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Documentary Heritage News
December 9, 2016May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 15

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the National Security Policy Directorate of Public Safety Canada
http://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/submissions-to-consultations/sub_psc_161205/

France – Décret n° 2016-1673 du 5 décembre 2016 relatif à la fiabilité des copies
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2016/12/5/2016-1673/jo/texte

NARA – Agency Records Management Training Requirements
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2016/12/02/agency-records-management-training-requirements/

Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021
http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/libraries-deliver-ambition-for-public-libraries-in-england-2016-to-2021

De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – Protection of Cultural Property: Military Manual
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002466/246633e.pdf

Society of American Archivists – Bibliography of American Archival History 
http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Archival_History_Section_Bibliography_2016.pdf

Society of American Archivists – Records Management Bibliography
http://saarmrt.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/records-management-bibliography/

IFLA – Preserving our Digital Culture for the Future: Overcoming Obstacles through Collaboration
http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/publications/161208_brungs-wyber_preserving_our_digital_culture_for_the_future.pdf

Open Society Archive (Hungary) – 2015 Annual Report
http://www.osaarchivum.org/press-room/announcements/2015-Annual-Report-Released

Paper – The Impact of Open Government: Assessing the Evidence
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gs_20161208_opengovernment_report.pdf

Article – Les Archives photographiques Notman au Musée McCord
http://cm.revues.org/2376


Article – Mapping Archival Silence: Technology and the Historical Record
http://mla.hcommons.org/deposits/item/mla:1023/

Article – Understanding Computational Web Archives Research Methods Using Research Objects
http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/74866

Publications
Archivaria, no. 82 (Fall 2016)
http://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/issue/view/467

The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, vol. 2, no. 1 (2016)
http://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/issue/view/1808/showToc

Conserveries mémorielles : revue transdisciplinaire, no. 19, 2016 (numéro spécial : Objets, phares des musées canadiens)
http://cm.revues.org/2312

Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 37, no. 3-4 (2016) 
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rest.2016.37.issue-3-4/issue-files/rest.2016.37.issue-3-4.xml

International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 11, no. 2 (2016)
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/issue/view/23
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4 (2016)
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/index.html
Heritage & Society, vol. 9, no. 1 (2016)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yhso20/9/1

Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 2 (December 2016 – January 2017)
http://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/decemberjanuary-2017/

Falkland Islands National Archives Newsletters, vol. 1, no. 4 (2016)
http://www.fig.gov.fk/archives/jdownloads/Newsletters/Archives%20newsletter%204%202016.pdf

National Archives of Australia – Government of Agencies Information Network e-bulletin, no. 11 (2016)
http://email.synergymail.com.au/t/ViewEmail/r/6F8409CEA9B5B2CD2540EF23F30FEDED/FFFE3C61158BB20040EE66FE10287772

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 36, no. 1 (2016)
http://archivesalberta.org/doc/Fall_2016.pdf

Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 8, no. 1 (December 2016)
http://southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/December-2016-Web.pdf

Book – Research in the Archival Multiverse
http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ram-9781876924676.html 

Book – Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: Search All About It
http://www.routledge.com/Historic-Newspapers-in-the-Digital-Age-Search-All-About-It/Gooding/p/book/9781472463388

Book – Treasures of British History: the Nation’s Story Told through its Most Important Fifty Documents
http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/9780233002187/Treasures-Of-British-History/

Book – Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Alternate Histories, Media Archaeologies
http://www.routledge.com/Steampunk-and-Nineteenth-Century-Digital-Humanities-Literary-Retrofuturisms/Whitson/p/book/9781138859500

Book – A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses 
http://www.routledge.com/A-Cultural-History-of-Sound-Memory-and-the-Senses/Damousi-Hamilton/p/book/9781138211773

Book – Museums and Photography: Displaying Death
http://www.routledge.com/Museums-and-Photography-Displaying-Death/Stylianou-Stylianou-Lambert/p/book/9781138852044

