Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Plan 2017-2018
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Recueil des règles de conservation des documents des établissements de santé et de services sociaux du Québec (version 1.4)
Victorian Auditor General’s Office (Australia) – Managing Public Sector Records
U.S. Office of Government Information Services – Annual Report 2016
De la communauté / From the community
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Annual Report 2016
Archiving for Voluntary Organisations (Revised Draft Guidance)
Historic England – Market Conditions for Expert and Specialist Heritage Skills and Services 2015-2016
Pericles Digital Preservation – An Overview on the Reuse of Data in the Science Domain
E-Ark – Annual Project Summary Year 3
National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Web Archiving in the United States: a 2016 Survey
Europeana – Content Strategy
IFLA Standard – Definition of FRBRoo: a Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information in Object-Oriented Formalism
American Library Association – Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture (Fall 2016)
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3-4 (March-April 2017)
Information Management, vol. 52, no. 2 (March-April 2017)
IFLA Journal, vol. 43, no. 1 (2017)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 2017)
Research Library Issues, no. 290 (2017)
Revue communication, organisation, société du savoir et information, no. 1 (2017)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2 (March-April 2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 2 (2017)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 36, no. 2 (Winter 2017)
Report – International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Academic Library Special Collections
Book – Documenting Performance: the Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving
Book – Foundations of Corporate Heritage
Book – Don’t Break the Chain: the Nemetz Family Journey from Svatatroiske to Vancouver
Book – Letters Home from Stanford: 125 Years of Correspondance from Students of Standford University
Book – Agents of Empire: how E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia
Book – The Makerspace Librarian’s Sourcebook
Book – An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War
Book – Introduction to Data Science: a Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications
Book – e-Health 4.0: how Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare
Book – Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
Book – From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors
Livre – Archives départementales : les basiques de la généalogie
Livre – Archives militaires : mode d’emploi (deuxième édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Lost and Found: British Home Children in Canada
March 21, 2017, Toronto
Canadian Association of Law Libraries Webinar – Uncovering United Nations Treaties
April 5, 2017
Utilizing Big Data with Self Service Analytics
April 19, 2017, Toronto
Exploring Hospital Records and Archives
April 28, 2017, London (UK)
Women in Religious Archives
May 5, 2017, London (UK)
Data Sharing, Holocaust Documentation and the Digital Humanities
June 28-29, 2017, Venice (Italy)
http://ehri-project.eu/cfp-ehri-workshop-data-sharing-holocaust-documentation-and-digital-humanities
Sixth International Conference: the Future of Information Sciences
November 8-10, 2017, Zagreb (Croatia)
Talking with First Nations Archives with the Archives Association of British Columbia (Webcast Available)
March 6, 2017
Colloque Inside the User’s Mind (présentations disponibles)
22 février 2017, Bruxelles (Belgique)
Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference 2017 (Videos Available)
March 6, 2017, Manchester (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
La Gazette des archives maintenant disponible sur Persée (1933-2014)
International Tracing Service – Card Index on Jewish Victims now Online
Society of American Archivists – Survey on Reappraisal and Deaccessioning
Library of Congress New Blog – Copyright: Creativity at Work
Jhove 1.16
Podcast – Project of Heart (to Commemorate the Legacy of the Residential School System)
Slidecast – Are the Fair Data Principles Really Fair?
Slidecast – Preserving Interactive Media
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
CSIS to resume data-mining practices, says issues with data centre mostly fixed
Privacy commissioner investigating Canada Border Services Agency over electronic media searches
An update on the National Heritage Digitization Strategy
Library of Parliament – Foundations: the Words that Shaped Canada
Library and Archives Canada – The Exchequer Court of Canada fonds
Hockey: transaction between Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Museum of History
Library and Archives Canada – Government of Canada Publications: On your MARCs… Get set… Go
Ctrl+V to Canada: can Canada save America’s Data from Donald Trump?
