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January 8, 2021May 2, 2021

Vol. 14, no. 14

Hi,


Back for a while, but I’ll have to take another pause later.

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Bonjour,

De retour pour un bout de temps, mais je devrai prendre une autre pause plus tard.

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Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Government of Manitoba – Microsoft 365 Teams Recordkeeping Guidance
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/gro/recordkeeping/docs/microsoft_teams_guidance.pdf
Government of Manitoba – Recordkeeping Systems
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/gro/recordkeeping/docs/recordkeeping_systems.pdf
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Policy for Managing Records Created on Collaboration Platforms
http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/pdf/managing_records_on_teams_fin.pdf
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Managing Working Documents on OneDrive
http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/pdf/managing_working_documents_on_onedrive_fin.pdf
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Records and Information Management Guide to Drives: Quick Reference Tool Model
http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/pdf/guide_to_drives_model_fin.pdf
National Archives of Australia – Building Trust in the Public Record: Managing Information and Data for Government and Community
http://www.naa.gov.au/information-management/information-management-policies/building-trust-public-record-policy
NARA – Draft Regulations for Digitizing Permanent Records
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac-13-2021
Archives New Zealand – Ministry of Social Development: Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule
Appraisal Report: http://archives.govt.nz/files/APP2017-0007%20-%20Appraisal%20Report
Disposal Schedule: http://archives.govt.nz/files/APP2017-0007%20-%20Disposal%20Schedule
UK National Archives – Information Management Report 2020
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/imr-2020-data.xlsx
Ministère de la culture et Association des archivistes français – Standard de publication des données du registre d’entrées (pour commentaires)
https://www.archivistes.org/Ressources-Registres-des-entrees
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Tableau de tri: Centre national de l’audiovisuel
http://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/CNA-Convention-tableau-de-tri-V101.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Historica Canada – Canada during Covid-19: a Living Archive: Junior and Senior Learning Tools
http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/studyguide/canada-during-covid

Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Copyright for University Instructors and Staff
https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/canadian-association-of-research-libraries-releases-copyright-resources-for-universities/
Unesco – Accessible Digital Documentary Heritage: Guidelines for the Preparation of Documentary Heritage in Accessible Formats for Persons with Disabilities
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374995

International Committee of the Red Cross – Research Guide on Circulars
http://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/circulars/

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Levels of Digital Preservation Digital Curation Decision Guide
http://ndsa.org//2020/12/18/levels-of-digital-preservation-digital-curation-decision-guide-published.html

OCLC – Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums Project: New Toolkit
http://www.oclc.org/realm/happening-now/20201217-resources-available.html

Article – L’archiviste, l’histoire et le secret : le cas exemplaire du secret Défense
http://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/15338

Article – La méthode archéologique foucaldienne, outil d’une lecture renouvelée des archives archéologiques
http://www.revue-interrogations.org/La-methode-archeologique
Article – Archival-Futurism: Archives as Social Justice
http://www.nomadicarchivistsproject.com/post/archival-futurism-archives-as-social-justice

Publications

La Gazette des archives, no 258 (2020)
http://www.archivistes.org/Le-centenaire-de-la-Grande-Guerre-vecu-par-les-archivistes

Arbido : revue professionnelle pour archivistes, bibliothécaires et documentalistes (2020/4)
http://arbido.ch/fr/edition-article/2020/dematerialisation

Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 48, no. 3 (2020)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raam20/48/3


Journal of the South African Society of Archivists, vol. 53 (2020)
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsasa/issue/view/19342

Records Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 3 (2020)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0956-5698/vol/30/iss/3

Collections: a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 16, no. 4 (2020)
http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cjxa/16/4

Journal of Documentation, vol. 77, no. 1 (2020)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0022-0418/vol/77/iss/1

The Moving Image: Association of Moving Image Archivists Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (2020)
http://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/journals/the-moving-image

Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, vol. 7, no. 1 (2020)
http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol7/iss1/

Association for Recorded Sound Collection Journal, vol. 51, no. 2 (2020)
http://www.arsc-audio.org/journal.html

Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 37 (2020)
http://elib.mi.sanu.ac.rs/pages/browse_issue.php?db=ncd&rbr=37

Journal of Civic Information, vol. 4, no. 2 (2020)
http://journals.flvc.org/civic/issue/view/5887/208

Documents to the People, vol. 48, no. 4 (2020)
http://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/issue/view/781

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, vol. 69, no. 4 (2020)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/69/4

Information Research: an Electronic Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 4 (2020)
http://www.informationr.net/ir/25-4/infres254.html

Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3 (2020)
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/index.html

University of Toronto – iJournal, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020)
http://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/issue/view/2337

Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 48, no. 1 (2020)
http://caml.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/caml/issue/view/2317

Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library & Information Practice & Research, vol. 15, no. 2 (2020)
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/issue/view/385

Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 46, no. 4 (2020)
http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/46.4.MHDec20.pdf

Encounters: New Horizons in Audio and Visual Collections (2020)
http://moqdoc.arlismoq.ca/2020_encounters_rencontres/

Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no. 41 (2021)
http://fr.calameo.com/read/0053751141745f3d2c017?page=1

Discover: the National Library of Scotland Magazine, no. 44 (2020)
Part 1: http://www.nls.uk/media/1840791/discover-44-p1-13.pdf
Part 2: http://www.nls.uk/media/1840794/discover-44-p14-28.pdf
Part 3: http://www.nls.uk/media/1840797/discover-44-p29-36.pdf

International Federation of Film Archives Bulletin, no. 12 (2020)
http://fr.calameo.com/fiaf/read/0009185405e32bd1fd803

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Today Digest (December 2020)
http://www.archives.org.uk/images/ARA_Today_Digest/ARA_Today_Digest_-_December_2020.pdf

La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 41 (2020)
http://www.archeoplus.ch/fav/download/La_Pomme_41.pdf

Appalachian Curator: a Newsletter about Appalachian Special Collections and Archives, vol. 2, no. 2 (2020) 
http://libjournals.unca.edu/appalachiancurator/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Vol-2-Issue-2.pdf

Acid Free: a Biannual Online Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, no. 12 (2020)
http://laacollective.org/magazine/

Bulletin des Archives des Frères maristes du Canada, vol. 10, no. 3 (2020)
http://freresmaristes.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/PDF_large/vol10-3.pdf

Bulletin des Archives Passe-Mémoire, vol. 10, no. 2 (2020)
http://www.archivespassememoire.org/index.php/bulletin/le-bulletin-des-apm-volume-x-numero-2

Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 17, no. 1 (2020)
http://burlingtonhistorical.ca/january-2021gazette/
Book – Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367436995 
Book – Recordkeeping in International Organizations: Archives in Transition in Digital, Networked Environments
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367365585 
Book – Digitization and Digital Archiving: a Practical Guide for Librarians (Second Edition)
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538133347/  
Book – Making your Tools Work for you: Building and Maintaining an Integrated Technical Ecosystem for Digital Archives and Libraries
http://mysaa.archivists.org/productdetails?id=a1B5a00000heMFvEAM
Book – Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367361075
Book – Copy this Book!: what Data Tells us about Copyright and the Public Good
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32708  
Book – The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts: a Handbook
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781912554591-1      
Book – Data Stewardship: an Actionable Guide to Effective Data Management and Data Governance (Second Edition)  
https://www.elsevier.com/books/data-stewardship/plotkin/978-0-12-822132-7 
Book – Documents of Japanese American Internment
http://products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5326C 
Book – Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence: the Canadian Case
http://www.ubcpress.ca/big-data-surveillance-and-security-intelligence 
Book – Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book 
http://www.umasspress.com/9781625345608/out-of-print/ 
Book – Crypto Wars: the Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: a Political History of Digital Encryption
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367642488    
Book – Emerging Human Resource Trends in Academic Libraries
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538134979/ 
Livre – Droit des données à caractère personnel : droit de l’union européenne,  droit français
http://www.gualino.fr/livres/droit-des-donnees-a-caractere-personnel/9782297069823  
Livre – Python pour les sciences humaines et sociales
http://pyshs.fr/
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Association des archivistes du Québec – Soirée ludique interrégionale
13 janvier 2021
http://archivistes.qc.ca/2021/01/06/soiree-ludique-interregionale-13-janvier-2021/

Tandanya: Adelaide Declaration Watch Circle
January 21, 2021
http://aabc.ca/events/tandanya-adelaide-declaration-watch-circle-jan-21-2021/

Beyond Indigenous Awareness: a Discussion with Dr. Gabrielle Lindstrom
January 21. 2021
http://mbarchives.ca/event-4087266

Implicated Subjects in the Landscapes of Injustice
January 27, 2021
http://www.landscapesofinjustice.com/upcoming-events/implicated-subjects-and-landscapes-of-injustice-webinar/

Care of Objects in Indigenous Cultural Centres Webinar Series
Starting February 2, 2021
http://mbarchives.ca/event-4094914

Society of American Archivists’ Records Management Section – Building Alliances: Part 1, where to Start? 
January 8, 2021
https://saarmrt.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/building-alliances-coffee-chat-teaser/

Information Governance & eDiscovery
January 13, 2020
http://www.gkcarma.org/gkcarma-events/

Crowdfunding for Archives: Online Training
January 14, 2020
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crowdfunding-for-archives-online-training-tickets-126414490143

Transforming Science: Using Digital Archives to Uncover new Insights into the Evolution of Science in Society
January 14, 2021
http://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=2543274379657094

First, Do No Harm: Tread Carefully where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect
January 26, 2020
http://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4458752058543049228

Intro to Digital Preservation & Formats
January 27, 2021
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-digital-preservation-formats-tickets-133772425927

Book Launch – The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata
January 28, 2021
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/events/2021/jan/ucldh-online-book-launch-atlas-digitised-newspapers-and-metadata

Cooking in the Archives: Bringing Historical Recipes to Life in a Twenty-first Century Kitchen
February 10, 2021
http://navyyard.psu.edu/event/cooking-archives-bringing-historical-recipes-life-twenty-first-century-kitchen

Sex in the Archives with Ariane Cruz and Nguyen Tan Hoang
February 22, 2021
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-src-presents-sex-in-the-archives-with-ariane-cruz-and-nguyen-tan-hoang-registration-133254681339
International Digital Curation Conference 
April 19, 2021
https://www.cni.org/news/international-digital-curation-conference-19-april-2021-info-and-call-for-papers
Sur le web / On the web

Vidéo de BAnQ – Intelligence artificielle et culture : l’avenir du savoir
http://youtu.be/qYuvWqrmnlI

Archives of Ontario – Online Jigsaw Puzzles
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/puzzles/index.aspx

Jewish Public Library Video – The Rare Book Collection & Dr. Michael D. Paul Rare Books Initiative
http://youtu.be/toHMydR4yGI


Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) Video – The Transferring of Knowledge from Miistakists
http://www.galtmuseum.com/articles/the-transferring-of-knowledge-from-miistakists

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Mabel Clark
http://fromthevaults.buzzsprout.com/1209881/6577501-an-interview-with-mabel-clark

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Christina McKnight
http://fromthevaults.buzzsprout.com/1209881/5912464-an-interview-with-christina-mcknight

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Willa Lundy
http://fromthevaults.buzzsprout.com/1209881/5803207-an-interview-with-willa-lundy

Organizing Ideas Podcast – Precarious Work and Knowledge Mobilization with Ted Lee and Ean Henninger at Keeping it ReAL
http://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/ep-32-precarious-work-and-knowledge-mobilization-with-ted-lee-and-ean-henninger-at-keeping-it-real/

Historical Reminiscents – Burnout and Winter Kindness
http://kristamccracken.ca/?p=2863

Video – Digital Repository of Ireland and the Common Culture
http://dri.ie/recording-available-dri-and-common-culture-webinar

Podcast – How We Tell the Story of Disaster
http://material-memory.clir.org/2020/12/18/s2-e3-how-we-tell-the-story-of-disaster/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Liberals striving for ‘balance’ on federal transparency, Trudeau says
http://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-news/liberals-striving-for-balance-on-federal-transparency-trudeau-says-3191807

OK OK, here’s your post about Bill C-11: what’s *not* in the Bill
http://allenmendelsohn.com/2020/12/whats-not-in-bill-c11/

How do new data protection enforcement provisions in Canada’s Bill C-11 measure up?
http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=337

The Copyright Board Begins 2021 with Less Transparency and More Potentially Dysfunctional Delays
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2021/01/the-copyright-board-begins-2021-with.html

Works by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Yukio Mishima, Mark Rothko, and other creators entering the public domain in Canada in 2021
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/academic-integrity/copyright/public-domain-2021

2020: a year of Canadian genealogy in review
http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=31502

2020, the year you want to forget? Archivists say not so fast
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/2020-the-year-you-want-to-forget-archivists-say-not-so-fast

Info watchdog raps Privy Council Office for terminating access requests from public
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/info-watchdog-raps-privy-council-office-for-terminating-access-requests-from-public-573533432.html

Library and GLAM Sector Submissions to 2021 Pre-Budget Consultations
http://librarianship.ca/news/glam-budget-2021/

Library and Archives Canada – The Art of Dene Handgames / Stick Gambling / ᐅᐨᘛ / oodzi
https://thediscoverblog.com/2021/01/07/the-art-of-dene-handgames-stick-gambling-%e1%90%85%e1%90%a8%e1%98%9b-oodzi/

Library and Archives Canada – The Canadian Eskimo Arts Council: Defining Inuit art
http://thediscoverblog.com/2021/01/04/the-canadian-eskimo-arts-council-defining-inuit-art/

National Archives of Australia – Future past: Australia at Expo 67
http://www.naa.gov.au/blog/future-past-australia-expo-67

Court of Appeal for British Columbia – Open courts principle does not provide for automatic and immediate access to court records
http://allaboutinformation.ca/2021/01/03/bcca-open-courts-principle-does-not-provide-for-automatic-and-immediate-access-to-court-records/

Alberta’s legislation on privacy and protection of personal information needs review: commissioner
http://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/23373/alberta-s-legislation-on-privacy-and-protection-of-personal-information-needs-review-commissioner

Association des archivistes du Québec – L’archivistique en temps de pandémie : bilan 2020 du blogue Convergence
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/bilan2020/

Experts search for rare Newton book, three copies in Canadian university libraries
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/01/01/experts-search-for-rare-newton-book-three-copies-in-canadian-university-libraries.html

University of Victoria Library – Reconciliation 2020: Looking Back, Moving Forward
https://www.uvic.ca/library/home/home/news/current/reconciliation-2020.php

Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence program introduced at University of Saskatchewan’s University Library
https://news.usask.ca/articles/colleges/2020/indigenous-storyteller-in-residence-program-introduced-at-usasks-university-library.php

Take a Break with University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections and the University Library
http://library.usask.ca/uasc/news/2020/UASC-colouring-pages.php
University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections – Exploring Barrowclough’s postcards
http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/2020/12/18/the-postcards-of-george-alfred-barrowclough/
University of Manitoba – From the French resistance to Nunavut: the love story between Gabriel Gély and the Inuit
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gabriel-gley-nunavut-inuit-1.5859190

University of Guelph – A look at the history of an advertising technique used before the 20th century
http://theontarion.com/2020/12/18/advertising-with-winter-themed-trade-cards/

McGill University – What’s 150 years old, 11 feet long, and can get you from Grand Rapids to Quebec City in minutes?
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/whats-150-years-old-11-feet-long-and-can-get-you-from-grand-rapids-to-quebec-city-in-minutes/

Mountain Legacy Project – Mountains on Fire: Growth, Renewal and Hope
http://mountainlegacy.ca/2021/01/05/mountains-on-fire-growth-renewal-and-hope/

Winnipeg – Push to find city archives proper home drags into new year
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/push-to-find-city-archives-proper-home-drags-into-new-year-573516702.html

Tales of Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver through the decades brought to life, from their struggles to cultural impact
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3116461/tales-chinese-canadians-vancouver-through-decades-brought

Vancouver newspaper history unfolds in union archives
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-newspaper-history-unfolds-in-union-archives
Musées de Sherbrooke – Randonnée urbaine : une nouvelle balado pour découvrir Sherbrooke
https://mhist.org/actualites/randonnee-urbaine-une-nouvelle-balado-pour-decouvrir-sherbrooke/
Déménagement du Centre d’archives de la région de Rivière-du-Loup
http://www.centrearchivesrdl.org/nouvelles/15

How Yucho Chow’s Photos Reframed Vancouver History
http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/12/29/Yucho-Chow-Photos-Reframe-Vancouver/

Spanish flu hit Prince George hard, Citizen archives show
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local-news/spanish-flu-hit-prince-george-hard-citizen-archives-show-1.24262393

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Directing Ski Traffic
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2020/12/29/directing-ski-traffic/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Trying Out Jobs on Whistler
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2021/01/05/switching-jobs-on-whistler/

Seeing double at Revelstoke’s museums and archives (British Columbia)
http://www.revelstokereview.com/community/seeing-double-at-revelstokes-museums/

Afrique / Africa

Mali – La nouvelle promotion du Macoter de l’Université de Kabala découvre les Archives nationales
http://archivesmali.gouv.ml/la-nouvelle-promotion-du-macoter-de-luniversite-de-kabala-decouvre-les-archives-nationales/
L’institution les Archives du Maroc s’enrichit d’un nouveau fonds documentaire de l’artiste-peintre Abdellah Zaki
http://2m.ma/fr/news/linstitution-les-archives-du-maroc-senrichit-dun-nouveau-fonds-documentaire-de-lartiste-peintre-abdellah-zaki-20210101/
Amériques / Americas

Jamaica – Government Streamlining Records And Information Management Across Ministries, Departments and Agencies
http://jis.gov.jm/features/govt-streamlining-records-and-information-management-across-mdas/

Queen’s Park Oval Cricket Club collection goes to Trinidad and Tobaggo National Archives
http://trinidadexpress.com/sports/local/qpcc-collection-goes-to-national-archives/article_1ccdb1fa-4afa-11eb-8876-839710212cc5.html

NARA – Life-Saving Stations of Maryland: Drawings from RG 26, Maps and Plans for Lifesaving Stations
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/05/life-saving-stations-of-maryland-drawings-from-rg-26-maps-and-plans-for-lifesaving-stations/

NARA – Invasion: the 1918–1920 Pandemic on the Reservation
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/05/invasion-the-1918-1920-pandemic-on-the-reservation/

NARA – Inside the Archives: in the Age of COVID
http://www.ijnhonline.org/inside-the-archives-in-the-age-of-covid/

U.S. Archivist David S. Ferriero Responds to Capitol Riots
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2021/nr21-23

Attorney General Ferguson battles on multiple fronts to save Seattle’s National Archives
http://mynorthwest.com/2402958/ag-ferguson-battles-to-save-seattle-national-archives/

Tribes, preservation societies join lawsuit to save National Archives in Seattle
http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/tribes-preservation-societies-join-lawsuit-save-national-archives-seattle/JGZ32WUD55AQFHMPAXQFMKLG4E/

Our history is contained there: loss of archive threatens Native American tribes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/30/seattle-national-archives-indigenous-people-property-sale

Library of Congress – Researcher Stories: Charles W. Calhoun and the American 19th Century
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/researcher-stories-charles-w-calhoun-and-the-american-19th-century/

Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-us-armys-warehouse-full-of-nazi-art

Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before they’re Deleted
http://www.vice.com/en/article/3an5e3/archivists-are-preserving-capitol-hill-riot-livestreams-before-theyre-deleted

Institute of Museum and Library Services letter to state health departments about Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums Project
http://www.oclc.org/realm/happening-now/20201222-letter-to-health-departments.html

E-Signatures and Remote Online Notarization
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/updated-e-signatures-and-remote-online-49161/

Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: When Should I Update My Records Management Policy? (Local Governments only)
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/slrm/blog/2021/01/faq-when-should-i-update-my-records-management-policy/

Texas Library and Archives Foundation Launches New Website and Online Book Store
http://freestonecountytimesonline.com/texas-library-and-archives-foundation-launches-new-website-and-online-book-store/

Supreme Court to hear challenge to University of Michigan over anti-immigration activist’s papers
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/12/27/high-court-hear-suit-over-anti-immigration-activists-papers-um/4040309001/

Ownership of Thousand Oaks’ radio archives collection finds home at University of California Santa Barbara
http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/conejo-valley/2021/01/03/ownership-thousand-oaks-radio-archives-collection-move-ucsb/4081602001/

Microfilm to the Rescue: Over a Century of Guernsey Breeders’ Journal Now on the Internet Archive
http://blog.archive.org/2021/01/05/microfilm-to-the-rescue-over-a-century-of-guernsey-breeders-journal-now-on-the-internet-archive/

The Internet Archive now has better scans of Computerworld magazine
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/computer-world-vintage-print-issues-come-to-the-internet-archive-133040851.html

The Record Keepers’ Rave
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/style/archives-hashtag-party.html

Archival Innovators: Rachael Cristine Woody on the Creation of the Archivist-in-residence Program
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2020/12/08/archival-innovators-rachael-cristine-woody-on-the-creation-of-the-archivist-in-residence-program/

Deborah S. Davis on Building a Successful Archives & Special Collections Program through Constant Advocacy
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2021/01/05/deborah-s-davis-on-building-a-successful-archives-special-collections-program-through-constant-advocacy/

I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history
http://news.yahoo.com/dig-archives-unearth-hidden-stories-150319321.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

National Archives of Australia – The Caterpillar Club
http://www.naa.gov.au/blog/caterpillar-club

Unseen cabinet documents from 2000 released by National Archives of Australia
http://www.9news.com.au/national/national-archives-releases-cabinet-papers-from-2000/8a3ecaab-da02-4c4c-b528-fb959e92e9d5

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – What we collected in 2020
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/nfsa-acquisition-highlights-2020

Australia – Files on murder of ‘Fat Joe’ Versace, believed to be early mafia killing, opened for first time
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-01/melbourne-calabrian-mafia-killing-archive-murder-case-files-open/12992998

The Cabinet Files Show that we Need to Change the Nature of Record-Keeping
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-cabinet-files-show-that-we-need-to-change-the-nature-of-record-keeping/

New Zealand – New storage facility to safeguard our nation’s taonga
http://archives.govt.nz/publications/new-storage-facility-to-safeguard-our-nations-taonga

Singapore – Parliament: Important documents like LPA to be digitalised under proposed changes to electronic transactions law
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parliament-important-documents-like-lpa-to-be-digitalised-under-proposed-changes-to

Island Culture Archival Support – Preserving Native Medicinal Plants for Traditional Healers in Samoa
http://islandculturearchivalsupport.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/preserving-native-medicinal-plants-for-traditional-healers-in-samoa/

Kazakhstan establishes new holiday: archivist’s day
http://www.inform.kz/en/kazakhstan-establishes-new-holiday_a3737783

India – For the record: Gen Z is taking to oral history
http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/for-the-record-gen-z-is-taking-to-oral-history/story-huPTFygdABf5ptClvlJQHI.html
Europe / Europa

Historical Archives of the European Union – New files from the European Investment Bank available
http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/News/2020/12-15-New-files-from-the-European-Investment-Bank-available

Historical Archives of the European Union – New file transfers from Council and Commission arrive in Florence
http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/News/2020/12-21-New-file-transfers-from-Council-and-Commission

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Private Parcel Campaigns from Axis-allied Finland to the Ghettos of Nazi Occupied Poland
http://ehri-project.eu/new-ehri-blog-post-private-parcel-campaigns-axis-allied-finland-ghettos-nazi-occupied-poland

National Library of Russia – Exhibition of Railroad Maps
http://nlr.ru/eng/RA3819/railroad-maps

Romania – Rich history of ancient Jewish manuscript revealed using state of the art technology
http://www.studyfinds.org/ancient-jewish-manuscript-history/

KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945
http://euromaidanpress.com/2021/01/05/kgb-archives-document-red-armys-atrocities-against-ukrainian-village-in-ussr-after-1945/

The lives of others: Ute Mahler’s images of the real East Germany in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

A Scandinavian Nabob of the British Empire: the Discovery of a New Colonial Archive
http://thewire.in/history/sweden-british-empire-joseph-stephens

Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Mise en ligne du fonds de la Chambre des députés (1848-1940)
http://anlux.public.lu/fr/actualites/2020/mise-en-ligne-chd.html

Et si le centenaire de l’Association des archivistes suisses était estampillé
http://vsa-aas.ch/et-si-le-centenaire-de-lassociation-des-archivistes-suisses-etait-estampille-12/

Suisse – Nos archives: les archives dites sensibles
http://pages.rts.ch/la-1ere/programmes/on-en-parle/11831098-nos-archives-les-archives-dites-sensibles-episode-45-31-12-2020.html

Des notices pour les producteurs d’archives relatives à la politique de la Danse en France de 1970 à aujourd’hui
http://labarchiv.hypotheses.org/1614

L’École nationale des Chartes lance le site du nouveau diplome universitaire en sciences des archives
http://www.piaf-archives.org/actualites/lecole-nationale-des-chartes-lance-le-site-du-nouveau-diplome-universitaire-en-sciences

Information and Records Management Society Comment on the Draft BS 10025 Records Management: Code of Practice
http://irms.org.uk/news/546045/IRMS-Comment-on-the-draft-BS-10025-Records-management—Code-of-practice.htm

