Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – General Records Schedules in Excel Format
NARA – Senior Agency Official for Records Management 2020 Annual Report – Various Organizations
Department of Commerce: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/doc-saorm-2020.pdf
Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/dnfsb-saorm-2020.pdf
National Council on Disability: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/ncd-saorm-2020.pdf
Agency for Global Media: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/usagm-saorm-2020.pdf
Review of NARA’s Progress in Implementing Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
Review of NARA’s Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
California State Library – Digital Preservation Strategy
De la communauté / From the community
Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives – National Awareness & Advocacy Strategy for Canadian Archives
International Council on Archives – Annual Report 2020
Australian Library and Information Association – Annual Report 2020
Association of American Universities – Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data
Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles: Primer (Draft for Comments)
Paper – Document Domain Randomization for Deep Learning Document Layout Extraction
Article – A Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata Schema for Materials Science Data Discovery
Publications
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 2 (2021)
Library and Archives Canada – Documentary Heritage and Official Language Minority Communities Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 7 (2021)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Archives (Toronto) Newsletter, vol. 29, no. 1 (2021)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 17, no. 5 (2021)
#Redactionart (Scarves, Duvet Covers and Journals Made with Recycled Redactions from Surveillance Files held by the National Archives of Australia)
Book – Digital Techniques for Heritage Presentation and Preservation
Book – Tracing your First World War Ancestors (Second Edition)
Book – J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography
Book – The Madman’s Library: the Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
Book – Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril
Book – Responsible Data Science
Book – Borders and Belonging: Critical Examinations of Library Approaches toward Immigrants
Book – Preserving Los Angeles: how Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
Book – Exhibits and Displays: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Paper Trails: the US Post and the Making of the American West
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Building a Reconciliation Framework for Canada’s Archives
April 30, 2021
Working with Archival Texts as Data: Post-OCR Error Correction with OpenRefine
May 11, 2021
Écrits et archives de Jacques Viger
14 mai 2021
#1Lib1Ref Canada
May 15 – June 5, 2021
Working with Archival Texts as Data: Using Natural Language Processing to Support the Description of Digital Archives
May 18, 2021
Colloque sur la gestion des données de recherche en sciences humaines
7-8 juin 2021
Information and Records Management Society Roundtable – Approaches to Email Management 2
May 6, 2021
National Library of Israel – A Conversation with the National Library of Poland
May 6, 2021
Observing the Past: Archives, Interpretation and Practices of Care
May 6, 2021
Office Hours for Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections
May 6-12, 2021
Collective Memory of Diverse Women Architects: Practice and Methods
May 7, 2021
Éditer les documents d’archives médiévaux et modernes
17-18 mai 2021
Ffmpeg: analyser et transformer des fichiers audiovisuels
21 mai 2021
Auditing and Preparing Broadcast Archives for Digital Preservation in Africa
May 27, 2021
Introduction to Digital Preservation for Moving Image and Sound
May 27-28, 2021
International Internet Preservation Consortium – Web Archiving Conference 2021
June 15-16, 2021
Le patrimoine audiovisuel et open glam ? Partage et mise en réseau de sons et d’images à l’heure de l’ouverture des données
24 juin 2021
Archival Education and Research Initiative 2021
July 12-16, 2021
Sur le web / On the web
Duty to Document Documentary
Interpares Trust and Canadian Centre for Information and Privacy Studies – Video: Duty to Document Zoom Premiere
Baladodiffusion – Notre histoire en tête : BAnQ
Law Bytes Podcast – Céline Castets-Renard on Europe’s Plan to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
University of British Columbia – The 2020 (Re)Collection: Oral Histories of the Pandemic
Heritage Abbotsford Society (British Columbia) – Virtual Catalogue
Société d’histoire de Drummond – Sociofinancement pour la publication d’un recueil d’articles historiques retraçant l’histoire de Drummondville
Video – Secrets and Lives (Finding and Resting Redactions in Surveillance Files Held by the National Archives of Australia)
Society of American Archivists Video – International Archival Affairs Section Seminar Series
Video – Citizen Web Archiving: Empowering Undergraduates to Preserve the Internet
Council on Library and Information Resources Memory Podcast – What we’ve Learned and what we Can Do
Stanford University – New Online Exhibition of Vintage Chinese Comic Book Covers
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s Proposed Privacy Law Reforms Are not Enough
Why the Government’s Secret Forthcoming Bill C-10 Amendment Confirms its Plans to Regulate User Generated Content
How’s it going at Library and Archives Canada?
