Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
National Library of Wales – Annual Review 2019-2020
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Stage 2 Email Appraisal, Disposal and Preservation Project 2019-2020: Summary Report
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Access Policies for Native American Archival Materials in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Guide to Using Special Collections at Yale University: Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description
Association of Research Libraries – Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning
American Academy of Arts and Sciences – The Humanities in American Life
Article – Challenges in Providing Reference Services in Small Archival Institutions
Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 43, no. 2 (2020)
Emerging Library & Information Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 1 (2020)
Data Technologies and Applications, vol. 54, no. 5 (2020)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 9, no. 5 (2020)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 10 (2020)
British Columbia Regional Digitized History Newsletter (Fall 2020)
Book – Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy
Book – Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities
Book – Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918
Book – A Brief History of the Bodleian Library (Revised Edition)
http://bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/coming-soon/products/a-brief-history-of-the-bodleian-library-1
Book – The Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Poland: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Disaster Planning for Special Libraries
Book – Forensic Handwriting Identification: Fundamental Concepts and Principles (Second Edition)
Book – Time in Maps: from the Age of Discovery to our Digital Era
Book – Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: the Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
Book – Fashion and Family History: Interpreting how your Ancestors Dressed
Book – Cyber Privacy: who Has your Data and why you Should Care
Book – Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Book – The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century
Livre – La généalogie pas à pas : comment retrouver ses racines aujourd’hui ?
Livre – Les valises de Jean Genet
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
To Look with Love: Emerging Themes on Records and Grief Work
November 13, 2020
Developing a Culturally Appropriate Digital Archive for Métis Archaeological Heritage
November 13, 2020
Quarantine Qapsule: Archiving Asian-Canadian Stories
November 18, 2020
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/quarantine-qapsule-archiving-asian-canadian-stories-tickets-121741709731
The Vatican, the Archive and the Holocaust: on Power and Truth-Seeking in the Catholic Church
November 18, 2020
New York State-Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association Annual Meeting
November 19, 2020
Webinaire – Partage d’expérience sur les services en gestion des données de recherche aux bibliothèques de l’Université de Montréal
24 novembre 2020
ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Historical Inequities Community Consultation
November 25, 2020
Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Annual General Meeting
November 26, 2020
38th Annual Queen’s University Archives Lecture
November 27, 2020
What’s in a Data Story? Understanding the Basics of Data Storytelling
November 30, 2020
The Art of Forgetting: Memory, Loss, and Revision
March 5-7, 2021, Ottawa
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Gestion documentaire en cas de crise
The Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge with Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian
November 16, 2020
Taxonomy of Information Risk
November 17, 2020
Web Archiving in Times of Rapid Change
November 17, 2020
Managing Compliance Throughout the Document Lifecycle in Office 365
November 18, 2020
GIS Day 2020 at the Library of Congress: Mapping a Pandemic
November 18, 2020
Information and Records Management Society – Improving Healthcare through Data Linkage Programmes
November 19, 2020
Rescuing Australia’s Lost Literary Treasures
November 24, 2020
Empowering Archives and the Profession Webinar: International Council on Archives Strategic Plan and Constitutional Reforms
November 27, 2020
Beginner’s Web Archiving Training
December 2-3, 2020
Digital preservation goes nuclear: project highlights and future directions
December 3, 2020
Archival Management of Oral History Collections
December 7-8, 2020
Archives : laboratoire de méthodes
8 décembre 2020 au 15 juin 2021
DAM and Museums
February 10, 2021
Fourth Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials Conference
June 17-18, 2021
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – Bibliothèque et Archives Canada : entrevue avec Marcelle Cinq-Mars, archiviste militaire (à partir de 5:30)
McMaster University Video – First and Second World War Propaganda
Video – Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) Presents: Dr. Julie Young on the Refuge Canada Exhibit
Australian Society of Archivists Video – Supporting and Activating the Adelaide Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous Archives
Vidéo – Présentation des Archives fédérales suisses
Vidéo – Tutoriel Wikidata
Council on Library and Information Resources – Season Two of Material Memory Podcast, Cultural Memory and the Climate Crisis
Rap des archives
Archives départementales du Gard – Jeu de l’oie