Book – Practical Data Science with Hadoop and Spark: Designing and Building Effective Analytics at Scale
http://www.informit.com/store/practical-data-science-with-hadoop-and-spark-designing-9780134024141

Book – Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture
http://www.routledge.com/Modernist-Experiments-in-Genre-Media-and-Transatlantic-Print-Culture/Sorensen/p/book/9781472458834 
Book – Contemporary Curating and Museum Education
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3080-0/contemporary-curating-and-museum-education  

Book – The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society
http://www.routledge.com/The-Great-War-and-the-British-Empire-Culture-and-Society/Walsh-Varnava/p/book/9781472462275

Book – Elements of Information Organization and Dissemination
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780081020258

Livre – L’offre de livres numériques à destination des bibliothèques de lecture publique : un regard international
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/loffre-de-livres-numeriques-destination-des-bibliotheques-de-lecture-publique-un

Livre – Photographier le patrimoine aux 19e et 20e siècles
http://www.editions-hermann.fr/a-paraitre/5000-photographier-le-patrimoine-aux-19e-et-20e-siecles.html 

Livre – Guide des sources pour l’histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique
http://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr&m=actualites&r=toutes-les-actualites&a=2016-12-07-guide-des-sources-pour-l-histoire-des-populations-juives-et-du-judaisme-en-belgique

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Gestion des courriels : conseils pratico-pratiques pour commencer l’année du bon pied
25 janvier 2017, Montréal
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/billets-gestion-des-courriels-conseils-pratico-pratiques-pour-commencer-lannee-du-bon-pied-29808560206

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference
May 29-31, 2017, Toronto
http://csdh-schn.org/2016/12/04/1256/

Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Le mail dans tous ses états
À partir du 9 janvier 2017
https://www.facebook.com/piafarchives/posts/1258345294204455

Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Architecture de l’information
À partir du 18 janvier 2017
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/ENSDeLyon/14002S03/session03/about

Understanding Moving Image Metadata Standards
January 24, 2017, London (UK)
http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-news/post/understanding-moving-image-metadata-standards-training-courses/ 

What I Wish I Knew Before I Started: Digital Preservation Coalition Student Conference 2017 
January 27, 2017, London (UK)
http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/113-wiwik17?xref=169

The Politics of Archives and the Practices of Memory
March 3-4, 2017, Providence (Rhode Island)
http://openjlem.hypotheses.org/1367

21st Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archives Association Conference
April 3-8, 2017, Manila (Philippines)
http://seapavaaconference.com/

Digital Public Library of America Fest 2017
April 20-21, 2017, Chicago 
http://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2017/

Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums 2017 Summit
June 28-29, 2017, Venice (Italy)
http://summit2017.lodlam.net/apply/

2017 International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Conference
September 17-22, 2017, Berlin (Germany)
http://www.ccaaa.org/pages/news/2017-IASA-Conference.html?PHPSESSID=jnulacpk448kt53d2fliq421h0

Webinar – CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and the Long Tail, Preserving at-Risk Publishers (Recording Available)
December 01, 2016
http://www.crl.edu/events/webinar-clockss-lockss-and-long-tail-preserving-risk-publishers

Sur le web / On the web
Video – Sarah Hatton, Visual Artist: Detachment (Created with the Brass from Library and Archives Canada Mass Digitization of 640,000 soldiers’ Files) 
http://www.facebook.com/sarahhattonartist/videos/10153872086802007/

Podcast – What Did a Library Do for you this year? How about the Archives? A Museum?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/programs/allinaday/what-did-a-library-do-for-you-this-year-how-about-the-archives-a-museum-1.3882621

Baladodiffusion – À l’ère du numérique, à quoi servent les bibliothèques et les musées ? (Entrevue avec Guy Berthiaume)
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/Les_matins_d_ici/2015-2016/chronique.asp?idChronique=423650

University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – Video: Zepp/Varga Inuit Art Collection
http://youtu.be/8K3G3oQGlpI

Video – Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities
http://youtu.be/Q3CObu4mnLM

