Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario – Big Data Guidelines
Organizational and Service Review of the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Library System
U.S. Copyright Office – Modernizing Document Recordation (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – New Professionals Survey, 2016: Final Report
Association of Research Libraries – Spec Kit 354: Data Curation
Memoriav: association pour la sauvegarde la mémoire audivisuelle suisse – Rapport d’activité 2016
Sunlight Foundation – Tactical Data Engagement
Ithaka S+R – Finding a Way from the Margins to the Middle: Library Information Technology, Leadership, and Culture
Copyright: the Immoveable Barrier that Open Access Advocates Underestimated
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 2017)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 23, no. 5-6 (May-June 2017)
Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017 (Special Issue on: Classification in Archives and Libraries)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 13, no. 1 (2017)
Information Management, vol. 51, no. 3 (May-June 2017)
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 37, no. 4 (August 2017)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no. 19 (2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Another Bit Bytes the Dust: the Technological and Human Challenges of Digital Preservation
Book – Archives: Principles and Practices (Second Edition)
Book – The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Book – Hythe: the Postcard Collection
Book – The Public Domain: how to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More (Eighth Edition)
Book – Your Heritage will Still Remain: Racial Identity and Mississippi’s Lost Cause
Book – Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna
Book – Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices
Book – Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age
Book – Rising Sur at War: the Japanese Army 1931-1945, Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
Book – Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and what the Internet Reveals about who we Really Are
Livre – Éditer Prévert: lettres et archives éditoriales, 1946-1976
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
A Jewel in Queen’s Crown: an Introduction to Queen’s University Archives and Canada’s Academic Archives
May 23, 2017, Hong Kong
The Golden Era of Postcards
May 26, 2017, Toronto
51st Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
June 20-23, 2017, Vancouver
Advancing Linked Open Data in the Humanities
August 7, 2017, Montreal
Intersections: Technology and Public Services in Special Collections
August 6-8, 2017, University Park (Pennsylvania)
Digital Humanities: Opportunities and Risks: Connecting Libraries and Research
August 15-17, Berin (Germany)
Sur le web / On the web
Grant Hurley (Digital Preservation Librarian, Ontario Council of University Libraries) – New Blog
Archives nationales d’outre-mer (France) maintenant sur Twitter
Collatinus 11 (bêta) : lemmatiseur et analyseur morphologique de textes latins
Slidecast – Navigating the Archives
Slidecast – A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Public to get access to Supreme Court of Canada judges’ debates after 50-year embargo
An incredible scar: this archivist (Ry Moran) won’t let Canada forget
Federal privacy commissioner to initiate investigations, not just wait for complaints
Open data, Canada’s new natural resource, proves harder to mine than expected
Demystifying the Access to Information Request Process
Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Recipient of the 2017 Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship
Library and Archives Canada acquires 80,000 maps and documents from the Canada Lands Survey Records collection
Library and Archives Canada – Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, 1867 to 1925
Library and Archives Canada – Ernst Neumann
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Brian Thompson
Yukon archives expansion will address growing issues with humidity
New look for Saskatchewan Archival Information Network (SAIN) database
Saskatchewan Opposition blasts premier for doing government business with private email
Public Outcry Saves Saskatchewan Library Funds
Manitoba – What happened to the promise of open government?
Les musées du Québec entrent dans l’ère numérique
BAnQ – Prévisions météo dans les tranchées : ensoleillé, avec probabilités d’averses d’obus et de shrapnels d’avions
BAnQ – Louis Riel raconté au théâtre et à l’opéra
BAnQ – Montréal, mon pays, mes amours ! C’n’est pas encore Athènes ou Paris, mais c’est chic en titi
Le patrimoine scientifique québécois : du papier au numérique
Nova Scotia libraries in dire straits, seek support
University of Waterloo interactive maps offer a window into past
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – De-framed World War 1 Photograph
L’auteure Louise Dupré lègue ses archives à l’Université de Sherbrooke
François Cartier remporte le Prix d’excellence en enseignement de l’Université de Montréal
Jewish Museum & Archives of B.C. – The Kitchen Stories: a Year in Reflection
Treasured St. John’s (Newfoundland) documents vulnerable to fire, flood: councillor
La transformation de Montréal en images, d’hier à aujourd’hui
375e de Montréal : l’histoire sportive vue des archives
Vancouver – Preserving the City’s website with Archive-It
Manitoba – Cinq ordres religieux confient leurs archives au Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface
Élections des administrateurs du Centre d’archives du Témiscouata
Un trésor méconnu : les archives du Sanctuaire Notre-Dame-du-Cap
Timmins (Ontario) Library dedicates new section to family histories
Nova Scotia – Coal miners ask students to keep their mining stories going
Revolstoke Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Douglas Sherwood McCarter: Lest We Forget
Vers un service public de la donnée culturelle ?
