Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Code of Conduct: Values and Ethics (Revised Edition)
Library and Archives Canada – Business Plan 2013-2016
European Commission – Final Results and Feedback from the Consultation on Public Sector Information Re-Use Guidelines
Comité interministériel aux Archives de France – Référentiel général de gestion des Archives
Bibliographie historique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Statement on Internet Privacy
Canadian Library Association Statement on Social Media Monitoring of Canadians
Copenhagen City Archives – Interview with Tom Nesmith, professor at the University of Manitoba
National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation
Association of European Research Libraries – Copyright Position Statement
Impact of Library Discovery Technologies: a Report for UKSG
Publications
Archives and Records: the Journal of the Archives and Records Association, vol. 34, no. 2 (2013)
Arbido: organe de Bibliothèque Information Suisse et de l’Association des Archivistes suisses, 4 (Décembre 2013)
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2012, no. 1 (2012)
Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 2, no. 3 (2013)
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, vol. 128, no.4, 2013 (Special Issue on Digital History)
Research Library Issues, no. 284 (2013)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 1 (Fall 2013)
Mémoire collective: bulletin du Centre d’archives de la région du Rivière-du-Loup, vol. 2, no. 4 (Hiver 2013)
Association of Research Libraries – Library Management of Disciplinary Repositories SPEC Kit
Book – Unarchived Histories: The ‘Mad’ and the ‘Trifling’ in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Book – Federal Records Management: Elements and Issues
Book – Big Data Analysis
Book – Secrets and Truth: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police
Book – The Reflexive Photographer
Livre – État civil et registres paroissiaux: les basiques de la généalogie
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Letting the Outside In: the Internet as Big Data’s Biggest Problem
January 15, 2014, Toronto
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
April 26, 2014, Gothenburg (Sweden)
2014 International Open Repositories Conference
June 9-13, 2014, Helsinki
Webinar – Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality (Slidecast Available)
December 11, 2013
Procuring Preservation: Writing and Understanding Requirements in Digital Preservation (Slides Available)
December 13, 2013, London
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – War, Memory and Reaction: Reshaping History in Harper’s Canada
Podcast – Paper Is Dead! Long Live Paper!
Video – Interview with Edward Humphrey, British Film Institute, About Film Archiving
Slidecast – The ARCOMEM (Archiving Community Memories) System
Video – Launch of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
NARA – Capstone: A New Approach to Managing Email Records (Video)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Former prime minister Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer donate collection to Carleton University
St. Anne’s Residential School survivor says Ottawa ‘hiding evidence’: fight on to obtain documents former students say would corroborate abuse claims
Affaire Laskin: il ne faut pas conclure trop vite que les quelque 2000 pages archives caviardées sur le rapatriement ne nous disent rien sur les graves indiscrétions du juge en chef
Transport Canada – Officials delayed release of records
An Old Diary at Library and Archives Canada Sheds Light on the Siege of Louisbourg
The Nova Scotia Archives has unearthed a stash of bizarre Christmas cards
The Terry Fox collection – all 180,000 pieces – needs a home
54-year-old message in bottle helps chronicle death of glacier
Entrevue avec Roger Otis, un exemple de revitalisation des archives audiovisuelles
À quel prix ? Déterrer ses racines
Afrique / Africa
The Politics of Memory: A Case Study of the South African Archival Landscape
Bénin – Incendie au niveau du bâtiment des archives de Ganhi: la Poste du Bénin prend feu, le Dg rassure
Tunisie – Appel de 36 associations et organisations de la société civile pour la protection des archives de la dictature
Accord de coopération bilatéral entre les archives de France et les archives nationales du Sénégal
Amériques / Americas
Latin America’s largest antique negative archive in Medellin (Colombia)
Argentina – Launch of the National Digital Repositories portal and the new website of the Electronic Library
Obama’s Library, Advisers’ Dream
Nearly Half of Federal Agencies Not Confident They Can Meet Looming Deadlines for Improving Records Management Practices
NARA moved email to the cloud at ‘lightning speed’
Capital Buzz: A Google for the National Archives
Library of Congress – Cinema with the Right Stuff Marks 2013 National Film Registry
Long-lost diary of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg turned over to U.S. Holocaust Museum
A Lesson in Metadata: Harvard Bomb Hoax
Maine – Report Says State Agency Illegally Shredded Documents
Ford set to digitize material from its archives for an online museum
Random House Acquires 1800s Prison Memoir
Mapping the Movement of Books Using Viewshare: An Interview with Mitch Fraas
Steve Puglia, Digital Preservation Pioneer
You Won’t Believe This Incredible Art Edition Of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Artist Uses Google Glass to Create Interactive Installation
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Mugshots from the 1920s are Significantly Cooler Than Mugshots from Today
China – Shanghai Library digitizes defunct English newspaper
Prof. Parmananda Sharma honored by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
North Korea Erased Its Official Online News Archives
India – Nomads who archive family details
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nomads-who-archive-family-details/article5453228.ece
Europe / Europa
European Copyright Laws Lead to Rare Music Releases
No Old Maps Actually Say ‘Here Be Dragons’: But an Ancient Globe Does
US film historians find treasure in Czech archive
Hungary – ‘We Are What We Remember’: The Open Society Archives
Foreign Ministry to hand over archives of Latvian Legation in London to State Historical Archives of Latvia
“Très-humblement”: Tracing the mysteries of a 1602 Dutch pamphlet
Suisse – Révision de la législation sur les actes authentiques
Acquisitions majeures de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, dont un manuscrit de Jean Genet
France – Simenon et son commissaire Maigret font flamber les enchères
Ireland – Scholarly resources dating back to 1600 published online
Scotland – Music inspired by Edinburgh University archive captures the heart
Vintage ‘selfies’ uncovered in Scottish archives
Copyright compromise keeps UK internet archive offline
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240211019/Copyright-compromise-keeps-UK-internet-archive-offline
British Library – Digitisation as a preservation tool; some considerations
15 of the Weirdest Images in the British Library’s New Digital Trove
UK – Invitation to dig deep into the North-East’s mining history
Funding to help preserve archive of Tyneside company Vickers Armstrong
The Story of the World’s First Christmas Card
London in the snow: archive pictures of our city coated with the white stuff
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Why border lines drawn with a ruler in WW1 still rock the Middle East
Digitizing a Beloved Egyptian Scholar’s Archive
International
TV Technology: Examining the Evolution of Archives
Mining the records management resource
Scientists losing data at a rapid rate: decline can mean 80% of data are unavailable after 20 years
Corporate Spies Love Social Media
Twitter buzz about papers does not mean citations later