Journalists’ Freedom of Information bids stayed as court reconsiders freedom of information rights of people outside UK
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/252494083/Journalists-FOI-bids-stayed-as-court-reconsiders-freedom-of-information-rights-of-people-outside-UK

UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s files from 1997 released
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/prime-ministers-files-from-1997-released/

UK National Archives – Brown Babies: the children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World War
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/brown-babies-second-world-war/

British Library acquires rare seventeenth century manuscript of John Donne’s poetry
http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2020/december/british-library-acquires-rare-seventeenth-century-manuscript-of-john-donne-poetry#

Highlights from crowdsourcing projects at the British Library
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/highlights-from-crowdsourcing-projects-at-the-british-library.html

Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/30/new-revelations-kim-philby-spy-saga-secret-files-national-archives

Boris Johnson decried purchase of Churchill’s private papers
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/30/boris-johnson-decried-purchase-churchill-papers-national-archives

Windrush Scandal: a Historian on why Destroying Archives Is Never a Good Idea
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/windrush-scandal-a-historian-on-why-destroying-archives-is-never-a-good-idea/

George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jan/01/george-orwell-is-out-of-copyright-what-happens-now

Bodleian Library – New Conservative Party Archive releases for 2021
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2021/01/01/new-conservative-party-archive-releases-for-2021/

Navigating Wellcome’s Archives Online
http://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/navigating-wellcomes-digitised-archives-fdf883f2ecef

Leeds University – Catalogues as Data
http://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/catalogues-as-data-1/

Dorset museum raises funds to secure Thomas Hardy archive from London book dealer
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2021/dorset-museum-raises-funds-to-secure-thomas-hardy-archive-from-london-book-dealer/


Online resources from the Salvation Army International Heritage Centre Archive
http://blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2021/01/07/online-resources-from-the-salvation-army-international-heritage-centre-archive/

World War Two veterans’ memories collected for new archive
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55522848

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Five-Hundred Years in the Life of the Amon Family
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-amon/
National Library of Israel – The Ghost Shtetl of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Youth
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-bilgoraj-isaac-bashevis-singers/
Yad Vashem’s ready2print Exhibitions for Local Production
http://ehri-project.eu/ehri-partner-yad-vashems-ready2print-exhibitions-local-production
Israel – Letters from literary lights inspire artists in underground library show
http://www.timesofisrael.com/letters-from-literary-lights-inspire-artists-in-underground-library-show/
Historical manuscripts restored in central Iran
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/456433/Historical-manuscripts-restored-in-central-Iran
Iran – Rare Quran manuscripts, column capitals, bronze coffin, and clay seal made national heritage 
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/456694/Rare-Quran-manuscripts-column-capitals-bronze-coffin-and-clay

International

United Nations – Unpaywall and Open Access
https://library.un.org/library-news-by-blog?page=0

Toolkit for Information Governance
http://www.records.com.au/toolkit-for-information-governance/

Reading Archival Theory from the Global South: Reflections on the Monthly International Council on Archives-Section on University and Research Institution Archives Archival Theory Reading Group
http://icasuvblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/reading-archival-theory-from-the-global-south-reflections-on-the-monthly-ica-suv-archival-theory-reading-group/

The impact of Microsoft Teams on records management strategies
http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2021/01/01/the-impact-of-microsoft-teams-on-records-management-strategies/

What Covid-19 Means for Moving Image Archiving
http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/what-covid-19-means-for-moving-image-archiving/

Archives and Records Management: then and Now
http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2021/01/04/archives-and-records-management

Raising the Visibility of Archival Collections
http://lucidea.com/blog/raising-the-visibility-of-archival-collections/

An Investigation Into New Media Artists’ Personal Preservation Practice
http://amt-lab.org/blog/2020/10/investigation-into-new-media-artists-personal-preservation-practices

Saving video gaming’s source code treasures before it’s too late
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/saving-video-gamings-source-code-treasures-before-its-too-late/

How to Back up your Digital Photos… to Film
http://fstoppers.com/originals/how-back-your-digital-photos-film-537562

Des supports pour former à la question de la donnée
http://www.lespetitescases.net/des-supports-pour-former-a-la-question-de-la-donnee

A new kind of challenge: curating in the Covid-19 crisis
http://www.museumnext.com/article/a-new-kind-of-challenge-curating-in-the-covid-19-crisis

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