Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Performance Report 2014-2015
Auditor General of Canada – Report 4: Information Technology Shared Services
National Archives of Australia – Minimum Metadata Set
National Archives of Australia – Business Systems Assessment Framework
NARA – Documenting your Public Service (2016 Web Edition)
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO/PERSIST Project – Expert Group on Appraisal Resources
PREFORMA (PREservation FORMAts for Culture Information/e-Archives) – First Prototype Report
E-ARK Project – Four New Deliverables
MODS and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Canadian Historical Association Article – Solution to the Collection of Archival Images
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 31 (2016)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (2016)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 34, no. 1 (2016)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 27 (2015)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 42, no. 2 (2016)
Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1 (2016)
First Monday, vol. 21, no. 2 (February 2016)
Cinéma & Cie: International Film Studies Journal, vol.15, no. 24, Spring 2015 (Special Issue: Archives in Human Pain: Circulation, Persistence, Migration)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1 (January-February 2016)
Le bulletin de l’Association française des détenteurs de documents visuels et sonores, no. 31 (Automne et hiver 2015)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 42, no. 3 (February-January 2016)
Europeana Sounds Newsletter (January 2016)
Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley (Ont.), vol. 19, no. 4 (February 2016)
Trent University Archives News, no. 56 (January 2016)
ISO/TS 18344:2016 – Effectiveness of Paper Deacidification Processes
Book – Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
Book – Addressing the Copyright Issues of Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Analyses and Proposals
Book – Concise European Copyright Law (Second Edition)
Book – Implementing and Assessing Use-Driven Acquisitions: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Big Data over Networks
Book – Find the Information you Need: Resources and Techniques for Making Decisions, Solving Problems, and Answering Questions
Book – Literature in the Digital Age: an Introduction
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
New Brunswick Museum Archives Talk: Sweets for my Sweet
February 13, 2016, Saint John
Re-org Atlantic: One-day Conference
March 4, 2016, Truro (Nova Scotia)
École d’été Montréal numérique
15 au 21 mai, 2016, Longueuil
Community Librarian Camp 2016
September 12-13, 2016, Orillia (Ontario)
Free Online Course – Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime
Starting February 1, 2016
Webinar – Threats to Openness in the Digital World
February 9, 2016
Sixth International Workshop on Linked Web Data Management
March 15, 2016, Bordeaux (France)
Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations
May 30 – June 1, 2016, Oxford
Digital Library Curation and Collections
June 13-17, 2016, Zadar (Croatia)
Archiving Email Symposium (Videos Now Available)
June 3-5, 2015, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Rising from the Ashes
Petition – Open the Archives of the Yugoslavia Tribunal
Vidéo – Exposition : au coeur du secret d’État (Archives nationales de France)
Classical Works Knowledge Base
Society of American Archivists – New Blog: ArchivesAWARE
Vidéo – Anne Frank : domaine public ou pas ?
Video – Choosing a Genealogical Software Program
Baladodiffusion – L’histoire à l’ère du numérique
Jewish Women’s Archive Podcast – The Pilot’s Pilot
Slidecast – Digitisation Planning for Museums: Cornwall Digital Network Group 2016
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland signs Trans-Pacific Partnership deal in New Zealand
Canada is about to sign the Pacific trade deal. What next?
Canada’s Information Commissioner calls for tougher rules around deleting, preserving emails
Information Management Results in the 2014-2015 Departmental Performance Reports
Library and Archives Canada names Anne Lindsay as the Documentary Heritage Communities Program Regional Ambassador for the North and indigenous projects
Library and Archives Canada – What is Mikan?
Library and Archives Canada – Discover 100 years in the struggle for women’s rights, on the Rideau Canal Skateway
My quest to identify the 528 men who rebuilt Centre Block: this iconic picture should be hanging in Centre Block and it should be at the National Archives
The Canadian Library Association’s membership decline
Falling Canadian dollar raises longstanding issue of journal costs
Canadiana.org preserves 19th-century religious periodicals
Yukon privacy commissioner in the dark about territory’s response to data breach
Nova Scotia Archives – No. 2 Construction Battalion: Nominal Roll
La bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice de retour dans le giron de BAnQ
BAnQ célèbre son 10e anniversaire : une décennie à enrichir la mémoire, la culture et le savoir de tous les Québécois
BAnQ – La description des photographies du fonds du journal La Presse. Pouvez-vous nous aider? – suite et fin.
Les archives de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue à l’honneur à la BAnQ
BAnQ – Archives du mois : un clin d’oeil de Québec
Les discours et les conférences d’Honoré Mercier téléversés dans Wikisource
Prince Edward Island exhibition sheds light on the extensive work of architect Charles Benjamin Chappell
University of Toronto acquires the world’s largest collection of Chinese restaurant menus
Early Simon Fraser University Photos Tell a Story that Frames our World
University of Waterloo – History 250 class visit to Special Collections & Archives
Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C. – New Exhibit Examines Vancouver’s Unique Architectural Heritage
Rare Gassy Jack letter, treasure trove of B.C. historic items up for auction
Vancouver city council minutes from 1800s being digitized
New photo exhibit showcases photos from daily life in 1890s Calgary
With or without LeBreton: Ottawa presses on with central library
Automotive archives opening at the Windsor Public Library
Du soutien pour le Centre d’archives régional des Îles de la Madeleine
Centre d’archives régional des Îles de la Madeleine – Capsule Conservation d’archives sur support papier
Société historique de Québec – Des archives pour le savoir et pour les yeux
Gatineau présente sa politique de données ouvertes
Smithers (B.C.) museum digitizes the past for a tech-savvy future
Dawson Creek (B.C.) budget: no money for new cops, archivist in 2016
Vernon (B.C.) man seeks owners of mysterious box of photos, jewellery, and more
Lake of the Woods Museum documents Kenora, Ontario through photographs
Carl Doughty remembered: Peterborough (Ont.) business leader was a supporter of efforts to chronicle local history
Archives de la Côte-du-Sud (La Pocatière) – Lancement des lundis historiques
Le Centre d’interprétation de Maniwaki poursuit le traitement des Archives du Studio J.R. Gauvreau
Centre d’archives de la région de Rivière-du-Loup – Exposition sur le port de mer de Gros-Cacouna et la voie maritime
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec octroie une aide de 2 380,25 $ au Comité culturel et patrimonial de Beauceville
Afrique / Africa
IFLA – New Preservation and Conservation Centre for Francophone Africa and Oral Traditions
Germany Expresses Readiness to Activate Nigeria’s Archives
Rwanda: Digitisation of Gacaca Files to Cost Rwf5.5 Billion
Musique guinéene : les archives sauvées et numérisées
Madagascar – Jean-Jospeh Rabearivelo : des manuscrits et archives sur le net
Gabon : pourquoi l’acte de naissance d’Ali Bongo Ondimba continue d’être contesté par sa demi-soeur
Amériques / Americas
Deadline approaches for recording qualified emails as federal records
11 Million Pages of CIA Files may Soon be Shared by this Kickstarter
Collaboration with Library of Congress Allows for Digital Access to Rare Books
American National Standards Institute Accreditation Board opens its ISO 16363 accreditation program
NARA – Photos from the Nazi Archives
NARA – Walk the Line (boundary with Canada)
The Library of Congress by the Numbers in 2015
94-year-old WWII veteran shares his story with Library of Congress
Library of Congress – An Interview with Anna Bryan, Rare Book Cataloger
Presidential Library Museums: Controversies
Seven of the most surreal UFO documents from the CIA archive
Judge Rules FBI Improperly Withheld Records on its Freedom of Information Act Responses
Wisconsin – Concept of transitory records should be tossed altogether, not just redefined
Maine – Old Canada Road Historical Society launches online database
Vast digitizing project will put Harvard’s colonial archives online
Oregon State University acquires archives of the founding father of American craft beer
Montana State University and Yellowstone launch new audio archives
University of South Carolina to preserve large piece of U.S. military history
Rutgers University – Managing Acquisitions and Appraisal in a Music Archive
http://appraisalsaa.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/managing-acquisitions-and-appraisal-in-a-music-archive/
Columbia University – Mapping Historical Dialogue Project Online: Invitation to Participate
Three Pennsylvania institutions – Bringing medieval works to the digital world
