Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative – Guide to the Archives of UK Aircraft Manufacturing
Strategic Plan of the National Library of Finland 2021-2030
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Nurture, Sustain, Expand: a Retrospective Evaluation of the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture Program
De la communauté / From the community
Association des archivistes du Québec – Mémoire pour la consultation du milieu archivistique québécois sur la révision de la Loi sur les archives
Europeana – Sporting Heritage Colouring Book
Ethical Considerations and Guidelines for the Assessment of Use and Reuse of Digital Content (for Comments)
Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs – Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing
REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums Project – Cleaning and Disinfection Considerations
ARMA – How to Take your IG Program to the Next Level with Continuous Auditing and Analytics
Article – Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory: an Analysis of Archival Practices from Below in Four NGOs in Colombia
Article – Attending to Process and Data: a Research Alignment for Historical Videogame Production Artifacts and their Archives
Publications
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 37, no. 1 (2021)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 66 (2020)
Mémoire de fin d’études (Institut national du patrimoine) – Un die-in d’Act Up-Paris : étude et conservation-restauration d’une archive militante : une photographie de Tom Craig sur papier ilfochrome classic CPM 44M
Mémoire de fin d’études (Institut national du patrimoine) – La source de Jacob : étude et conservation curative d’une reliure de fortune XIXe siècle d’un exemplaire du Ein Yaaqov du rabbi Jacob Ibn Habib, édition censurée vénitienne de 1625
Livrel gratuit – Patrimoine et humanités numériques
Book – Fashion Remains: Rethinking Fashion Ephemera in the Archive
Book – If these Places Could Talk: Snapshots of Saskatchewan
Book – Ottoman Historical Documents: the Institutions of an Empire
Book – Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda
Book – Photography off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
Book – Role of Information Science in a Complex Society
Book – Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
Book – Microsoft 365 Portable Genius
Book – The Black Civil War Soldier: a Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Book – Analytical Strategies for Cultural Heritage Materials and their Degradation
Book – Navigating the Old English Poor Law: the Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836
Book – Data Protection around the World
Book – Spreadsheets for Librarians: Getting Results with Excel and Google Sheets
Livre – Archiver le temps présent : les fabriques alternatives d’archives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Writers and their Archives: a Conversation with Lawrence Hill
February 11, 2021
Certain Fragments of Knowledge: the Curious History of the World’s First Encyclopedia
February 12, 2021
Behind the Scenes at the Lake Country Museum & Archives (British Columbia)
February 15, 2021, Lake Country
Code4Lib BC Unconference
February 18-19, 2021
Association of Canadian Archivists – Legal Issues in Archival Donations
February 19, 2021
Association for Manitoba Archives – Working with Indigenous Communities
February 26, 2021
Archives Association of British Columbia – Managing Archives
April 12 – June 21, 2021
Creating a Jewish-Israeli Music Archive: Manuscripts, Recordings and More
February 7, 2021
Storytelling for Justice: how Libraries and Archives Hold History to Account
Feb. 10, 2021
Workshop – Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus
February 16-18, 2021
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology
February 17, 2021
Digital Humanities Workshop: Advanced Tools for DH
February 17, 2021
Land Back! The Importance of Oral History in First Nation Land Claims Cases
February 18, 2021
Archive Fever: Unlocking the Storytelling Potential of Film Archives
February 19, 2021
Energy Monitoring for Cultural Heritage Institutions
February 19, 2021
Assises des archives en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles: quel futur pour la mémoire ?
25 février au 7 juin 2021
Massive Open Online Course – Digital Education with Cultural Heritage
Starting March 15, 2021
Formation d’initiation à la technologie blockchain
26 mars au 2 avril 2021
Databases for 2080: Preserving Database Content for the Long Term
October 5-6, 2021
Historical Traces of European Radio Archives, 1930-1960
October 28-29, 2021
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada’s Vision 2030: we Want your Input
Video – Data as Relation: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Ethic of Care
Video – Racism and Colonial Violence in Archives
Library of Congress Video – Digital Architectural Archive Collections: Expanding Practices and Future Uses
British Library Video – The Madman’s Library: a World of Extraordinary Books
Video – REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums: Project Update and Community Reflections
Vidéo – Octave: outil de constitution et de traitement automatisé des versements électroniques
Video – Contextualising Email Archives
Carpentries-style Lesson – Computational Analysis of Catalogue Data
University of Calgary – Slides: Expanding Digital Academic Library & Archive Services in Response to COVID-19
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Close the loophole shielding cabinet documents from Access to Information requests
Canadian Copyright 2020 Year in Review
Library and Archives Canada is Lacking
Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation – “Digitization of the Photographs of British Columbia by George Hunter, RCA” images are now available
Royal British Columbia Museum – Vital Statistics events to be released in May 2021
BAnQ – La monnaie de carte : la première monnaie canadienne
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2021/02/03/la-monnaie-de-carte-la-premiere-monnaie-canadienne/
Le duo d’artistes Geneviève et Matthieu réalisera une œuvre permanente aux Archives nationales du Québec à Rouyn-Noranda
Fin des activités de la bibliothèque du ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec : le Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec déplore la perte d’un fleuron essentiel au personnel professionnel de la culture
La recherche bloquée par manque d’accès aux archives
ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Help us Create an Exhibit on LGBTQ Muslim History and Organizing in Canada
The Federated Research Data Repository is Now in Full Production
http://portagenetwork.ca/news/the-federated-research-data-repository-frdr-is-now-in-full-production/
Federated Research Data Repository Metadata Harvested by OpenAIRE
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – New acquisitions January 2021
University of Guelph Archival and Special Collections – Mammy: Unpacking anti-Blackness in Canadian food advertising history
Blackface in the Kodak Archive, Ryerson University’s Special Collections: Context for Reading Racist Images
Expanding access to digital research infrastructure at University of British Columbia
Experimenting with archives: the University of Alberta’s 2020-21 Writer-in-residence J.R Carpenter
Algoma University pair plans book about archives
Ian Milligan – Averting the Digital Dark Age
Memories Are Precious: the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada at the Service of Jesuits and Jesuit Works
Ontario Jewish Archives – Practicum Experience: Yujia Wu
Ottawa Jewish Archives – The History of Temple Israel
Vancouver Archives – New in the Public Domain 2021
How Indigenous people and Vancouver librarians are redrawing family trees that colonialism nearly erased
Burnaby Photographic Society Covid-19 Collection
North Battleford (Saskatchewan) Historic Archives offer look back to 1930s
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Turning 40 in the Whistler Village
Reflections: Frequently asked questions for the Stratford-Perth (Ontario) Archives
Chilliwack Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Pick up the Phone! History on Line One!
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Le hockey au Séminaire de Nicolet
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – General Butler: a short biography on Woodstock resident and confectioner General Butler
In 10 Years, how Will we Remember Covid? These Canadians Are Documenting the Pandemic
Toronto woman floored by colourized photo showing her father’s complete anguish at concentration camp
Vie d’archiviste: Dany Ouellet
Afrique / Africa
Guinée – Conakry : un incendie ravage toutes les archives d’état civil du gouvernorat
http://www.guineenews.org/conakry-un-incendie-ravage-toutes-les-archives-detat-civil-du-gouvernorat/
Flash is dead, but South Africa didn’t get the memo
Amériques / Americas
NARA’s Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
NARA – Now Available Online: Department of State Records
Trump wants a library. He must never have one.
A Trump library and museum: history vs. hoax
Library of Congress – The Lifecycle of Copyright: 1925 Works Enter the Public Domain
National Library of Medicine – Covid-19 Web Collecting: Reflections at One Year
National Library of Medicine – A Journey to Spur Innovation and Discovery
Why Federal Information Governance Is a Team Sport
California State Archives Launches Virtual Mini Tours
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – What Happens to Electronic Records in the Archives?
