Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Plan 2021–2022
Chaire de recherche en exploitation des ressources informationnelles (Daniel J. Caron) – Transformation de l’administration publique vers le numérique et gestion documentaire : revue de la littérature et réflexion sur l’avenir
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (New Zealand’s Audiovisual Archives) – Briefing to the Incoming Ministers
Luxembourg – Stratégie Gouvernance électronique 2021-2025
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Tableau de tri du Service des médias et des communications
De la communauté / From the community
Royal Society of Canada – Remembering is a Form of Honouring: Preserving the COVID-19 Archival Record
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Strengthening Canadian User Rights through Shared Understanding: Adapting the Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use for Canada
International Council on Archives – Public release of Records in Contexts-Ontology 0.2
Digital Preservation Coalition – Technology Watch Guidance Note: Which Checksum Algorithm should I Use?
Digital Preservation Coalition – Pragmatic Audiovisual Preservation Technology Watch Report
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Our Sustained Commitment to Native Communities: Adoption of the Protocols as Ongoing Collection Management Process
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Personalizing the History of Mathematics through Institution-Specific Archival Materials
Digital Repository of Ireland – Using Digital Archives for Academic Research
American Land Title Association & Property Records Industry Association – Information Shielding: Best Practices and FAQ
Best Practices: http://member.pria.us/i4a/doclibrary/getfile.cfm?doc_id=199
Association of European Research Libraries – Best Practices for Library Linked Open Data (LOD) Publication
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries – Future Thinking: ASERL’s Resource Guide to Controlled Digital Lending for Research Libraries
Publications
International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion, vol. 5, no. 1 (2021)
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 30, no. 2 (2020)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 39, no. 1 (2021)
Library Management, vol. 42, no. 1-2 (2021)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 17, no. 3 (2021)
Free eBook – The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Book – Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications
Book – FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980: the Eagle is Watching
Book – Treasures of the New York Public Library
Book – Sharing your Family History Online: a Guide for Family Historians
Book – History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies
Book – Intellectual Property and the Law of Ideas
Book – Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide
Book – Word Association Thematic Analysis: a Social Media Text Exploration Strategy
Book – Towards a Digital Epistemology: Aesthetics and Modes of Thought in Early Modernity and the Present Age
Book – Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings
Livre – Archives nationales d’outre-mer : mode d’emploi
Livre – Nostalgies contemporaines : médias, cultures et technologies
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Fonds at the University of Toronto Scarborough Libary Archives: Virtual Launch
February 26, 2021
World Information Architecture Day Toronto 2021
February 27, 2021
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – The who, what, and where of Persistent Identifiers: a Six-part Webinar Series Devoted to All Things PID
March 3 – May 12, 2021
Ontario Jewish Archives – Celebrate International Women’s Day by Honouring Dr. May Cohen
March 8, 2021
Fédération des milieux documentaires – Introduction au Web sémantique
9 mars 2021
New Works – Victoria Lemieux: Searching for Trust
March 24, 2021
Virtual Book Discussion – As a Matter of Fact: Convincing the World that Archives Matter
March 25, 2021
An Introduction to the Manitoba Archival Information Network
March 29, 2021
Digital Humanities Summer Institute – East
April 26-30, 2021
Curating Online Exhibitions
February 26, 2021
Fictioning Archives and the Future of Archival Silences
March 2, 2021
International and National Copyright Policy Action for Open Access
March 8, 2021
Multilingual Publishing in Digital Humanities
March 10, 2021
Digital Archive and Canon
March 10, 2021
Indiana University – Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) Virtual Tour
March 10, 2021
Tips for Security and Compliance in Microsoft Teams
March 11, 2021
Fair Forever? Fairer for Longer: Digital Preservation and the European Open Science Cloud
March 18, 2021
The Shock of the Record: why Archives Matter
March 18, 2021
Planning for Digitisation
March 22, 2021
Collaborating for Impact: Creating a Racial Justice Blog Series to Connect the Past to the Present
March 25, 2021
Archives and Records Association Section for New Professionals – Dissertation Showcase #1
March 25, 2021
Archival Imaginaries
April 2, 2021
Immaterial Archives: an African Diaspora Poetics of Loss
April 9, 2021
Methodologies of Working in Cold War Archives: Facts, Values and Archival Ecologies
October 14-16, 2021
2021 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
November 29 – December 1, 2021, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – A New Google Map to Search for Indigenous-related Collection Items
Heritage Newfoundland Video – Folklore DIY Tip of the Day: how to Make a Tape Log for a Recorded Audio Interview