Godfather Author Mario Puzo’s Archives Headed to Auction
Unpublished Black History
Transcribing Early Modern Recipes with the Crowd on Shakespeare’s World
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Acquires New Hampshire Public Radio Presidential Collection
Blooks: the Arts of Books that Aren’t Explore the World of Fake Books
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – The functions of government
National Archives of Australia – 15 million items ready to roll
An Interactive Digital Archive Helps Preserve Traditional Australian Aboriginal Literature
Inside the New South Wales State Library’s $72m digitisation program
New South Wales State Records – Proposed changes to the Copyright Act 1968
French team working to ferret out Seychelles National Archives’ fungus
Taiwan Families Receive Goodbye Letters Decades After Executions
Famous Tiananmen Square Photographs Cause Controversy After Corbis Sale
National Film Archive of India turns 52
India – Manuscripts library among Khandoba’s many plans for classical Kannada
India – Help pours in to preserve rare Mussoorie manuscripts
Europe / Europa
How to Apply New EU Data Protection Regulation to Paper Records
Ancient New Testament manuscripts discovered in Greek library
Horror of Nazi Medical Experiments Emerges in Holocaust Survivor’s Account
How Documents Buried by Jewish Prisoners at Auschwitz Tell the Story of Genocide
Kosovo Asks Serbia to Open Military Archives
Serbian Photojournalists Claim Victory In Copyright Fight
Italy retrieves looted treasure linked to British art dealer as pressure builds for UK to return hundreds more artefacts
A forgotten prophet: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and the quest for a Universal Book
La Suisse a un nouveau portail pour l’Open Government Data
Suisse – Envahis de champignons, des archivistes travaillent en combinaison
Les Archives nationales de France à Fontainebleau pourraient fermer
Le fonds Olivier Messiaen entre à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Reconstituer le Paris du XIXe siècle en photographies
L’archivage électronique des emails : la valeur légale (1/3)
Partis politiques, à vos archives !
Les passeurs de mémoire des banques
Albert Einstein’s notebook and Dead Sea Scrolls fragments among historic manuscripts struggling to find buyer
An epic fail for Ireland’s data protection laws
Ireland – Sinn Fein deputy first minister Martin McGuinness in call on Britain to open files
Ireland – 1916 Exhibition at the National Photographic Archive
Trinity College-led CENDARI platform goes live for historical researchers across Europe
Martin Scorsese calls for money for Scotland’s film archive
Scotland – Archives saved from blaze at Glasgow School of Art open to public
Isle of Man – Freedom of Information Act comes into force
Labour challenges Cameron over release of Thatcher archive papers
British Library – Audiovisual archives and the Web
British Library – Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Now Online
University of Manchester Library – Rare Iranian newspaper archive documents 1979 Revolution
University of London – Born digital big data and methods for history and the humanities
University of Bradford – Free your orphans: managing orphan works risk in archives
Spending cuts hit museums and archives
This Photo Series Explores the Complicated Representations of Black Victorian Sarah Forbes Bonetta
Lost’ map of Cornwall found in collection
Preserving the past for tomorrow’s co-operators
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
1,700-year-old Burial Inscriptions Found at Northern Israel Site
Israel – Nazi War Criminal’s Plea for Pardon Is Made Public for First Time
Ancient Babylonians first to use geometry
The first phase of the Dubai Digital Library launched
Iraqi Jesuit saved 1,000 manuscripts
Swedish digital project preserves cultural heritage in Syria and other places
International
International Council on Archives – About the Expert Group on Appraisal
From letters to video interviews, archives offer insights into artists
To ZIP or not to ZIP, that is the (web archiving) question
Cloud computing standards update (ISO JTC1/SC38)
Top 5 Data Management Tips for Graduate Students
The End of Big Data