Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Leather, Skin and Fur
NARA – Social Media Strategy 2017-2020 (for Comments)
Confédération Suisse et Swisspeace – La Suisse en tant que refuge pour des archives en danger ?
Archives de l’État du Valais (Suisse) – Rapport annuel 2015
De la communauté / From the community
United Nations – Access Policy for the Records Held by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
EAD, ISAD(G) and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Information and Records Management Society – A Guide for Guarding Personal Information in the Workplace
Coalition for Networked Information – Privacy in the Age of Analytics
Article – L’enjeu du web de données pour l’édition scientifique
Editing Audio with Audacity
Publications
Arbido : périodique de l’Association des Archivistes suisse et de Bibliothèque Information Suisse, 2/2016
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 3 (September 2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 9 (September 2016)
Book – A Thousand Cuts: the Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers who Saved the Movies
Book – American Treasures: the Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address
Book – Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals
Book – Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction
Book – Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century: Archives, Stories, Memories
Book – Memory and Democratization: Memory, Politics and Social Movements in Mexico, Turkey and El Salvador
Book – Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice
Book – The Red Baron: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
Book – The Brontës: a Family Writes
Book – Data Stream Management
Livre – Auschwitz : l’archive et le témoin
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webcast – Conservation Science and the Daguerreotype: Preserving our Earliest Photographic Treasures
September 1, 2016
On the Trace: Passing, Presence and the Persistence of the Past
September 22-23, 2016, University of Copenhagen
On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
October 21, 2016, New York
UK National Archives – Archives at Night: Victorian Crime
October 28, 2016, Kew
Computational Archival Science: Digital Records in the Age of Big Data
December 8, 2016, Washington D.C.
12th International Digital Curation Conference
February 20-23, 2017, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Sur le web / On the web
International Council on Archives Section of Professional Associations – Film Festival: People’s Award
A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal spies suddenly intercepting 26 times more Canadian phone calls and communications
Editorial: All together now! Give us a portrait gallery!
Files show what U.K. diplomats really thought of 1980s Canada, but were too polite to say
Library and Archives Canada – Lucy Maud Montgomery collection promoted in podcast
Library and Archives Canada – 69 Days as Prime Minister: the Legacy of Sir Charles Tupper
Canadian Photography Institute aims to be a centre of photographic study, display
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum Has Got Game
World Photo Day and Newfoundland and Labrador Collections
Alberta woman’s historic diary celebrates early homestead life
Archives Alberta – The Exhibit Series: Lighting
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: I think it will be over pretty soon…
BAnQ – Une cicatrice en plein centre-ville de Montréal: l’autoroute Ville-Marie
UBC acquires rare hand-printed Victorian Chaucer volume
University of Toronto hires new librarian to focus on indigenous issues
University of Alberta Libraries Announces Availability of Subscription Expenditures Data
Alice Albarda on her Dalhousie University Archives Internship
Ontario Jewish Archives – Art exhibit evokes memory of Yiddish creamery sign
Behind one Toronto library’s seedy initiative with a lot of growth potential
Le registre de plans des propriétés de la Ville de Montréal (1900-2000)
Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque to extend opening hours, expand digital collection
Winnipeg police share archived mugshots from early 1900s
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Projets d’étudiant 2016
Société historique du Saguenay – 40 000 photos d’archives numérisées
Timiskaming First Nation : l’histoire trouble de la première réserve autochtone d’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Cambridge (Ontario) – Flash from the past: readers offer clues to postcard mysteries
Peterborough, Ontario, opens time capsule from 1864
Saanich Archives (B.C.) tackles oral history project
Brantford (Ontario) – School archives outgrowing space
Privatisation du service des archives au CISSS de Laval
Corner Brook (Newfoundland) – Matthew Connolly thinks family heirloom best belongs in the museum
Museum exhibit to focus on Chinese history in Kamloops (B.C.) through new lens
Art Gallery of Northumberland (Ontario) seeks First World War artifacts
Bob Egan leaving Blue Rodeo to work at Kitchener Public Library
The National Heritage Defeatist Strategy
A mini-taxonomy of digitization
Afrique / Africa
Somalia to reopen National Library Soon: the president
