Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Vitam : programme interministériel archivage numérique (France) – Version release 3
Archives nationales de France – Rapport d’activité 2016
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France) – Grande collecte : archives de femmes
Archives New Zealand – Authority to Retain Public Records in Electronic Form Only & Destruction of Source Information after Digitisation
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule – Parliamentary Counsel Office (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Association des Archivistes du Québec – Archiviste d’aujourd,hui, guide pratique (2e édition)
Create – Digitalisation and Intermediaries in the Music Industry
The Archivist’s Guide to KryoFlux (for Comments)
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives – The Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit
Creative Commons – State of the Commons 2016
Project Hydra – 2016 Annual Report
Article – Trust in the Balance: Data Protection Laws as Tools for Privacy and Security in the Cloud
Article – Software heritage : pourquoi et comment construire l’archive universelle du code source
Publications
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 46, no. 1 (2017)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 35, no. 2 (2017)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 73, no. 3 (2017)
Society of American Archivists – Archival Outlook (May/June 2017)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 8 (2017)
News from the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (May 2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Aditus ad Archivum: Exploring Access to Catholic Diocesan Archives in Canada
Book – Enterprise Content Management, Records Management and Information Culture Amidst E-Government Development
Book – Mounties on the Cover (University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections & Archives)
Book – Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Conservation
Book – Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era (1308-1600)
Book – Digital Stories in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalized Voices
Book – Inherent Strategies in Library Management
Book – Artistic License: the Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation
Book – Digitizing the Modern Library and the Transition from Print to Electronic
Book – The Library Information Technology Association Leadership Guide: the Librarian as Entrepreneur, Leader, and Technologist
Livre – Foccart : archives ouvertes (1958-1974)
Livre – Papy était-il un nazi ? Sur les traces d’un passé de guerre
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – New exhibit: B.M. Bower
Until June 30, 2017, Waterloo
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Exposition La censure littéraire au Québec : des lectures en ébullition
8-12 mai 2017, Gatineau
Mounties, Booze and the Founding of the Alberta Provincial Police
May 17, 2017, Edmonton
Archives Society of Alberta – Annual General Meeting
May 27, 2017, Edmonton
Webinar – Everything you Need to Know about Microfiche
May 9, 2017
Livres et bibliothèques à l’ère du numérique
16 mai 2017, Paris
Future Past: Researching Archives in the Digital Age
May 18, 2017, London (UK)
Trends in the Creative Digital Economy: Findings from the CREATe Research Programme
May 26, 2017, London (UK)
20e Colloque international sur le document électronique
23-25 novembre 2017, Villeurbanne (France)
Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections & Applications
November 28 – December 1, 2017, Tallinn (Estonia)
Documents and Manuscripts in the Arab-Islamic World: the Seventh International Society for Arabic Papyrology
March 20-23, 2018, Berlin (Germany)
Archives Association of Ontario 2017 Conference (Some Presentations Available)
April 26-28, 2017, Toronto
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Beyond Vimy: the Rise of Air Power, Part 2
BAnQ – Don des archives de Janette Bertrand : les meilleurs moments de la soirée
McMaster University Video – From the Archives: Jack McClelland (with Myron Groover)
Vrecord: Open-source Software for Capturing a Video Signal
Coalition for Networked Information – Videos: Data Refuge, Library & Fake News
Podcast – The Role of Active Archive in Long-Term Data Preservation
Slidecast – Collaborative Archival Practice: Rethinking Outreach, Access, and reconciliation using Wikipedia
Slidecast – Continuous Data Validation for Everybody
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Mélanie Joly urges patience on long road toward cultural policy shakeup
Canada Won the Eli Lilly NAFTA ISDS Battle Bigly but who will Win the War?
