Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of New Brunswick Digitization Standard
National Library of Australia – Digital Preservation Policy (4th Edition)
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress 2012
Official Norwegian Report on Cultural Policy 2014
Australian Government – The National Cloud Computing Strategy
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – Web-Archiving Report
Digital Curation Center – Data Management Planning Checklist and Themes (for Consultation)
Society of American Archivists – Describing Archives: A Content Standard (Second Edition)
Mute Magazine: Archivist Manifesto
Microsoft Research – Linking Structured Data
Gestion de contenus: le meilleur des solutions open source
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 13, no. 2-3 (June 2013)
The American Archivist, vol. 76, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2013)
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 10, no. 3-4 (2012)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 34, no. 2 (May 2013)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 22 (2013)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 4, no. 7 (May 2013)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 36 (Spring 2013)
e-Newsletter for Experts in Holocaust Documentation, no. 2 (2013)
Free ebook – Archives and Archival Documents in Ancient Societies
Book – Jesse Shera, Librarianship, and Information Science
Book – Digital Methods
Book – Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
Book – Technology for Small and One-Person libraries
Book – XML for Catalogers and Metadata Librarians
Book – Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture
Book – The Photograph and The Collection: Creation, Preservation, Presentation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – A Content Stream Runs Through It: Managing Streaming Media Collections in Libraries
June 12, 2013
Webinar – Sustainability and Cost Models for Digital Preservation
June 13, 2013
Balisage: the Markup Conference (Program Available)
August 5-9, 2013, Montréal
79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly (Programme Now Available)
17-23 August 2013, Singapore
Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software (Presentations Available)
May 20–21, 2013, Library of Congress
Sur le web / On the web
Alberta Open Data Portal
Podcast – After the Cuts: The Future of History in Canada
Crowdfunding – Timbuktu Libraries in Exile
Video – The Art of Data Visualization
Video – What is Digital Curation?
Canadian Health Libraries Association Social Media Portal
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Canadian Government’s Embarrassing Opposition to Security Breach Disclosure Legislation
Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel: The Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives
Library and Archives Canada recognized for its outstanding work in modernizing the workplace
Library and Archives Canada – Closure of the Ontario Regional Service Centre (Toronto)
Huge cache of Canadian history hits U.K. auction block, tests Library and Archives
What is going on in Ottawa? (on LAC by Michael Peterman, professor emeritus of English literature at Trent University)
Canadian Association of University Teachers – Looking forward: The next Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Les trésors cachés dans les voûtes de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec
Newfoundland and Labrador – Century-old mystery solved (by an archivist) regarding name of sealer
Local records handed over to Ontario Archives
X-Men à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Toronto – Mayor’s Office denies reports that Rob Ford ordered staff emails, phone records destroyed
Documents confidentiels dérobés à Laval
Canada’s only corporate archives fully available to public recognized by Archives Association of Ontario
Library & Librarian Crisis at St. Paul University
University of Toronto Libraries Acquires Rare Literary Vinyl Collection
University of Toronto Faculty Association Sends Letter to Heritage Minister James Moore
Waterloo (Ont.) pulls six years of public documents from website
Parliamentary Secretary Del Mastro Announces Investment in the Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.)
Does writing have a future? A noted Canadian philosopher gazes into the future
Chromebooks arrive in Canadian public libraries
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – Rare map masterpiece returns to France
Amériques / Americas
The Declassification Engine: Your One-Stop Shop for Government Secrets
George W. Bush Center’s joint-use deal outlines complex relationship between foundation, National Archives
National Archives Goes Google
Researchers developing Boston Marathon digital archive
Vermont court records offer glimpse into old times
Harvard Library Launches Research Data Collaborative
Montana – 50,000 photos of Butte: $100K donation made toward $250K Smithers collection
Ask an expert: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives’s Editor in New York Times
Digital Preservation Pioneer: Clifford Lynch
Two UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) professors win competitive grant for research on human rights archives
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Archives leading way to digital era
Reversal: Australian Govt picks ODF doc standard
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: Australians better protected with mandatory data breach notification
Archives Project Will Give Great Access To Fiji’s History
India – Rare documents on display at Assam State Archives
India – Exhibition of Rare Photos for 160 Years of Railways
Kashmir takes initiative for digitisation of indigenous manuscripts
Europe / Europa
Europeana – the case for funding
Oldest complete Torah scroll found miscatalogued in University of Bologna library
From start to Finnish: Extensive collection of photographs capture the THREE conflicts fought by Finland during World War Two
France – Si, les lettres de dénonciation des juifs sont accessibles
France – Le secret de la défense nationale entre le juge et les autorités administratives indépendantes
France – L’enfer ouvre ses portes: les archives censurées de l’Institut National de l’Audivisuel numérisées
Le Collège de France ouvre ses archives aux internautes
1914-1918 : les archives appellent à participer dans toute la France
France – Une lettre de Dreyfus adjugée 380.000 euros
Public records office for Northern Ireland withheld files unlawfully: solicitor
Carál Ní Chuilín overturns Public records office for Northern Ireland archive refusal
BBC scraps digital archive after wasting £100m and suspends £280K manager
British Library – A Closer Look At Richard Wagner’s Manuscripts
Book containing 1000 beautiful paintings from the Song Dynasty period is donated to the British Library by Zhejiang University
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
2,000 years after they were written, Dead Sea Scrolls go online
Turkish manuscripts in Balkan libraries being digitized
International
To analyse business processes, or not to analyse business processes – that is the question (or at least one of the questions to consider when implementing an EDRMS)
Information management and governance issues to consider when moving your corporate email to the cloud
Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped
Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia
What Governmental Big Data May Mean For Libraries