project digitizes prewar Japanese American newspapers
Florida State University – A New Digital Collection from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
New center helping trace roots of Jews in New England
Excavating New York, Frame by Frame
We’re searching to reclaim what was lost: in museum archives, a tribe urgently seeks proof of its past
The Harlem Hellfighters were captured in a famous photo. Now a retired archivist has uncovered their stories.
DNAinfo, Gothamist, and What We Lose in the Disappearing Digital Archive
Ask a Business Archivist: how Do you Build your Collection?
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australasian data practices: mining, scraping, mapping, hacking
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Strategies for recordkeeping in collaborative spaces
Australia – Place is Bigger than Metadata: Maps as Colonial Tools
Archival Decolonist – Too many white experts
New Zealand – Data sovereignty: new global guidelines for indigenous health
Singapore – The Life Interview with Karen Chan: Guardian of old films
This futuristic library with more than a million books opens in China
Europe / Europa
Council of Europe hopes that access to archives in Ukraine will be improved
Unearthing Soviet Secrets in Ukraine’s Archives
Warsaw Ghetto Jews’ secret archive goes on display
Composer Kurt Weill’s Long-Forgotten Song of the White Cheese Discovered in Berlin Archive
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/listen-newly-discovered-song-composer-kurt-weill-180967140/
Spain – New library of Picasso’s Guernica opens
Spain – Falklands 1768 Franciscan chapel blueprint discovered in the Archives of Indies in Seville
Malta – Piracy documents give details of expeditions and slaves
France – Le plan secret du ministère : une bombe contre la culture (et les archives)
World’s largest collection of manuscripts from bankrupt firm Aristophil to be sold in Paris
Manuscrits Aristophil : des documents réclamés par l’État
Seamus Heaney’s biographer races to see poet’s faxes before they fade
Watchdog to probe Scottish freedom of information system
Scotland – Campbeltown Picture House archives get national treasure status
Royal archivist cleared to see Duke of Windsor’s will
UK National Archives – Digital archiving: disrupt or be disrupted?
UK National Archives – Passchendaele: Sassoon’s hell
UK National Archives – Suffrage tales: a new animation based on our records
UK National Archives – Richmond in the archives
British Library crowdsourcing project to unlock a treasure trove of 18th and 19th century theatre playbills
All our yesterdays, captured on camera: reports on a new online Jewish film archive
The museum will not be decolonised
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – New York University Abu Dhabi and National Archives collaborate to create an online public library of historic Arabic-language materials
Oman lists rare manuscript in UNESCO memory register
Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for 11 lost cities of the Bronze Age
International
Britain and US urged to release papers on Dag Hammarskjöld’s death
How researchers might examine our digital data centuries from now
Cloudy Culture: Preserving digital culture in the cloud
Google, Shmoogle. Reference Librarians Are Busier than Ever
Patron-driven subject access: how librarians can mitigate that power to name
How much metadata is practical?
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