Nova Scotia – 2017-2018 Provincial Archival Development Program grant applications are now available
Where to store a million artifacts? Nova Scotia’s past poses present problem
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Opened by Censor
Archives of Manitoba – Manitobans at the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Dossier médical en ligne : les archivistes médicaux appellent à la prudence
Québec – Des données disponibles mais nécessitant une compilation ne constituent pas un document accessible au sens de la Loi sur l’accès
Mémoires romantiques présentées par la Fondation BAnQ
BAnQ acquiert par don l’important fonds d’archives du Séminaire de Rimouski
BAnQ – Le destin parfois difficile des enfants en Nouvelle-France
New exhibit marking Jewish contribution to Canada will celebrate Canada 150
Ryerson University to house film archive of Canadian director Barry Avrich
Dalhousie University – Lucky find unearths Group of Seven artist’s lost drawings
Université de Hearst preserving history of nearby ghost towns
University of Calgary – First-edition Harlequins, 80-year-old Penguins, hobby and history books featured in new rare-book exhibit
Wilfrid Laurier University makes nationally significant Ipsos polling data freely available to the world
McGill University – Discovery of Roddick Gates time capsule opens new mystery
Concordia University caught on the wrong side of copyright
Yes we Scan: why Concordia should not Shelve its Book Scanner
Potential changes to copyright law could threaten use of class material
Before Drake, there was Maestro, Michie Mee and mix tapes: Toronto’s hip-hop archive takes shape
Visit the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives in Vancouver’s West End
First new feminist bookstore in a generation opens in Montreal
Record year for Coquitlam (B.C.) archives
Lake Country Museum and Archives (B.C.) to enhance archival collection
Peace River Museum (Alberta) asking residents to share their story
Canadian hero Terry Fox featured at Dufferin County Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Donation d’annuaires téléphoniques au Centre d’archives régionales des Îles
Le Centre d’archives du Témiscouata inaugure ses locaux
Centre d’archives régionales séminaire de Nicolet – Nouvelle Coordonnatrice : Caroline Legault
Incredible archives: the fascinating and the fun
A Code of Conduct for Genealogy Conferences?
We are what we ate: Canada’s history in cuisines
Mon arrière-grand-père était un petit immigré anglais
Four steps to help you clean up your photo collection
The Secret Statistical Lives of Librarians
How I Work: Moe Hosseini-Ara, Toronto Public Library
Afrique / Africa
UNESCO – Partnership with the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers to restore African cinema
Nigeria – Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library: Africa’s first Presidential Library
Algérie – À quand un centre de documentation et d’archives théâtrales ?
Tunisie – À Tunis, la première révolution Facebook entre aux Archives nationales
Tunisie : des chercheurs et universitaires réunis autour des techniques de collecte de l’archive numérique
Techniques d’archivages : le Cameroun à l’école allemande
Reflection on Access to Information legislation in Malawi: frustration, joy, lessons
Namibia – Records management as the basis for public accountability
Amériques / Americas
The Saint Lucia National Archives Authority celebrates 50 years of St. Lucia’s National Flag
U.S. – Lawmakers target disappearing records
American Library Association – President’s budget proposal to eliminate federal library funding counterproductive and short-sighted
The National Archives Wants your Help Transcribing Declassified Documents
National Archives Opens Final Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcript
NARA – Records Management Priorities for 2017
A Library of Congress Lab: More Use and More Users of Digital Collections
To avoid confusion the CIA withheld info from Senate hearing on limiting Freedom of Information Act
The CIA forgot about a bunch of classified documents stashed in the Rockefellers’ barn
This Bot Files Freedom of Information Act Requests to the FBI Whenever the New York Times Posts an Obituary
Society of American Archivists – Mid-Year Steering Share: Activating Coordinated, Compelling Advocacy
Minnesota – Public record or public burden? As Legislature seeks to clarify email-retention rules, local agencies push back
Texas must act now to repair damage to Public Information Act
State Archives of North Carolina – Digitization and Destruction of Non-permanent Paper Records
Collection of evidence from Terry Nichols’ Oklahoma state trial given to memorial archives
A photo of every protest: Stanford archivists memorialize activism as it unfolds
