Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Library – Making the Most of Funding Opportunities for Preservation and Conservation Projects (Revised Edition)
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association – Interlibrary Loan (ILL) User Roundtable Documents
ICA, IFLA, CCAAA, ICOM, ICOMOS, ICSTI – Statement of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives
Ithaka S+R – Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content
What’s the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing?
HathiTrust Digital Library – 2012 Year in Review
Publications
Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 65, no. 1 (2013)
Journal of Library Administration, vol. 53, no. 1, 2013 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities in Libraries)
Mémoire d’Archives: en direct des Archives nationales, no. 12 (Janvier-Mars 2013)
National Archives of Australia – Your Memento, no. 9 (January 2013)
Society of California Archivists Newsletter, no. 145 (Winter 2013)
Documentaliste – Sciences de l’information, vol. 49, no. 4 (2012)
Canadian Conservation Institute’s Technical Bulletin 30: The Digitization of Audio Tapes
Book – Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space
Book – Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture
Book – Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
Livre – Impacts écologiques des technologies de l’information et de la communication
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives in Your Attic
February 18, 2013, Peterborough, Ontario
Webinar – Drowning in content? Managing email and file shares is just too hard. Or is it?
February 20, 2013
Digital Diplomatics 2013
14-16 November, 2013, Paris
University of Waterloo – Records Management, Lunch & Learn (Slidecast available)
24 January, 2013, Waterloo
Historical Documents in the Digital Age (videos available in English and French)
25-26 October, Rouen, France
Sur le web / On the web
Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches privacy mobile application
Archive your children’s art with Artkive app
Podcast – Rawdon Brown and the Brown Archive in The UK National Archives
Digital Curation Centre – Disciplinary Metadata Guide
US – Alpha.Data.gov
Podcast – Preserving Personal Information
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Release of a new version of the Census of Prairie Provinces, 1916 database
B.C. leads the country in cutting red tape
Archives reluctant to beef up security following theft: Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University react after police recover university owned artifacts
RCMP says some stolen antiques may be from P.E.I.
University of Victoria archives reveal history of Victoria’s artists
Gulf Islands (B.C.) – Archives gets piece of Best history
Afrique / Africa
Plus de 55 ans après l’indépendance, le Maroc se dote d’Archives nationales
‘Racism’ of early colour photography explored in art exhibition: artists spent a month in South Africa taking pictures on decades-old film engineered with only white faces in mind
Algérie – Les Archives nationales réceptionnent la première partie des archives relatives aux relations algéro-yougoslaves
L’Afrique construit sa bibliothèque au Sénégal
Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts
Fire in Timbuktu library: just revenge or eradication of heresy?
Amériques / Americas
Rescue project for Dutch archives in Guyana
Missouri – State Archives Release ’62 Death Certificates
North Carolina – History Buffs Aim to Preserve State Archives
Intrepid Museum Crowdsources Enterprise Pictures
New York Philharmonic to release more archive online
Rare Robert Frost Collection Surfaces 50 Years After His Death
Anarchy in the Archives: Zine Project Brings Punks of Color to the Academy
Ouachita Baptist University’s archives a storehouse of the past
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Tim Berners-Lee calls data retention a ‘really, really bad idea’
Veteran archivists press for legislation in Hong Kong
China – Why is the government destroying so many documents?
Japan – National library joins digital wave, will offer books online
India – Digitised National Archives catalogue launched
India – Rare Gandhi-Kallenbach letters on display at National Archives
India – Arts archive comes alive
India – A Fragile Buddhist Treasure
Europe / Europa
Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive
Germany – Holocaust archive rescues lost identities, reunites long lost families
The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life
Poignant photograph that proves pensioner’s family died at Auschwitz
Germany – Cologne finds itself in new music archive
Vatican Apostolic Library uploads 256 digitized manuscripts
Italy fears for ‘vanishing’ heritage after arrests over sacking of historic library
Romania’s New National Library Remains a Dream Yet to Come True
Malta – Preservation of historical documents at Notarial Archives
National Archives of Armenia turns digital
Généalogie – Les archives belges arrivent sur Internet
Belgique – Cinq années d’archives du Service public fédéral Economie détruites illégalement
France – Archives numériques : bientôt une loi, mais pour quoi faire ?
Sotheby’s Will Offer the Library of the Ducs de Luynes
Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris
3 000 photos légendées de la Bataille de Normandie sur un compte Flickr
New project aims to preserve rare artefacts from Wales’ history
Placing council services at arms length has weakened Scotland’s freedom of information
UK National Archives – View early Colonial Office photos in Australasia through a lens
International
Scanning: DIY or Outsource
Is JPEG-2000 a Preservation Risk?
Big data and the death of the theorist
Dickens, Austen and Twain, Through a Digital Lens
Only the digital dies: the newest technologies look most likely to vanish; the oldest may always be with us
Name That Tune: Adding Labels and Descriptions into Your Audio Files