Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Basic Requirements of Preventive Conservation
Library and Archives Canada – Progess Report Q2 2016-2017
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec – L’environnement numérique et la problématique du droit d’auteur, entre autres
UK National Archives – Digital Strategy
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report, Disposal Schedule: Ministry of Justice, Coronial Services Unit (for Comments)
Louisiana Public Broadcasting – Digital Preservation Plan
UK Information Commissioner – Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Protection
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Inappropriate for Any Age: Ban it Forever
Society of American Archivists – Social Justice Sampler
Letter – Two U.S. Senators Request Information from Archivist of U.S.
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 79, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2016)
Arbido : périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque Information Suisse, 1/2017
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 38, no. 1 (2017)
Collection Management, vol. 42, no. 1 (2017)
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, vol. 11, no. 1 (2017)
Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta Newsletter (Winter 2017)
Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 41, no. 1 (2017)
Solo: the Lone Arrangers Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 2 (2017)
Actes de colloque – La jurisprudence dans le mouvement de l’open data
Association des archivistes de l’Église de France – Guide des archives du monde religieux
Book – Displaced Archives
Book – Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional
Book – The Web as History
Book – Competing Memories: Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru
Book – Oral History and Australian Generations
http://www.routledge.com/Oral-History-and-Australian-Generations/Holmes-Thomson/p/book/9780415788953
Book – America in Black & White: Selected Photographs of John G. Zimmerman
Book – Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade: American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency
Book – Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions
Livre – L’écrivain vu par la photographie : formes, usages, enjeux
Livre – Le génocide des Arméniens : représentations, traces, mémoires
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives provinciales de l’Alberta – Rendez-vous de la Francophonie
13 mars 2017, Edmonton
Georgette Lamoureux : de l’écriture épistolaire à l’écriture de l’histoire d’Ottawa
22 mars 2017, Ottawa
Webinar – DataCite: Making Research Data Citable and Accessible
March 23, 2017
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Projection spéciale gratuite : le Déclin de l’empire américain
29 mars 2017, Ottawa
National Privacy and Data Governance Congress
April 5-7, 2017, Calgary
Update or Die: Future Proofing Emerging Digital Documentary Forms
May 5, 2017, Montreal
Access 2017
September 27-29, 2017, Saskatoon
Webinar – Digital Imaging 101
March 20, 2017
Webinar – Getting Active in Research Data Alliance
March 21, 2017
Hong Kong Seng Kung Hui Archives Open Day 2017
March 25, 2017, Hong Kong
Webinar – How Does the Past Inform Today? Key Primary Source Collections for Research in Social Movements
March 28, 2017
Webinar – Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits
April 6, 2017
Webinar – First World War Army Ancestors
April 7, 2017
Webcast – From Words to Diagrams: an Automated Visualization of Historical Bookbinding Structures
April 12, 2017
Both Pastoral and Practical: Religious Archives in Contemporary Society
May 22-24, 2017, Torquay (UK)
Advancing Metadata Practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability
October 26-29, 2017, Washigton D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Archives Association of Ontario – Indigenous Resources Page
Video – Microsoft Research: the Science of Managing our Digital Stuff
Video – Digital Scholarship Centers: Partnering on New Forms of Research, Teaching & Learning
Videos – Learning Analytics & Expanded Research Data Services
Videos – Sustainable Management of Collection Environments
Dynamic Approaches: https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/resources/videos/dynamic-approaches
IPI’s Perspectives: https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/resources/videos/ipi-perspectives
UK National Archives Podcast – The Private Lives of the Tudors
Institute of National Remembrance (Poland) – New Version of the Archival Inventory
Slidecast – Capturing the Web Today for Tomorrow: Innovations in Capturing and Analyzing Social Media and Websites for the new Scholarly Record
Slidecast – Data-Driven Museums
Kickstarter – Save Sam’s Shots: Film Archive of Brixton Life since 1960
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Digital Millennium Copyright Act in Action: Court Awards Massive Damages in First Major Anti-Circumvention Copyright Ruling
Canada is now home to some of the toughest anti-piracy rules in the world
Canada Takes Tough Copyright Stance in $13M Nintendo Suit
Is this you? Library and Archives Canada celebrating 15 years of putting names on faces in old photographs
Library and Archives Canada – Foundations: the Words that Shaped Canada
Library and Archives Canada – British Columbia Penitentiary’s Goose Island: help is 20 km away, or 9 to 17 hours as the pigeon flies
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Isabelle Charron
Lester B. Pearson exhibit headed for Manitoulin
New web portal launched to search seven federal libraries with a single click
British Library – Canada through the Lens: Mapping a Collection
It’s the untold story of the images that shaped Canada’s identity and it’s not just for design nerds
British Columbia legislates a duty-to-document
B.C. government’s proposed duty to document law is inadequate, pathetic, critics say
Nova Scotia – Lois Yorke reflects on her time as Provincial Archivist
Prince Edward Island government redacts information from document it’s already made public
Archives Alberta – Launch of the Loan Program
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: George’s 20th Birthday
BAnQ – Le centre d’archives de Rimouski fait la plus grande acquisition de son histoire
BAnQ – Judith Jasmin, 1916-1972 : confidences de ses jeunes années
BAnQ – Le journal L’Union… en ligne depuis 1866
Association des archivistes du Québec – Revue Archives : plus de visibilité
Royal Ontario Museum – Canada 150: Newfoundland and Labrador: Sarah Savarey Hat Box
Every stamp tells a story at McGill University’s McLennan Library
University of Calgary – Researchers build archival record of feminist filmmaking in Canada
University of Alberta – Exploring our Prairie Heritage
University of Victoria – Ideafest: uncovering archives in your own attic
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/islander/ideafest-uncovering-archives-in-your-own-attic-1.10972842
University of Concordia – Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library
Portes ouvertes aux Archives de l’Université d’Ottawa
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Le rêve en couleur de Mgr Levesque
Centre canadien d’architecture – Observatoire de notre monde
Montreal – The Jewish Public Library had humble beginnings
Vancouver – Historic tour of Gastown details roots of Jewish community
Vancouver artists hold edit-a-thon for women’s equality on Wikipedia
City of Burnaby Archives – Eileen Dailly
Archives de la ville de Québec – Les années où l’on marchait sur les eaux…
The first known photo of women playing hockey was taken in Ottawa
Saskatoon librarian takes on male-dominated Wikipedia
Chilliwack Museum and Archives (B.C.) puts call out for historic photos
Prince George (B.C.) – Citizen donates negatives to the Exploration Place
Windsor – New $2.5-Million Optimist Library will Include Automotive Archive
A gripping first-hand account: the memoir of an Inuit veteran of the Korean War is published after waiting decades
Women played all kinds of roles during the First World War
Career Spotlight: what I Do as an Entrepreneurship Librarian: Carey Toane, University of Toronto
Focus On: Céline Gareau-Brennan, MBA/MLIS Candidate, University of Alberta
Faire le tri de ses papiers et souvenirs
Afrique / Africa
Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation Launches African Film Heritage Project to Restore 50+ African Films
Nigeria – Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library commissioning
Accra a century ago: life in Ghana before independence in pictures
Burkina Faso – Archives audiovisuelles : mission capital numérique
South Africa – State contemplates regulating social media
Amériques / Americas
Discovery of Aztec document reveals early history of Christianity in Cortés’ Mesoamerica
Missing 400-year-old Jewish manuscript to return to Mexico
Belize Archives Advisory Board launched
Danish National Archives Observes the Centennial of the Transfer of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
U.S. Government Publishing Office Issues Digital Release of Historical Congressional Record for the 1970s
State Secrets Privilege Invoked to Block Testimony in CIA Torture Case
CIA’s apparent hacking techniques revealed in data breach
Declassification of Indonesia Files in Progress
The National Security Entry Exit Registration System, Past, Present, and Future
NARA Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Alaska Purchase
Found: a Miniature Working Model of the National Archives Vault
Library of Congress – New Web Feature Highlights Veterans Living with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Library of Congress – Women’s History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The FBI Allegedly Asked SoundCloud to Delete a Phone Call Recording
The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Why archivists are scrambling to back up the internet
Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data: if they Can Find it
New Jersey – Genealogy, history will suffer if State Archives moves
University of Arizona – Special Collections Department preserves historic border materials
Scalia family donates late justice’s papers to Harvard Law School Library
Princeton University Manuscripts Division – Einstein in Princeton
University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center – Papers of Actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson Acquired
University of Texas – #digitalarchivesfail: Well, that Didn’t Work
Disability Records Accessibility at the University of Texas at Arlington
University of Pennsylvania – Ancientbiotics team tests medieval treatments for modern ailments
University of Iowa – Uncovering the hidden history of Latinos in Iowa
University of California at Los Angeles – Meet the Archive: Miki Shannon
Getty Research Institute Acquires Important Concrete Poems
The Broken Promises of American Indian Treaties, Sewn onto Quilts
Crowdfunding Campaign for a rare historic photo of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman
Chicago – Found: a Treasure Trove of Candy Wrappers Dating Back to the Depression
Historical Atlases Rescued from the Trash Could be a Boon to Historians
Mozart manuscript fails to sell; $200,000 bid was expected
For one seminary librarian, stating the facts cost him his job
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Planning underway for multi-million-dollar redevelopment and expansion of Broken Hill’s archives
Australia – How to Tweak Copyright Law?
Australia – Reuniting Indigenous sticks with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back
International Women’s Day 2017: Secrets Revealed in Germaine Greer’s Archives
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – On information risks, training, and digital recordkeeping issues
Examples of Te Reo from nineteenth century records held at the Archives New Zealand Auckland Regional Office
100+ Cultural Items Returned to Fiji
Historical records of Genghis Khan’s empire translated into Mongolian
Newly released TV archives depict old Macau
South Korea uproots inappropriate Japanese trees at its archive
A Truth Commission may secure justice for a future North Korea
India – Files of Gandhi Assassination Case Missing
India – Accessing Karnataka State Archives to be a breeze
India – Persian poet’s 700-year-old manuscript, signed by Shah Jahan, at Asiatic Society
India – 111-year-old Madras Sanskrit College goes digital
Europe / Europa
European Commissioners for Freedom of Information Issue Common Resolution in Berlin
Meet the Book Pirates
Russian library digitizes collection of the oldest printed books
The Soviet View: a Major Archive Comes Online
Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer
National Archives of the Netherlands campaign, by Design Bridge
State Library of Denmark – Visualising Netarchive Harvests
Creating access to digital information: Project “Open data and PSI” starts at the Swedish National Archives
Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians
Greece – National Library Re-branded Just in Time for its New Home at SNFCC
Never-before-seen photos of Adolf Hitler found in an album in mistress Eva Braun’s bedroom
Real Schindler’s list expected to make $2.4m in sale
Switzerland – Western Digital’s HGST Archives One of the World’s Largest Collections of Live Jazz Music
Belgique – Attentats du 22 mars: la tristesse de tout un peuple archivée
Christian Dior’s chief archivist explains the significance of the colour navy
Grande collecte autour de la place des femmes dans la société française en novembre 2017
Les archives du Maréchal Pétain, chef de l’État français, sont des archives publiques
La photographie, l’histoire et la contre-histoire : entretien avec François Brunet
Thanks for the Memories: Delve into the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archive
Wales – Cardiff University access to National Library digital archives
Anti-monarchists launch bid for access to Royal Archives
Prince Philip’s librarian and archivist of 65 years, dies aged 84
The UK Government Digital Strategy is out, and it’s rubbish
UK – Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics
UK National Archives – Stateless history: connecting Palestinian archives
UK National Archives – A British spy school in the Middle East?
UK National Archives – Queerly complicit at Holland Park
British Library – Celebrating International Women’s Day Through Photography
British Library – Remembering the Suffragette movement on International Women’s Day
British Library – Music of the Revolution: the Hymn of Free Russia
Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean meet British Library Music Collections
Viceroy’s House Director Gurinder Chadha Donates Archive to British Film Institute
WWI archive shows children’s view of wartime London
Love letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears go on display
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Ancient Syrian City ISIS Is Destroying, Preserved Online
National Library of Israel – This Spectacular Italian Scroll of Esther Celebrates 400 Years
Land of blood and honey: David Rubinger’s Israel in pictures
The politics of erasing history
International
UNESCO – Experts Meeting on the Memory of the World Programme Review held in Berlin
World Intellectual Property Organization Committee On Protection Of Folklore: New Inspiration From Developing Countries
Upgrading Video Digitization Stations
The hidden risks of legacy email archives
My Adventures in Digital History
Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge
Six Stories of Stunning Passports from Countries that no Longer Exist
Google’s new machine learning API recognizes objects in videos
Blockchain: a better way to track pork chops, bonds, bad peanut butter?