Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada – Bill C-11: An Act to Enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to Make Consequential and Related Amendments to other Acts (First Reading)
Yukon Archives – Colonialism, Archives and Yukon First Nations Research Guide
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Rapport annuel 2019-2020
Office of Government Information Services (NARA) – Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee Recommendations Dashboard
Institut national du patrimoine – Sérendipité : orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
IFLA – Combatting Illicit Trafficking of Documentary Cultural Heritage
Ithaka S+R – Structuring Collaborations: the Opportunities and Challenges of Building Relationships between Academic Museums and Libraries
REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums Project – Test 6 Results
World Wide Web Consortium – Publication Manifest and Audiobooks Recommendations
Research Data Alliance – Strategic Plan 2020-2023 (for Consultation)
Article – National Archives and National Memory: Facing the Archival Silence
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 20, no. 4 (2020)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 38, no. 4 (2020)
Business Elite Canada, November 2020 (Special Issue on Library and Archives Canada)
Book – Documents of the Fuhrerbunker: the Last Archives of the Third Reich
Book – Cosmopolitics of the Camera: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
Book – Royal Seals: the National Archives: Images of Power and Majesty
Book – Mbira’s Restless Dance: an Archive of Improvisation
Book – Railway Nation: Tales of Canadian Pacific, the World’s Greatest Travel System
Book – The Book Collectors: a Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories that Carried them through a War
Book – Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops
Book – Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community
Book – Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428
Book – Re-making the Library Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections, and Practices
Book – Heritage Planning: Principles and Process (Second Edition)
Livre – Humanités numériques : la culture face aux nouvelles technologies (deuxième édition)
Livre – Décès, disparitions et successions en généalogie (cinquième édition)
Livre – Les imaginaires numériques au musée : débats sur les injonctions à l’innovation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archiving Black History and Culture
November 24, 2020
The ArQuives’ Trans Collections Guide Launch
December 3, 2020
ARMA Toronto – Implementing O365 with Proven and Effective Add-on Governance and RIM Tools
December 7-10, 2020
Black Lives and Archival Histories in Canada
December 10-11, 2020
Archives Association of Ontario – Emergency Planning
January 18 and 25, 2021
January 18: https://aao-archivists.ca/event-4046107
January 25: https://aao-archivists.ca/event-4046167
Contributing to the Muslims in Canada Archives
January 12, 2021
Whose History? The Migrated Archive and Britain’s Colonial Past
November 23, 2020
Renewable Heritage, Footprints of the Future: the Environmental Impact of Preserving Cultural Heritage
December 1, 2020
Library of Congress – Digital Architectural Archive Collections:Expanding Practices & Future Uses
December 2, 2020
Why Records Management Matters: Discussion with Laura Millar and Anthea Seles
December 3, 2020
Beyond Diversity Initiatives: Recruitment of BIPOC into Archives and Special Collections Librarianship
December 10, 2020
National Library of Scotland – The Rankin Files: Lifting the Lid
December 17, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Modernizing Canada’s Privacy Act: Online Public Consultation
Comparison Chart – Bill C-11’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia Video – Museums as Spaces of Dialogue and Disruption
Oil Museum of Canada, Lambton Heritage Museum and Lambton County Archives (Ontario) – Online Learning Resources
Archives Bois-Franc – Vidéo promotionnel
Musée virtuel d’histoire politique du Québec
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Participating in Virtual Conferences
Video – Digital Transformation for User Engagement in Cultural Heritage
University of Cape Town Video – Archival Ethics and Possibilities of Representation: Tal Adler and George Mahashe in Conversation
Podcast – International History Declassified: Captured Records and Archival Responsibility
Baladodiffusion – Les très riches heures de l’enluminure
Baladodiffusion – Les idées sous couvre-feu : archives et histoire
Online Exhibit – The Making of Unesco’s Constitution
Slides – A Cloud-based Serverless Microservices Application for Digital Preservation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Statement from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada following the tabling of Bill C-11
Canada’s GDPR Moment: why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada’s Biggest Privacy Overhaul in Decades
Privacy Pressure Points: a Closer Look at Ten Consumer Privacy Protection Act Concerns
Canada’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act: Impact for businesses
Feds missing opportunity to ensure political parties covered by privacy law
Library and Archives Canada – Manitoba history and the penitentiary at Lower Fort Garry, 1871–1877
Library and Archives Canada – Shopping at Sears: a window into the archives
Library and Archives Canada and University of Ottawa sign collaboration agreement
Library and Archives Canada – Co-Lab Update for November
La Commission de vérité et réconciliation, un impact sur les politiques de BAC et BANQ ?
Quelle liberté d’expression pour nos musées, bibliothèques et archives ?
