Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Principles for Determining the Access Status of Records on Transfer
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Ministry of Justice, National Office (for Comments)
British Library – Open Document Text (ODT) Format Preservation Assessment
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Collection Management Tools Roundtable Annual Report
International Federation of Film Archives – Moving Image Cataloguing Manual (Revised Edition)
Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines
National Information Standards Organization – Altmetrics Recommended Practice
Paper – A Model-driven Approach to Preservation of Complex Digital Objects in Space Science
Publications
Information Management, vol. 50, no. 5 (September-October 2016)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 28 (2016)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 9, no. 3 (September 2016)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 28, no. 3 (2016)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (2016)
Revue française en sciences de l’information et de la communication, no. 9 (2016)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 6 (September 2016)
Book – Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Book – New York City Municipal Archives: an Authorized Guide for Family Historians
Book – Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World
Book – Conquering Big Data with High Performance Computing
Book – The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between
Book – The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy
Book – Get it Together: Organize your Records so your Family won’t Have to (Seventh Edition)
Book – Mobile Security and Privacy: Advances, Challenges and Future Research Directions
Book – Great City Maps: a Historical Journey through Maps, Plans and Paintings
Book – Shaping Images: Scholarly Perspectives on Image Manipulation
Livre – La recherche dans les institutions patrimoniales : sources matérielles et ressources numériques
Livre – Lectures numériques : une enquête sur les grands lecteurs
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives of Ontario Exhibit – Family Ties: Ontario Turns 150
Until May 2018, Toronto
Right to Know Seminar: Open and Transparent Government for All
September 26, 2016, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Ontario – Library & Archives Unshelved: Artists’ Books and Multiples
September 28, 2016, Toronto
Conversation with Carl Peters: a close reading of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons
October 6, 2016, Burnaby
Archives, Privacy, and Digital: a Dangerous Combination?
October 18, 2016, Ottawa
Atten. . . shun! Canadian Military Records for Genealogy and Family History
November 5, 2016, Ottawa
Acadian Archives – Exhibit: Maps of the New World
Until January 2017, University of Maine
Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Society and Library Annual Conference
September 24, 2016, Dannemora (New York)
International Competition – Gif it Up
October 1-31, 2016
Online Course – Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians
October 3-28, 2016
Webcast – Project Irene: Analyzing Images to Digitize Sound on Historic Audio Recordings
October 4, 2016
The Commonwealth and the Somme
October 6, 2016, Kew (UK)
UK Information Commissioner Officer – Cyber Security Webinar
October 13, 2016
Acting on Change: New Approaches and Future Practices in Long Term Digital Preservation
November 30 – December 1, 2016, London (UK)
Technical and Field Related Problems of Traditional and Electronic Archiving
April 5-7, 2017, Radenci (Slovenia)
Indigitization Futures Forum (Recordings Available)
June 10-12, 2016, Vancouver
Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design and Innovative Use (Presentations Available)
August 11-12, 2016, Chicago
Sur le web / On the web
Dalhousie University Video – Master of Information Graduate Charles Bloom, Chief Information Officer at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Podcast – President of Ireland Speech at the Launch of Digitised Version of 1916 Leaders’ Court Martial
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Nouveau site Internet
NARA – App: Remembering WWI (Beta Release)
NARA – Now on Giphy
Carbon Dating the Web (Version 3.0)
Outils de pré-versement
Video – The New Librarian of Congress on the Value of Free Information
Video – Experts on how to Make Copyright Work Again
Slidecast – Linked Data for Archives
Slidecast – From Repository to Trove
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Copyright back in the spotlight with several impending decisions
Ex-Statistics Canada chief questions Liberal pledge of more independence
Soviets never short of reasons for losing at hockey, diplomats found in 1976
Library and Archives Canada and the Results of the Coltman Project
Library and Archives Canada – Preserving Documentary Heritage: New Memorandum of Understanding with Université Laval
Library and Archives Canada – Published Sources for Aviation Accident Reports
Library and Archives Canada – A Very Desolate Place: the Lord Dufferin Letters
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries Working Together at the Intersections of Research Data Management and Digital Preservation
Courcelette: Canada’s Forgotten Battlefield
Nova Scotia – French and Gaelic Historical Newspapers Available Online
Nova Scotia – Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute seeks names for faces
Help Place B.C.’s South Asian Heritage on the Map
Que contient la mémoire du québec ?
BAnQ – Les 99 ans d’une merveille de l’ingénierie civile
BAnQ – Les architectes de la Révolution tranquille
BAnQ – Un intérêt confirmé pour le presbytère de la cathédrale de Rimouski
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Back at the Front
Newfoundland – The soldiers paired off and waltzed around the field …
University of Toronto’s Fisher Library now has one of Canada’s oldest printed books in English
University of Toronto – Journal from recently rediscovered HMS Terror kept at Rare Book Library
University of Waterloo, Special Collections & Archives – What I did on your summer vacation
Centre d’archives de la Grande Zone argileuse – Chasse à l’orignal : une activité typique de notre région
From pests to man’s best friend: the history of dogs in Calgary
Two new archivists hired in Oliver (B.C.)