Simon Fraser University – New Digital Collection: Dispatches from the Poetry Wars
Simon Fraser University Archives – Github Site
From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Maisie Hamilton
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – No Meeting Days
Society of American Archivists Video – Encoded Archival Standards: a Primer
Video – The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity & Resistance
Vidéo – Mémoir (chives) : une journée d’étude à découvrir
Scottish Council on Archives Podcast – Professor Michelle Caswell
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Hungary) Online Exhibition – Records Uncovered: Gay and Lesbian Histories in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1945-1999
Slides – The Current State of Freedom of Information (in Ontario)
Slides – From Collections as Data to Collections as Infrastructure: Building the GLAM Workbench
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Online discussion about Canadian Government Consultation paper on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Denied Entry
Library and Archives Canada – The extraordinary life of John Freemont Smith: a Black History Month Co-Lab challenge
Library and Archives Canada – Co-Lab Updates for February
Preserving the past through home video, Manitoba Home Movie Archive project reopens
Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner – Treaty archives now organized, available on line
Québec – Fermeture de la bibliothèque du ministère de la Culture
University of Toronto researchers train artificial intelligence to read difficult-to-decipher medieval texts
Université Laval – Soyez écoresponsable : gérez vos courriels
Engaging with the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition
Les archives religieuses au Québec : bien public patrimonial ?
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia – Southern Africa Diaspora Part II: Apartheid
Le Centre des archives fransaskoises s’est offert un numériseur dernier cri
Un musée régional de 28 M$ à Gatineau : quatre sites en analyse
Ottawa – Why a decades-old dispute over Algonquin ancestry is key to a city hall controversy
Vancouver Archives – Acquisition Demystified: Community Contributions to the Archives
Eleven Vintage Crowd Photos in Toronto that Now Seem Otherworldly
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2021/02/11-vintage-crowd-photos.html
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – What’s the Deal with the Watermark?
Summerland Museum and Archives Society (British Columbia) launches membership drive
Bowen Island Museum & Archives (British Columbia) seeking street name histories
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Les faux sauniers et le peuplement de la Nouvelle-France
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Pierre Pépin Ancêtre des Laforce du Québec
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Finding a Space
The Photo Album of a Legendary British Columbia Mountaineer and Scientist
Montreal publisher launches online campaign to add Cree to Google’s translation software
Diary of a postwar Saint John housewife contains revelations for historian granddaughter
Un fauteuil sur la Seine, un regard vers le passé par les archives
Afrique / Africa
Ethiopian heritage under attack as reports of massacre emerge
Sudan takes steps to strengthen the safeguarding of its living heritage
Guinée – Mar Verde : premières révélations des archives portugaises
Archives du Maroc reçoit un répertoire de la mémoire du Parlement
Amériques / Americas
Juridiction spéciale pour la paix – Une politique institutionnelle d’archivage en Colombie
NARA – Coal Mining in Alaska: Coal Fields of the Alaska Engineering Commission
NARA – Spotlight: Finding Footage for National History Day Projects
Library of Congress – Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda Métraux and Edward Lorenz Papers
Library of Congress – The Marrakesh Treaty in Action: Exciting Progress in Access to Published Works for the Blind and Print-Disabled Communities
Library of Congress Acquires Courtroom Sketches of Trials on Police Brutality Against Rodney King
Library of Congress – Black History Portraits: the Famous and the Forgotten
Library of Congress – Afro-Latinos: Shaping the American story
National Library of Medicine – Nursing and Libraries: Powerful Forces in Motion
Obama Presidential Center groundbreaking set for early fall
Groups press Biden to commit to transparency
ArchiveSocial Preserves Presidential History: Curating more than 20 terabytes of Trump social media records for public access
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/archivesocial-preserves-presidential-history-301233882.html
National Gallery of Art Announces Launch of Kress Collection Digital Archive
Society of American Archivists – Spotlight on Digital Collections: Black History Month
Forgotten blueprints of segregated hospitals in Georgia brought to light
Stanford University archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
Yale University – Beinecke to make Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers collection available to the public
University of California Berkeley – The Intersection of Archives and Natural History
University of Iowa – The Digital Sixties: Bridging Generations and Scholarship in Online Archives: Part 1: Uptight and Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s
Time is of the essence for Auburn University Archives in saving videotapes
West Point football was all-White until 1966. So why does this 1920s photo show an all-Black squad?
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Announces Online Museum Access through Google Arts and Culture
Once buried, a cache of images from Poland’s Lodz Ghetto emerges at the Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Genealogists work to help African Americans break through the 1870 brick wall
The national archives of the Presbyterian Church digitizes records of historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Roswell archivist’s video shines light on city’s Black history
Mystery of 60-year-old Alaska tourist photos is solved
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Together we’ll show the world: Telecom Expo Info
Rare manuscript from Spain to be given to University of Guam
South Korea launches integrated health information management app
India – Conserving a glimpse of Kerala’s political history
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Frederick Douglass in Europe: transatlantic perspectives on American abolitionist and anti-slavery campaigner
Europeana – Mother tongues: four languages of the African diaspora
Identity Reconstruction : Summary of the research project undertaken by the Auschwitz Museum and the Arolsen Archives
Czech Film Archive begins unboxing treasures from director Ivan Passer’s estate
Dive into personal photo archives from the Balkans with this crowdsourced Instagram account
Les services secrets allemands cachent des fichiers Eichmann: un historien français dépose une plainte
National Library of Luxembourg – Collaborative collecting at webarchive.lu
France – Profession : archiviste paléographe
Un timbre pour célébrer les 200 ans de l’École nationale des Chartes
The 120 Days of Sodom: France seeks help to buy ‘most impure tale ever written
Projet de doctorat à l’Institut national du patrimoine (France) – L’intelligence artificielle au service de la conservation-restauration : l’utilisation de la segmentation sémantique pour l’évaluation sanitaire des registres du Parlement de Paris conservés au Archives nationales
Comment le journal l’Équipe a numérisé cinq millions d’archives photos en quinze mois
Scots prison’s Victorian mugshot helps solve century-old family mystery in Australia
UK Government – New guidance for publishing data
UK Parliamentary Archives – Haunted Glass and Hidden History: details from our photographic collections
UK National Archives – Artificial intelligence and archives: current challenges and prospects of digital and born-digital archives
UK National Archives – The extraordinary life of Douglas Bader
UK National Archives – Fanny and Stella: piecing together LGBTQ+ histories and telling the stories
British Library – 250,000 sounds preserved by Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
British Library – Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia digitised by the Endangered Archives Programme
Georgian Collections in the British Library
British Library – Illuminated Canon Tables
Behind the scenes at the British Library: John Lee, Publisher, and Maria Vassilopoulos, Publishing Sales and Marketing Manager
Archive Update: Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives
Lloyd’s seeks archivist to investigate slave trade links
Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative – Keeping the Past Alive Online
Norwich Castle: fascinating medieval manuscripts to be restored
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – One of the World’s Oldest Esther Scrolls Comes Home
Rare Israeli Bedouin audio archive sheds light on nomadic society
Egypt: Treasure trove of Christian manuscripts never included in Bible found in church
International
Les archives de la Société des Nations : un patrimoine bientôt en ligne
Dans les pays anglo-saxons, des destructions d’archives inquiétantes
Artprice’s archive is the global alternative after the closure to art professionals of Christie’s London archives
How have Libraries and Archives changed in the Digital Age?
Foundations of Visual Literacy: Historic Preservation and Image Management
Fundamentals of the Appraisal Process in Archives
What’s in a format
What is the Value of Records and Information Management?
Theory of Bitcoin looks at how Bitcoin handles long-term document retention
Using PhotoRec to Recover Deleted Photos from a Memory Card
Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?