Asbestos in the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation’s Archive
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Letters found between future United States President and former New Brunswick Premier
Alberta – Privacy commissioner calls for changes, consultation on health information bill
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Recreating our exhibitions online
Canadian Mennonite University – Mennonite Heritage Archives part of groundbreaking storytelling project
McMaster University – Appointment-based access to Archives and Research Collections now available
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia – Fifty Years Young
Vancouver City Archives – Researcher Spotlight: Jennifer Chutter
Alberta – City temporarily closes Wetaskiwin’s Archives for up to one year
Virtual exhibits on now through Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Women at War
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Whistler’s Silver Book
La Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Centre-du-Québec récompense Archives Bois-Francs
Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel – Nouveaux versements au fonds Laurier R. Ménard
Décès de Pierre Savard, fondateur du Centre d’archives publicitaire : collègues et amis témoignent
Okanagan woman makes social media plea for grandfather’s missing headdress
Afrique / Africa
Guinée – Droit d’accès à l’information publique : les députés adoptent une loi à l’unanimité contre une abstention
Accès à l’information : le retard accusé dans le processus d’acquisition de la loi a fait baisser la note du Sénégal à 2/4
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Introducing the Bureau of Indian Affairs Finding Aid
NARA – The Nuremberg Trials, 75 Years Later
NARA – From Soldier to Citizen: how to use the Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers
NARA – Examining and Addressing Racism
Far-reaching Impacts: why the Closure of NARA’s Seattle Facility Still Matters
Library of Congress – An Archivist’s Perspective on Legacy Files
Library of Congress – The Computing Cultural Heritage Collections Project is Looking for Researchers
Library of Congress – View our New Web Resource: Indigenous Law Web Archive
Library of Congress – Copyright: Deposits of Gold
National Library of Medicine – Dr. Isaac Kohane: Making our Data Work for us
Will Trump Burn the Evidence?
Trump’s presidential library will be a shrine to his ego
Montana Historical Society – Donors and Donations during a Pandemic
State Archives of North Carolina – CollectionBuilder: a New Way to Browse Our Digital Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Digital Archive Catalogues Abuses of Genoa Indian School
Northeastern University – Archive of Sephardi music is released online, with help from a Northeastern administrator
Archives of Ivan Chermayeff, the designer behind Smithsonian sun and MoMA logo, donated to New York’s School of Visual Arts
Indiana University – Everyday impressions during extraordinary times: historians, archivists document the pandemic
OCLC, Washington State University are creating digital stewardship training courses for tribal libraries, archives, museums, and small public libraries
Ursinus College – Digital Archive of Collegeville’s First Newspaper Now Available Online
Meet the guardians of the world’s earliest musical recordings
Blavatnik Archive Foundation – Digital Primary Resources: Soviet Jewish veterans of WWII
Laying out the Horizon of Possibilities: Reflections on Developing the OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows
Catherine Stiers on Using Reddit as an Archival Outreach Tool
Ancestor and Descendant: a Conversation with Steven G. Fullwood
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Disposal Freeze: Records related to the Afghanistan Inquiry and Office of Special Investigator to address matters raised by the Inquiry
The Australian Libraries and Information Association and National Archives band together against disinformation
The next generation is bringing Australia’s ancient languages into the future
New South Wales (Australia) – Shredded grants papers the type that should be archived, authority says
Indonesia – Jadavpur University’s archives on Shakespeare set to go global
Sri Lanka – Transcripts of ola-leaf manuscripts : to be brought from UK
China’s archives are being erased. Much is at risk of being lost
India – The Khlam Archive: how Meghalaya is documenting a raging pandemic
Europe / Europa
10 years of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure 10 Years : Statements
Photo database of more than 20,000 Russian churches brings new life to genealogy
Croatia – Archival documents from Homeland War being digitised with European Union funding
Not to be sniffed at: historical smells project launched
Vatican’s WWII archives reveal complex picture, flawed characters, says expert
Association des Archivistes Francophones de Belgique – Notre analyse du “Rapport des Formateurs” au Roi et de la Déclaration du Gouvernement fédéral
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Une nouvelle base de données de recherches pour la Belgique
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Consultation des registres de l’état civil : état de la question
Belgique – Un mystérieux message anarchiste aux Archives de l’État à Liège
France – Archives nationales et documents classifiés, retour sur une polémique
France – Les documents spoliés conservés à la bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art
Archive exceptionnelle : écoutez la voix d’Alfred Dreyfus lui-même, en 1912
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – Archiving Covid-19
Glasgow archives reveal stories of Scottish Women’s Hospital heroes
UK National Archives – Racism Past and Present: Mixing therapeutic practice with archival research
UK National Archives – The industrial bedlam of modern Britain: the problem of noise in the 1950s and 60s
UK National Archives – Research Exchange: Jonathan Mackman on the Northern Way Project
British Library acquires unique 15th century Lucas Psalter manuscript featuring previously unknown work by the Master of Edward IV
British art experts who saved treasures during WWII were not impressed by uncultured US curators
People power: Cinema Museum reliant on Crowdfunder campaign after missing all government support
University of Sussex – Historic archive of the prominent Hutchinson family acquired for the nation
Unlocking collections in a lockdown
Researching Birmingham Newspapers: your options
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Kosher Pork Chops and Crypto-Jewish Identity
National Library of Israel – Mythical Dwarfs and Garden Gnomes: the Jewish Connection
Israel – National Library’s Docu.Text film festival goes online
Iraq – Undying memories hidden in Saddam’s archives
The Story of the Library of Alexandria Is Mostly a Legend, but the Lesson of its Burning Is Still Crucial Today
International
Ménage-à-préservation: the tensions of Digital Preservation as-a-Service
Emulating Networks: Preserving Access to Webservers
Information Management in Microsoft 365: Retention Labels
Using Microsoft 365 connectors to support records management
DIKAR: the acronym that everyone in information and records management needs to know
More on the Global War on Records Management
Archives work is emotional work
Managing research data: a beginner’s guide
Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights
Automated image recognition: how using free photos on the internet can lead to lawsuits and fines
Painting an Information Map
Using Collections Management Systems to Enhance Access