L’incendie de l’hôtel Albert en 1938 : une des pires tragédies de l’histoire de Rouyn-Noranda
Vie d’archiviste : Geneviève Proulx, Commission de la construction du Québec
Afrique / Africa
More African governments are enacting open data policies but still aren’t willing to share information
Tanzania: how Opening up Access to Information Can Help Government
Morocco – World’s oldest library reopens in Fez: you can hurt us, but you can’t hurt the books
Ten facts about the world’s oldest library
Uncovered: the hidden history record sleeves tell about South African music
South Africa – Documenting narratives: Photography as an archival tool
Amériques / Americas
Antigua & Barbuda – Repair work has stopped at the National Archives
Jose Lui Borges manuscript goes on view in Argentina
U.S. Government Publishing Office & Library of Congress Begin Digital Release of all Congressional Records
Carla Hayden: Harnessing the Power of Technology with the Resources at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress – Afghan Officials Receive Digitized Cultural Treasures
Library of Congress – My Beloved Eliza: the Final Letters from Alexander Hamilton to his Wife
NARA – Launching the Beta Program for our Remembering WWI App
Digital Public Library of America – Ten Ways to Use the Primary Source Sets in your Classroom
As world modernizes, West Virginia Archives uses old method to preserve today’s news
North Carolina – State Archives Digitizes Records of World War I Combat and Civilian Experiences
University of New Hampshire to buy $1 million football scoreboard with thrifty librarian’s money, outraging critics
University of Pittsburgh – A New Center for Black Poetics
Jubilation as scientists use virtual unwrapping to read burnt ancient scroll
Museum of Modern Art launches comprehensive online exhibition history
How the American Genre Film Archive Is Saving Movies One Reel at a Time
My war: wartime photographs by US soldiers in Vietnam
Taking Cues from the Cue Dot: a Providence-based Effort to Preserve Film Projection History
Chicago – Leather Archives & Museum marks 25th anniversary
Nat Turner’s Bible Gave the Enslaved Rebel the Resolve to Rise Up
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms
Welcome to television: a look back through the archives on Australian TV’s 60th anniversary
Staff at National Gallery of Australia told their jobs won’t exist on Monday
Malaysia Records Management Society – Records is an Internet of things
Tahiti – Foncier : l’affaire des généalogistes clandestins à la barre du tribunal
China – Historical archives released in memory of Mukden Incident
India – Right to be forgotten has voluntary group worried
India – House of Lost Song
India – Shivaji’s letters and other treasures from history at the Maharashtra State Archives
Europe / Europa
Does the right to be forgotten ruling threaten our right to know?
Transcribing Europeana 1914-1918
Europeana – Who takes care of workers’ life stories?
Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto to open, be available online
Polish Ministry of Defense to Declassify 2010 Smolensk Plane Crash Archive Materials
The danger in Poland’s frontal attack on its Holocaust history
Reichsmarks, a Nazi badge and two volumes of Mein Kampf: Nazi time capsule from 1934 found buried in cement at Hitler’s former training school
Croatia – Former Bundestag member Vera Lengsfeld for opening archives of Yugoslav communist secret service
Greece – Untangling the tale of a Jewish WWII orphan in Thessaloniki
Digisam (Sweden) – Memory of the future
Jesuit Archives: treasure trove of history
Right to Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women’s Suicide
Patrimoine : histoire(s) en stock aux archives nationales à Paris
Boîte à tristesse et fleurs en papier… les Archives de Paris exposent les hommages des attentats pour les Journées du patrimoine
L’affaire des archives volées de la franc-maçonnerie : le dernier trésor de la rue Cadet
La Société nationale des chemins de fer ouvre 160 ans d’archives extraordinaires
Ex-IRA man Anthony McIntyre wins challenge to Police Service of Northern Ireland’s attempt to gain Boston tapes
Irish Film Institute launches IFI Player, an online archive of Irish film history
New footage of JFK in Ireland is revealed in film archive
National Library of Scotland finds new home at Kelvin Hall
Scotland – Heroic work of frontline WW1 nurses revealed in rare archives
Glasgow University archivists find John Knox’s Bible
Glasgow women’s library: a treasure trove that shows how far feminism has come
UK National Archives – The Nefertiti affair: the history of a repatriation debate
UK National Archives – Genuine hardship in the Military Service Tribunals
The British Library’s Greek Manuscripts Project
British Library – Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Phase 1 completed
British Library – East India Company records to go online
British Library – Letters from Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, September 1916
British Library – Web Archiving Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
How the British Library is using SEO to become a digital media publisher
UK is blessed with more than one outstanding women’s archive
History repeating: how tech is changing the way we explore the past
How Vague Historical Writings Help Scientists Predict Floods
File format identification at Norfolk Record Office
Letters reveal English artist’s unsporting attacks on Picasso
Meet the Woman who Is Preserving the Smell of History
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Citing National Security, Israel Likely to Keep Army File on Palestinian Refugees from 1948 Sealed
United Arab Emirates – Sultan proffers rare manuscripts to Al Qasimia University
International
Shared Experiences of Indigenous Peoples in the Word Intellectual Property Organization Negotiating Process
Reuters Video Archive to be made available through Reuters Media Express
Postcard from the past: a nostalgic glimpse into holidays of yesteryear
Engaging the world’s libraries with Wikipedia: what are the opportunities?
What to do about damaged records
L’archivage des données: tendon d’achille des data?
How an Imaginary Island Stayed on Maps for Five Centuries
Le processus information
Big data hits $46 billion in revenue and counting
How the Pokémon GO Phenomenon has Impacted Security and Surveillance