Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada’s 2011-12 Departmental Performance Report
CNIL (France Data Protection Authority) – Managing Privacy Risks: Methodology & Measures for the Privacy Risk Treatment
De la communauté / From the community
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – First national ‘distance’ survey of archive users
Microsoft – Differential Privacy for Everyone
Article – The Network is the Format: PDF and the Long-term Use of Digital Content
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 75, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2012)
Records Management Journal, vol. 22, no. 3 (2012)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 11-12 (November-December 2012)
La Gazette des archives, no. 227 (2012)
Documentaliste Science de l’information, vol. 49, no. 3 (2012)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (November 2012)
Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit: Changing Role of Senior Administrator
Book – Paper: An Elegy
Book – Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage
Livre – Figaro, les trésors des archives, 1870-2000
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
NISO Webinar: Connecting the Dots: Constellations in the Linked Data Universe
December 12, 2012
Webinar: Hurricane Sandy Collections Recovery
November 20, 2012
Sur le web / On the web
McGill Remembers, a searchable database of McGill University Archives’ War Records
Archives of the Law Society of Upper Canada – New Blog Site
Archivas: vidéos présentant les archives du canton du Valais (Suisse)
Video – Preservation and Access: Digitization Services at NARA
Dodis: an official app created by the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
“Living Dead” Take Over Libraries and Archives Canada
Federal Libraries and why closing them should not be business as usual
The Canada Year Book is history
Québec – Stéphane Bédard veut améliorer la Loi sur l’accès à l’information
BAnQ – Des ajouts récents à la collection numérique de cartes et plans
Ontario’s Open Data Policy: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and the (Missed?) Opportunity
Archives and Social Justice
McMaster University – Tiny Holocaust diaries major find
Poppies, circa 1936, discovered in McMaster archives
Galt Museum & Archives (Alb.) – The Long Lost Diary of Captain A.G. Virtue – Lest We Forget
Cobourg (Ont.) gifts its archival material with one condition
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Afrique / Africa
Madagascar – Des archives locales non-conservées
Burkina Faso – Centre national des archives : Les documents de Vinama Thiemounou remis au Centre
Amériques / Americas
Federal Digital System and Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification
US man who helped memorabilia collector steal historical documents sentenced to year in prison
Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
Hoover Archives mistakenly displayed classified docs, FBI investigation leads to removal
Restored recordings share greetings from Arizonans serving in World War II
A collection unlike others: New archive at Harvard chronicles cultural backdrop of sex, drugs
University of Montana student collecting archive of Montana bands from 1950s-’70s
Collection of Huey P. Long papers donated to Tulane University
Univision working to create immigration archive
Documenting Sandy, From the Director of Library & Archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Nepal – Archiving hidden treasures
Philippines – Nat’l Archives Congress to focus on multi-ethnic archiving
National Archives of Australia embraces crowdsourcing and releases ‘The Hive’
China – Confucius’ family tree goes digital
New Zealand – Hundreds of historic photos go missing
Europe / Europa
New European archive collects untold stories of the First World War
E-books on demand of Danish books 1701-1900 – at no charge
SaveTheArchives Officially Launches to Help Preserve the Migration History of Greek Immigrants
Beethoven manuscript to go on tour
‘Book Mountain’ lets Netherlands readers explore pyramid of paper
Switzerland – International Olympic Committee headquarters flooded after water pipe bursts, some of the archives damaged
Telecom Italia publishes archives on web portal
Allemagne – Le Nobel Imre Kertész fait don de ses archives littéraires
Le gouvernement français rend hommage à Didier Grange (archiviste de la ville de Genève)
France – Âme occitane : un manuscrit dévoilé à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
France – La ministre de la Culture et de la Communication préempte une partie du fonds d’archives photos de France Soir
International Herald Tribute to sell thousands of archive photos at Paris auction
Ireland – Report critical of rationale for merging State archives and National Library
Five hundred year old secret library and medieval archive in lottery bid to save rare books
Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers’ archives?
International
Why we need a Software Museum
Giving Digital Preservation a Backbone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Raw data, now!
Quantum Lattus disk archive with object storage released
All In! Embedded Files in PDF/A