Islamic extremist’s trial over Timbuktu cultural destruction to open at The Hague
Militant who Destroyed Mali Cultural Sites Pleads Guilty to War Crimes
South African History Archives – A day in the archive: preserving struggle banners
Amériques / Americas
Scientists uncover pre-colonial Mexican manuscript hidden for 500 years using high-tech imaging
NARA – The future of preserving the past
NARA – The Wartime Films Project: Setting Goals and Intended Outcomes for User-Centered Design Pilots
NARA – The Seizure of European Records during World War II
Vince Foster files have disappeared from National Archives
The Pentagon’s use of Freedom of Information Act is flawed. Now it wants to make it even stricter
FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe
The Clinton emails and proper digital records storage
Authority Catalogers-in-Training at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
The new Nixon presidential library’s challenge: fairly depicting a failed presidency
Society of American Archivists – Archivists, donors, and the grieving process
National Information Standards Organization Launches New Project to Create a Flexible API Framework for E-Content in Libraries
State Archivist Aims to Find, Commemorate Indiana’s Founding Fathers
As former internees die, California State University, Fullerton’s Japanese American Oral History Project becomes even more important
Northern Arizona University archives shows life at Grand Canyon a century ago
Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century
The Race to Save the Films we Love
How One Audio Archivist Works to Preserve Yellowstone’s Iconic Sounds
Alaska – The man who collects sounds
Open gov groups team up on new database of local open data policies
The Epidemic Archives of the Future will Be Born Digital
Rogue archivists are creating a copy of Gawker.com so that it will never die
Meet the people trying to save today’s news as tomorrow’s history
Harsh letter written by Bonnie and Clyde to former gang member up for auction
Love Letters and the Digital Turn
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Mission accomplished: LGBTI radio saved
Australia’s rich food and lolly history seen in 150-year-old Nestle archives
No judicial standard yet in Japan over right to be forgotten
Vanuatu – Archives Reveal Massacres on Santo, Malekula
Island Culture Archival Support – Fiji Project 2016
High Tech Shelf Help: Singapore’s Library Robot
India – Literary manuscripts must be well preserved for future generations: President Mukherjee
India – Sindh Culture Department swallows Rs 40m allocated for Ganj Risalo manuscript’s preservation
Europe / Europa
Bulgaria – Many thousands of communist-era Military Intelligence staff records destroyed
Digitising of seals from the Archives of the Bohemian Crown
Romania – Socialist Modernism photography series by Bureau for Art and Urban Research aims to help preserve Eastern Bloc architecture
The Jewish father of the Reich’s first lady
Séjourner aux archives du Bundestag : panorama des sources parlementaires allemandes
Spain – Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read
Switzerland’s ETH-Bibliothek is uploading 134,000 images to Wikimedia Commons
France – Droit d’auteur : cession de droit d’exploitation : ce qui a changé dans le code
Archives de France – Préparation des versements : conversion des formats de fichiers
De l’intérêt de la cotation multiple en archivistique
Des moines abandonnent l’archivage électronique de documents pour devenir brasseurs de bière
L’info était bidon… mais elle est toujours en ligne sur ton site, coco
Ireland – National Archives warn rule change would bring untenable pressure on their service
Ireland – Police files on Victorian villains finally go public
Ireland – Magdalene Laundries archive to be searchable online
Ledger showing damage to Scottish church buildings during WWII to be donated to archive
New Software Helps Uncover History with New Bilingual Archives Wales Website
UK – Files reveal approved school drug trial plans in 1960s
UK National Archives – Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from 1984 and 1985 released
UK National Archives – Tracking the market in manuscripts
UK National Archives – Daily life in Alexandra Palace internment camp
British Library – Hidden horoscopes and puzzling predictions in Papyrus 98
Fife’s treasures to be safeguarded by new £2.6 million archive
Wellcome Library – What did the Victorians make of spectacles?
London – Liberal Jews support gender and faith archive project
A 1975 Letter Reveals Stanley Kubrick’s Advice to Theaters Showing Barry Lyndon
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirate’s and UK’s National Archives sign agreement
Israel – Think about it: the State Archive
Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time
International
How digitized changed historical research
The mysterious ancien origins of the book
Not on the map: cartographic omission from New England to Palestine
From airbrush to filters to AI… The robots enter the photographic archive
At scale, at large: Wikipedia & Libraries
Librarians in the Wild: Selling Librarian Skills Outside of Libraries
The secret libraries of history
How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying their Instagram Photos
Is Wikileaks putting people at risk?