Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
2014 Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada: Chapter 7: Documentary Heritage of the Government of Canada
Standing Committe on Canadian Heritage, November 25, 2014 (many Questions related to Library and Archives Canada: at 20:34, 27:54, 1:22:50)
BAnQ, Bibliothèque nationale de France et Musée canadien de l’histoire – Recueil de règles de numérisation
Library of Parliament Notes – Metadata, National Security and Law Enforcement Agencies
Library of Parliament Notes – R. v. Spencer, Internet Privacy and Parliament
UK Department for Communities and Local Government – Online Guide to Help Communities Learn about their Shared WW1 History
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – Advocacy Brochure
World Intellectual Property Organization – Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
Archives of the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island – Parish Records of Permanent Value: a Guideline for Parishes
Digital Repository of Ireland – Choosing Content Management Technologies
Society of American Archivists – Case Study: Intellectual Property Concerns in Undocumented Corporate Collections
Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation – Report on Risk, Benefit, Impact and Value
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 235, 2014 (numéro spécial: Archives des jeunesses, jeunesses des archives)
Practical Technology for Archives, no. 3 (November 2014)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 10, no. 3 (September-December 2014)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletters, vol. 34, no. 1 (Fall 2014)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 6, no. 1 (December 2014)
Free eBook – Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future
Book – A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour: a Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon (from the University of Toronto)
Book – The No-nonsense Guide to Licensing Digital Resources
Book – Metadata (Second Edition)
Book – Heritage in the Age of Digital Humanities: how Should Training Practices Evolve?
Book – The Taxobook: Applications, Implementation, and Integration in Search (Part 3 of a 3-Part Series)
Book – Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and their Management in Antiquity
Book – Repositioning Reference: New Methods and New Services for a New Age
Book – Savage Preservation: the Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Book – Information doesn’t Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Book – Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
Book – Limerick through the Lens: Pictures from the Limerick Leader Archive
Book – Legal Requirements for Electronic Records Retention in Eastern Europe
Livre – Utiliser les Recensements en Généalogie
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Engaging the Community within the Archives: ‘The Land That Supports Our Feet’ Symposium by Deseronto Archives (Ont.)
December 4, 2014
Canadian Library Association 2015 Conference: Privacy and Security: are you Open to the Public?
June 3-6, 2015, Ottawa
Webinar – Top 10 Ediscovery Cases of 2014
December 17, 2014
Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories
June 8-11, 2015, Indianapolis
http://www.cni.org/news/call-for-proposals-tenth-international-conference-on-open-repositories-2015/
Creating the Best Business Archive
June 15-16, 2015, Milan (Italy)
Collaboration and Networking for a Digital Archival Future: Sustainable Perspectives through the Archives Portal Europe
September 7-9, 2015, Budapest
Digital Print Preservation Workshop 2015
October 20-22, 2015, Rochester (New York)
Reflecting the World: Museums and Collections of Visual and Sound Documentation around 1900
November 5-6, 2015, Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland)
Fast Forward: Women in Photography: Then and Now
November 6-7, 2015, London (UK)
Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives (Presentations Available)
November 10, 2014, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Baladodiffusion – Le vérificateur général du Canada explique son rapport automnal (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada à partir de 02:17:08)
Video – University of Toronto Capital Projects: Downsview Library
Podcast – Digital librarian and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle
Podcast – Miscellaneous Manuscripts in the Medieval Germanic World
Slidecast – Progress Made and Lessons Learned through Collaborative Web Archiving Projects
Arbido (périodique de Bibliothèque Information Suisse et de l’Association des Archivistes suisses) maintenant sur Twitter
@arbidoCH
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s chief librarian and archivist reflects on his first six months
Les lacunes à Bibliothèque et Archives nuisent au deuil des Autochtones, dit Romeo Saganash
Library and Archives Canada is a partner in an exhibition on the birth of Canada at the Canadian Museum of History
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Social media terms of service may be trumped by Canadian law
Quebec’s electronic records plan a disaster, Minister Barrette says
BAnQ s’engage à réaliser un important virage numérique à la Grande Bibliothèque
Newfoundland privacy breach class action moves forward
Postcards from Saskatchewan’s past go viral on Facebook
Northwest Territories to open a drill core sample archive
Robert Amos: Artists’ papers saved in University of Victoria archives
University of British Columbia celebrates opening of Special Collections Room
Concordia University – Jackpot for researchers: from geospatial data to 500-year-old manuscripts
Ryerson University – Experiencing Travel through Photography
University of Toronto Archives and Records Managements Services student employee honoured at Blues’ academic excellence breakfast
Special note: congratulation to a former colleague!
Merging Time returns to the City of Vancouver Archives’ gallery
Historic police charge books returned to Victoria PD after digital preservation
La Semaine nationale de la généalogie célébrée à Gatineau
Retired school librarian catalogues Ontario’s historical plaques
Remembering the Whitby (Ont.) men and women who served during the wars
Preserving Seven Oaks General hospital’s (Manitoba) history
Colchester Historical Society’s (Nova Scotia) Archives a treasure trove of information
North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives’ (Manitoba) military records book completed
Ripon (Outaouais) raconte ses 150 ans d’histoire
La Toile du Québec n’est plus
Accessing Treasure Troves of Data: Empowering your own Research
The Home Archivist: Getting My Hands Dirty
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – At last! Rand Daily Mail archive to be digitised
Les archives numériques du cinéma algérien : des interviews et extraits de films sur le net
Maroc – Accès à l’information : le gouvernement toujours hésitant
Zambia’s rich history on cyberspace shelf
Côte d’Ivoire – Mme Lydie Gnéssougou-Baroan: les documents d’archives contiennent très souvent des secrets d’État
Ghana: Commission established to protect data
Amériques / Americas
Small Change To National Archivist’s Powers May Keep Government Agencies From Destroying Embarrassing Documents
The National Archivist gets superpowers
National Archives backs off plan to destroy CIA emails
Pentagon Censors Document that was Already Published in Full 18 Years Ago
30,000 missing emails from Internal Revenue Service Lerner recovered
The Department of Homeland Security Set to Destroy Governmentwide Network Surveillance Records
Government Printing Office seek ISO certification for its Federal Digital System (FDsys) as a Trustworthy Digital Repository
National Declassification Center Opens Records of Shanghai Diaspora Communities
$8.4 million George Washington proclamation for sale at Keno Auctions
New mystery arises from iconic Iwo Jima image
Story of Response to Dear Abby and 200,000 Letters Leads to Gift for Delaware Archive
Of photos and frauds! Probe that took down memorabilia giant Mastro now turns spotlight on Arkansas archivist John Rogers
Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive goes to University of Texas
Garcia Marquez family explains archive decision
Finding John Updike and Taking his Trash
Letter that inspired Kerouac’s On The Road, sparked Beat Generation to be sold
Collaborative Project: Digitizing the Sybren Valkema Archive
120 years of pioneering genealogy: the Genealogical Society of Utah
Cowboys’ new archivist tackling game footage, draft data from Dallas’ first decade
New York City’s Paper Archives Being Digitized for Broader Access
Sale of the New York City Bar Association Rare Book Collection Tops $2.3 Million
Detroit Public Library unveils remarkable digital collections
100 Year Old Time Capsule Opened In Oklahoma City
Albert Einstein’s Autographed Letter Sells for $12,500 at Auction
Treasure Chest of Unpublished, Eighty Year Old Edward Steichen Portraits Unearthed
Collecting and Preserving Digital Art: Interview with Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia to recognise top agencies
National Archives of Australia acts on digital records
Australian courts’ $1 million a year paper problem
Queensland State Archives – General Retention and Disposal Schedule for Administrative Records Renewal Program
New South Wales State Archives – Recent digital advice: the challenges currently facing public offices
Taiwan – National archive show launched in New Taipei
Fiji – Report highlights voucher destruction practices
Japan – NTT Data Digitizes Vatican Library Manuscripts for Online
Time to Start Fixing India’s Tattered Film Heritage
1947 Partition Archive Picking up Steam, Supporters
India – Old Scriptures including Puya, Darbar Resolutions, journals of Manipur to be digitized for the first time
Europe / Europa
Right to Be Forgotten Should Apply Worldwide, E.U. Panel Says
The Europeana Sound’s Guide to the Galaxy
Anyone can access collision data from the Large Hadron Collider through the new CERN Open Data Portal
All proceedings from the Norwegian Parliament since 1814 are now online
Germany – Sensational Fragment of Very Early Qur’an Identified: a fragment of a Qur’an in the Tübingen University Library may be dated back to the 7th century
Netherlands – Meet the Man who Catalogs Medieval Cartoons
Bulgaria’s Rakovski military academy, Archives State Agency to ink agreement on cooperation
Suisse – Les plus belles cartes issues des collections publiques des Archives de l’État de Genève accessibles en ligne
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Expérimentez la correction collaborative grâce à Correct
Plongez au cœur de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de ses trésors
France – Les trois chantiers de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel
Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France
Lettre de Camus inédite retrouvée : « Mon cher Sartre… »
Un jeu vidéo entièrement réalisé en images d’archives de 1840
Archive of human rights activist to be unveiled at National University of Ireland Galway
The UK is number one in open data readiness
UK – MPs’ expenses were shredded to destroy smoking gun, claims whistleblower
Attorney general’s rejection of ruling on Prince Charles letters was unlawful, court told
UK National Archives – New Memorandum of Understanding with Research Libraries UK
City of London Heritage Gallery
Charles Darwin’s evolution notes released by Cambridge University
Anthony Burgess musical composition discovered
Museum switches on historic computer
Photo archive of inner-city Birmingham revealed 50 years on
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/photo-archive-inner-city-birmingham-revealed-8178822
Soldier’s Stunning Second World War Album Discovered
160 years of war photography: an audiovisual guide to the world’s most powerful conflict images
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Ligue Arabe – Elaboration d’une stratégie globale pour le recensement et la restitution des archives arabes volées
Ottoman Scripts added to digital library in Yemen
International
Next Year, One Billion Works Will be Free to Use Online
Researchers craft molecule that works as flash storage
UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage – Three new elements inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List
UN Expands Anti-Spying Resolution to Include Metadata Collection
Hype Versus Reality: Lessons from Working with Big Data
The Tool That Helps You Search Every Page You’ve Ever Visited
Libraries and archives could teach gamers a thing or two