Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives New Zealand – Transforming how we Work: 2057 Strategy
NARA – Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification
Archives nationales de France – Catalogue d’exposition : une expérience du chaos : destructions, spoliations et sauvetages d’archives (1789-1945)
Speech by David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives of Australia – Government-Citizen Engagement in the Digital Age
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning (Revised Edition)
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Federal Grant Funding for Archives
New IFLA Standard – Definition of PRESSoo: a Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information Pertaining to Serials and Other Continuing Resources
Article – Stories from the Past Web
Publications
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 18, no. 1 (2017)
Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 33, no. 2, 2017 (Special Issue on: Digital Preservation Tools and Partnerships)
Horizons maghrébins, no 75 (numéro spécial : de l’oralité à l’écrit du patrimoine poétique et musical au Maghreb)
Brant Historical Society (Ontario) Newsletter (Spring 2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Society Seems Like it Doesn’t even Know…: Archival Records Regarding People Labelled with Intellectual Disability who Have Been Institutionalized in Manitoba
Book – Lexicon for an Affective Archive
Book – The Storied City: the Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save its Past
Book – Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses
Book – Information Studies and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity: Unity in Diversity
Book – Music Law in the Digital Age: Copyright Essentials for Today’s Music Business (Second Edition)
Book – Australian Lives: an Intimate History
Book – Protecting Patron Privacy: a Library Information Technology Association Guide
Book – We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of our Digital Selves
Livre – Fières archives : documents et images autobiographiques d’homosexuels fin de siècle
Livre – Un fantôme dans la bibliothèque
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Depuis 1976: une exposition sur le Stade olympique de Montréal
À partir du 1er juin 2017, Montréal
Library and Archives Canada – The Preservation Centre in Gatineau Welcomes you
June 9-10, 2017, Gatineau
Speaking Business: the Information Management / Records Management Specialty Moving Forward
June 12, 2017, Ottawa
Grand Erie District School Board – Friends of the Educational Archives Annual General Meeting
June 13, 2017, Brantford (Ontario)
Seventh Italian-Canadian Archives Project Annual Conference
September 22-23, 2017, Guelph
London Metropolitan Archives: Celebrating 950 Years of Archives
May 31, 2017, London (UK)
Tropical Dissonance: Decolonizing Knowledge through Ethnographic Archives
June 6, 2017, Leyde (Netherlands)
Webinars – Strategies for Audiovisual Digitization Projects
June 14 and 21, 2017
Webinar – How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data
June 14, 2017
Webcast on Data Curation
June 14, 2017
Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council Annual Conference 2017
October 11-13, Warsaw (Poland)
Digital Preservation 2017: Preservation is Political
October 25-26, 2017, Pittsburgh
Engaging New Generations: the Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age
November 9, 2017, Amsterdam
National Archives of Ireland – New Standards for Archives and Records Management Symposium (Presentations Available)
May 12, 2017, Dublin (Ireland)
Webinar – Implementing the Research Data Alliance Data Citation Recommendations for Long-Tail Research Data (Recording Available)
May 18, 2017
Sur le web / On the web
BAnQ – Le cours d’histoire du Canada donné par Lionel Groulx à la radio de CKAC entre 1949 et 1952 maintenant en ligne
Podcast – Archives as Activism: the Case of Residential Schools
University of British Columbia Video – Language Reconstruction and Strengthening Community: the Role of Archival Resources
Podcast – Why Archives are Using Police Investigation Techniques to Preserve our Digital Past
Public Records of Northern Ireland – Now on Facebook
Digital Repository of Ireland – New Website
UK National Archives Podcast – Dadland: the Father who was Also and Undercover Guerilla Agent
Podcast – Data Retention and Preservation: the IT Budget Killer
Video – Collaborating to Digitize Paleontological Collections at the University of Wyoming
Slidecast – The Primary Sources Tool: Curating Citations for Wikidata Statements
Slidecast – Wikidata and Booooks
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Government accused of hoarding Canadian history in secret archives
Canada’s Secret Archives
Fate of residential school records in hands of Supreme Court
Artist goes to court to preserve residential-school documents
Canada lagging behind on digital government transformation: feds’ new chief information officer
Library and Archives Canada signs a ninth collaborative agreement with a Canadian university
Library and Archives Canada – Guest Curator: Caroline Forcier-Holloway
Bell Canada must honour commitment to modernize email system, government says
Evidence Based Upon National Standards Might Thereby Be Unreliable
Five Key Copyright Law Concepts for Canadian Museums
140-year-old Treaty 7 document coming back to Alberta
Manitoba – Freedom of information review gives PCs opportunity to close legislative loopholes
The Royal Ontario Museum’s Judaica Collection
British Columbia – With an Eye on the Future, First Nations in Canada Are Switching From Audio Cassettes to Digital
L’Autorité des marchés financiers instaure un droit à l’oubli pour les personnes sanctionnées
Don des archives de Vélo Québec à BAnQ
BAnQ – Jouons à cache-cache avec les Allemands
BAnQ – À bas les fortifications
BAnQ – Les oeuvres d’Albert Laberge enfin accessibles en ligne
Dalhousie University – Archivists using police techniques to save flimsy digital materials
Dalhousie University – Uncovering Canadian slavery
University of Prince Edward Island – How Facebook is helping librarians decipher hundreds of vintage postcards
Visualizing 75 Years at Carleton University
Staying true to the ethos of zines at Ontario College of Art and Design University
Victoria Lemieux wins Outstanding Paper, 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence
Victoria Lemieux: blockchain success will depend on cross-sectoral collaboration
Women in the Directors Chair launches database of Canadian female filmmakers
Ottawa’s past in pictures: looking back on lost landmarks
Montreal’s Park Extension Historical Society recognized for preserving collective memory
Vancouver – Kitsilano map goes for $24,200 at auction
L’histoire de Trois-Rivières dans un album photo
http://www.lhebdojournal.com/culture/2017/5/22/l-histoire-de-trois-rivieres-dans-un-album-photo.html
Le Centre d’archives de Charlevoix lance sa campagne de financement
Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario) will help make history for Canada 150
Battlefords (Saskatchewan) man working to preserve residential school cemetery
London – Students uncover 137 gravestones, some honouring victims of the 1881 Victoria disaster
Delta Museum and Archive Society (B.C.) wants your stories
La face cachée du Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent
Emily Lonie – My genealogical journey
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda – Genocide archives facility takes shape
Nigerian Archivists to Assist Nigeria Police Force Improve its Archives
Amériques / Americas
Brazil – National Historic Museum Receives Archives Documenting Vila Autódromo’s Fight Against Olympic Evictions
Trump 2018 Budget Proposes Devastating Cuts to Federal History, Archival & Education Programs
Freedom of Information Act Lawsuits Reach Highest Level Recorded in 25 Years
Library of Congress – Copyright Law and New Technologies: a Long and Complex Relationship
Library of Congress – Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Now Online
National Library of Medicine – Go as Far as you Can See. Then See how Far you Can Go.
