Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Audio, Video and Data Recording Media
Nova Scotia’s Culture Action Plan: Creativity and Community
UK National Archives – Droid: User Guide
Library of Congress – Read Collections as Data Report Summary
Library of Congress – On a Collections as Data Imperative
De la communauté / From the community
National, Provincial and Territorial Archivists Conference – Approach to Collaborative Acquisition
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Statement in support of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2017
Europeana 2020 Strategic Update
GLAM conferences with a Code of Conduct
Getty Institute – Museum Catalogues in the Digital Age
South African History Archive – Access to Information Network 2016 Shadow Report
National State Libraries Australasia – Cost of Copyright Compliance Toolkit
Paper – Why we Read Wikipedia
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 244 (2016)
Program, vol. 51, no. 1 (2017)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 82, no. 2 (2016)
Cahiers du CAP, no 4 (numéro spécial : au-delà de l’art et du patrimoine : expériences, passages et engagements)
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
Book – Digital Preservation: Putting it to Work
Book – Tribing and Untribing the Archive
Book – Rudi: Discovering the Weissenstein Archive
Book – Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
Book – Unwarranted: Policing without Permission
Book – Open Source Intelligence Investigation: from Strategy to Implementation
Book – Text and Image in the City: Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
Book – Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands
Book – The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Book – Gamification: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Managing Reference Today: New Models and Best Practices
Book – Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership
Livre – Patrimoine et numérique : technique de la politique de la mémoire
Livre – Bordeaux, les clefs du trésor : 800 ans d’histoire des archives de la ville
Livre – Mémoires indociles et archives du désordre dans les cultes de possession en Afrique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
West Toronto Junction Historical Society – Tales of Toronto Transit
March 2, 2017, Toronto
Nova Scotia Open Data Contest
March 4-5, 2017, Halifax
Capturing the Web Today for Tomorrow: Innovations in Capturing and Analyzing Social Media and Websites for the New Scholarly Record
March 7, 2017, Toronto
Ontario Council of University Libraries Webinar – Digital Preservation in Practice: Preserving Government Information
March 8, 2017
Smart Cities: Imagining the Future National Capital Region
March 13, 2017, Ottawa
Code4Lib North
May 11-12, 2017, Ottawa
Transparency for the 21st Century Conference
March 21-23, 2017, Ottawa
Webinar – An Introduction to Web Archive APIs
March 8, 2017
Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Colonial Archive
March 9-11, Amherst
Webinar – Organise, Retrieve and Aggregate Data Using Annotations with B2NOTE
March 16, 2017
Archives and Records Professionals group at Research Data Alliance Plenary
April 6, 2017, Barcelona (Spain)
Information and Records Management Society Annual Conference
October 21-23, 2017, Glasgow (Scotland)
Catholics in England 1680-1840 Database Launch
October 7, 2017, London (UK)
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2017: the Cultural Value of Collections and the Creative Economy
November 27-29, 2017, Manchester (UK)
RootsTech 2017 (Session Videos Available)
February 8-11, 2017, Salt Lake City
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – 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
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Exposition virtuelle : villages disparus
A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning about Black History in Canada
Code Combat: Learn how to Code by Playing
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
Archives World Map Software
Slidecast – Warcbase: Using Scalable Web Analytics to Analyze Canadian Collections En Masse
Slidecast – Introducing British Library Music Collections
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ineffective laws fuelling Canada’s online piracy problem, U.S. copyright group says
The Copyright Lobby’s International Intellectual Property Alliance Report: Fake News about the State of Canadian Copyright
Unproven Complaints Against Employers could Soon Be Released to the Public
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Vasanthi Pendakur
Gathering dust in Ottawa archives, Lester B. Pearson’s artefacts may see light on Manitoulin
Lost in translation: the Douglas treaties: historic documents changed the lives of First Nations forever on Vancouver Island
Archives Alberta – How to Write a (Basic) Condition Report
Salivating over history: Manitoba Museum curator gives artifacts the old spit shine
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Clean Sheets and a Hot Bat
Québec – Vers une fédération des milieux documentaires et archivistiques ?
Québec – Les données sur la culture, un secret trop bien gardé
BAnQ – Avez-vous un permis?
Ontario Labour Relations Board – Secrecy often chokes off public information from tribunal hearings
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
This is the earliest known Canadian film written by a woman
University of Lethbridge – Digitizing school memories
University of Toronto – Rare Books Library gets exterior makeover
Botany event at University of Toronto shows off Canadian artist’s flower power
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Volleyball practice, March 7th 1973
Ryerson University exhibition tells stories behind two young Indigenous lives lost
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Mgr Louis Lévesque et sa souscription… 60 ans plus tard
Remembering the Avro Arrow: February 20
The Presence of the Past: the Possibilities of Virtual Reality for History
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Remembering Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The fight is on to save Toronto’s endangered languages
Remembering the 1890 Fire at the University of Toronto
Archives de Montréal – Des traces de Montréal au temps de la Nouvelle-France
Montreal – Collapsed Mile-End building once targeted by anti-communist Padlock Law
Le musée McCord affiche des visages d’ici
From the archives: Montreal’s 15th city hall has a fiery past
Pioneer Fred Herzog’s delicious colour street photographs of 1950s & ’60s Vancouver
Eleanor Collins: Vancouver’s First Lady of Jazz
Old vinyl albums returned to a Winnipeg library 32 years after being checked out
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
Centre d’archives de la région de Thetford – Acquisition du fonds Ludger Camiré
Rien de mystérieux dans les archives secrètes de l’évêché de Chicoutimi
New Whitby (Ontario) archives exhibit explores historic Canada Day celebrations
Bathurst (New Brunswick) gardeners dig into seed library
Sandy Cove women’s march immortalized in Nova Scotia Museum collection
Centre de généalogie francophone de Windsor-Essex – La généalogie n’a pas de secrets pour Agathe Vaillancourt
Author seeks family of fallen Canadian gunner
Halifax man traces roots to the Black Loyalists of Digby
L’architecte Gaston Martin met ses plans bien à l’abri à BAnQ
La gestion électronique des documents : une décision stratégique
Meet Pixie Cram, the 2017 Diefenbunker Museum artist-in-residence
Afrique / Africa
International Council on Archives – Expert Group on Archival Buildings and Environments 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
Burkina Faso – Mme Kambou née Kabou Kadio, médecin de l’information
Cameroun – Zones anglophones : la société civile se prononce sur l’accès à l’information
South African History Archive – 100 Years since the sinking of the SS Mendi
Amériques / Americas
Making Jamaica: Incredible photography of the Caribbean island in the 1890s
Argentinian Copyright Office Proposes to Add Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright Act
Exploring Digital Preservation, Digital Curation, and Digital Collections in Mexico
Donald Trump’s White House staff communicate through app which automatically deletes messages
US libraries join struggle to resist the Donald Trump administration
The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility
Library of Congress – World War I: Online Offerings
Library of Congress – Assembling the Whole: an Interview with Librarian/Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf
Barack Obama’s presidential library may need $1.5 billion
NARA – Fractured Ideals: Japanese American Internment through a Government Lens
NARA – You Too Can Sleep with the Constitution: Literally
Incredible US Museum of Natural History Secret Collections Backstage
U.S. Court Ruling Sparks Debate Over Access to Laws in the Digital Space
Dans le camp 1142, des nazis livrent leurs secrets aux Américains
Association of Research Libraries – Files Amicus Brief in Capitol Records v. ReDigi
Protect from Potential Grizzlies: how Local, State and Federal Concealed Carry Rules Apply to Libraries, Archives, and Museums
How State Archivists are Taking on Avalanches of Email Data
Internment camp artifacts from Arkansas going online
History and mystery of Vermont governors’ records
State Archives Launches California Legislative Black Caucus Exhibit
An Attempt to Save South Carolina’s Historical Documents Is Destroying them
Toyota donates $750,000 to Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Bill Cunningham’s memorabilia will join the New-York Historical Society’s permanent collection
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
University of California Librarian Helps Guide Efforts to Preserve Digitized Buddhist Art in China’s Mogao Caves
University of Iowa’s Special Collections embeds its archives in the digital space
University of Pennsylvania Archives Suggest Donald Trump Did Not Graduate Top of his Class
Villanova University – Families torn apart by slavery sought lost loved ones in newly archived ads
It’s about time: New York University launches US first time-based media conservation graduate course
Rare Recordings of Burroughs, Bukowski, Ginsberg & More Now Available in a Digital Archive Created by the Maryland Institute College of Art
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
David Geffen, Samuel Goldwyn and the Search for the “Holy Grail” of Missing Movies
Pro Football Hall of Fame archivist ready to share his discoveries
These books were beloved. But what happens after their owner dies?
Galley Proofs for Martin Luther King’s Last Book to be Auctioned
Publishers hire sensitivity readers to screen manuscripts for offensive content
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Archives and Records New South Wales (Australia) – Social media enquiries on Workplace by Facebook, Twitter feeds and archiving
China – Archives of Confucius’ direct descendants to be published
India – Scholars gain knowledge on preservation of manuscripts
India – Repository of Indian medicines just a click away
India – Digital archive of documents of Tamil agrarian history set up
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
Accessing Hitler’s archives: 100 million records stayed sealed away in Germany for decades
Mushroom cloud sighting in declassified US documents suggests the Nazis successfully tested a nuke
Germany – The lives of others: inside the Stasi Museum in pictures
German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears
One of the world’s rarest films just showed up on YouTube
Archives fédérales suisses – En ligne : le droit fédéral suisse dès 1948
France – Institut national de l’audiovisuel : 80 ans d’archives de la télévision
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
Inside Dior’s Unseen Archive with Maria Grazia Chiuri
National University of Ireland – Prospecting for gold: my year with John McGahern archives
Ireland – New online archive gives public access to Dublin’s visual history
UK – The absurd consequences of a Right to Privacy
UK National Archives – X-rays and wallpapers: the hunt for arsenic
UK National Archives – Merchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World War
UK National Archives – The sinking of SS Mendi: an avoidable tragedy
UK National Archives – Curzon’s curios
Architecture Competition: the National Archives, Kew
British Library – Kammavaca: Burmese Buddhist ordination manuscripts
British Library – Maps and women
School Book that Belonged to 17th Century Teacher in Southwark Donated to British Library
This is the oldest known piece of keyboard music
Royal visit for the Black Cultural Archives
An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photographs
Historic Dunkirk Evacuation footage found by University of Manchester Library
University of Manchester – Donation from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation of a collection of novels, translated into a variety of languages
University of Stirling – Crowdfunding cultural heritage digitisation: the Peter Mackay archive project
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations – In Praise of Archives
Legal records at risk: the Bar is in danger of losing its distinct legal heritage
Archives Hub: a Window on UK Archives
Mick Jagger forgot he wrote a 75,000-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
Forbidden love: the WW2 letters between two men
Katkin Tremayne: dad would climb over people to get his picture
How I Started, Part 2: my Path to Becoming a New Professional
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey, Algeria to team up for Ottoman archives
Israel – Historian Yaffa Eliach’s Archives Donated to Yad Vashem
Liban – L’adoption de la loi sur le droit d’accès à l’information, un début prometteur
International
Why digital preservation is or isn’t business as usual
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?
Anarchic Archives
Remove Staples Like an Archivist
The Importance of Whisky Archives
Qu’est-ce qu’un document d’archives ?
Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid
Archive Now (archivenow): a Python Library to Integrate On-Demand Archives
An Elegy for the Library
Infographic – Fair Use Myths & Facts
How to Navigate a Museum
The dubious art of decorating with books