Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Ireland – National Archives Bill 2017 (Amendment)
NARA – Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Archives New Zealand (for Comments)
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: KiwiRail (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Statement from the Society of American Archivists Council Regarding the Recent Post on the Campus Reform Website
Campus Reform Post: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9524
American Library Association – Lessons from History: the Copyright Office Belongs in the Library of Congress
Jisc – Audiovisual Research Data
Wikimedia 2030: a Draft Strategic Direction
Case Study – Get your Vocabularies in Wikidata… so Europeana and Others Can Get them
Publications
Fonds d’archives, no. 1 (2017)
Collections: a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 12, no. 2 (2017)
Journal of Film Preservation, no. 96 (2017)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 13, no. 2 (2017)
Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 52, no. 3, 2017 (Special Issue: Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 7 (2017)
ISO/TR 19814:2017 – Information and Documentation – Collections Management for Archives and Libraries
Book – Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
Book – Metadata Essentials: Proven Techniques for Book Marketing and Discovery
Book – Tracing your Church of England Ancestors: a Guide for Family and Local Historians
Book – Yesterday’s Films for Tomorrow
Book – Remembering Diana: a Life in Photographs
Book – Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain
Book – The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
Book – Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Book – Odysseys in Crime Scene Science: Digital Forensics
Book – Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management
Book – Emotion in the Library Workplace
Livre – Mille et une manières de faire de la généalogie avec les enfants
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Dear Ken: Reading the Archive Out Loud
August 11, 2017, Montreal
Queer Night / Life: Experiences and Archives
August 19, 2017, Montreal
Exploring Creative Commons Licences
September 5, 2017, Dublin
Free Webinars – Photographic Process Identification
September 13, 2017 – February 14, 2018
Dating your Photographs
October 7, 2017, Clydebank (UK)
eCourse – How to Implement a Digitization Program
Starting October 12, 2017
Tracing your African Caribbean Roots Workshop
November 25, 2017, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
International Council on Archives – The Membership Survey on Training Needs is Now Open
Vidéo – La bibliothèque du Séminaire de Québec
Video – Editing Wikipedia: Part Two
Original POWRR (Preserving Digital Objects with Restricted Resources) Workshop Available in Webinar Format
Library of Congress Video – A World of Opportunity: Audio Visual Archives & the Digital Landscape
National Library of Australia Video – The Papers of Marcie Muir Relating to Katie Langloh Parker
Podcast – The Liberated Archive: a Forum for Envisioning and Implementing a Community-Based Approach to Archives (Society of American Archivists Conference Keynote)
UK National Archives Podcast – A Tormented Tudor Queen’s Treasonous Love Letter
New Blog – Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Consultations launched on reforming Copyright Board of Canada
The internet never forgets. But should it? That legal battle is raging in Canada and worldwide
Library and Archives Canada – New additions to the Virtual Gramophone: English songs
Library and Archives Canada – Guest Curator: Andrea Kunard
150 Acts of Reconciliation for the Last 150 Days of Canada’s 150
On accessibility, Ontario needs less secrecy, more action
Ontario – Freedom of Information request seeks location of Algonquin Park fishing spot
Archives of Manitoba – A different perspective: Lt.-Col. R. M. Dennistoun, Deputy Judge Advocate General, C. E. F. HQ, London
Quebecers invited to participate in scan-a-thon of First Nations archives
BAnQ – Pertes canadiennes au front
BAnQ – Recto verso ou vice versa
Montréal se raconte sur cartes postales : BAnQ a fait l’acquisition de l’importante collection Monette
York University – Caribana’s Golden Anniversary: an archival research guide
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – The Return of Euclid
University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – Archival Playlist
Toronto’s Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation has a new librarian in charge
Archives de Montréal – Expo 67 au jour le jour : Août
Archives de la ville de Québec – Superfrancofête de 1974, la fête s’empare de Québec
Weird and wonderful ways Open Data is unearthing Edmonton information
Burnaby (B.C.) – Access to All Open Council Records
Local Artifacts Seek New Home In Tecumseh (Ontario) Fire Hall
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) – Sisters Finish Telling Family Story the Observer Started Sixty Years Ago
La Société d’histoire et du patrimoine du Val-David prend un nouveau virage
Virtual archival centre aims to preserve local memory of Quebec region
British Columbia – Films share 150 years of syilx history
Neil Young Announces Massive, Interactive Online Archive
Teaching with Documents: Using Archives to Educate
Krista McCracken – Teaching: Select Topics in Community-Based Public History
The French Canadian Mayor of Los Angeles
Afrique / Africa
Documentation : crasses et services désadaptés aux archives nationales du Togo
Perkins Foss’ collection of Urhobo archival materials bound for Ghana
South Africa – Reserve Bank refusal to hand over records inconsistent with Act‚ says History Archive
South Africa – Six million court documents are being held hostage in an R84-million dispute
Rare photographs of Black troops in the Anglo-Boer war
Amériques / Americas
Argentina delivers 40,000 Shoah-era files to Holocaust museum
U.S. – The Supreme Court’s new electronic filing system will begin operation on November
U.S. Justice Department Ordered to Release 1950s Gay Purge Documents
NARA – Reclaiming Stolen History
Department of State Visa Records in the National Archives
Carla Hayden (Librarian of Congress): By the Book
National Security Archives – Additional Documents to The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
World War I Records Available through Texas Digital Archive
Stunning early panorama photos of a lost Alaska
Iowa – Gazette archives now available in digital, searchable format thanks to partnership
University of California – Rare audio of indigenous languages saved by invention 100 years later
Princeton University – A digital archive of Soviet children’s books 1917-1953
Oakland University – From 3D printers to big data: how university libraries are evolving
University of Arkansas Libraries Complete Largest Digital Collection to Date
http://news.uark.edu/articles/39241/university-libraries-complete-largest-digital-collection-to-date
University of Hawaii – Unseen Archival Footage from Eddie Kamae Films to Debut
Women in Archival Profession in the U.S.
From Family Snapshots to NASA Photos, Archivists Aim to Solve Preservation Puzzles
In 100 years, will today’s digital files be accessible? Planning for digital obsolescence
The Internet Archive has put up 25,000 78rpm records, digitized professionally
George Eastman Museum Launches Technicolor Online Research Archive
Michelle Elligott Named Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections at Museum of Modern Art
Personalizing the Past: History Through Home Movies
19th-Century Diary Suggests Slaves Are Buried in Brooklyn Lot
The Letters of Picasso’s Dealer and a Century’s Worth of Impressionist Archives Are Going Online
Introducing the Third World Archives Solidarity Project
Monsanto sold banned chemicals for years despite known health risks, archives reveal
Motorsport Network acquires Rainer Schlegelmilch archive
Researcher Claims that the Voynich Manuscript Was Compiled in the Morichal Swamps of Venezuela
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – New law offers right to be forgotten online
National Library of Australia – Embracing Digital Change: Electronic Deposit 18 Months On
Sidney Nolan’s personal papers at the National Library of Australia need saving
Australia – Archival software survey
National Library of New Zealand – Collecting social media a bite at a time
This Taiwanese Museum Just Digitized Its Massive Collection of Chinese Art
The ministry of tribal affairs to create an online database on Tribes of India
National Film Archive of India acquires 2,500 film posters
Declassified docs on Quit India Movement, INA to be displayed at National Archives
India – Bollywood blocks the Internet Archive
Internet Archives – Statement and Questions Regarding an Indian Court’s Order to Block archive.org
Over 30,000 digital documents, photographs on Partition of India to go public for first time
Europe / Europa
Sixth-Century Writing Discovered Inside Medieval Bookbinding
Germany finally has an Open Data Law
Nazi-looted books found in German libraries
50 millions de feuilles volantes : dans l’enfer du tri des anciens papiers de la Stasi
Astonishing archive of pictures is unearthed showing the Nazi leader’s Third Reich rise to power, collected by secret fan of the Fuhrer
Interview with Marion Jaks, video archivist at the Austrian Mediathek
Marie de Roumanie visite les archives de la Securitate
Czech Republic – National Film Archive introduced English version of the website dedicated to research of Laterna magika
Armenia – 15th Century Gospel of Miracles Donated to Matenadaran
France – Droits de réutilisation : les Archives nationales optent pour l’ouverture et la gratuité des données
France – De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande : des archives présidentielles toujours plus volumineuses
Une année 2016 éprouvante pour la Bibliothèque nationale de France
History police’ to challenge Scottish museum’s mistakes
Scotland – Bible returned to family after 151 years
Uncovered in a private archive, the stunning rare images of Welsh sport from a bygone era
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/uncovered-private-archive-stunning-rare-13446944
What is the British government really hiding in its secret archives?
Visit to the UK Parliamentary Archives: training and business cases
Nearly a thousand documents are being withheld from release to the National Archives in Kew
UK National Archives – The problems with mustard gas
Researching LGBT+ history at the UK National Archives
UK National Archives – Making horses for war: the Army Remount Service
British Library – Guess the Song Competition
British Library – The Proper Serious Work of Preserving Digital Comics
British Library – Illuminated manuscripts for polyglots
British Library – Everything you need to know about birch bark book conservation
The Guardian view on oral history: the power of witness
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq – Salvaging history: Dominican priest saves historic manuscripts from ISIS
Egypt – The Invisible Poems Hidden in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries
Turkey – Istanbul’s Ottoman Archives documents history of former grand Empire
International
Technological obsolescence and digital preservation
The Collection Management System Collection
Investors poured millions into a storage network that doesn’t exist yet
An approach to building open databases
Metadata is a communication channel to the future