Digital Library Federation – Metadata During Covid
Florida Atlantic University Libraries Debuts Spirit of America Digital Collection
University of Iowa – New lending libraries, archives create community space for LGBTQ Iowans
University of Pittsburgh unveils more fascinating finds from George A. Romero Archival Collection
New Mexico Highlands University – Digital Memories Repository Moves Forward in New Mexico
The Dark and Stormy Archives Project: Summarizing Web Archives through Social Media Storytelling
Museum of the Bible in Washington returns around 5,000 disputed biblical objects to Egypt
Getty Institute – Photographing the Traces of Covid-19
Every Issue of Punk Planet Is Available on the Internet Archive
http://pitchfork.com/news/every-issue-of-punk-planet-is-available-on-the-internet-archive/
Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes
Shutterstock Launches The Vault, One of the Largest Photo and Video Archive Collections in the World
East Texas Oil Museum announces launch of Digital Photograph Archives
New public history collective focuses on neglected history of Latinx in Wisconsin
Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Artist Profile on Aay Preston-Myint
Is Physical Custody of Digital Archives Possible? Lifting the Lid on Data Centers
She Guarded the BLM Memorial for Months. Now it’s Preserved in Archives
Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Changing the world, one signature at a time
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Priceless Collection of 100-year-old Films Digitally Restored
Authorisation, Australian Indigenous Heritage and the Politics of Digital Curation: a Case Study
New South Wales (Australia) premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws in reckless destruction of documents
National Library of New Zealand – Singing the trail: the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
Cambodia – Website for “Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives Preservation and Digitisation Project“ launched
Maldives – President Solih inaugurates parliament’s library and digital archive
China – Shanghai to publish English archives of Soong Ching Ling
India – In praise of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library archivists who helped a thousand researchers bloom
Europe / Europa
The European Copyright Directive: Potential impacts on free expression and privacy
Historical Archives of the European Union – European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training audio-visual collection available online
The annual meeting of the European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret Police Files
Changes in Resources that Can Be Found through the National Library of Finland Search
National Library of Finland – Imperial Alexander University’s Doctoral and Scholarship Theses from 1828 to 1917 Digitised
Italy acquires Umberto Eco library and archive
Les Chartes : plongée dans la plus méconnue des grandes écoles françaises
Welsh Government U-turns on National Library of Wales cuts
UK National Archives – Becoming the inclusive archive
UK National Archives – Introducing Novice to Know-How 2.0
Hacking the British Library from home
The British Library acquires Theatre Royal Stratford East and Theatre Workshop archive
British Library – East India Company instructions for keeping records
British Library – We’re calling for your Caribbean food stories
Behind the Scenes at the British Library: Nicole Ioffredi Print Room Coordinator and Cataloguer
Oh what a lovely archive: British Library gets Joan Littlewood treasure trove
University of Manchester – Embedding digitised primary sources in your Teaching and Learning
Wiener Holocaust Library – Hundreds of Holocaust Testimonies Translated, Digitized for the First Time
Care leavers’ access to childhood records: Leveraging grassroots initiatives to impact national policy
University of Leeds – King Charles II’s Personal Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Acquired
Researching LGBTQ+ History at North East Wales Archives
Remote workers are printing confidential documents at home
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Priests, Rabbis and Sweets: a Bold Approach to Interfaith Relations
National Library of Israel – How the Jews of the Caucasus Used an Epidemic to Trick the Nazis
National Library of Israel – The Unsung Heroine-Artist who Helped Save Israel’s Wildflowers
A restored Palestinian library in Jerusalem preserves heritage, encourages research
Qatar National Library Provides Colorful Insights into our Past
Egypt – Bibliotheca Alexandria organizes virtual lecture on heritage
International
Madame Josée Kirps est nommée à la Présidence de l’Association internationale des archives francophones
This year the Blue Shield is 25
Quelles sont les tendances de l’archivage électronique en 2021 ?
Du Machine Learning aux archives
Acquisition and Appraisal for More Representative Archival Collections
Digitizing permanent records: the case for PDF/A-4
Don’t believe the hype: repositories are critical for ensuring equity, inclusion and sustainability in the transition to open access
Ten persistent myths about persistent identifiers
Facial recognition can reveal your political orientation
Why you should care about data privacy even if you have nothing to hide