Slidecast – Studying the Web in the Shadow of Uncle Sam: the Difficult Case of the Canadian Web Sphere
https://ianmilligan.ca/2016/12/08/studying-the-web-in-the-shadow-of-uncle-sam-canada-at-the-national-webs-workshop/

Plate-forme de données ouvertes du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France)
http://data.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/pages/home/

Vidéo – Archives nationales (France)
https://youtu.be/LPPXzOJm4mM

Video – Towards a National Summit: Setting the Records Straight for the Rights of the Child
https://youtu.be/TuAiJQL5YsQ

Podcast – Debate: should the U.S. Adopt the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online?
https://www.wbez.org/shows/npr/debate-should-the-us-adopt-the-right-to-be-forgotten-online/7009909f-230b-4b90-b62d-f69559b3506c

Slidecast – NARA: Email Management: Capstone
https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/email-management/nsa-11-16.pdf

Slidecast – Case Study: Implementing Legally Defensible Policies and Procedures for Disposing of Paper Records After Scanning
http://www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/slrm/conferences/erecords2016/Guz-Cranford-ERecords%202016%20Presentation%20Guz-Cranford%202016_10_06%20FINAL.pdf

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
RCMP admit fabricating response to gun registry access to information request
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-admit-fabricating-response-to-gun-registry-access-to-info-request/article33207289/

Google brings internet free-speech battle to Supreme Court
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/google-eff-human-rights-supreme-court-canada-equustek-1.3882350

Canada Wants Software Backdoors, Mandatory Decryption Capability and Records Storage
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/canada-software-encryption-backdoors-feedback,33131.html

Canadian copyright reform requires a fix to the fair dealing gap
http://www.hilltimes.com/2016/12/05/canadian-copyright-reform-requires-fix-fair-dealing-gap/90056

Canadian Fashion Santa Fight Leads to Copyright vs Trademark Food Fight
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161130/10553736159/canadian-fashion-santa-fight-leads-to-copyright-vs-trademark-food-fight.shtml

Taxing Netflix and the Internet won’t make Canada more cultured
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/aaron-wudrick-taxing-netflix-and-the-internet-wont-make-canada-more-cultured

Shared Services government email project pushed out to 2018. It was supposed to be finished in 2015.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/government-email-project-pushed-out-to-2018
Summit on the Value of Libraries, Archives and Museums – Ottawa Declaration: a Call to Action
http://librarianship.ca/news/ottawa-declaration/

Library and Archives Canada – How much does your collection weigh?
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/12/07/how-much-does-your-collection-weigh/

The Canadian Museum of History and Library and Archives Canada collaborate on new exhibition gallery
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=1165389&crtr.tp1D=1

Bank of Canada Museum – Why we are not the currency museum
http://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2016/12/why-we-are-not-currency-museum/

Britain to get first major exhibition of Canada’s Franklin artifacts
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hms-erebus-sir-john-franklin-expedition-arctic-parks-canada-inuit-artifacts-1.3877150

Canadian Federation of Library Associations Updates
http://librarianship.ca/news/cfla-updates-2016-11/

Canadian Historical Association: Open Letter to the Polish Prime Minister
http://activehistory.ca/2016/12/canadian-historical-association-open-letter-to-the-polish-prime-minister/

Newfoundland – Artists (and Archivists?) concerned about proposed changes to The Rooms Act
http://www.thetelegram.com/living/entertainment/2016/12/7/artists-concerned-about-proposed-changes-to-the-rooms-act.html

Martin Carrier, nouveau président du conseil d’administration de BAnQ
http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=06fd4806-e418-4c30-857f-c551ff7966f9

Prix d’excellence de l’administration publique de Québec 2016 : un projet Wikipedia innovant de BAnQ couronné
http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=59047a76-c033-401c-9e70-1fc391556125

De Versailles à Lotbinière : un nouveau Louis XIV à BAnQ Québec
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2016/12/07/de-versailles-a-lotbiniere-nouveau-louis-xiv-a-banq-quebec/

Ce que vous devez savoir sur la techno québécoise cette semaine: Québec adopte un logiciel libre de gestion documentaire
http://www.lesaffaires.com/techno/technologie-de-l-information/ce-que-vous-devez-savoir-sur-la-techno-quebecoise-cette-semaine/592105

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba soldier: I hope we are home for next Christmas
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/index.html#dec5

Massive budget cuts proposed at University of Ottawa put library, jobs at risk
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/massive-proposed-uottawa-budget-cuts-puts-library-jobs-at-risk

York University – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
http://deantiquate.blog.yorku.ca/2012/12/05/6december2012nationaldayofremembrance/

We need to nurture a Canadian humanities
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/need-nurture-canadian-humanities/

FAQs about the Internet Archive Canada
http://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-archive-canada/

Winnipeg – Too expensive to renovate city archives at Carnegie Library: report
http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/too-expensive-to-renovate-city-archives-at-carnegie-library-report-1.3189922

Rare collection of 150K vintage posters needs new Vancouver home
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vintage-posters-1.3877942

A gift guide for the Toronto-lover (include gift from the City of Toronto Archives)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/a-gift-guide-for-thetoronto-lover/article33187267/

New archive highlights years of racism faced by Chinese Canadians
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/12/06/new-archive-highlights-years-of-racism-faced-by-chinese-canadians.html

Calgary – Photo exhibit reveals dark history of Japanese internment camps
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/photo-exhibit-reveals-dark-history-of-japanese-internment-camps

The girl who lived: remembering the Halifax explosion through a child’s eyes, 99 years later
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-girl-who-lived-remembering-the-halifax-explosion-through-a-childs-eyes-99-yearslater/article33203811/

Vu de Montréal : est-ce déjà la fin de la dématérialisation ?
http://www.archimag.com/demat-cloud/2016/12/07/vu-montreal-fin-demat%C3%A9rialisation

The democratization of nerdiness: city staff discover efficiencies in Edmonton’s open data
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/the-democratization-of-nerdiness-city-staff-discover-efficiencies-in-edmontons-open-data

Region of Waterloo Archives intent on preserving police history
http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-story/7000425-archives-intent-on-preserving-police-history/

Modern technology uncovers and displays old Miramichi (New Brunswick) photos
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/miramichi-history-facebook-group-1.3869882

Archival footage gives a snap shot of 1930s working life in Kamloops (B.C.)
http://infotel.ca/newsitem/archival-footage-gives-a-snap-shot-of-1930s-working-life-in-kamloops/it37396

Un moment gravé dans la mémoire du Centre d’archives de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
http://www.viva-media.ca/actualite/un-moment-grave-dans-la-memoire/

Pickering (Ontario) library has future plans for storing the city’s past
http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/6992952-pickering-library-has-future-plans-for-storing-the-city-s-past/

Quickly Deploying Warcbase with Amazon Web Services
http://ianmilligan.ca/2016/12/02/quickly-deploying-warcbase-with-amazon-web-services/

Canadian reporter Ed Ou barred from entering US
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38187258

Afrique / Africa
Yaoundé Declaration for the preservation of and access to photo and film archives in Cameroon
http://www.photoconsortium.net/yaounde-declaration-for-the-preservation-of-and-access-to-photo-and-film-archives-in-cameroon/

EPA (School of African Heritage) in a Repositioning Effort
http://www.iccrom.org/epa-school-of-african-heritage-in-a-repositioning-effort/

Congo – Professeur Bob Bobutaka: les archives constituent la mémoire d’un pays
http://www.radiookapi.net/2016/12/06/emissions/le-grand-temoin/professeur-bob-bobutaka-les-archives-constituent-la-memoire-dun

Sénégal – Thiaroye 44 : les familles des victimes demandent la fin de l’obstruction à la manifestation de la vérité
http://www.dakaractu.com/THIAROYE-44-LES-FAMILLES-DES-VICTIMES-DEMANDENT-LA-FIN-DE-L-OBSTRUCTION-A-LA-MANIFESTATION-DE-LA-VERITE_a122495.html

Why History Matters in Post-2011 Morocco
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25584/why-history-matters-in-post-2011-morocco

Amériques / Americas
Dutch Caribbean heritage goes digital
http://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/62077-dutch-caribbean-heritage-goes-digital

Freedom songs: Chile’s sounds of resistance ring out again 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/04/chile-pinochet-music-song-political-prisoners

Fidel Castro worked on Gabriel García Márquez’s manuscripts
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/06/fidel-castro-worked-on-gabriel-garcia-marquez-manuscripts

What DNA reveals about St Helena’s freed slaves
http://www.nature.com/news/what-dna-reveals-about-st-helena-s-freed-slaves-1.21096

U.S. Air Force – Records management responsibilities remain despite additional duty reduction 
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/1005552/records-management-responsibilities-remain-despite-additional-duty-reduction.aspx

Records Request Regarding Guantanamo Bay Reveals Little Information
http://kmuw.org/post/records-request-regarding-guantanamo-bay-reveals-little-information

Modernizing the National Security Classification and Declassification Systems through the Next Administration’s Executive Order
http://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2016/12/05/modernizing-the-national-security-classification-and-declassification-systems-through-the-next-administrations-executive-order-by-steven-aftergood-federation-of-american-scientists/

Mapping the Future of Digital Public Library of America and Library of Congress Collaboration
http://dp.la/info/2016/12/02/mapping-the-future-of-dpla-and-library-of-congress-collaboration/

National Archives Awards $2.1 Million for Historical Records Projects
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2017/nr17-21

Richard Nixon Presidential Library Releases New Alexander Butterfield Papers
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2017/nr17-18

What happened to America’s most precious documents after Pearl Harbour?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-americas-most-precious-documents-after-pearl-harbor-180961325/

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Japanese Concentration Camps
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Information governance: putting the teeth into records management
http://federalnewsradio.com/records-management-month/2016/12/information-governance-putting-the-teeth-into-records-management/slide/1/

National Library Groups Question Proposed Copyright Office Reforms
http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/12896

Alabama Department of Archives and History seeks to collect Vietnam memorabilia
http://altoday.com/archives/13881-alabama-dept-of-archives-and-history-seeks-to-collect-vietnam-memorabilia

Early Tennessee Land Records Available at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/12/5/337435/Early-Tennessee-Land-Records-Available.aspx

University of Texas – Books from Gabriel García Márquez’s Library Added to Collection
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2016/ggm/

University of Minnesota’s Transgender Oral History Project collects one life story at a time
http://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2016/12/u-m-s-transgender-oral-history-project-collects-one-life-story-time

Washington College – A New Oral History Project Seeks the Stories of World War II Before it’s Too Late
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-oral-history-project-seeks-stories-world-war-ii-its-too-late-180961326

The digitizing age: library newspaper archive project gets boost from Iowa West Foundation grant
http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/the-digitizing-age-library-newspaper-archive-project-gets-boost-from/article_ca3b6f6e-ec1b-5f35-a664-1759d372caee.html

Harvesting Government History, One Web Page at a Time
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/nyregion/harvesting-government-history-one-web-page-at-a-time.html

Scholars, archivists partner on public media history project
http://current.org/2016/11/scholars-archivists-partner-on-public-media-history-project/

Flying Heritage Museum assembles online archive of interviews
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/flying-heritage-museum-assembles-online-archive-of-interviews/

Letters and diaries chart the enduring grief of a Denver mother with two sons at Pearl Harbor 
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/04/letters-mother-sons-pearl-harbor/

Information integrity through web archiving capturing data releases
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/james-lowry/2016/12/02/information-integrity-through-web-archiving-capturing-data-releases

Five Questions with Web Archivist Mary Haberle (Internet Archives)
http://archive-it.org/blog/post/5-questions-with-web-archivist-mary-haberle/

Oregon – Archive launches wholesale coffee business
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2016/12/02/archive-launches-wholesale-coffee-business/94773810/

