Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de France – Rapport annuel 2019 sur l’activité des services d’archives en France
Ministry of Culture at the Generalitat de Catalunya – Support Guide for the Archives of Catalan Sports Associations
Council of State Archivists – Statement on Cultural Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – Disputed Archival Claims: an International Survey 2018/2019
Digital Preservation Coalition – Translations of Key Resources
Archives and Records Association of New Zealand – Initial Results from the Community Archives Survey
Association of Research Libraries – Action Plan 2021-2022
Research Data Alliance – Sharing Covid-19 Epidemiology Data
Exploring Special Web Archives Collections related to Covid-19: three New WARCnet Papers Publications
Guide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources
Creative Commons – 2019 Annual Report
Publications
Archives: the Journal of the British Records Association, vol. 55, no. 2 (2020)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 21, no. 4 (2020)
Journal of Civic Information, vol. 2, no. 2 (2020)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 38, no. 4 (2020)
Off the Records: Archives Association of Ontario Magazine, vol. 36, no. 4 (2020)
Richmond (British Columbia) – Archives News, vol. 25, no. 2 (2020)
Free eBook – Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
Book – A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records
Book – Managing Information Risks: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Responses
Book – Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Design
Book – Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges
Book – Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence
Book – Ancestry Quest: how Stories from the Past Can Heal the Future
Book – Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation
Book – Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
Book – Exposed: How Revealing your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity
Book – Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited
Book – Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence: what Executives Need to Know
Livre – L’affaire des colonels, 1915-1916 : révélations des archives
Livre – La 121ème journée : l’incroyable histoire du manuscrit de Sade
Livre – Succès des textes latins dans l’Occident médiéval : approche méthodologique autour du projet FAMA
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Library and Archives Canada Webinar – In the Trenches
November 10, 2020
Slavery in Ontario
November 11, 2020
Canadian Repository Community Call: Current Approaches to Collecting, Managing, and Preserving Electronic Theses and Dissertations
November 13, 2020
Research in Academic Libraries 2020
November 13-14, 2020
The TRUST Principles in the Canadian Context
November 17, 2020
All-Russian Scientific Institute for Records and Archives Management
November 5-6, 2020, Moscow
Welsh Political Archive Discussion Panel
November 6, 2020
Webinar – Discussion of Findings from the REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) Project
November 10, 2020
Seduced by the Dark Side: Experiences of Becoming Digital Archivists
November 10, 2020
Translating Holocaust Testimony: a Conversation between Translation and Holocaust Studies
November 10, 2020
Radical Archive: Preserving Protest Ephemera
November 10, 2020
Webinar – Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology
November 12, 2020
Of Islands and Archives: Celebrating Île en île and World Literature in French
November 16, 1010
Webinar – Understanding the Importance of Reference Works
November 17, 2020
Do the Right Thing: Inclusivity, Equity & Anti-Racism in Business Archives
November 17-18, 2020
Documentary Heritage at Risk: Policy Gaps in Digital Preservation (Recording Available)
October 27, 2020
Webinar – Publishing GLAM Data as FAIR Data (Recording Available)
October 29, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Council of Archives New Brunswick – New YouTube Channel
Video – Archives of Manitoba: First World War Records
Vidéo – Table ronde Archives religieuses et enjeux de société
Video – Mi’kmaw Place Names and Legends with Roger Lewis, Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Avro Arrow: Uncovering the Myth
Nouvelle série de balados du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française
Living Heritage Podcast – Hallowe’en Special: Newfoundland Ghost Stories
From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Noel Dant
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Article Feedback and Revisions
Organizing Ideas Podcast – Library Power Structures with Baharak Yousefi
Records Search and Rescue Podcast – Animal Crossing: Part One
Video – Night of the Arts in the National Library of Russia
Vidéo de l’Association des archivistes français – Installer et utiliser le logiciel libre RiC-O Converter
Podcast – Liza Posas and her Work on the Protocols for Native American Archival Material
Pétition – Laissez accessibles les archives aux étudiants et aux chercheurs
Slides – Sharing, Healing, and Learning through Digital Stories
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Trudeau government eyes national declassification centre for historical spy documents
The pandemic is killing government transparency
New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization: Call for White Papers on Canada’s Future Digital Research Infrastructure Ecosystem
National Heritage Digitization Strategy Secretariat Transferred to Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Library and Archives Canada strengthens its ties with Université du Québec à Montréal
Library and Archives Canada – Canadians and the military occupation of Iceland (1940–1941): from squalls to the black death
Library and Archives Canada – Canadian achievement in the air: the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
Canadian Museum for Human Rights staff told not to mention abortion during some tours: email
Halloween costumes stored in the metaphorical CBC Archives basement
Association of Canadian Archivists et Association des archivistes du Québec – Covid-19: the duty to document does not cease in a crisis, it becomes more essential
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Consolidation is completed as of November 2020
BanQ – Des employés dénoncent la diminution de leurs heures de travail
BAnQ – René Lévesque, auteur du théâtre radiophonique Aux quatre vents
Plaidoyer pour libérer l’état civil du Québec
Québec risque de perdre sa mémoire religieuse
Avenir des archives religieuses: le temps presse
Appui de l’Association des archivistes du Québec à la déclaration d’Adélaïde du Conseil international des archives
International Council on Archives – Creating Tandanya: the Adelaide Declaration (by Raymond Frogner)
An ode to campus libraries
Québec universities now using OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services to share, search Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire library collections
Concordia University – World Digital Preservation Day
University of British Columbia – The Digitization Centre Impact Report 2019-2020
University of Toronto – Researching Kurdish archival collections: the Omar Sheikhmous Collection of Kurdish Research and the Amir Hassanpour fonds
University of St. Michael’s College – Gift to Nouwen Archives Creates New Research Possibilities
Mountain Legacy Project – Black Rock Fire Lookout: Legacies and Looking Ahead
Indigenous Language Revitalization: an Interview with Professor Ryan DeCaire
Archives de la ville de Québec – Réouverture de la gare du Palais : 35 ans déjà
Appartenance Mauricie – L’histoire en 500 000 négatifs
Alberta – Red Deer’s archives and records are being put under one roof
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) approved for future move to Centre 2000
South Peace Regional Archives – The Argonauts’ 1910-1915 Cashbook
Archival video captures old Kamloops (British Columbia) pop factory
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Archiving your Life in a Digital World
Saanich Archives (British Columbia) reopens to the public
Creston Public Library (British Columbia) – Systemic Racism Exists in Libraries Too
Campbell River (British Columbia) – Genealogy Society tracks down owners of 166-year-old Bible
Ontario Ancestors: School and Teacher Directories on Internet Archive
Encapsuler nos souvenirs de la pandémie
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria – Digital Revolution as Hope for Preserving Arts, Cultural Heritage
La Radiodiffusion Télévision sénégalaise veut construire un musée, pour donner une âme aux archives
Pour la valorisation du métier d’archiviste documentaliste : l’Unapac-Bénin portée sur les fonts baptismaux
United States International University- Africa – Covid-19: Advancing the Digital Participatory Microhistory
Élaboration de la stratégie nationale de mémoire inclusive : la Directeur national des Archives du Mali participe à l’atelier de consultation des acteurs culturels
Des archives déclassifiées de la CIA montrent que l’Algérie est impliquée dans le conflit du Sahara marocain
Nelson Mandela Foundation – Liberating the archive
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Mapping History
Library of Congress for Robots in Action: using the API to access the Federal Theatre Project collection
Library of Congress – Hollywood, Houdini and the Halloween Seance of 1936
Law Library of Congress Signs Preservation Steward Agreement with Government Publishing Office
National Library of Medicine – Fostering a Culture of Scientific Data Stewardship
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Interview with an Archivist
State Archives of North Carolina – Checklist for Electronic Records Transfers
Stanford University – The David Bacon Photography Archive: Capturing the struggle for social justice in photos
Cornell University – Digitized files give rare glimpse of anti-union advocacy
South Asian American Digital Archive – There Is No Liberation in Isolation
An Introduction to Buddhist Digital Resource Center’s Librarians
For Sale: the Entire Spycraft Collection of New York’s KGB Museum
New York preservation group launches online mapping tool to champion former haunts of artists and activists
Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance explores Baltimore’s queer history through media archives
An Archive of Pandemic and Anti-Racist Street Art
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
From daguerreotypes to glass plates: Australia’s oldest images
State Archives & Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Railway personal history cards all now online
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Lotus Bloats: Preserving Legacy Email for Good
Tasmanian Archive – Recently Digitised Material
New Zealand – Is the National Library’s 600,000 book cull cultural vandalism or is it about becoming more culturally relevant?
