Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Whole of Government Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Solution
Archives de France – Les outils de conversion vers le format PDF : traitement de texte, dessins techniques, édition scientifique
Public Record Office Victoria – Information Management Maturity Measure Tool
De la communauté / From the community
Archive and Records Association UK and Ireland – Managing Volunteering in Archives: Report
American National Standards Institute – Proposed ISO Standard on Knowledge Management Systems (Draft for Public Review)
Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Human Rights Web Archive at Columbia University
A Workflow Model for Curating Research Data in the University of Minnesota Libraries: Report from the 2013 Data Curation Pilot
Article – “Pretty Rad”: Explorations in User Satisfaction with a Discovery Layer at Ryerson University
Publications
Code4Lib Journal, no. 23 (2014)
OCLC Research Quarterly Highlights, no. 11 (October-December 2013)
International Council on Archives Human Rights Working Group Newsletter (December 2013)
Surrey’s (B.C.) Stories Newsletter: Sharing Community Stories of Surrey’s Past, Present and Future (Winter / Spring 2014)
Book – A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela’s Prison Archive
Book – Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
Book – Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending your Rights, and Protecting your Family
Society of American Archivists Sampler: Archival Advocacy
Book – Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future
Book – Knowledge Management Practice in Organizations: the View from Inside
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Nova Scotia Archives: Frontier College Exhibit
Until February 3, 2014, Halifax
Exhibition – Canadian Centre for Architecture: Photographing the Arab City in the 19th Century
January 30 – May 25, 2014, Montreal
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists 2014 Archives Week
February 2-8, 2014, Saskatchewan
Ottawa Public Sector Quality Fair 2014 (with Daniel J. Caron as Closing Keynote Speaker)
February 3, 2014, Ottawa
Association of Canadian Archivists McGill Student Chapter 6th Annual Winter Colloquium
February 21, 2014, Montreal
AV Archives: Why They Matter
May 26-30, 2014, Vientiane (Laos)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Pulp Canada: Between the Covers
Podcast – Jewish Public Library (Montreal): Archives and Rare Books on Display
Metadata Games (Games to Collect Metadata)
Europeana Open Culture App (Updated Version)
Slidecast – Improving Discovery of Digitised Collections: Above Campus and National Solutions
Video – Digitising Historical News Collections from Cuba
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ottawa pushes for St. Anne’s residential school documents to stay secret
Canadian government accused of destroying environmental archives
Health Canada library changes leave scientists scrambling
Numérisation des archives : un patrimoine public… payant
Observations from the Archives Summit
Judge upholds researchers’ right to protect research confidentiality
Laptop stolen with health information of 620,000 Albertans
L’interdiction de diffusion de la liste électorale sur le web est une limite raisonnable à la liberté d’expression
Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec: un document électronique non officiel n’est pas nécessairement une ébauche non accessible
University of Toronto – Marshall McLuhan Library Collection now Available
The University of Toronto is now home to the largest collection of Allen Ginsberg photographs in the world
Dalhousie University – Natural history for the digital age
City of Vancouver in running for worst Freedom of Info response time
Vancouver – West End: Archivist ensures city’s queer history kept for posterity
79-year-old census resister found guilty
Canada Science and Technology Museum’s historic typewriter holds key to family’s long-forgotten past
Cramahe (Ont.) – Archives project shortlisted for provincial prize
Iron Mountain Canada Operations ULC Fined $90,000 After Worker Loses Arm
Afrique / Africa
What a lost prison manuscript reveals about the real Nelson Mandela
Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Committed to Recovering Rest of Archives From France
Rwanda – Genocide archives being tailor-made to benefit youth, ‘Never Again’ spirit
Amériques / Americas
Des documents historiques de la Grenade sauvés par le Programme Information pour tous
George W. Bush library archives open to public
John F. Kennedy Library showcases gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny letters to JFK
Blacked-out documents: open records advocate receives unusual response from New Jersey board
New York State Library’s tough calls on what to save, what to shred
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-Library-s-tough-calls-on-what-to-save-what-5156008.php
Mormons indexing, digitizing old Ohio court documents
Martin Luther King Jr’s radicalism muted by MLK archives’ corporate sponsors
Smithsonian archives preserve lost and dying languages
Unique documents related to US-Dakota War of 1862 located
Poet’s Archive Goes to University of Texas
University of Texas – Online Public Records, With a Hint of More to Come
Archivist declares medieval manuscript fragment crowdsourcing project success
In an historic move, Paramount becomes the first major studio to stop distributing film prints
Introducing the Boston Maps Project
Majority of comments favor release of Attica riot records
Mystery of iconic 1908 Lincolnton child labor photo is solved
AV Artifact Atlas: By the People, For the People (Interview)
Rare menu and book collection opens at the Culinary Institute of America
The Decline of the American Book Lover
The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Singapore – Public can stream National Archives’ oral interviews from own computers
Pakistan – Destruction of ministries’ record angers Public Accounts Committee
India Develops Standards for Digital Preservation of Records
India – No files were destroyed: Delhi government to Central Information Commission
India – Goa: Review of separation of archives and archaeology department urged
Europe / Europa
Announcing a research opportunity: new EU project Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/announcing-a-research-opportunity-new-eu-project-itn-dch/
Books go online for free in Norway
Pope may seek to unseal Holocaust-era archives
Polish archives show KGB smear campaign against bishop who was Solidarity chaplain
Archive documents show epic hunt for suit for dead Lenin
Denmark – PM’s reprimand casts new light on freedom of information act
Malta – Cabinet minutes’ archives to be accessible to the public
Archives nationales de Luxembourg: des sources historiques uniques sur internet
France – Roubaix : Les Archives nationales du monde du travail fêtent leur vingtième anniversaire
France – Quand la Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure (DGSE) vante ses capacités documentaires et archivistiques
France – La bibliothèque de Jacques Vergès dispersée lors d’une vente aux enchères
Ireland – In praise of archivists
Ireland – Government urged to release secret adoption files
Scotland has a goldmine of digital information
UK – Slave trade documents among illegal Foreign Office cache
UK – First World War conscription appeals go online
The British Library’s ‘Voices of Science’ archive
British Library – Comic exhibition to inspire ‘generation of naughtiness’
British Library acquires Hanif Kureishi archive
Nazi Degenerate Art Online: Victoria & Albert Museum to Release Unique Archive List
Institute of Historical Research project wins ‘big data’ funding to help historians access 200 years’ worth of international parliamentary proceedings
World war letters: soldiers’ writings to loved ones reveal frustrations
Royal Opera House unveils rare collection of photos featuring Victorian dancers and singing stars of the early 20th century
First English Book on Women’s Rights to Sell at Bonhams
Portrait of an archivist: Alison Kenney, Westminster City Archives
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – Records management facility inaugurated at Dubai World Central
International
Digital Strorage: Losing our Visual Heritage
Enough with the Vinyl Already
Strategies for Better Linear Tape-Open Data Preservation
The Allure of the Map
JPEG Standard Gets a Boost, Supports 12-Bit Color Depth and Lossless Compression
You Won’t Find Emails in a Trunk in the Attic
Paul Revere could have been caught if the British crown collected metadata