A Visit to the Shadowy World of Rare Book Theft
http://lithub.com/a-visit-to-the-shadowy-world-of-rare-book-theft/

First edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia set to fetch $1m at auction
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/05/principia-sir-isaac-newton-first-edition-auction-christies-new-york

Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton manuscripts to go under hammer
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2016/12/07/486000/Dylan-Clapton.htm

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Soon-to-be director of the National Library of Australia Marie-Louise Ayres is already an old hand
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/soontobe-director-of-the-national-library-of-australia-marielouise-ayres-is-already-an-old-hand-20161207-gt5wh9.html

Australia – Big four banks destroy 1.6 million paper land titles in push to digital versions
http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/big-four-banks-destroy-16-million-paper-land-titles-in-push-to-digital-versions-20161028-gsdcgn.html

Antiseptic used in WWI could hold key to treating superbugs, viral infections, Melbourne researchers say
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-28/antiseptic-used-in-wwi-could-hold-key-to-treating-superbugs/8062496

Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) – Managing the preservation and accessibility of public records from the past into the digital future
http://www.opengovasia.com/articles/7250-exclusive-managing-the-preservation-and-accessibility-of-public-records-from-the-past-into-the-digital-future

Push to centralise New Zealand’s audio and video archives in Wellington
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/319772/push-to-centralise-nz’s-audio-and-video-archives-in-wellington

Air Force Historical Photographs at Archives New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/notes/archives-new-zealand/air-force-historical-photographs-at-archives-new-zealand/1275407302522550

Japanese professor creates online archive documenting Pearl Harbor attack
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/07/national/japanese-professor-creates-online-archive-documenting-pearl-harbor-attack/

Indonesia – Press exempt from right to be forgotten
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/12/06/press-exempt-right-be-forgotten.html

Rare archival assets of All India Radio and Doordarshan to on sale
http://www.newsnation.in/article/153448-rare-archival-assets-of-all-india-radio-and-doordarshan-to-on-sale.html

Europe / Europa
As the European Parliament starts discussing copyright proposal, rightsholders point out they want even worse rules
http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/02/european-parliament-starts-discussing-copyright-proposal-rightsholders-point-want-even-worse-rules/

Bibliomania, the Dark Desire for Books that Infected Europe in the 1800s
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bibliomania-the-dark-desire-for-books-that-infected-europe-in-the-1800s

Pour Noël : offre de numérisation de douze bibliothèques européennes
http://www.nb.admin.ch/aktuelles/03147/05015/05198/index.html?lang=fr&t=1480921934

Inria’s Alpage project team: historians and computer scientists unite in the European Parthenos project
http://www.inria.fr/en/centre/paris/news/inria-s-alpage-project-team-historians-and-computer-scientists-unite-in-the-european-parthenos-project

Endangered Syrian documents taken into safekeeping at the National Archives of Finland
http://www.arkisto.fi/news/1846/61/Ministry-of-Education-and-Culture-Endangered-Syrian-documents-taken-into-safekeeping-at-the-National-Archives-of-Finland

Norwegian researchers start jihad archive
http://sciencenordic.com/norwegian-researchers-start-jihad-archive

Wikipedians in Bulgaria revive their history through the Archives Challenge
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/05/digest-archives/

Georgia archives building could be imploded during legislative session
http://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/georgia-archives-building-could-imploded-during-legislative-session/iaUuXlAsZGo3AUJHs4uf4K/

Lost Masterpiece: the Anti-Nazi Film with the Missing Ending
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/03/the-anti-nazi-film-with-the-missing-ending.html

Switzerland – Archives on Placed Children : Sensitive Files Finally Described and Opened, if Still Existing
http://www.archivistes.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/News/Enfants_places_Trieste_2016_Article_AVA.pdf

Suisse – La Fondation pour le patrimoine en péril sera basée à Genève
http://www.letemps.ch/monde/2016/12/02/fondation-patrimoine-peril-sera-basee-geneve

Suisse – Volée, la fiche de paie de Calvin resurgit à New York
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/volee-fiche-paie-calvin-resurgit-new-york/story/22911870