Une société d’histoire va préserver le patrimoine francophone du Yukon
BAnQ – Eugène Papineau, missionnaire jésuite chez les Ojibwés de l’Ontario
Reviving Mohawk language and culture on Tyendinaga Territory
ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – The Carpet: Pussy Palace Oral History Project
York University – Archival holdings at Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections related to Indigenous Peoples in Canada
University of Victoria – Celebrating Typographer and Designer Elizabeth Friedlander
University of Victoria – Approaching Decolonization in our Classrooms
University of Toronto – Planning on Online Archives Launch: the S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Fonds
University of Calgary Student-led project investing in Open Educational Resources
Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre Receives Canada History Fund to Support Learning about Canadian History
Mountain Legacy Project – Digital Permanence in the Era of Open Science
Vancouver Archives – Records Roundup
Ontario – Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry’s new digital newspaper archive includes more than 200,000 pages
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – The End of Brio House
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Naming Night (not) at the Museum: April 2021
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Whistler’s Answers: April 29, 1982
New Items in the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) Store
Kamloops Symphony (British Columbia) puts archived concerts on Thompson-Nicola Regional Library’s website
Société d’histoire de la Haute-Yamaska – Récit d’une photo souvenir
Finding Canadian Ancestors in UK County Archives
Somewhere in France: Manitoban hopes sharing WW I letters will encourage others to dig into family history
Nouveau Brunswick – Une lettre envoyée la veille du naufrage du Titanic retrouvée plus d’un siècle plus tard
Afrique / Africa
Proposed state-of-the-art Mashujaa Museum in Nairobi to act as archive of Kenya’s history
Cameroun – Le Port autonome de Douala et les Archives nationales officialisent un partenariat
Partenariat entre la Chambre des représentants et les Archives du Maroc
Jamaâ Baida cherche une stratégie de préservation et de valorisation des Archives du Maroc
Algérie – La mort lente des Archives nationales
University of Cape Town (South Africa) – Staff and students assist in salvaging library materials
Honouring the librarians and archivists who built University of Cape Town’s now-devastated African Studies Library
Amériques / Americas
NARA – It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Camp Thunderbird of the Civilian Conservation Corps!
NARA – Lou Hoover on Women and Politics
NARA – 79-AA: Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, 1941 – 1942
Pandemic closes military records facility, causing major backlog and leaving veterans in limbo
Library of Congress – The Path to Nirvana, from an 18th Century Buddhist Carving
It’s both Subtle and Monumental: Reimagining Digital Design and Literacy at the Library of Congress
Data Science @ National Library of Medicine Journey Continues and what we Have Learned
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – How Does Records Management Benefit Us, Anyway?
Songs of survival from Yale University’s Fortunoff Archive of Holocaust testimonies
Yale University – New emulation tool unlocks a world of knowledge from old CD-ROMs
Mark A. Matienzo (Stanford University Library) – On Sourcery, or the enclosure(?) of remote access
Reexamining Descriptive Language at the University of Minnesota Archives and Special Collections
There she is, online: Miss America archives digitized at Rowan University
Ithaca College – Staff and students work to create COVID-19 archive
Historians lobby Casper College in hopes of saving Western History Center archivist
How does the Getty battle bugs? Squirrel-hair dusters and dental picks, for starters
New technology could identify thousands of unknown soldiers who died in World War II
Here’s how the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records
Seattle Municipal Archives – Things that Didn’t Happen
Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Totals $12.4 Million at Christie’s
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – The memory of the nation is at risk with National Archives desperate for funds
Our history up in flames? Why the crisis at the National Archives must be urgently addressed
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Brisbane’s Air Raid Shelters
Queensland State Archives – Longest Basketball Game
Tasmanian Archive (Australia) – 150 Years of Tasmanian Railways
Tasmanian Archive – The Railway Rate, a Riot, and the Railway Hotel at Longford
Preserving History and Culture in Cook Islands
Chiang Mai Memories capture le passé du nord de la Thaïlande
Europe / Europa
A Permanent European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Is Taking Shape
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Talking about Sexualised Violence: the Presentation of Rape and Male Power in an Oral-History Interview
Unsealed Soviet archives reveal cover-ups at Chernobyl plant before disaster
Romania – Absolute Power: the Astonishing Personal Photos of Nicolae Ceausescu
Czech Film Archive pairs classic silent films and modern music for cinémathèque festival
Dutch National archive puts 1.9 million items linked to slave trade online
Les archives personnelles de Jean-Paul Ier de retour à Rome
Switzerland – 3D models to explore the future of urban digitization
Bruno Ricard : franchir une nouvelle étape dans la mutation numérique des Archives nationales de France
France – L’histoire en soi est un débat (par les enseignants-chercheurs en archivistique de l’Université d’Angers)
National Archives of Ireland – Announcing John Beattie as the Artist-in-Residence under the Decade of Centenaries Programme
National Library of Ireland – Observations about terminology within Digital Preservation teams
Merging the past with the present: web archiving and the Scottish Parliament website
National Library of Scotland – Automatically transcribing the Marjory Fleming Diaries
National Library of Scotland – Henry Mackenzie and the Man of Feeling
National Library launches Welsh film history app
UK Parliamentary Archives – Nine Days in May: Parliament & the General Strike
UK Parliamentary Archives – Liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
UK Parliamentary Archives – The Disarming Acts: myth and reality
UK National Archives – I need never have known existence: Radclyffe Hall and LGBTQ+ visibility
British Library – Clearing the noise surrounding copyright
British Library could relabel original manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to include references to previous owners’ links to the slave trade
The complete digital archive of The British Museum Magazine is now available
BBC Archives – Data Tapes and Boilerplates
Bodleain Library – What’s it like to be a trainee? Simon Mackley, Graduate Trainee Digital Archivist 2020-2022
Bridging the Digital Gap at the University of Bristol: introducing Sam Brenton, digital archive trainee
University Archivist at the University of Birmingham – Doing something is better than doing nothing
Digital Preservation at the Library of Birmingham: a brief introduction to file formats
http://theironroom.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/digital-preservation-library-of-birmingham-file-formats/
How the Pandemic Graphic Archive is preserving our new reality
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – How I Found the Lost Ending to a Legendary Author’s Story
National Library of Israel – Who Opposed Eichmann’s Execution?
Artificial Intelligence unlocks ancient Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
United Arab Emirates – More than Dh60 million worth of rare manuscripts, artefacts coming to Sharjah show
United Arab Emirates: Sheikh Sultan opens exhibition of historic manuscripts
Rare documents of Egypt’s National Library & Archives exhibited in Ninth Faisal Book Fair
Eastern Turkish provinces demand opening of archives on 1915 events
International
International Committee of the Red Cross Library and Archives – Theatre in Third Reich prisoner of war camps
International Committee of the Red Cross Library and Archives – Searching for Renato
In the AI Tonight: Introducing the AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations) Project
The ArtBase Relaunches: Welcome to Linked Open Data
Is artificial intelligence colorization providing an accurate image of the past?
Appraisal of Records of Enduring Value
Description of Electronic Records
Non-Fungible Tokens Force a Copyright Reckoning