North Carolina – Sending State Agency Records to the Archives
Texas State Library and Archives – Selling Records Management to your Supervisor
The Georgia Archives streamlines its digital collection workflows with CONTENTdm hosted by OCLC
Pennsylvania State Archives Poster Collections Available Online
Idaho State Archives and Ancestry are digitizing over 27,000 records
Arizona State University approves Open Access Policy
Michigan State University – Revising a Retention Schedule: Lessons Learned
University of Texas – A history of One Hundred Years of Solitude in documents
Brigham Young University – Long-running classic film screening ends as curator retires
New library archivist position focuses on black experience students, faculty at Northwestern University
Modeling archival problems in Computational Archival Science (CAS)
New Mexico – Document Details Death of Lawman Who Killed Billy the Kid
Revising the bible: evolutionary biology meets Adam and Eve in the archives
Does Fair Use Affect Academic Authors’ Incentive to Write? Some Lessons from Authors of Works from the GSU Course Reserves Case
National Public Radio: Preserving the Past
Oddball Films: San Francisco’s Archive for Extraordinary Cinema
American Writers Museum Is Chicago’s New Literary Paradise
Federal Funding Impact Story #4 – Project: Detroit Institute of Arts Archives Assessment
Unseen Sylvia Plath poems deciphered in carbon paper
A Long-lost Thelonious Monk Album Is Finally Released Nearly 60 Years Later
Resourceful Records Managers: Fred Grevin, New York City Economic Development Corporation
Archivist on the Issues: the Best of Both Worlds, Combining Physical & Digital Primary Source Education
Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Archives of Political Extremism in Australia: a Short Guide
Japan – New site to provide broad international access to cultural archives
How the National Archives of India Is Actually Destroying History
India – Digging up the past: an exhibit brings together three projects that draw from Indian Foundation for Arts archives and result in unexpected findings
Pakistan – Right of Access to Information Bill restrictive, ineffective
Europe / Europa
Members of the European Parliament call for safeguarding the Public Domain
80 top film-makers sound alarm over European copyright rules
New European Union directive set to ease rules on text and data mining
Explore a wealth of vintage photographs with Europeana Photography
http://blog.europeana.eu/2017/05/explore-a-wealth-of-vintage-photographs-with-europeana-photography/
Romanian justice minister to reveal secret service SIPA archive’s visitors
Italy – Tuscan archives yield up secrets of Leonardo’s mystery mother
Spanish authorities agree to open stolen baby archives
A biography, a documentary, and an archive celebrate Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha
Armenia – Armenpress: history photo project to be launched with assistance of Beeline
Switzerland – A Digital History Lab at the University of Zurich?
Les catéchismes politiques conservés dans les fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – La qualité d’archives publiques : jurisprudence relative à des archives du maréchal Pétain
France – La préfecture de police de Paris ouvre ses archives sur les brigades spéciales de la Seconde guerre mondiale
Ce que l’archivistique peut apporter au monde professionnel contemporain (et vice versa)
Ireland – Ex-Provo in Boston tapes row can examine Public Prosecution Service files
Scots libraries say move to put archives on Wikipedia won’t make them redundant
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Archives – Scurvy in the College Collections
David Hurn photo archive gifted to National Museum Wales
UK Parliamentary Archives – Negative and Positive: Digitising Glass Plate Negatives
UK National Archives – The Battle of Lincoln
Assessing Deterioration in Film and Photographs: how Can Science Help?
British Library – A new chapter in the story of Timbuktu’s manuscripts: sample digitisation of materials from the Infa Yattara Family Library
British Library – 33 Burmese manuscripts now digitised
British Library – An Ode to Early Record Catalogues
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO X-Files
Boots of Nottingham opens historic digital archive
Centenary Photograph Album: Teaching Resource from the Guardian News Media Archive
Roger Moore dies after delivering final manuscript
How to market and promote your Business Archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
How 1,000 years of Arabic scholarship advanced scientific debate in pictures
Iran strengthens commitment to cultural heritage, International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property says
Iran – Finding your Way Around Tehran’s Public Archives
International
OAIS and ISO 16363 review happening now
Links all of the way down: HTTPreservation of Documentary Heritage
How to Prepare for an Archives Visit
Why you shouldn’t delete your data until you’ve thought about your digital history
No App Required: Toward a Utilitarian Museum Mobile Experience