Activities of Digital Preservation at the National Archives of Korea
University of Hong Kong Archives – Serendipitous Preparedness
Un rare livre français remis à la Bibliothèque nationale de Chine
India – Tracing missing history in Kashmir’s abridged archives
India – Assam’s century-old literary body turns a new page, will digitise its rich archive
India – Three-member panel to identify works of art, artifacts and archival record of Ladakh
Europe / Europa
Historical Archives of the European Union heading towards ISO 9001 quality management
Barriers to digital cultural heritage access: legislation and practice in Europe and beyond
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Rescue and Parenting through Correspondence
Europeana – Surviving Communism: the seven tells from the Mostistei Valley
A photography archive preserves Polish protests as they unfold in real time
Hungary – New Samizdat Series Available at Blinken Open Society Archives’ Archival Catalogue
Germany – Scriptbakery taught an artificial intelligence to analyze manuscripts and the emotions of a potential reader
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Une déclaration d’amour aux formats
Ireland – Thinking behind the National Archive needs to be revised
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/thinking-behind-the-national-archive-needs-to-be-revised-1.4394595
Stasi archive shows way for institutional abuse record-keeping: issues of data access, redaction and early-life information must be refined for Ireland
Ireland – Mother-and-baby homes archive bill anger fuels exodus of more than 50 Greens
National Records of Scotland – We Don’t Just Do Paper: Depositing Digital Records
Memory Lane free online picture archive launched to help Scots capture historical moments in lockdown
Scotland – Eerie photographs of the abandoned houses of St Kilda emerge
UK Parliamentary Archives – When a Piano Tuner met the Prime Minister
UK National Archives – Shedding new light on First World War Royal Navy operational records
UK National Archives – The birth (and the death?) of Edward V
UK National Archives – Smoke and mirrors: Revealing the Gunpowder Plot through heritage science
UK National Archives – Planning the burial of the Unknown Warrior
British Library – The UK Web Archive creeps and crawls into the domain of Halloween with byte sized steps
British Library – Digital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere
British Library – LGBTQ+ Lives Online: Introducing the Lead Curators
British Library – Curating culturally themed collections online: the Russia in the UK Collection, UK Web Archive
The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war
Millions of researchers get free access to digital collections through new Jisc and JSTOR collaboration
Cambridge University Library launches Digital Preservation Programme
Knowledge under attack: Bodleian’s chief librarian turns cyber campaigner
Creating a Covid-19 archive at the Royal College of Nursing
Memento from 1936 Berlin Olympics held in Kingston University archive documents important moment in Black history
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Introducing Naamah, the Mother of All Demons
National Library of Israel – The Last Bar Mitzvah Before Kristallnacht
United Arab Emirates – The National Archives celebrates the Arab Document Day and highlights its role in preserving the memory of the nation
Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri
Iran – Unesco-tagged Golestan Palace to digitize archives into books
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454122/UNESCO-tagged-Golestan-Palace-to-digitize-archives-into-books
Turkey – Anadolu Agency archive boasts nearly 10M photos, videos
Turkey – Anadolu Agency archives reveal Ataturk’s first speech
International
World Bank – Digital Records: for accountability, transparency and the public good
Archiving your life in a digital world
Quand une page web disparaît d’internet, un archiviste veille
Hacker is selling 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies