Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Records Management Inspection Report: Department of Transportation
NARA – Records Management Inspection Report: Department of Agriculture
Speech by the Director General, National Archives of Australia – Government Information as Public Information: Connecting People and Government for Just and Correct Outcomes
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC – The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: a Synthesis of the Harvard Library’s Hazen Memorial Symposium
ORCID in Book Workflows: Report and Recommendations
Article – The State of Open Access: a Large-scale Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Open Access Articles
Article – Articuler histoire du regard et travail en archives : le cas de En sursis
Publications
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 10, no. 3 (July 2017)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 8 (2017)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record (Spring 2017)
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario) News (August 2017)
Book – Loss and Genocide in the Archives
Book – Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition
Book – Tales from the Captain’s Log
Book – Memory and Miscarriages of Justice
Book – The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory
Book – Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
Book – Assessing Library Spaces for Learning
Book – Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather: a Historical Geography Perspective
Book – Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges
Book – Managing People and Projects in Museums: Strategies that Work
Livre – Retrouver un ancêtre blessé en 1914-1918
Livre – Code du patrimoine 2017 : annoté & commenté
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Genealogy 101: Basics of Genealogy
August 19, October 28, November 25, 2017, Toronto
International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly 2017
September 19, 2017, Gatineau
Free Webinar – Organizing Data and Knowledge: the Role of Taxonomies and Ontologies
August 10, 2017
National Library of Ireland – 140th Birthday Party
August 12, 2017, Dublin
Copyright and Digital Cultural Heritage: Managing Anxiety, Uncertainty and Risk
August 18, 2017, Sydney (Australia)
Library of Congress – Free WWI Webinar Series
August 22, September 26, October 24, November 28, December 12, 2017
Webinar – Metadata as Standard: Improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance
September 8, 2017
International Conference on Archives Documenting Modern and Contemporary Art
September 21-23, 2017, Berlin
Transkribus User Conference 2017
November 2-3, 2017, Vienna
Open Media, Open Formats, Open Archives
November 9-10, 2017, Vienna
Les archives (curatoriales) dans les institutions d’art contemporain
Décembre 2017, Bordeaux (France)
I-CHORA8: 8th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
May 28-30, 2018, Melbourne (Australia)
Webinar – Government Information on the Great American Eclipse (Recordings Available)
July 25, 2017
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – 47 new historical films on YouTube
University of Victoria – Mountain Legacy Project: New Website
Society of American Archivists Video – Presidential Address 2017
Video – Colorado Archives: Research Room
Podcast – The Letters of 1916 Crowdsourcing Project
Slidecast – Archiving a Living Composer: Building Arvo Pärt’s Personal Archive
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The push to erase Canada’s racist past
Canada Council for the Arts Investing $88.5 Million Towards Digital Transformation of Canada’s Art Sector
Library and Archives Canada – 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service
Library and Archives Canada – Unity Through Sport: Organizing the first Canada Games in Québec in 1967
Independent video, film artists in Canada get a massive new online portal
Alberta history and the Edmonton Journal walk into an Archives
New Brunswick – Archives highlighted during Canada 150 celebrations
In Conversation II: Archiving and Accessing Canada’s First World War (by two staff members at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)
Nova Scotia minister used private email for government work
A remarkable custodian of Nova Scotia’s rich history
Manitoba’s premier no longer allowed to use personal cell, email for government business
BAnQ – L’esthétisme selon Côté Chabot Morel, architectes
BAnQ – Adorables petits officiers à quatre pattes
Canadian Library Consortia OCUL and COPPUL Join Forces with Archive-It to Expand Web Archiving in Canada
York University to appeal recent copyright decision
University of British Columbia Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
University of British Columbia – The diary of Hector Langevin
University of British Columbia – How computers can detect emotion on social media
Dr. Amy Tector as a Public Servant in Residence at School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Toronto Public Library gets in on the rebirth of records
A century after it documented the Halifax Explosion, a sailor’s diary returns
Century-old diaries returned home to Penticton (B.C.)
Key documents in Osoyoos Museum historic collection being digitized with help of University of British Columbia
Langley’s (B.C.) medical history scrounged from basements and back rooms
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) celebrate grand re-opening
How an Ontario village raised money to honour Lester B. Pearson
Lindsay men help sort out Ross Memorial Hospital (Ontario) archives
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Forgotten Triumph: the Battle of Hill 70
Cod liver oil from Newfoundland
Archives and Collections, Library of Birmingham – Canada
Sarah Ferencz, archivist at the Whitby Public Library (Ontario) – Whitby scouts encounter group from Quebec on historic paddle
Freshly Minted: Robyn Cameron, Master of Information Candidate, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Généalogie : la quête des origines
Afrique / Africa
Meet Martin Scorsese’s partner in saving African cinema
Maroc – Création d’un Conseil national des archives
Discover the album rescuing lost sounds from the golden age of Somali music
South African History Archive goes to court to access apartheid-era records
South African History Archive – The fight for truth and justice carries on: Ahmed Timol Inquest reopened
South Africa – Declassified: apartheid profits: who funded the National Party?
Amériques / Americas
Privacy and Politics: Government Use of your Information
Unearthing declassified Soviet military journals in CIA archives
U.S. Government Publishing Office and Library of Congress – Digitized Bound Congressional Record 1941-1950 Now Available
National Library of Medicine – Hospital Libraries Matter
Digital Public Library of America to Launch Membership Network Program
Big Sky Chronicles: Preserving Montana’s film archives
North Carolina State University – Ethics in Archives: How Special Collections Protects Your Privacy
Maryland – An Interview with Elaine Rice Bachmann, Deputy State Archivist
A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women computers
Harvard Film Conservation – Cinecolor
Columbus State University Civil War archives of General Henry Benning goes digital
Eastern Airlines Archive Lands at the University of Miami
The New Wave in Digital Humanities
A Record Center Is Not an Archives: Dispatches from a ARM sector change
X-Ray Finds Unique Fingerprint In Medieval Manuscript
How Colorized Historical Footage Is Painstakingly Made
Creating a Digital Archive of Latinx Playwriting
Preserving Baseball Memories of North Carolina’s Tobacco State League
ArchivesForBlackLives in Philadelphia
Experimenting and Digressing to the Digital Archivist Role
A Prisoner’s Only Writing Machine
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Court fight to release secret palace letters about Gough Whitlam dismissal
Taiwan – Martial arts to be digitally archived
Taiwan – Veteran’s manuscripts to be published
Japan – Yomiuri launches online archive, including content from the Japan News
South Korea – Remaining Documents of Former Government Transferred to Presidential Archive
Korea – Clothes for wartime sex slaves in Japan confirmed to be government-made: National Archives
Korea – How discovery of an old book changed a woman’s life and made her a collector
Archive to shed light on Briton’s Chinese adventure
Freedom of Information Law in Samoa
India – Engineer archiving palm-leaf manuscripts using new tech
India – Meet Himjyoti Talukdar, the Man Responsible for Online Archive of Assamese Culture
Mountain passes and Maharajas: jewels of early Indian photography in pictures
Europe / Europa
Goats, bookworms, a monk’s kiss: biologists reveal the hidden history of ancient gospels
The Keys to the Voynich Manuscript
Municipal Budget Cuts Close Nearly 300 Dutch Libraries
Alastair Dunning, Head of Research Data at the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands) – Why I Hate Sharepoint
Suisse – Les métiers de l’ombre de la Berne fédérale : la Bibliothèque nationale
Belgique – Plus de 400 mètres d’archives de la Radio-télévision belge disponibles aux Archives générales du Royaume
France-Rwanda : les sages feront-ils ouvrir les archives ?
Irish Genealogical Research Society – Launch of 1775 Dublin Directory Database
Scottish Government under fire for creeping tide of state secrecy
Scotland’s World Cup win stamp makes Postal Museum archive
University of St Andrews (Scotland) – The Factor’s Letters: a Journey of Discovery in Special Collections
Help The National Library of Wales to unlock the hidden history of the Great War
The National Library of Wales appoint UK’s first permanent Wikimedian
UK – Record number of Government documents being kept secret
UK National Archives – Why did Siam join the First World War?
The British Library offers over a million free vintage images for download
The British empire’s hidden history is one of resistance, not pride
Protests over dangerous precedent of access charges at Northamptonshire Archives
Cambridge University – Six Priority Digital Preservation Demands
At University of Cambridge, an Open Data champions programme flourishes
Digital Archiving at the University of York – The mysterious case of the changed last modified dates
The legacy of Stanley Kubrick and the Kubrick Archives
The $30,000 adult coloring book: it features illustrations from the creator of an Elton John album cover
Beatrix Potter-pinching and Žižekian swipes: the strange world of book thefts
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Historians Struggle as Israel State Archives Deadlocked by Legal Restrictions
Opinion – Keep Israel’s State Archives Away from the Government
Archives belie Israel’s narrative of Palestinian conflict
Israel National Library launches digital manuscript archive
Afghan Film to Digitalize its Archive
Turkey – Suhulet first ferryboat, Ottoman archives say
International
Qu’est-ce que le Portail International Archivistique Francophone ?
Digital Preservation Coalition – Time to become our own profession?
In the Digital Era if it Hasn’t Been Digitized Does it Even Exist?
This is how Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s
Math Journal Editors Quit for Open Access
IBM’s world record: 330TB uncompressed data on a palm-sized tape cartridge
Eleven Ways your Online Data Is Being Used Right Now