Developing a Digital Preservation Infrastructure at Georgetown University Library
Oral Histories Provide Personality to Oregon State University Archives
University of Illinois Library launches open-access digital publishing network
Indiana University Archives – The Human and the Tech: Failing Gracefully While Archiving a Downsized Unit
University of California at Los Angeles – Meet the Archive: Dan Einstein
A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown
Born in Slavery : récits d’anciens esclaves
More Human than Alien: Researching the History of UFOs
35mm Film Deserves your Respect: Alamo Drafthouse Founder Tim League Makes the Case
Compare New York City’s Past and Present in a New App
Stereographic New York: animated 3D images from the 1850s to the 1930s
Chicago – A look inside the Newberry Library protest archive
Mid-century San Francisco archive photos unseen for decades
Preserving the vintage: wine libraries showcase the stories, science, and ephemera behind one of history’s oldest indulgences
Gladys Hansen, San Francisco archivist and 1906 earthquake expert, dies
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Senate probes copyright piracy crisis
Australia – Metadata access papers made public
Hilary Rowell retires from the National Archives of Australia after 46 years of service and still with her original-issue ruler and stapler
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Information Flow within organisations
Hong Kong – Leadership hopeful Woo Kwok-hing promises to push for archives law to hold government accountable
Literature Translation Institute Korea digitalizes classical, contemporary Korean literature
Nepal – Translate rare manuscripts in order to preserve them
China – Photographer focuses on French sinologists
127th Foundation Day of National Archives of India celebrated on 11th March, 2017
India – National Archives exhibition to show India’s revolutionary past
India – At Tatas, sage advice an archival inheritance
Europe / Europa
European court backtracks on right to be forgotten
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Fajga Fajnzylber: reconstructing life stories from dispersed sources
Pericles Digital Preservation – The Digital Ecosystem Model
Bosnia – Centuries old works restored in Sarajevo’s history hospital
Archives in Bosnia in Minutes and Hours
Malta’s first passport photos saved from becoming a Carnival float
Countdown to the second world war in pictures
La photo de presse suisse, un trésor menacé
L’Open Data pourrait engendrer une nouvelle confiance dans le système
France – Ouvrons les archives sur le meurtre de Thomas Sankara
Turkish manuscripts in French National Library digitized
Jules Verne : l’incroyable destin du manuscrit du Tour du monde en 80 jours
Jules Verne – Fake news et manuscrits d’auteur
Ireland – First Irish Right to Be Forgotten Case
Graduate Traineeship at the UK Parliamentary Archives: a halfway reflection
Why the UK National Archives cares about information security
UK National Archives – Bridging the Digital Gap project secures funding
UK National Archives – Exploring LGBTQ spaces and places in history
UK National Archives – Domesday loan to Lincoln Castle
British Library – Our First 100 Polonsky Pre-1200 Manuscripts Are Now Online
British Library – In Search of Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Iran
BBC launch archive of memorable programmes to help dementia sufferers
How I see Britain: photographs that define the country
University of London – How to capture and preserve electronic newsletters in higher education and beyond
Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage
Irreplaceable records and photos feared lost in House of Lords fire found by Barrow archivists
Jane Austen poisoned with arsenic? Not so fast, experts say
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – The National Archives Participates in the Public Policy Forum
United Arab Emirates – The National Archives organizes a training session for the Environment Agency staff on conducting oral history interviews
Iran – Quran manuscript repaired in Imam Hussein (AS) Holy Shrine
Ancient book stolen in Syria seized in Turkey
UNESCO hosts First International Coordination Meeting for the recovery of Aleppo’s heritage
International
La norme ISO 15489 s’est-elle fait hara-kiri ?
Photo Archives Are Sleeping Beauties. Pharos Is their Prince
Transforming our Libraries from Analog to Digital: a 2020 Vision
IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom
Your old CD-ROMs are probably rotting
How the invention of paper changed the world
What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites and how we Can Fix them
The Impact of Cultural Heritage: creating a common language