Suisse – Archives : luxe ou nécessité?
http://www.letemps.ch/opinions/2016/12/06/archives-luxe-necessite

France allows Holocaust museums to digitize WWII archives
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/france-allows-holocaust-museums-to-digitize-wwii-archives-4417785/

France – La version Bêta du logiciel d’archivage Vitam délivrée aux porteurs et partenaires
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/la-version-b%C3%AAta-du-logiciel-darchivage-vitam-d%C3%A9livr%C3%A9e-lair

Ireland – Capuchins claim 1916 Pearse letter taken without consent
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/capuchins-claim-1916-pearse-letter-taken-without-consent-1.2891440

Ireland – Launch of Frongoch and 1916: Recreating a Lost Landscape
http://dri.ie/launch-frongoch-1916-exhibitions

Scotland – Letter describing Robert Louis Stevenson’s final hours secured for nation
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/letter-describing-rl-stevenson-s-final-hours-secured-for-nation-1-4307213

National Library of Wales must work for viable future
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-38202831

Guernsey – Island Archives acquires Guernsey Growers’ Association historical material 
http://www.gov.gg/article/157203/Island-Archives-acquires-Guernsey-Growers-Association-historical-material

Isle on Man – Children bring museum archives to life
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/what-s-on/manx-entertainment-news/pictures-children-bring-museum-archives-to-life-1-8271290

UK National Archives – History books, but not as you know them? 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/history-books-know-quirky-christmas-bookshop/

UK National Archives – Six wives in the archives: a view from Europe
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/six-wives-archives-view-europe/

There’s a new viewer for digitised items in the British Library’s collections
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/12/new-viewer-digitised-collections-british-library.html

Fantastic Beasts at the British Library
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/12/fantastic-beasts-at-the-british-library.html

A leaf from Mozart’s grave: curiosities from British Library Music Collections
http://blogs.bl.uk/music/2016/12/a-leaf-from-mozarts-grave.html

British Library – Forme of Cury: a Medieval English Cookbook
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/12/forme-of-cury-a-medieval-english-cookbook.html

Historical erotica becomes available at British Film Institute
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/01/historical-erotica-becomes-available-british-film-institute

Tables turned as vinyl sales overtake digital sales for first time in UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/06/tables-turned-as-vinyl-records-outsell-digital-in-uk-for-first-time

Frank Hurley on the western front: one man’s record of the war to end all wars
http://mashable.com/2016/10/23/frank-hurley-on-the-western-front

Digital archive to unlock Liverpool’s history
http://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2016/12/digital-archive-to-unlock-liverpools-history/

The secret life of a librarian: what have I found in books? Streaky bacon and used condoms
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/secret-life-librarian-fourth-emergency-service-books-borrowers

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – New facility to store digitised manuscripts in Abu Dhabi
http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/education/new-facility-to-store-digitised-manuscripts-in-abu-dhabi-1.1938726

United Arab Emirates hosts global push to save antiquities from conflict
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38182581

Old Quranic manuscripts found in Egypt’s mosque
http://en.hawzahnews.com/detail/News/347803

International
Why Some Video Games Are in Danger of Disappearing Forever
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/why-some-video-games-are-in-danger-of-disappearing-forever/

Five Questions to Ask when Using Primary Sources
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-questions-ask-when-using-primary-sources-margot-note

Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/

Oral history as a method to analyse historical and cultural contexts and inform policymaking: the example of the early AIDS epidemic
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/12/01/oral-history-as-a-method-to-analyse-historical-and-cultural-contexts-and-inform-policymaking-the-example-of-the-early-aids-epidemic/

An Annoying Clicking Sound: the ZIP disk
http://tedium.co/2016/12/06/iomega-zip-disk-click-of-death-history/

Why researchers should get the same client confidentiality as doctors
http://theconversation.com/why-researchers-should-get-the-same-client-confidentiality-as-doctors-69839

Libraries becoming invisible to junior scholars
http://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/libraries-becoming-invisible-junior-scholars

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