Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Université de Montréal – Directive sur l’utilisation du courriel
http://archives.umontreal.ca/a-propos/nouvelles/nouvelle/news/detail/News/adoption-dune-nouvelle-directive-sur-lutilisation-du-courriel-2/
British Library – Knowledge without Borders: how we Made a Difference with our Global Partners in 2023/24
https://www.bl.uk/about-us/international/british-library-international-impact-report.pdf/
France – Convention de dérogation à l’obligation de versement des archives de l’Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides aux Archives nationales
http://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/circulaire/DGPA_SIAF_2025_006
NARA – Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: 2025 Release
http://www.archives.gov/research/rfk
De la communauté / From the community
Rapport d’activités de l’Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique (2025)
https://www.archivistes.be/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_InfoAafb.pdf
American Library Association – Advice on Federal Grant Cancellations
http://www.ala.org/news/2025/04/federal-grant-cancellation-advice
From Cultural Diplomacy to Cultural Transnationalism: the Contribution of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums to the Evolving Narratives of Culture and Histories
https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/d0eede64-feeb-48f7-9734-06e9c1e451fc
Publications
Fontes Artis Musicae: the Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, vol. 72, no. 1 (2025)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54651
Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, vol. 38, no. 1, 2025 (Special Issue: Rethinking the Archive(s))
http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/boletimauc/issue/view/869
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (2025)
http://jdmdh.episciences.org/volume/view/id/1034
Library Management, vol. 46, no. 3-4 (2025)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0143-5124/vol/46/iss/3/4
Book – Archival Materialities in a Digital Age
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/archival-materialities-in-a-digital-age-9780197267851
Book – Working with Manuscripts: a Guide for Textual Scholars
http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264425/working-with-manuscripts/
Book – Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088506
Book – Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Households, Communities, and Institutions
http://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503616704-1
Book – Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531508692/audible-loss/
Book – Élie Bouhéreau: the Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/elie-bouhereau
Book – Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/victimhood-nationalism/9780231216883
Book – The AI and Data Revolution: Understanding the New Data Landscape
https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/the-ai-and-data-revolution/?k=9781783307081
Book – Electronic Waste: a Reference Handbook
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/electronic-waste-9798216170136/
Livre – Retrouver ses ancêtres en Alsace (nouvelle édition)
http://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/copie-de-manuel-de-pal%C3%A9ographie-alsacienne-xvie-xxe-si%C3%A8cle
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives of Ontario – Exhibit: Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto
Until February 27, 2026, Toronto
https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/events/Black_Diasporas_Tkaronto.aspx
Friends of the British Columbia Archives – The Smallpox Chiefs: Bioterrorism and Power in the Pacific Northwest
April 27, 2025
http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg
Digital Preservation Mixer – Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation Network
May 7, 2025
http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m_3FMBcPRf-je6vZnWpgTg#/registration
Exploring the Chinese Canadian Archive with Morris Lum and June Chow
May 27, 2025, Toronto
https://harthouse.ca/events/exploring-the-chinese-canadian-archive
Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Reconciliation through Terminology Virtual Lunch & Learn
July 2, 2025
https://anla.nf.ca/events/reconciliation-through-terminology-virtual-lunch-learn-with-jared-hogan-and-michaela-doucette
Innovating Documentary Heritage for Sustainable Development
April 29-30, 2025
http://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QwbQ0ch5QWWVpMFqgPFMTA#/registration
Library of Congress – Storage in the Stacks
May 1, 2025
http://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/3017431831958/WN_quW-OUl-RDa0nPX_gR39zA#/registration
Digital Preservation 101: 404 no more
May 7, 2025
http://nasig.org/event-6147985
Generative Artificial Intelligence for Archival Images of the Colonial Period
May 13, 2025, London
http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/generative-artificial-intelligence-for-archival-images-of-the-col
IIPC-IFLA News Media Section Workshop: Archiving Audiovisual News Media Content
May 15, 2025
https://netpreserve.org/event/iipc-ifla-news-media-section-workshop-archiving-audiovisual-content/?occurrence=2025-05-15
The Importance of Black Archives in Preserving Historical Memory
November 11, 2025. Leicester
https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/black-heritage-voices/
Association des archivistes français – Forum des archivistes (captations disponibles)
26-28 mars 2025, Rennes
http://forum.archivistes.org/les-captations-du-forum/
Sur le web / On the web
International Council on Archives – Artificial Intelligence and Archival Practice On-Line Tutorials
http://www.ica.org/new-resource-ai-and-archival-practice-on-line-tutorials/
Research Data Alliance – Knowledge Base Beta Launch
https://www.rd-alliance.org/news/the-rda-knowledge-base-beta-launch/
Archives in Context Podcast – Chris Pandza, Canadian Communication Designer and Oral Historian
http://archivesincontext.archivists.org/2025/04/22/season-9-episode-2-chris-pandza/
Vidéo – Une enquête sur les pratiques numériques discrètes de l’histoire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl5NDQs2l2c
UK National Archives Podcast – MI5: Official Secrets
http://pod.link/1460242815/episode/dd9e255cb605dc7969036ef890c492e5
Survey: Primary Source Literacy Guidelines
https://rbms.info/blog/news-events/survey-primary-source-literacy-guidelines/
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2025/04/21/lac-co-lab-update/
Hudson’s Bay artifacts won’t be an easy buy for cash-strapped institutions: experts
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/hudsons-bay-artifacts-wont-be-an-easy-buy-for-cash-strapped-institutions-experts/
Grand chief requests halt to auction of Hudson’s Bay items linked to First Nations
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/04/24/grand-chief-requests-halt-to-auction-of-hudsons-bay-items-linked-to-first-nations/
BAnQ – Hull aux portes de l’enfer : le grand feu de 1900
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/hull-portes-enfer-grand-feu-1900/
Rare Catholic prayer book printed in 1596 uncovered at McMaster University had librarian freaking out
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-mcmaster-university-rare-book-of-hours-1.7511938
University of British Columbia – The Klondike Gold Rush: Stories Behind the Search for Gold
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/the-klondike-gold-rush-stories-behind-the-search-for-gold/
McGill University – The Lande Legacy and the Art of Building Rare Book Collections
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/the-lande-legacy-and-the-art-of-building-rare-book-collections/
Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archive – Hold the Line!: the 3rd Battalion and the Poison Cloud of Ypres
http://qormuseum.org/2025/04/22/hold-the-line-the-3rd-battalion-and-the-poison-cloud-of-ypres/
Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Pushing the Boundaries of the Lesbian Imaginary: Aerlyn Weissman and the Vitality of Visibility
http://arquives.ca/pushing-the-boundaries-of-the-lesbian-imaginary/
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Before Whistler Kids
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/04/22/before-whistler-kids/
Rossland Museum and Discovery Center (British Columbia) – Behind the Scenes: Archives Coordinator Spotlight with Gwen Friesen
https://www.rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2025/archives-intern-highlight
Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum (Ontario) – Digital Archive to Collect Century-Old Antislavery Print Material
https://ckxsfm.com/digital-archive-to-collect-century-old-antislavery-print-material/
Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Les pages féminines dans la Tribune
http://mhist.org/actualites/pages-feminines-dans-tribune/
La Ville de Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel souligne son 150e anniversaire par un don à la Société historique Pierre-De Saurel
https://www.soreltracy.com/la-ville-de-saint-joseph-de-sorel-souligne-son-150e-anniversaire-par-un-don-a-la-societe-historique-pierre-de-saurel/
Société d’histoire de la Haute-Yamaska – Avril 1869 : la Yamaska nord se déchaîne
http://shhy.info/avril-1869/
Mémoire collective et mémoire plurielle: l’exemple des archives militantes
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/memoire-plurielle/
Afrique / Africa
Gambia – Government launches survey on Access to Information Law
https://www.voicegambia.com/2025/04/24/govt-launches-survey-on-access-to-information-law/
Algeria stands out at Unesco with unique centuries-old manuscript
http://www.saba.ye/en/news3468870.htm
Algérie – La numérisation des manuscrits à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle
http://www.horizons.dz/?p=265452
Morocco Digitizes National Library Archives to Preserve, Broaden Access to Heritage
http://www.wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/news/tech/morocco-digitizes-national-library-archives-to-preserve-broaden-access-to-heritage
Morocco Takes Lead in Archive Preservation through Landmark Agreement with France
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/04/191675/morocco-takes-lead-in-archive-preservation-through-landmark-agreement-with-france/
Amériques / Americas
Unesco – Mexico has a new registry in the Memory of the World Programme
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/mexico-has-new-registry-memory-world-programme
Aruba’s Digitized Slavery Documents Added to Unesco’s International Memory of the World Register
http://blog.archive.org/2025/04/15/arubas-digitized-slavery-documents-added-to-unescos-international-memory-of-the-world-register/
A stolen 16th century manuscript is returned to Paraguay, via the Upper West Side
http://gothamist.com/news/a-stolen-16th-century-manuscript-is-returned-to-paraguay-via-the-upper-west-side
An archivist’s job is to keep the receipts. What happens when they can’t do their job?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/arts/trump-national-archives-archivists/
Senator Schiff Asks the National Archives to Review the Trump Administration’s Use of Signal
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/schiff-signal-chat.html
Signal-gate shines spotlight on Rubio role as acting Archivist
http://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2025/04/signal-gate-shines-spotlight-on-rubio-role-as-acting-archivist/
National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-07
NARA – Lawrence of Arabia: a View from 1939
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/04/24/lawrence-of-arabia-a-view-from-1939/
NARA – Return to Sender: Individual Deceased Personnel Files of the 6888th
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/04/22/return-to-sender-individual-deceased-personnel-files-of-the-6888th/
A Precious Bible Blessed By Pope Francis at the Library of Congress
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/a-precious-bible-blessed-by-pope-francis-at-the-library/
Everylibrary – Statement: Federal Funding for Libraries Makes it Case in the Supreme Court
http://www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_eo_in_court
The Latest from Institute for Museum and Library Services and what you Need to Prepare for Right Now
http://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/the-latest-from-imls-and-what-you-need-to-prepare/
A death blow’ Filmmakers, archivists reel as Department of Government Efficiency suddenly cuts their funding
http://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/
Department of Government Efficiency Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum’s Legal Status
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/washington-dc-national-gallery-of-art-gets-a-visit-from-doge
American Oversight Sues Department of Government Efficiency, Trump Officials for Violating Federal Records Act
http://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doge-trump-officials-for-violating-federal-records-act/
Three Ways Trump Administration Officials Are Evading Record-Keeping Requirements (So Far)
http://americanoversight.org/three-ways-trump-administration-officials-are-evading-record-keeping-requirements-so-far/
The American Civil Liberties Union Is Suing the Government to Get Access to Department of Government Efficiency Records
http://www.wired.com/story/aclu-lawsuit-government-doge-access-sensitive-data/
Society of American Archivists – Diversity Committee Statement on Nationwide Attacks against Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Programs and Initiatives
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/diversity-committee/diversity-committee-statement-on-nationwide-attacks-against-deia-programs
Alabama – House committee approves bill restructuring Department of Archives’ governing board
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/house-committee-approves-bill-restructuring-department-archives-governing-board
Historical archives that help tell Maine’s story threatened by federal funding cuts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1YIyaCbGZc
Railroad Commission of Texas Records Digitization Fast Approaching 100 Million Files
http://www.rrc.texas.gov/news/041725-records-digitization-press-release/
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/slave-trade-database-moving-to-harvard/
University of Pennsylvania – An archival discovery about a charred 17th-century Shakespeare Folio
http://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/archival-discovery-burned-17th-century-shakespeare-folio-penn-libraries
University of Mississippi – Reconstructing William Faulkner: Project Digitizes Author’s Personal Library
http://olemiss.edu/news/2025/4/faulkners-library-digital-archive-project/index.html
Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive
http://futurism.com/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive
Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities
http://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/
Jewish News of Northern California – Our digital archive is threatened by state budget cuts
https://jweekly.com/2025/04/23/our-digital-archive-could-disappear-because-of-state-budget-cuts/
Family of music composer hopes to restore archives destroyed in Los Angeles wildfire
http://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/family-of-music-composer-hopes-to-restore-archives-destroyed-in-la-wildfire-238222405599
Schoenberg’s Lost Notes, and what Researchers Do when Archives Burn
http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/april/schoenberg-s-lost-notes–and-what-researchers-do-when-archives-b.html
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Japan’s A-bomb photo archive not listed as 2025 Unesco heritage
http://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/c2e30af1dae6-japans-a-bomb-photo-archive-not-listed-as-2025-unesco-heritage.html
Vietnam – Preserving Khmer palm leaf scripture in An Giang Province
http://vietnamnet.vn/en/preserving-khmer-palm-leaf-scripture-in-an-giang-province-2393090.html
Fiji – Digitisation shift at National Archives
http://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/digitisation-shift-at-national-archives/
Kazakh Manuscript on Khans’ Genealogy Added to Unesco Memory of World Register
http://astanatimes.com/2025/04/kazakh-manuscript-on-khans-genealogy-added-to-unesco-memory-of-world-register/
Kyrgyzstan accedes to the First Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/kyrgyzstan-accedes-first-protocol-1954-hague-convention-protection-cultural-property-event-armed
China reinforces documentary heritage protection with new Unesco designations
http://gaming.industriesnews.net/news/278171108/china-reinforces-documentary-heritage-protection-with-new-unesco-designations
Chinese star catalog is the world’s oldest, astronomers claim
http://www.science.org/content/article/china-lays-claim-world-s-oldest-surviving-star-catalog
Collège de France – Les manuscrits tamouls de la bibliothèque d’études indiennes et centrasiatiques
https://archibibscdf.hypotheses.org/18309
India – Bhagavad Gita, Natyashastra inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of World Register, Prime Minister Modi says, Proud Moment
http://kalingatv.com/nation/bhagavad-gita-natyashastra-inscribed-in-unescos-memory-of-world-register-pm-modi-says-proud-moment/
In Bihar, 19th-century library holds India’s treasure trove of Arabic manuscripts
http://www.arabnews.com/node/2597595/world
Europe / Europa
Historical Archives of the European Union – European Union foreign policy in the Western Sahara focus of Vibeke Sørensen Fellow research
https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=eu-foreign-policy-in-the-western-sahara-focus-of-vibeke-sorensen-fellow-research
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the State Archival Service Join Forces to Protect Archival Heritage
https://archives.gov.ua/en/2025/04/24/the-defence-intelligence-of-ukraine-and-the-state-archival-service-join-forces-to-protect-archival-heritage/
Ukraine – Invaders remove almost 360,000 archival documents from Kherson
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1066494.html
Why literary scholars still explore Pushkin manuscripts
http://www.gw2ru.com/arts/233331-pushkin-manuscripts-literary-scholars-still-explore
Finland – Edvard Westermarck’s Archives inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
https://kansallisarkisto.fi/en/-/edvard-westermarck-s-archives-inscribed-on-the-unesco-memory-of-the-world-register
Holocaust memory in the age of artificial intelligence: between digital archives and risky manipulation
http://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryced3ikex
Conservators Are Puzzling Together Ancient Roman Murals Found in Hundreds of Pieces
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/conservators-are-puzzling-together-ancient-roman-murals-found-in-hundreds-of-pieces-180986477/
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute acquired 50,000 archival materials in 2024-2025
http://arminfo.info/full_news.php?id=90880&lang=3
Albanie – Les archives Marubi déclarées trésor du patrimoine mondial par l’Unesco
http://www.koha.net/fr/kulture/arkivi-marubi-shpallet-thesar-i-trashegimise-boterore-nga-unesco-ja
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
http://www.techspot.com/news/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-collaborative-tool-rival-us.html
France – Des milliers de photos de soldats alliés de la guerre 1914-1918 : la pépite mémorielle de Vignacourt, dans la Somme
https://www.lemonde.fr/histoire/article/2025/04/24/guerre-1914-1918-la-pepite-memorielle-de-vignacourt-dans-la-somme_6599498_4655323.html
UK National Archives – Mandatory bag checks introduced for all visitors
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/mandatory-bag-checks-introduced-for-all-visitors/
British Library – Web Archives Collections as Data at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Workshop Report
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2025/04/web-archives-collections-as-data-dhnb2025-workshop-report.html
Darwin’s letters and books recognised as a Unesco documentary heritage
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/april/darwins-letters-and-books-unesco-documentary-heritage.html
A surfyte of cheese doth bringe payne: Leeds University transcribes early book on cheese
http://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/18/take-it-cheesy-the-fascinating-disgusting-world-of-dairy-curd-in-the-tudor-era
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespeare-did-not-leave-his-wife-anne-in-stratford-letter-fragment-suggests
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Lost Train: the Story of the Transport That Never Reached Theresienstadt
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/the_lost_train/
National Library of Israel – Her Holocaust: the First Female Survivor to Write Her Memoirs
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/renia/
National Library of Israel’s United States arm creates archive to document post-October 7 campus antisemitism
http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/national-library-of-israels-u-s-arm-creates-archive-to-document-post-oct-7-campus-antisemitism/
Jordan, Qatar discuss cooperation on archival preservation, cultural memory
https://www.petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=70699&lang=en&name=en_news
Experts hail Qatar’s efforts in preserving Arabic Manuscripts
http://www.gulf-times.com/article/703592/qatar/experts-hail-qatars-efforts-in-preserving-arabic-manuscripts
Omani navigator Ibn Majid’s manuscript added to Unesco list
http://www.muscatdaily.com/2025/04/19/omani-navigator-ibn-majids-manuscript-added-to-unesco-list/
International
Documentary heritage: 74 new entries on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/documentary-heritage-74-new-entries-unescos-memory-world-register
Books behind barbed wire: International Committee of the Red Cross intellectual relief for POWs during the Second World War
http://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/intellectual-relief-for-prisoners-of-war/
Preserving the legacy of wind power through international archive collaboration
http://www.windtech-international.com/industry-news/preserving-the-legacy-of-wind-power-through-international-archive-collaboration
Basic Principles on the role of Archivists and Records Managers in support of Human Rights
http://medium.com/@cecilechemin.ireland/basic-principles-on-the-role-of-archivists-and-records-managers-in-support-of-human-rights-af7088f89120
When Messages Vanish: the Record Management Challenge of Ephemeral Communications
http://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/when-messages-vanish-the-record-management-challenge-of-ephemeral-communications
Artificial Intelligence, Information, and the Environment: Balancing Automation and Sustainability in the Age of GenAI
http://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/ai-information-and-the-environment-balancing-automation-and-sustainability-in-the-age-of-genai
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Bibliographie Zotero Biliography: http://www.zotero.org/groups/1649718/digital_archives__archives_numriques/items
Archival Bibliography / Bibliographie archivistique (2017-2023):
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1xEYck9l30WJa5DHrcb-32wbeYwv9dZBH/view