Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Prince Edward Island – Recorded Information Management Strategy and Three Year Plan
Presidential Memorandum – Designation of Officers of the National Archives and Records Administration to Act as Archivist of the United States
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Émigrants et rémigrants luxembourgeois de 1876 à 1900
De la communauté / From the community
InterPARES Trust – The Impacts of Digitised Te Reo Archival Collections
Article – Folksonomies in Archives: Controlled Collaboration for Specific Documents
Article – API-Based Social Media Collecting as a Form of Web Archiving
Article – Studying the Materiality of Media Archives in the Age of Digitization: Forensics, Infrastructures and Ecologies
Publications
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 10, no. 1 (2017)
I2D: Information, données et documents, no. 4 (Décembre 2016)
Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada, no. 3 (Fall/Winter 2016)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 7 (2017)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 6, no. 1 (January-February 2017)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no 78 (Janvier-Mars 2017)
Book – Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Second Edition)
Book – Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Book – Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital Humanities
Book – Working with Library Collections: an Introduction for Support Staff
Book – Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club
Book – Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults
Book – Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women’s Cinema 2.0
Book – Principles of Data Mining
Book – Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
Livre – Une histoire de la fiche érudite
Livre – Éthique et patrimoine culturel : regards croisés
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Windsor Music Archive Inaugural Event
January 6, 2017, Windsor
Learning in Digital Information Spaces: What is the Role of User Engagement?
January 12, 2017, Halifax
2017 Creative Commons Global Summit: Sharing and the Commons
April 28-30, 2017, Toronto
UK National Archives – A Graphic War: Conversation with a Curator
January 27, 2017, Kew
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Fondamentaux pour le Big Data
À partir du 30 janvier 2017
Summoning the Archive: a Symposium on the Periodical, Printed Matter, and Digital Archiving
May 11-13, 2017, New York
Paper Trails Workshop
June 19-21, London (UK)
Semantic Web in Libraries (Videos Available)
November 28-30, 2016, Bonn (Germany)
E-ARK Presentations Final Conference (Presentations Available)
December 10-12, 2016, Budapest (Hungary)
Fair Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories Webinar (Recording Available)
December 12, 2016
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Caretakers of America’s Treasures: Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and Archivist of the United States David Ferriero
Video – Conservation and Digitization: a Technologizing of the Book as an Object
Baladodiffusion – Matière à penser, à rêver, les archives sont autant de fragments d’histoire, de savoir ou d’émotion
Podcast – In Prototype Days: Sounds and Stories from the Sound Preservation Association of Tasmania (Australia)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Welcome, Mr. Walt Disney, to the Canadian Public Domain
Project adds Indigenous names to Canadian history
Introducing Library and Archives Canada’s guest curator blog series and our upcoming exhibition
Les lois applicables aux bibliothèques publiques du Canada
Royal B.C. Museum calls on Indigenous people to submit stories about relics
Yukon Archives – Treasure trove of history excites Archives staff
Journal belonging to one of Yukon’s oldest settlers is uncovered
Prince Edward Island – Editorial: Information overload
Manitoba – PC government will establish return on investment test of social and cultural projects
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba soldier: the new year, 1917
UBC Proposes Merging SLAIS, School of Journalism to Create School of Media and Information
Unexpectedly beautiful angling and fishing collection at the University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Calgary – Digitization of Arctic Institute collection broadens access to documentation of exploration of the North in the 1800s and early 1900s
University of Alberta – Neato things in neato museums: Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives
University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – Twelve Days of Archives
Newfoundland – An invitation: the tradition of the New Year’s Levee
New Year Levees: a Nova Scotia Tradition
Jewish Public Library – Community Support of the Luciano & Edith Della Pergola Fonds
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Veteran’s Affairs Grant Completed: December 31, 2016
Jewish Genealogy Society of Toronto – Jewish Gravestone Markings
Toronto’s Lesbian and gay archive getting an upgrade
Windsor Music Archive Looking for Memorabilia
National Archive Lester B. Pearson materials bound for Billings History Day 2017
Nanaimo (B.C.) sues its own mayor over alleged sharing of confidential data
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – Peel in 1967
How to preserve Canada’s indigenous languages
Des passionnés remontent le temps à Bathurst (Nouveau Brunswick)
Col. John McCrae gets the comic book superhero treatment (story and research by Chris Sanagan, archivist)
Torontonian Discovers Family’s Links to Underground Railroad
A Quirk of Canadian History: when War and Hockey Shared the Ice
The shards of B.C. Chinese history: Gu Xiong, a Vancouver artist, explores the markers left behind by early Chinese immigrants to Vancouver Island
Lifetimes: Passion for games was Elliott Avedon’s cultural legacy
Freshly Minted: Alex Hanam, MLIS Candidate, Western University
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie: Mabrouk Korchid insiste sur la nécessité de numériser l’archive de son ministère
Liban – Akram Zaatari : je ne suis pas un frigo nostalgique qui veut congeler le passé
Côte d’Ivoire – Vers la valorisation des trésors des archives nationales ivoiriennes
South Africa – Apartheid victims wait in vain for share of R1bn fund
Amériques / Americas
White House – New Lenses on the First Social Media Presidency
H.R. Haldeman’s papers show Richard Nixon conspired to extend the Vietnam war to improve his presidential chances
NARA – Proposed rule clarifies privileges for presidential records disclosure
George Washington’s First Inaugural Address and Inaugural Bible to be Featured at National Archives Thanks to Gift by Ford Motor Company Fund
Disclosing Classified Info to the Press: with Permission
A Long-Lost Data Trove Uncovers California’s Sterilization Program
Montana fails to retain decades of emails despite open government law
South Carolina archivists seek $200K to preserve copies of constitutions
Texas State Library and Archives – Identifying and Protecting Essential Records
University of South Carolina to preserve, display US Marines’ film archive
Southern University Debuts Online Archive of Slave Narratives
Internet Archive’s Trump Archive launches
How African-American Artists Fought to Diversify Museums
Revenge porn victim wants US to adopt “right to be forgotten” law
Centuries of New York History Prepare for a Move
The New York Public Library and the European Digital Reading Lab team up for a better e-reading experience
Preserving History: a Look at the Queens Library Archives
Philadelphia – Dusty tapes to innovative website, tales from African Americans’ Great Migration
Letters show one American Jew saved multiple worlds during Shoa
A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved
Dipping into the thousands of ephemeral films in the Prelinger Archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Cabinet Papers 1992-93: Access via the National Archives of Australia Website
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Confession of Pentridge Prison escapee Kenneth Boots Jones among newly opened archives
Australia – Victoria’s hidden history revealed through newly opened archives
Website to Provide Public Access to One Million Khmer Rouge Documents
Taiwan – Declassified documents on late President Chiang to be released online
Unforgettable Chinese documents: archives of Macao achieve global recognition
India – Ancient manuscripts find new home in government museum
Europe / Europa
Finland – From the National Archives Service to the National Archives
Czechoslovakia – Photographing refugee deportation: on visual representation of refugees
Germany sees overwhelming sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Switzerland – One of the World’s Largest Dada Collections Can Now Be Viewed Online
France – Un super-droit d’accès aux archives publiques conféré à la Croix-Rouge pour le rétablissement des liens familiaux
Archives reveal recurrent nature of Ireland’s housing crises
Archive files: civil servants sceptical of Labour’s Scottish Government name change
Scotland – Rare pictures show Glasgow Central station under construction
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s office files (PREM): 1989-90
UK National Archives – The murder of Rasputin
UK National Archives – London’s burning: Fire! Fire!
British Library – Lessons in Vampires and the Gothic
Hidden gay British histories take centre stage 50 years after decriminalisation
First World War diary: troops enjoyed a sporting break from the horrors of war over Christmas
Parchment dating from 1067 to go on rare public display in London
Facebook history page becomes part of British Library archive
International
IFLA signs agreements with 50 countries to work towards getting Libraries included in National Development Plans
Five Fascinating Digital History Projects we Loved in 2016
De l’Antiquité à Google Maps, la cartographie miroir du pouvoir
Internet history is fragile: this archive is making sure it doesn’t disappear
Do Museums Underserve the LGBT Community and Other Marginalised Communities?
Le bookstore model : le retour de la vengeance des classements par centre d’intérêt
I Hate Information Management Predictions
Digital Asset Management Market will More than Double By 2025
Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to lose access to Elsevier journals
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition