Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Cloud Adoption Strategy and Security Control Profile for Cloud-based IT Services
U.S. Information Security Oversight Office – Annual Report
White House – Managing Information as a Strategic Resource
European Commission – Guidelines on Fair Data Management in Horizon 2020
National Libray of Wales – Annual Review 2015-2016
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists and Rare Books and Manuscripts Section – Standard for Measuring Public Services (for Comments)
Europeana for Smart Cities: a Visual Report
International Federation of Film Archives – Film Duplication Resolution Tests
UNESCO – World Heritage in the High Seas: an Idea whose Time has Come
Paper – A Historic Approach to Studying Traditional Music: Valuing Older Collections
Publications
The Electronic Library, vol. 34, no. 4 (2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 8 (August 2016)
Dh+Lib, July 2016 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities in the Library / of the Library)
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Bulletin bibliographique en conservation-restauration (avril-juillet 2016)
Grey Litterature Network Service Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 3 (2016)
Ons stad: magazine de la ville de Luxembourg, no. 112, 2016 (numéro spécial: archives)
Book – The Archive Project: Archival Research in the Social Sciences
Book – Digital Preservation Essentials
Book – Translating Expertise: the Librarian’s Role in Translational Research
Book – Data Privacy: Principles and Practice
Book – Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change
Book – Knowledge Creation and Transfer: New Research
Book – Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites
Book – Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
Book – War Memory and Commemoration
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Letters from Battle River: the Adventures of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson
August 11-21, 2016, Edmonton
Milton Historical Society (Ontario) – Launch of 2017 Commemorative Calendar
August 27, 2016, Milton
Information Summit 2016
September 22, 2016, Vancouver
Archives of Ontario Exhibit – Footpaths to Freeways: the Artistry of Moma Markovich
September 20 to October 14, 2016, Toronto
ARMA National Capital Region Information Management Days
November 14-15, 2016, Ottawa
Indigenous Archives in the Digital Age
September 9-10, 2016, Dartmouth College (USA)
eCourse – Cutting the Red Tape: Finding and Using E-Government Tools and Resources
Beginning September 12, 2016
Webinar – Data Review and Publishing Standards
September 27, 2016
Cultural Literacy in Europe: Second Biennial Conference
May 10-12, 2017, Warsaw (Poland)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Kindred Spirits After All: the Lucy Maud Montgomery Collection
Vidéos des Musées de la civilisation – Chantier des archives : Contrôle du climat et Mise en réserve
Contrôle du climat : http://youtu.be/1AEzI-un4So
Mise en réserve : http://youtu.be/TpdsmPi4j5o
State Library Victoria – Video: 150 years of Beatrix Potter
Video – Enhancing Library Discovery with Linked Open Data
UK National Archives Podcast – First Lady: the Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Data and the Gendering of Parliamentary Language
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The RCMP Is Trying to Sneak Facial and Tattoo Recognition Into Canada
Federal government’s Canada.ca one-website project proving costly and confusing
Canada needs beefed up online privacy consent laws
Recordkeeping Standards in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Three more frequently asked genealogy questions
Library and Archives Canada – Empire Marketing Board
Canada Science and Technology Museums – Open by Default is a Leadership Choice
Nova Scotia history makes digital jump: most legislature debates, back to 1868, now available online
Watchdog calls out Ontario Liberals for concealing data
Ontario – WayHome Festival Accused of Permit Infractions that may Have Disturbed Sacred Native Sites
Québec – En 2016-2017, les centres et services d’archives se feront tirer le portrait … statistique, grâce à un soutien financier de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
BAnQ – Le recueil des délais de conservation des documents de la santé et des services sociaux : une nouvelle approche
BAnQ – « Être ou ne pas être libre! voilà la question… » – Robert Gurik, «Hamlet, prince du Québec», Acte 2, Scène 2
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: I remain, as B4, GeoB
Wikipedia and Archives: Accessibility and the Greater Good
University of Calgary – Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to broaden access to EMI Music Canada Archive while preserving original audio materials
Collection donated to University of Manitoba Archives includes Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women materials
University of Toronto – This massive, open-access database will answer your questions about human cultures
University of Toronto – Teaching Appointments to the Faculty of Information
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Catholics in the Golden Age of Radio
Toronto – Remembering Fort York’s Beginnings
Montréal sous l’oeil artiste de nos photographes : les diapositives couleur de la série Ad (1961-1986)
Winnipeg – Dalnavert Museum: Glimpse of Canada’s First Prime Minister
Shawinigan – Mariage de la culture et du numérique
Medecine Hat (Alberta) – Archives continually adapting to meet community’s needs
Five Things in the Peel Archives (Ontario) about Eating
Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives (B.C.) open again
Fanshawe Library (Ontario) dealing with bed bugs
Human bones found in Gaspé could be from 1847 shipwreck
Finding Popular Images within a Web Archive: Exploring GeoCities
Tell your kids to write letters home from their travels. You’ll never regret it
Afrique / Africa
Post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Revisionism in Liberia
Le journaliste-photographe français Richard Zéboulon fait don aux Archives du Maroc d’un fonds important de documents photographiques
South African History Archive – Pillars of our archive
Amériques / Americas
Can Twitter Fit Inside the Library of Congress?
NARA – New Special Project Released by the National Declassification Centre: Treasures from World War II US Navy Command Files
NARA – Sharing historic moments through Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection
Copyright Office Intent on Changing the Part of Copyright that Protects Libraries & Archivists, Even Though no One Wants it Changed
Texas – Rick Perry’s Digital Legacy Gives Texas Archivists New Momentum
Uncopied and unarchived, governor’s handwritten notes mostly elude Maine’s open records law
New Jersey Supreme Court to decide if government metadata is public
California State Archives launches Facebook page showcasing California history
Duke University – Forces of Change against Forces of Death: the Jean Rabel Massacre in the Radio Haiti Archives
University of Miami – Florida Menu Collection: a New Taste of Florida History
Pennsylvania State University – Preserving the past: Visual Resources Centre curates digital art database
Building a sense of one Yale Library: Q&A with Susan Gibbons
Lafayette College – Old Easton Library records, now online, offer window into reading habits in 1800s
Researchers Push Back Against Journals’ Demands That Medical Data Be Shared
Getty Images is facing a $1 billion lawsuit for selling photos that were in the public domain
New York man finds slave ancestor’s bill of sale
Judge opts not to penalize Los Angeles over destruction of documents
The Boston company that’s storing most of MTV’s archives
A Role of a Lifetime: Dallas Summer Musicals Archivist
The architect who became a diamond: a conceptual artist devises an ingenious plan for negotiating access to a hidden archive
Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the Anarchist Bringing Encryption to All of Us
A Historian in the Stacks: Finding a Professional Home in the Library
Failure to Register LeBron James’ Tattoo as Copyright Proves Costly
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Save your Census data for future generations
State Library of Queensland (Australia) acquires rare piece of Queensland music history
South Australia Police adopting facial-recognition technology
Germaine Greer’s archive: digging up digital treasure from the floppy disks
Australia – Victoria University of Wellington Selects Ex Libris Rosetta for Preserving and Managing Digital Assets
Taiwan – Top archive to bar mainland China scholars
Secret Japanese Military Maps Could Open a New Window on Asia’s Past
Collection, storage and transfer of data in Hong Kong
Malaysia – National Archives holds event to promote the digitisation of important documents
India – Over one lakh (100 000) manuscripts catalogued in Himachal Pradesh
Europe / Europa
Ukraine – Archives open to reveal lost lives of victims of Soviet secret police
Cyprus – Cabinet approves funding for archives’ research for missing persons
Slovenian digital archives to get EUR 3.2m in European Union funds
Heinrich Himmler’s newly discovered diaries reveal how SS monster fainted when Jew’s brain splattered on to his coat
Czechs search for dead heroes who killed SS chief Heydrich
Germany – Lawyer says 90-year-old who defaced crossword art now owns copyright
Free photos at the national archives: Luxembourg nation branding, 1950s style
Belgique : les archives d’Etat publient plus de 6.000 photos de 14-18
Attentats de Paris : près de 7.700 documents récoltés par les Archives de la capitale
L’indexation collaborative peut elle tuer les associations de généalogie ?
UK – More than 400 government files missing from National Archives
The National Archives is the first government agency library in the UK to move to open source with the Koha library management system
UK National Archives – The 1966 World Cup and diplomatic games
British Library – Zines resurgent
British Library – A Drunken Russian Pilot and the Bombing of Mecca 1925
Labour party pioneer Keir Hardie was branded an enemy of the state and faced life in prison for promoting ill will newly-published archives reveal
Green light for new photographic collections body
Sunlight destroying Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History exhibits
Lancaster University – Postcards provide link to Edwardian social media
Smuggled diplomatic diaries from dawn of Cold War to be made freely available online
Staffordshire World War One documents made public
Companies House proposal to wipe data on dissolved firms sooner decried
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Hundreds of Yemenite Children Were Abducted in State’s Early Years, Says Israeli Cabinet Minister
International
The Association of Research Libraries to Make SPEC Kits Open Access Online
Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Archiving as an Act of Resistance
As formats change, data migration strategies needed
Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers
Online Archive Documents Destruction of Ancient Sites
Transcribing Manuscripts Online with EMMO
Gestion ou gouvernance de l’information : comment définir le terme information ?
The best cities in the world for book lovers
Making Algorithms Accountable
On weaponized transparency