Canada and U.S. Governments Launch Open Data Challenge to Better Understand Public Health
Expo 67 Mission Impossible documentary: Library and Archives Canada makes thousands of documents available on the event that marked a generation
Library and Archives Canada is opening new public service points in Halifax and Vancouver
Michel Pagliaro, Canadian rock legend, offers his archives to Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – The New El Dorado: Attracting Settlers to the West
Library and Archives Canada – Grist for the Mill: poems on war, labour and progress
Library and Archives Canada – Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe, VC
Treaty 7 document returns to Alberta this summer: National archives agrees to loan historical document to Fort Calgary
Alberta government interferes with freedom of information requests, email reveals
Purolator to ship library books across Saskatchewan as Saskatchewan Transportation Company closes
Royal Ontario Museum – The Living Room: Photography in the Public and Private
Newfoundland – Socks for soldiers project keeps WWI tradition going, one foot at a time
BAnQ – La politique de gestion des documents actifs et semi-actifs : une obligation de la loi sur les archives
BAnQ – Il y a 75 ans, la conscription… et ses suites
BAnQ – Gare à la baleine
Archives of Manitoba – On Active Service: Frank Leathers follow-up #1
New exposure for master portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and Ontario Council of University Libraries Work Together to Enhance Canada’s Data Management and Digital Preservation Landscape
Find a first draft of the Handmaid’s Tale at the University of Toronto
Historic photos from Brock University collection part of Art Gallery of Ontario and Royal Ontario Museum exhibits
University of Saskatchewan – Now at University Archives and Special Collections
University of British Columbia – New iSchool Faculty
Blockchain@UBC Founder, Victoria Lemieux, part of Canadian Delegation to meetings of ISO TC 307
Université de Montréal – Annulation d’abonnements à 2 231 titres de périodiques de l’éditeur Taylor & Francis Group
Take a peek at some of the fascinating photos that Ryerson University received from the New York Times’s archives
How the death of the Ryerson Press made a Canadian institution out of something that wasn’t
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – De fabuleuses images du siècle dernier
Canadian Centre for Architecture Access to Born-Digital Archives User Survey
Ottawa’s past in pictures: royal visits over the years happy and glorious events
Ottawa’s Bank Street, then and now
Province to cut $1.4M from Toronto Public Library funding: culture minister says fewer people were using library’s historical material online
How a 3D-printed piece of Palmyra landed in Toronto
Toronto librarian makes her case against Little Free Libraries
Vu de Montréal : gestion de l’information et législation, quand les lois dictent les façons de faire
Historical artifact brought back to life through Halifax connection
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta): Canada Day Event
South peace Regional Archives – Soldier Spotlight: Private Fred Blanchard
Public services limited during renovations at Lambton County Archives (Ontario)
Le ministre Luc Fortin émet un avis d’intention de classement pour des documents et des objets des Augustines de l’Hôpital général de Québec
Museum-Digital Provides an Easy-to-Use Collections Management System for Small Museums
Alvira Wigle remembered for preserving Kingville’s (Ontario) history
100-year-old Italian love letters reveal historic B.C. tragedy
How a Bible abandoned in the WWI trenches made its way back to a Quebec family
North Bay woman claims family connection to Louis Riel
Toronto gallery cancels show after concerns artist bastardizes Indigenous art
Indigenous artifacts belong with indigenous people
Afrique / Africa
Morocco – The Woman Behind the World’s Oldest Library, and the Woman Who Led the Effort to Restore It
Mali – Jihadists were going to burn it all: the amazing story of Timbuktu’s book smugglers
Stage technique international d’archives 2017 : participation du Burkina Faso
Algérie – Déficit en archives relatives à l’expérience théâtrale constantinoise
South Africa – University of Cape Town: some thoughts on curating and archiving online
Amériques / Americas
Brazil – 303 rare books stolen from Rio de Janeiro Federal University
Cayman Islands court blocks copying of public records
First Ever Caribbean Digitization Workshop Kicks Off In St. Kitts And Nevis
FBI Says Closed Investigation Still Ongoing in Freedom of Information Act Denial for Trump-Related Records
Senate bill would make it harder to delete government data
Thanks to this agency, we identified an unknown copy of the Declaration of Independence
National Archives Announces a New Model for the Preservation and Accessibility of Presidential Records
What does the National Archives do to support good recordkeeping during the change of administrations?
NARA – Review of Accessioned Email
NARA – Aliens at the Archives
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Copyright Records Hint at Early America’s Preoccupations
National Library of Medicine – Medical Perspectives on World War 2
Now you Can own JFK’s Personal Reflections on History, for a Hefty Price
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Quick Tips on Disposal of Electronic Records
How National Public Radio’s Research, Archives & Data Strategy team is saving sounds of the past for the future
A new game puts the public into public radio archives
The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
Centenary Archives partners to digitize Louisiana United Methodist Women publications (1884-2014)
The New York Public Library Has a Digital Time-Travel Service for its Historical Maps
James Baldwin’s work lands in New York’s Schomburg Center archive
Denver Public Library – Repository Update: Women’s March on Denver
Audio Recording of Martin Luther King’s Final Staff Meeting Heading to Auction
Capturing legendary cultural figures on film and video
On Why the Records Management Profession Must Endure
How the Blockchain Prevented Digital Book Burning
Meet Chris Vickery, the internet’s data breach hunter
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Lest we forget and selective national memory
Unstacked: revealing the hidden gems of the State Library of New South Wales (Australia)
Sound recordist leaves lasting musical legacy for regional New South Wales community
Melbourne University to Trial Blockchain Student Records Management
Taiwan – Minister proposes historic sites and media projects
China’s history problem: how it’s censoring the past and denying academics access to archives
China – Precious Party archives make a public debut
Vietnam helps Laos with archive management
Indonesia – Bangka Belitung hosts national archives coordination meeting
National Archives of India – Profile of Shri Raghvendra Singh, Director General
National Archives of India – Archival Exhibition on 100 Years of Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad and Publication of a Commemorating Volume Based on the Archival Material
Europe / Europa
German research organization to identify Nazi victims that ended up as brain slides
Finland – Helsinki City Museum opens photo archives to the public
Uppsala University (Sweden) – Nicolaus Copernicus’ books digitized
How to Decode an Ancient Roman’s Handwriting
Greece – Women under Arrest in a Christian Papyrus Letter
Moldova well-equipped to strengthen its intangible cultural heritage safeguarding capacities
Armenia – Last descendant of New Jugha’s Mirmanyan family donates to Matenadaran
Suisse – Genève devient la capitale du patrimoine en péril
Suisse – La Genève de Calvin s’exporte sur le Net
Scotland – Revealed: Taunting letters serial killer Peter Manuel wrote from his prison cell
£9m national broadcast archive to be set up in Wales
UK Parliamentary Archives – Thoughts of a collaborative PhD student in Parliament
http://archives.blog.parliament.uk/2017/05/02/thoughts-of-a-collaborative-phd-student-in-parliament/
UK National Archives – Four pillars of a strong risk management culture
UK National Archives – Sunday trading controversies: private enterprise meets public oversight
British Library – What websites do we collect during UK General Elections?
Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World’s Largest Books
British Library – Picturing Places launched
Bodleian Treasures: Early Ethiopian Bible Illumination
University of York – How can we preserve Google Documents?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Ancient Manuscripts from St. Catherine’s Monastery Available Online
Turkey – Government restricts access to national archive of media outlets closed under emergency rules
Stolen 13th century manuscript’s auction in London stopped by Turkish authorities
UNESCO Director-General welcomes the liberation of Hatra and will send Emergency Assessment mission as soon as possible
First-ever Photos of Yemen’s Jews Stunned the Jewish World
International
International Council on Archives – Message from David Fricker for the International Archives Day 2017
A digital archive of slave voyages details the largest forced migration in history
Archiving Accounts of War Crimes–Preserving History, Protecting Victims
Ménage-à-préservation: the tensions of digital preservation as-a-service
Obsolescence 2.0: digital Preservation by people, for people
Disks back from the dead
Ten Useful Websites for Techie Librarians
Archives: it’s not just boxes of stuff
Nearly 90% of organizations victim of data breaches
Formatting numbers for machines and mortals
The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics