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Documentary Heritage News
February 24, 2017May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 26

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Audio, Video and Data Recording Media
http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1473881202082

Nova Scotia’s Culture Action Plan: Creativity and Community
http://novascotia.ca/culture/Culture-Action-Plan–English.pdf

UK National Archives – Droid: User Guide
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/droid-user-guide.pdf

Library of Congress – Read Collections as Data Report Summary
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/02/read-collections-as-data-report-summary/

Library of Congress – On a Collections as Data Imperative
http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2017/02/23/resource-on-a-collections-as-data-imperative/

De la communauté / From the community
National, Provincial and Territorial Archivists Conference – Approach to Collaborative Acquisition
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/publications/Documents/vision-statement.pdf

Canadian Association of Research Libraries Statement in support of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2017
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017_CARL_Fair_Dealing_Week_statement_EN.pdf

Europeana 2020 Strategic Update
http://strategy2020.europeana.eu/update/

GLAM conferences with a Code of Conduct 
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1kmhNH7KfqKLqct0cpqgUT-AUSe5WnK51zGB7TH_pAa8/edit

Getty Institute – Museum Catalogues in the Digital Age
http://www.getty.edu/publications/osci-report/

South African History Archive – Access to Information Network 2016 Shadow Report
http://www.saha.org.za/news/2017/February/the_access_to_information_network_releases_2016_shadow_report.htm

National State Libraries Australasia – Cost of Copyright Compliance Toolkit
http://www.nsla.org.au/publication/cost-copyright-compliance-toolkit

Paper – Why we Read Wikipedia
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05379.pdf

Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 244 (2016)
http://www.archivistes.org/Les-mutations-du-metier-d-archiviste-et-de-son-environnement

Program, vol. 51, no. 1 (2017)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/prog/51/1

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 82, no. 2 (2016) 
http://sajlis.journals.ac.za/pub/issue/view/130

Cahiers du CAP, no 4 (numéro spécial : au-delà de l’art et du patrimoine : expériences, passages et engagements)
http://www.publications-sorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100176210

Association des archivistes français – Fiche archives municipales / archives électroniques : recenser et évaluer la production numérique
http://www.archivistes.org/Mise-en-ligne-d-une-nouvelle-fiche-AMAE-Recenser-et-evaluer-la-production

Mémoire d’étude – Les archives des écrivains, leur place en bibliothèque
http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/documents/67311-les-archives-des-ecrivains-leur-place-en-bibliotheque.pdf

Book – Digital Preservation: Putting it to Work
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319518008 

Book – Tribing and Untribing the Archive
Volume 1: http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=497
Volume 2: http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=498

Book – Rudi: Discovering the Weissenstein Archive
http://www.kehrerverlag.com/de/rudi-discovering-the-weissenstein-archive-978-3-86828-745-5

Book – Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520288904 

Book – Unwarranted: Policing without Permission
http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374280451

Book – Open Source Intelligence Investigation: from Strategy to Implementation
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319476704 

Book – Text and Image in the City: Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/text-and-image-in-the-city 

Book – Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137596949 

Book – The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-japanese-and-the-war/9780231177023 

Book – Gamification: a Practical Guide for Librarians
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442279131

Book – Managing Reference Today: New Models and Best Practices 
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810892217/

Book – Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780081006375    

Livre – Patrimoine et numérique : technique de la politique de la mémoire
http://www.inatheque.fr/publications-evenements/publications-2017/patrimoine-et-num-rique.html

Livre – Bordeaux, les clefs du trésor : 800 ans d’histoire des archives de la ville
http://www.lefestin.net/bordeaux-les-clefs-du-tresor-800-ans-dhistoire-des-archives-de-la-ville

Livre – Mémoires indociles et archives du désordre dans les cultes de possession en Afrique
http://www.paulusedition.ch/academic_press/product.php?id_product=1587

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
West Toronto Junction Historical Society – Tales of Toronto Transit
March 2, 2017, Toronto
http://wtjhs.ca/2017/02/17/our-next-meeting-thursday-march-2-2017/

Nova Scotia Open Data Contest
March 4-5, 2017, Halifax
http://blogs.dal.ca/sim/2017/02/22/register-today-for-the-ns-open-data-contest/

Capturing the Web Today for Tomorrow: Innovations in Capturing and Analyzing Social Media and Websites for the New Scholarly Record
March 7, 2017, Toronto
http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/research-learn/digitalspeakerseries/

Ontario Council of University Libraries Webinar – Digital Preservation in Practice: Preserving Government Information
March 8, 2017
http://ocul.on.ca/node/6448

Smart Cities: Imagining the Future National Capital Region
March 13, 2017, Ottawa
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/Smart-cities-conference.aspx

Code4Lib North
May 11-12, 2017, Ottawa
http://wiki.code4lib.org/North#Code4Lib_North:_the_Eighth._University_of_Ottawa_May_11-12.2C_2017

Transparency for the 21st Century Conference 
March 21-23, 2017, Ottawa
http://librarianship.ca/news/transparency-conference/

Webinar – An Introduction to Web Archive APIs
March 8, 2017
http://webarchivingrt.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/webinar-an-introduction-to-web-archive-apis/

Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Colonial Archive
March 9-11, Amherst 
https://www.newberry.org/03092017-indigenous-languages-and-literatures-colonial-archive

Webinar – Organise, Retrieve and Aggregate Data Using Annotations with B2NOTE
March 16, 2017
http://www.eudat.eu/events/webinar/eudat-webinar-organise-retrieve-and-aggregate-data-using-annotations-with-b2note

Archives and Records Professionals group at Research Data Alliance Plenary
April 6, 2017, Barcelona (Spain)
http://www.rd-alliance.org/group/archives-and-records-professionals-research-data-ig/post/archives-and-records-professionals-2

Information and Records Management Society Annual Conference
October 21-23, 2017, Glasgow (Scotland)
http://www.irms.org.uk/news/entry/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-become-an-agent

Catholics in England 1680-1840 Database Launch
October 7, 2017, London (UK)
http://catholicarchivesociety.org/2017/02/20/catholics-in-england-1680-1840-database-launch/

Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2017: the Cultural Value of Collections and the Creative Economy
November 27-29, 2017, Manchester (UK)
http://networks.h-net.org/node/7842/discussions/167885/discovering-collections-discovering-communities-2017-cultural

RootsTech 2017 (Session Videos Available)
February 8-11, 2017, Salt Lake City
http://www.geneabloggers.com/rootstech-2017-session-videos-now-available/

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – William Topley: Exposure on Ottawa
https://thediscoverblog.com/2017/02/23/library-and-archives-canada-releases-its-latest-podcast-episode-william-topley-exposure-on-ottawa/

Videos – Jenna Smith from Library and Archives Canada on Macroappraisal
Part 1: Macroappraisal Background and Theory: https://video.kent.edu/media/Jenna+Smith_Part+1/1_27hgk4jc
Part 2: Macroappraisal in Practice 1990-2014: https://video.kent.edu/media/Part+2/1_4ekweqwb
Part 3: Macroappraisal Today: https://video.kent.edu/media/Part+3/1_aft6uyh3
Questions for Jenna: https://video.kent.edu/media/Questions+for+Jenna/1_wggewqka
Nova Scotia Archives – Transcribe
http://archives.novascotia.ca/transcribe

Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Exposition virtuelle : villages disparus 
http://www.uhearst.ca/archives/index.php/villages-disparus/

A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning about Black History in Canada
http://www.unwrittenhistories.com/a-guide-to-online-resources-for-teaching-and-learning-about-black-history-in-canada/

Code Combat: Learn how to Code by Playing
http://codecombat.com/play

UK National Archives Podcasts – Talk from the National LGBT History Festival
E-J Scott on Collecting for the Museum of Transology: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/outing-the-past-museum-of-transology.mp3
Emma Vickers on Trans Veterans of the British Armed Forces: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/outing-the-past-transveterans.mp3
Hilary McCollum on Sapphic Suffragettes: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/outing-the-past-sapphic-suffragettes.mp3

Baladodiffusion – Rien à voir : genèse d’archives militantes
http://www.alternantesfm.net/magazine-redaction/rien-a-voir-genese-darchives-militantes/

Archives World Map Software
http://github.com/rsandrade/archives-worldmap/

Slidecast – Warcbase: Using Scalable Web Analytics to Analyze Canadian Collections En Masse
http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v9JJAo-h2xbCxm_7ZgBhZ0vzbbcLeA7TJHLMqBwOwTM/

Slidecast – Introducing British Library Music Collections
http://blogs.bl.uk/music/2017/02/introducing-british-library-music-collections.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Ineffective laws fuelling Canada’s online piracy problem, U.S. copyright group says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/copyright-online-piracy-canada-laws-infringement-rights-1.3986968

The Copyright Lobby’s International Intellectual Property Alliance Report: Fake News about the State of Canadian Copyright
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/02/the-copyright-lobbys-iipa-report-fake-news-about-the-state-of-canadian-copyright/

Unproven Complaints Against Employers could Soon Be Released to the Public
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/569834/employee+rights+labour+relations/Unproven+Complaints+Against+Employers+Could+Soon+be+Released+to+the+Public

Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Vasanthi Pendakur
https://thediscoverblog.com/2017/02/23/guest-curator-vasanthi-pendakur/

Gathering dust in Ottawa archives, Lester B. Pearson’s artefacts may see light on Manitoulin
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/pearson-archives-headed-manitoulin-1.3994419

Lost in translation: the Douglas treaties: historic documents changed the lives of First Nations forever on Vancouver Island
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/islander/lost-in-translation-the-douglas-treaties-1.10099656

Archives Alberta – How to Write a (Basic) Condition Report
http://archivesalberta.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/how-to-write-a-basic-condition-report/

Salivating over history: Manitoba Museum curator gives artifacts the old spit shine
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-museum-conservation-painting-saliva-cleaning-1.3972220

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Clean Sheets and a Hot Bat
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/#feb20

Québec – Vers une fédération des milieux documentaires et archivistiques ?
http://asted.org/vers-une-federation-des-milieux-documentaires-et-archivistiques/

Québec – Les données sur la culture, un secret trop bien gardé
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/492329/de-la-difficulte-de-colliger-et-faire-parler-les-donnees-statistiques-en-culture

BAnQ – Avez-vous un permis?
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/02/22/avez-vous-un-permis/

Ontario Labour Relations Board – Secrecy often chokes off public information from tribunal hearings
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/17/secrecy-often-chokes-off-public-information-from-tribunal-hearings.html

On 6 February the International Council on Archives Secretariat team was delighted to welcome Jessica Squires (senior policy advisor at LAC) as the new Programme Officer
http://www.ica.org/en/on-6-february-the-ica-secretariat-team-was-delighted-to-welcome-jessica-squires-as-the-new-programme

This is the earliest known Canadian film written by a woman
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-is-the-earliest-known-canadian-film-written-by-a-woman-1.3992245

University of Lethbridge – Digitizing school memories
http://passherald.ca/archives/170222/index3.htm

University of Toronto – Rare Books Library gets exterior makeover
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/02/17/rare-books-library-gets-exterior-makeover.html

Botany event at University of Toronto shows off Canadian artist’s flower power
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-wildflower-exhibit-agnes-fitzgibbon-rare-books-library-1.3993546

University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Volleyball practice, March 7th 1973
http://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/blog/post/volleyball-practice-march-7th-1973

Ryerson University exhibition tells stories behind two young Indigenous lives lost
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ryerson-exhibition-tells-stories-behind-two-young-indigenous-lives-lost-1.3990033

Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Mgr Louis Lévesque et sa souscription… 60 ans plus tard
http://www.uhearst.ca/archives/index.php/2017/02/21/mgr-louis-levesque-et-sa-souscription-60-ans-plus-tard/

Remembering the Avro Arrow: February 20
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2017/02/remembering-the-avro-arrow-february-20-snapshots-in-history.html

The Presence of the Past: the Possibilities of Virtual Reality for History
http://activehistory.ca/2017/02/the-presence-of-the-past-the-possibilities-of-virtual-reality-for-history/

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Remembering Sir Wilfrid Laurier
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2017/02/remembering-sir-wilfrid-laurier.html

The fight is on to save Toronto’s endangered languages 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/endangered-language-alliance-toronto-1.3992314

Remembering the 1890 Fire at the University of Toronto
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2017/02/remembering-the-1890-fire-at-the-university-of-toronto-february-14-snapshots-in-history.html

Archives de Montréal – Des traces de Montréal au temps de la Nouvelle-France
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2017/02/22/des-traces-de-montreal-au-temps-de-la-nouvelle-france/

Montreal – Collapsed Mile-End building once targeted by anti-communist Padlock Law
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/collapsed-mile-end-building-once-targeted-by-anti-communist-padlock-law-1.3990671

Le musée McCord affiche des visages d’ici
http://www.infopresse.com/article/2017/2/16/le-musee-mccord-affiche-des-visages-d-ici

From the archives: Montreal’s 15th city hall has a fiery past
http://montrealgazette.com/sponsored/mtl-375th/from-the-archives-montreals-15th-city-hall-has-a-fiery-past

Pioneer Fred Herzog’s delicious colour street photographs of 1950s & ’60s Vancouver
http://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/pioneer-fred-herzogs-delicious-colour-street-photographs-of-1950s-60s-vancouver/

Eleanor Collins: Vancouver’s First Lady of Jazz
http://vanalogue.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/eleanor-collins-vancouvers-first-lady-of-jazz/

Old vinyl albums returned to a Winnipeg library 32 years after being checked out
http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/old-vinyl-albums-returned-to-a-winnipeg-library-32-years-after-being-checked-out-1.3289457

Prince George (B.C.) newspapers citizen archive project receives award
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local-news/citizen-archive-project-receives-award-1.10150573

Hinton (Alberta) – Mayor, council weigh in on possible archives closure
http://www.hintonparklander.com/2017/02/21/mayor-council-weigh-in-on-possible-archives-closure

Centre d’archives de la région de Thetford – Acquisition du fonds Ludger Camiré 
http://www.o973.com/actualites/chaudiere-appalaches/2017-02-16/39934/acquisition-du-fonds-ludger-camire

Rien de mystérieux dans les archives secrètes de l’évêché de Chicoutimi
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1018465/archives-secretes-eveche-chicoutimi-abbe-harvey

New Whitby (Ontario) archives exhibit explores historic Canada Day celebrations
http://www.durhamregion.com/opinion-story/7144218-new-whitby-archives-exhibit-explores-historic-canada-day-celebrations/

Bathurst (New Brunswick) gardeners dig into seed library
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bathurst-seed-library-1.3994106

Sandy Cove women’s march immortalized in Nova Scotia Museum collection
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sandy-dove-womens-march-signs-ns-museum-1.3985483

Centre de généalogie francophone de Windsor-Essex – La généalogie n’a pas de secrets pour Agathe Vaillancourt
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1013450/genealogie-passion-agathe-vaillancourt-windsor

Author seeks family of fallen Canadian gunner
http://thestarphoenix.com/life/bridges/author-seeks-family-of-fallen-canadian-gunner

Halifax man traces roots to the Black Loyalists of Digby
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/black-loyalists-barton-african-nova-scotians-history-1.3986843

L’architecte Gaston Martin met ses plans bien à l’abri à BAnQ
http://www.lavantage.qc.ca/actualites/societe/2017/2/17/l-architecte-gaston-martin-met-ses-plans-bien-a-l-abri.html

La gestion électronique des documents : une décision stratégique
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/strategie_ged/

Meet Pixie Cram, the 2017 Diefenbunker Museum artist-in-residence
http://apt613.ca/pixie-cram/

Afrique / Africa
International Council on Archives – Expert Group on Archival Buildings and Environments undertakes a survey on Archival Buildings in Africa
http://www.ica.org/en/egabe-undertakes-a-survey-on-archival-buildings-in-africa

Politique nationale des archives : cinq jours de réflexion pour produire un document de référence au Burkina Faso
http://www.aib.bf/m-8711-politique-nationale-des-archives-cinq-jours-de-reflexion-pour-produire-un-document-de-reference-au-burkina.html

Burkina Faso – Mme Kambou née Kabou Kadio, médecin de l’information
http://lefaso.net/spip.php?article75481

Cameroun – Zones anglophones : la société civile se prononce sur l’accès à l’information
http://www.camerpost.com/cameroun-zones-anglophones-societe-civile-se-prononce-lacces-a-linformation/

South African History Archive – 100 Years since the sinking of the SS Mendi
http://www.saha.org.za/news/2017/February/100_years_since_the_sinking_of_the_ss_mendi.htm

Amériques / Americas
Making Jamaica: Incredible photography of the Caribbean island in the 1890s
http://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/making-jamaica-photography-from-the-1890s-exhibited-at-autograph-abp/

Argentinian Copyright Office Proposes to Add Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright Act
http://www.ip-watch.org/2017/02/17/argentinian-copyright-office-proposes-add-exceptions-limitations-copyright-act/

Exploring Digital Preservation, Digital Curation, and Digital Collections in Mexico
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/exploring-digital-preservation-digital-curation-and-digital-collections-in-mexico/

Donald Trump’s White House staff communicate through app which automatically deletes messages
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-white-house-staff-confide-communicate-app-auto-delete-messages-leaks-russia-us-a7581046.html

US libraries join struggle to resist the Donald Trump administration
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/21/us-libraries-join-struggle-to-resist-the-trump-administration

The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/the-librarian-of-congress-and-the-greatness-of-humility

Library of Congress – World War I: Online Offerings
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/02/world-war-i-online-offerings/

Library of Congress – Assembling the Whole: an Interview with Librarian/Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/02/assembling-the-whole-an-interview-with-librarianartist-oliver-baez-bendorf/

Barack Obama’s presidential library may need $1.5 billion
http://pagesix.com/2017/02/19/barack-obamas-presidential-library-may-need-1-5-billion/

NARA – Fractured Ideals: Japanese American Internment through a Government Lens
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/02/16/fractured-ideals-japanese-american-internment-through-a-government-lens/

NARA – You Too Can Sleep with the Constitution: Literally
http://geekdad.com/2017/02/sleep-with-the-constitution/

Incredible US Museum of Natural History Secret Collections Backstage
http://www.fubiz.net/en/2017/02/17/incredible-us-museum-of-natural-history-secret-collections-backstage/

U.S. Court Ruling Sparks Debate Over Access to Laws in the Digital Space
http://www.govtech.com/civic/US-Court-Ruling-Sparks-Debate-Over-Laws-in-the-Digital-Space.html

Dans le camp 1142, des nazis livrent leurs secrets aux Américains
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/seconde-guerre-mondiale-dans-le-camp-1142-des-nazis-livrent-leurs-secrets-aux-americains

Association of Research Libraries – Files Amicus Brief in Capitol Records v. ReDigi
http://policynotes.arl.org/?p=1484

Protect from Potential Grizzlies: how Local, State and Federal Concealed Carry Rules Apply to Libraries, Archives, and Museums
http://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/research-post-protect-from-potential-grizzlies-how-local-state-and-federal-concealed-carry-rules-apply-to-lams/

How State Archivists are Taking on Avalanches of Email Data
http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2017/02/how-state-archivists-are-taking-avalanches-email-data

Internment camp artifacts from Arkansas going online
http://www.thv11.com/news/local/ark-internment-camp-artifacts-going-online/408817970

History and mystery of Vermont governors’ records
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/02/19/history-mystery-vermont-governors-records/98097968/

State Archives Launches California Legislative Black Caucus Exhibit
http://scvnews.com/2017/02/22/state-archives-launches-california-legislative-black-caucus-exhibit/

An Attempt to Save South Carolina’s Historical Documents Is Destroying them
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/515410087/an-attempt-to-save-south-carolinas-historical-documents-is-destroying-them

Toyota donates $750,000 to Mississippi Department of Archives and History
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/34527873/toyota-donates-750000-to-mississippi-department-of-archives-and-history

Bill Cunningham’s memorabilia will join the New-York Historical Society’s permanent collection
http://ny.curbed.com/2017/2/19/14662736/bill-cunningham-exhibit-new-york-historical-society-collection

Mind-boggling trove of historic papers in Maryland reveals the tortuous paths out of slavery
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/mind-boggling-trove-of-historic-papers-in-maryland-reveals-the-tortuous-paths-out-of-slavery

Insight into Audiovisual Appraisal: Paul Eisloeffel Interview, Nebraska State Historical Society
http://appraisalsaa.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/insight-into-audiovisual-appraisal-paul-eisloeffel-interview/

University of California Librarian Helps Guide Efforts to Preserve Digitized Buddhist Art in China’s Mogao Caves
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/blogs/blog/mogao-caves/

University of Iowa’s Special Collections embeds its archives in the digital space
http://btn.com/2017/02/19/iowas-special-collections-embeds-its-archives-in-the-digital-space-btn-livebig/amp/

University of Pennsylvania Archives Suggest Donald Trump Did Not Graduate Top of his Class
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-wharton-archive-not-top-of-class

Villanova University – Families torn apart by slavery sought lost loved ones in newly archived ads
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/New-project-highlights-newspaper-ads-placed-to-find-relatives-lost-during-slavery.html

It’s about time: New York University launches US first time-based media conservation graduate course
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/it-s-about-time-nyu-s-time-based-media-conservation-course-set-to-be-/

Rare Recordings of Burroughs, Bukowski, Ginsberg & More Now Available in a Digital Archive Created by the Maryland Institute College of Art 
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/rare-recordings-from-digital-archive-created-by-the-maryland-institute-college-of-art.html

Texas graduate student discovers a Walt Whitman novel lost for more than 150 years
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/texas-graduate-student-discovers-a-walt-whitman-novel-lost-for-more-than-150-years

San Francisco Has a Disco Preservation Society and it’s Protecting the City’s Dancing History
http://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/san-francisco-disco-dj-recordings
David Geffen, Samuel Goldwyn and the Search for the “Holy Grail” of Missing Movies
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/david-geffen-samuel-goldwyn-search-holy-grail-missing-movies-977567

Pro Football Hall of Fame archivist ready to share his discoveries
http://www.cantonrep.com/opinion/20170219/rich-desrosiers-hall-of-fame-archivist-ready-to-share-his-discoveries

These books were beloved. But what happens after their owner dies?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/16/leaves-anguish-one-family-quest-shows-challenges-finding-new-homes-for-old-books/AMzDRAwIiqDoDr01vG6CaP/story.html

Galley Proofs for Martin Luther King’s Last Book to be Auctioned
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/02/galley-proofs-for-martin-luther-kings-last-book-to-be-auctioned.phtml

Publishers hire sensitivity readers to screen manuscripts for offensive content
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/17/publishers-hire-sensitivity-readers-to-screen-manu/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Archives and Records New South Wales (Australia) – Social media enquiries on Workplace by Facebook, Twitter feeds and archiving
http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/social-media-enquiries/

11,000 images on New Zealand Birds Online 
http://linkis.com/blog.tepapa.govt.nz/NuJsU

China – Archives of Confucius’ direct descendants to be published
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Archives-of-Confucius%E2%80%99s-direct-descendants-to-be-published/article17329066.ece

India – Scholars gain knowledge on preservation of manuscripts
http://www.india.com/news/agencies/scholars-gain-knowledge-on-preservation-of-manuscripts-1847695/

India – Repository of Indian medicines just a click away
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/repository-of-indian-medicines-just-a-click-away/articleshow/57239539.cms

India – Digital archive of documents of Tamil agrarian history set up
http://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/digital-archive-of-documents-oftamil-agrarian-history-set-up/993139

Europe / Europa
European Space Agency Affirms Open Access Policy for Images, Videos and Data
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Digital_Agenda/ESA_affirms_Open_Access_policy_for_images_videos_and_data

Accéder aux archives des monastères et évêchés d’Europe centrale
http://www.vacances-scientifiques.com/Acceder-aux-archives-des-monasteres-et-eveches-d-Europe-centrale.html

Accessing Hitler’s archives: 100 million records stayed sealed away in Germany for decades
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Accessing-Hitlers-archives-482454

Mushroom cloud sighting in declassified US documents suggests the Nazis successfully tested a nuke
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4252164/Files-suggest-Nazis-tested-NUCLEAR-BOMB-WW2-ended.html

Germany – The lives of others: inside the Stasi Museum in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/feb/22/inside-stasi-museum-in-pictures

German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39002142

One of the world’s rarest films just showed up on YouTube
http://www.avclub.com/article/one-worlds-rarest-films-just-showed-youtube-250558

Archives fédérales suisses – En ligne : le droit fédéral suisse dès 1948
https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/fr/home/portrait/communiques-de-presse.msg-id-65759.html

France – Institut national de l’audiovisuel : 80 ans d’archives de la télévision
http://mobile.francetvinfo.fr/economie/entreprises/ina/ina-80-ans-d-archives-de-la-television_2064183.html

Rapport de la Cour des comptes au Sénat sur les Archives nationales : l’Association des archivistes français réagit
http://www.archivistes.org/Rapport-de-la-Cour-des-comptes-au-Senat-sur-les-Archives-nationales-l-AAF

Paris – Les hommages aux victimes des attentats du 13-Novembre mis en ligne
http://www.europe1.fr/societe/les-hommages-aux-victimes-des-attentats-du-13-novembre-mis-en-ligne-2983451

Inside Dior’s Unseen Archive with Maria Grazia Chiuri
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/bof-exclusive/marking-70-years-of-dior-with-a-new-strategic-archive

National University of Ireland – Prospecting for gold: my year with John McGahern archives
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/prospecting-for-gold-my-year-with-john-mcgahern-1.2979276

Ireland – New online archive gives public access to Dublin’s visual history
http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-city-council-archives-3252224-Feb2017/

UK – The absurd consequences of a Right to Privacy
http://sonorannews.com/new/2017/02/17/absurd-consequences-right-privacy/

UK National Archives – X-rays and wallpapers: the hunt for arsenic 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/x-rays-wallpapers-hunt-arsenic/

UK National Archives – Merchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World War 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/merchant-navy-shipwrecks-first-world-war/

UK National Archives – The sinking of SS Mendi: an avoidable tragedy 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/sinking-ss-mendi-avoidable-tragedy/

UK National Archives – Curzon’s curios 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/curzons-curios/

Architecture Competition: the National Archives, Kew
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions/competition-the-national-archives-kew/10017396.article

British Library – Kammavaca: Burmese Buddhist ordination manuscripts
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/02/kammavaca-burmese-buddhist-ordination-manuscripts.html

British Library – Maps and women
http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/02/maps-and-women.html

School Book that Belonged to 17th Century Teacher in Southwark Donated to British Library
http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/southwark-teachers-seventeenth-century-schoolbook-finds-new-home-library/

This is the oldest known piece of keyboard music
http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/robertsbridge-codex/

Royal visit for the Black Cultural Archives
http://www.brixtonblog.com/royal-visit-for-the-black-cultural-archives/42985

An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photographs
http://hyperallergic.com/358461/william-henry-fox-talbot-online-catalogue-launched/

Historic Dunkirk Evacuation footage found by University of Manchester Library
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/name-380832-en.htm

University of Manchester – Donation from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation of a collection of novels, translated into a variety of languages
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/name-533410-en.htm

University of Stirling – Crowdfunding cultural heritage digitisation: the Peter Mackay archive project
http://www.townswebarchiving.com/2017/02/crowdfunding-cultural-heritage-digitisation-peter-mackay-archive/

Tavistock Institute of Human Relations – In Praise of Archives
http://tihr-archive.tavinstitute.org/in-praise-of-archives/

Legal records at risk: the Bar is in danger of losing its distinct legal heritage
http://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/legal-records-risk

Archives Hub: a Window on UK Archives
http://yerusha.eu/new-projects/archiveshub/

Mick Jagger forgot he wrote a 75,000-word memoir revealing he once bought an estate high on LSD
http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/mick-jagger-forgot-he-wrote-a-75000-word-memoir-revealing-he-once-bought-an-estate-high-on-lsd

Rare propaganda images show British WWI prisoners of war being treated well in German camps
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4223106/British-WWI-prisoners-war-treated-German-camps.html

Forbidden love: the WW2 letters between two men
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38932955

Katkin Tremayne: dad would climb over people to get his picture
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/feb/18/roger-mayne-photographer-exhibition-katkin-tremayne-daughter-interview

How I Started, Part 2: my Path to Becoming a New Professional
http://learningaboutarchives.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/how-i-started-part-2-my-path-to-becoming-a-new-professional/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey, Algeria to team up for Ottoman archives
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/02/20/turkey-algeria-to-team-up-for-ottoman-archives

Israel – Historian Yaffa Eliach’s Archives Donated to Yad Vashem
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Historian-Yaffa-Eliachs-archives-donated-to-Yad-Vashem-482113

Liban – L’adoption de la loi sur le droit d’accès à l’information, un début prometteur
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1035838/ladoption-de-la-loi-sur-le-droit-dacces-a-linformation-un-debut-prometteur.html

International
Why digital preservation is or isn’t business as usual
http://dpconline.org/blog/why-digital-preservation-is-or-isn-t-business-as-usual

Why you Should Donate your Data (as Well as your Organs) when you Die
http://observer.com/2017/02/why-you-should-donate-your-data-as-well-as-your-organs-when-you-die/

What Can you Do with the World’s Largest Family Tree?
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/family-tree-genealogy-research/516819/

Anarchic Archives
http://idnaproject.org/2017/02/22/anarchic-archives/

Remove Staples Like an Archivist
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2017/02/remove-staples-like-archivist.html

The Importance of Whisky Archives
http://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/from-the-editors/12886/the-importance-of-whisky-archives/

Qu’est-ce qu’un document d’archives ?
http://transarchivistique.fr/quest-ce-quun-document-darchives/

Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid
http://collation.folger.edu/2017/02/manuscripts-in-libraries/

Archive Now (archivenow): a Python Library to Integrate On-Demand Archives 
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2017/02/2017-02-22-archive-now-archivenow.html

An Elegy for the Library
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/sunday/an-elegy-for-the-library.html

Infographic – Fair Use Myths & Facts
http://fairuseweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fair-use-myths-and-facts-infographic-feb2017.pdf

How to Navigate a Museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/travel/how-to-navigate-a-museum.html

The dubious art of decorating with books
http://www.startribune.com/the-dubious-art-of-decorating-with-books/414011383/

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