Thirteen Questions with: Feather Maracle Luke, Reference Department Advisor, Timmins Public Library (Ontario)
Story of Basque whaler in Red Bay being turned into opera by Labrador student
Afrique / Africa
100.000 images historiques de photographes maliens archivées
http://www.voaafrique.com/a/historiques-100000-images-de-photographes-maliens-archivees/3853361.html
Amériques / Americas
Argentina’s page turner: how a Canadian author became the leader of a library revolution
Sean Spicer won’t deny President Trump is recording his Oval Office guests. That’s untenable
Veterans Affairs digitizing old paper records to speed veteran disability claims
First Drafts of History: Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress Offers Largest Release of Digital Catalog Records in History
National Library of Medicine – Health Disparities: Big Data to the Rescue?
Smithsonian – A Rare Public Display of a 17th-Century Mayan Manuscript
Watch worn by nation’s deadliest school killer is preserved in Michigan archives
Arkansas State Archives participates in newspaper digitization project
Speaker applies truth and reconciliation to Alaska’s colonial history
Found: a piece of missing Kentucky history
University of California Merced Library Chosen to Digitize AIDS Historical Archives
99 Years of the Foreign Service Journal Now Available Online
Delaware Art Museum – Newly Digitized Archives Reveal the Inner Lives of Artists
Museums of Western Colorado to digitize thousands of oral files
American Journalists Used Nazi-Provided Photos During World War II
Discovered: Never-before seen photos of Charles Lindbergh’s first Spirit of St. Louis flight
Osage Nation to preserve historic documents at Jesuit archives in St. Louis
Navigating the well-curated, deeply weird Sponsored Films online archive
Photo Insight: Exploring the New York City Municipal Archives
Wilton’s Music Hall to Be Added to Google’s Digital Archives
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience
Digital archive project reunites works of early wildlife photographers
Step Back in Time With Facebook Live Series from the Coca-Cola Archives
How one woman tracked down the owner of a WWII love letter she found under her stairs
Mystery solved! 19th-century girl in casket found under San Francisco house identified
Once-Suppressed Dorothea Lange Photos Capture Wartime Paranoia
Transitions: Reflections from an Archivist in Flux
Making it Stick: Records Management Training Approaches
How WWI Sparked the Gay Rights Movement
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia’s birth certificate sells for $320,000
Australia – Content digitisation leaves regulation with gaping holes
University of Melbourne – Red Cross World War II archives
Government announces $10m to go towards protecting New Zealand’s history
Association of Southeast Asian Nations Documentary Heritage: Preservation, Access and Potential for Peace
http://bangkok.unesco.org/content/asean-documentary-heritage-preservation-access-and-potential-peace
Music schools to sue Japan’s largest copyright collection group over plan to collect fees
India – Digitisation of rare manuscripts at Asiatic Library
India – Zamorin’s family seeks government help to preserve rare artefacts
Europe / Europa
Google Finds Implementing European Union’s Right to Be Forgotten Mandate Difficult
Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Priceless historic Polish documents sent from London to Warsaw
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Hungary) – Digital Cold War Collection of Encrypted Telex Messages
The archives of President Mauno Koivisto are available at the National Archives of Finland
Yiddish play manuscript draws attention to early Holocaust commemoration in Finland
The Italian Competition Authority Opens In-depth Investigation Into the Copyright Brokerage Sector
Fashion’s attics: in Italy, designers maintain their own archives, used for both preservation and inspiration
France – Le nouveau régime juridique de la réutilisation des informations publiques
France – Discours de Pétain : même déchiré, c’est un bien culturel
Un herbier français vieux de 200 ans détruit par les douanes australiennes
Significant new W.B. Yeats and James Joyce material acquired by the National Library of Ireland
National Library of Ireland – Exhibition highlighting our Flickr photographs coming in September
National Library of Scotland – From perforations to pixels in Postdam: the moving image archive goes to Europe
UK – Child sex abuse: inquiry team to search through 5,000 boxes of Football Association archives
Do UK museums take photography seriously?
British Library – Connecting Stories: community project launches
British Library – Representing Self and Family: Preserving Tamil Studio Photography
UK National Archives – A purple pursuit
Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive
Bodleian Library – John Cowdery Kendrew archive now online
A Harry Potter Prequel Is Stolen
For Sale: Intriguing 19th Century Photos of Britain’s Colonial World
My body shall be all yours: the startling sex letters of Joyce, Kahlo and O’Keeffe
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel declassifies Six-Day War archives
Egypt – Archive-based art: destabilizing the power of the archive while declaring its victory
International
OCLC and Wikipedia Library link citations to millions of library materials, expanding access to quality sources
Ingenious FilmLab App is the Easiest Way to Turn Negatives Into Digital Files
User experience in the online archive of internet art
Le drame silencieux des archives cinématographiques
The MP3 Is Officially Dead, According to its Creators
MP3 is dead missed the real, much better story
Implications of changes in Twitter’s Developer Policy