Archives départementales des Yvelines – Application mobile : La paix ? sentiers sonores
Rare Books / Book History Discord Group
Survey by the UK National Archives on the Effects of COVID on the Sector
Slides – Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Public’s Right to Know More Important than Ever During Pandemic
Library and Archives Canada – It made you intensely proud to see it standing there: how the Vimy Memorial survived the Second World War
Library and Archives Canada – Dressing the Troops: Knitting During the Wars
Preserving the bits : Library and Archives Canada’s Pre-Ingest workflow
Guy Berthiaume awarded the IFLA Medal
19th-century gospel written in Inuktitut syllabics added to Unesco world register
Dear Canadians postcard project aims to capture the pandemic moment
Province launches Manitoba Remembers to bring online celebrations to Remembrance Day
BAnQ – Consultation du milieu archivistique québécois sur la révision de la Loi sur les archives
BAnQ – Roger Varin et l’Ordre de Bon Temps
How to search newspaper articles (and more) at BAnQ
Fédération des milieux documentaires – Lettre pour la protection des archives de St-Sulpice
Ontario – In search of missing and forgotten Indigenous children
University of Manitoba – In Perpetual Motion: Web Archiving Ongoing Social Phenomena
Preserving Digits for Good: Turning Strategy into Practice at Concordia University
University of British Columbia – Processing Emotions
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – We are all Treaty People
McMaster University – Soldiers’ letters home now available digitally, thanks to lockdown transcription project
McGill University – Wartime correspondence in the Madeleine Parent Fonds
Remembrance with McGill Library collections
Western University Library – Banting, Before Insulin
Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – Remembrance Day: Student Voices from 2000
University of Victoria – Librarian Justin Harrison pauses to imagine a library tour with John Lennon
University of Victoria – A love of music guides Librarian Bill Blair’s librarianship
Black soldiers from Guelph honoured in digital project
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Nouveau fonds d’archives (P39)
Ontario Jewish Archives – Researching the Contributions of Jewish Servicewomen through Archival Resources
Toronto Public Library – Merril Collection at 50: Stories from the Spaced Out Library
Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Wartime letters
Sault Star (Ontario) archives get a new home
Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Des décennies d’archives du journal The Record sauvées
Cornwall – Newspaper digitization project hopes to preserve history
Dundas Museum and Archives (Ontario) receives Covid-19 emergency support grant
Remembrance at the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta)
Snowmageddon memories sought for Lambton (Ontario) archives
Strathcona County Museum and Archives (Alberta) – Local WWII soldier carried the spirit of the Canadian army in their fight for freedom
New Strathcona County Museum and Archives mural captures sense of community
Cumberland Museum and Archives (British Columbia) planning renovations
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Blackcomb’s First Season
Museum of Dufferin (Ontario) launches new online climate exhibit
Vie d’archiviste : René St-Pierre
Military Resources: Digitized Yearbooks 1943-1995 Victoria, B.C. Naval College
Curator tells young Winnipeg soldiers’ Second World War stories
Wartime diary of early Greater Victoria resident depicts life during First World War
Long lost Bible with Fort Saskatchewan family history discovered in British Columbia motel
The comfort of strangers: how a British family kept a slain Canadian airman’s memory alive
Afrique / Africa
Maroc – Accès à l’information : le gouvernement renforce le dispositif
Amériques / Americas
International Council on Archives (ICA) and Association of Latin-American Archivists (ALA) are pleased to announce they have signed a cooperation agreement
NARA – National Archives Launches Voting Rights Records Portal
NARA – Civil War Veterans Remembered in the Records of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Using NARA’s Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers
NARA – A Framework Enabling the Preservation of Government Electronic Records
NARA – Foreign Reaction to Reforming the Supreme Court, 1937
NARA – Righting a Wrong: The Return of Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblo
NARA – Posters of Early 20th Century Passenger Ships
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/10/posters-of-early-20th-century-passenger-ships/
Library of Congress – Generating STEAM with Copyright
Library of Congress – Lynd Ward’s Eerie, Early Graphic Novel, “Gods’ Man”
National Library of Medicine – Making Connections and Enabling Discoverability: Celebrating 30 Years of Unified Medical Language System
House Committee Chairs Tell Federal Agencies and White House to Preserve Records
Destroying Federal Documents During a Presidential Transition Is a Federal Crime
Supreme Court weighs public records law as Sierra Club challenges Freedom of Information Act exemptions
US rights group lawsuit seeks COVID-19 records for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention
Judge orders return of Alexander Hamilton letter to Massachusetts archives; says family that owned it for 75 years is owed nothing because it was stolen
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Records Managers vs. Archivists: what’s the Difference?
OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project
University of Texas – Archival Fever offers a collaborative model for humanities research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
New York University Special Collections Library by CannonDesign
The Paper Chase: how W.E.B Du Bois’ Papers came to University of Massachusetts
A temple of sound awaits in the University of California Santa Barbara’s collection of early music and sound recordings
Ball State University Libraries open COVID-19 Pandemic Archive
City College of New York Libraries completes digitization of Hatch-Billops Oral History collection
Simmons College – Can you Fit an Archivist in a Backpack?
Elizabethtown College – Archival work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research’s COVID-19 Data Repository
Getty Institute – To Hold Nature in the Hand: Revealing the Wonders of the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
Repatriating the Archives: Lumbee Scholars find their People and Bring them Home
George Eastman Museum is hard at work restoring a large and unusual collection of films from South Asia
Poor mummies: pandemic sidelines conservators and their care of such museum artifacts
Archives as Community-Building Spaces: an Interview with Sophie Glidden-Lyon
Dispatches from a Distance: the New Normal is Not Normal
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Parliamentary committee calls for overhaul of Australia’s data-retention regime
National Archives of Australia signs $4.4m contract to digitise World War II service records
Preserving the bits: a salutary tale from the National Archives of Australia
National Archives of Australia – An engineer at war: William Veale
Australian Defence Force turns a page on its paper archives with mammoth digitisation project
Australia – Looks like a conspiracy: department emails tried to discourage evidence from staffer who shredded documents
Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – A stinker of a problem: film and vinegar syndrome
New South Wales (Australia) state archives investigates shredding of documents related to $252m grants scheme
New South Wales government forced to recover deleted docs
Minecraft and augmented reality helping Indigenous elders keep stories alive for the next generation
How the 50 Words project is using technology to bring language to the world
US embassy supports collaboration between Turkmen and American organizations to preserve historical manuscripts
Europe / Europa
Openness of State Archives in Post-Soviet Republics and Eastern Bloc States During the Coronavirus Pandemic
National Library of Russia – Exhibition Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Antarctica
Norway digitally freezes national treasures and stores them in Arctic archive
Finland – Artificial intelligence dives into thousands of WW2 photographs
Poland seizes communist-era security files headed for US
Comprehensive van Gogh Database Launched by Dutch Museums
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
Italie – 30.000 documents et photos inédites : découvrez les archives de Charlie Chaplin
Luxembourg – The memory of a country
France – Ouvrir en grand les archives : ces camps avec vue sur mer que la France a longtemps refusé de regarder
Le manuscrit de Ceux de 14, de Maurice Genevoix, entre à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Super rare 100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France
Belfast – Woman who lost both parents to Covid-19 launches online archive of grief
National Library of Scotland – Three Copy Nirvana? A Climb into the Clouds
University of Glasgow – Doing First World War research in a pandemic
Visit old Edinburgh with striking pictures unveiled by new online archive tool
The UK National Archives joins the Climate Heritage Network
UK National Archives – Many adventures! British archivists in Italy during the Second World War
UK National Archives – LGBTQ+ visibility and archives: History between the lines
The British Library teams up with Yorkshire artists to create digital activity and encourage cultural engagement
British Library – The UK Web Archive website over time: 15 Years of UKWA
British Library – A tale of two web archives: challenges of engaging web archival infrastructures research
British Library – Data Debates: Bots in the Polling Booth
Imperial War Museum approximate the end of WWI
Royal College of Physicians mulls sale of rare books despite protest
Owners’ joy as rare £2.5m books stolen in London heist returned
Historical detectives discover more first editions of Isaac Newton’s Principia
UK Digital Forensics Report
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – A Sufi Journey to Jerusalem
National Library of Israel – In Memoriam: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and “The Home of the Book”
Turkey saved Palestinian archive during Arafat era
International
Digital Preservation at the United Nations
Unesco – Our Common Digital Future: Digital Preservation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
International Collaboration to Digitize Archive of Dylan Thomas
From Starchives to RED Files: the Depiction of Archives in Film
10,000 Rare Vintage Cookbooks Now Available for Free Online
How to help an organisation understand that it has problems that records management can solve
Archival Program Management