Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Guidance on OMB/NARA Memorandum Transition to Electronic Records
NARA – Senior Agency Official for Records Management 2019 Annual Report: Election Assistance Commission
British Library – Living Knowledge for Everyone
De la communauté / From the community
Music Library Association & Society of American Archivists – Archival Description of Notated Music
Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories
IFLA – Understanding Library Tech Needs and Readiness
L’intelligence artificielle dans le monde du livre : livre blanc
Article – Private Rescue-by-Purchase of Stolen Cultural Goods: the Material and Social Consequences and the Complicity of Europe and North America
Publications
Journal of Documentation, vol. 76, no. 6 (2020)
Information & Culture, vol. 55, no. 3 (2020)
Les Carnets de l’Institut mémoire de l’édition contemporaine, no 13-14 (2020)
Archives Association of British Columbia Newsletter (2020)
Society of American Archivists – Archivists and Archives of Color News, vol. 34, no. 3 (2020)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) Archives Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 2 (2020)
ISO/TS 16175-2:2020 – Information and Documentation – Processes and Functional Requirements for Software for Managing Records – Part 2: Guidance for Selecting, Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Software for Managing Records
ISO 3297:2020 – Information and Documentation : International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
NF Z42-013 – Archivage électronique : recommandations et exigences
Book – Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
Book – Reflections on Practitioner Research: a Practical Guide for Information Professionals
Book – Advance Metadata Fair
Book – Privacy at the Margins
Book – A Practical Guide to Digital Forensics Investigations (Second Edition)
Book – New Orleans in Golden Age Postcards
Book – Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution
Book – Human Capacity in the Attention Economy: how Information Technology Changes how we Think, Feel and Behave
Book – Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Livre – Aux sources de la paix : les archives du Service français de la SDN
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Toronto – Decolonizing Virtual Reality
October 13, 2020
Info-Maintainers Panel: Perspectives on the Maintenance of Indigenous Info
October 15, 2020
Launch of the Nova Scotia LGBT Archive
October 15, 2020
Conversations Between the German National Library and Library and Archives Canada
October 15, 2020
Archives Association of Ontario – Institutional Development Committee Members’ Symposium 2020
October 22, 2020
Session 1: https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/event-4006583
Session 2: https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/event-4007090
Grant Writing for Community Archives
October 27, 2020
Archives Association of British Columbia – Archiving Activism: an UnConference
November 16, 2020
Government Information Day 2020
December 15-17, 2020
Archives Association of British Columbia Online Course – Oral History: from Theory to Practice
January 11 – March 22, 2021
Talking to People in Archives: a Conversation about Human Access
October 13, 2020
Historic Environment Scotland Records Management Implementation: a Closer Look
October 13, 2020
Charities, Covid and Data Governance: Key Lessons to Take Home
October 13, 2020
NARA – First Virtual Pajama Party
October 17, 2020
Collecting Social Photo Online Webinars
October 19-20, 2020
Archival Activism: Community-Centred Approaches to Archives
October 22, 2020
Confronting Biases: their Impact on Collections, Research, and Scholarship
October 23, 2020
Online Creative Writing Workshop – Alcohol in the Archives
November 21, 2020
Media Art Preservation Institute
December 12-16, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Statistics Canada – Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities
Canadian Data Science Network
City of Edmonton Archives Podcast – An Interview with John Ducey
Barrie Historical Archive (Ontario) – Historic Hotels: Downtown Barrie Virtual Walking Tour
Organizing Ideas Podcast – Anti-Fascist Librarianship with Lena Gluck
http://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/ep-29-anti-fascist-librarianship-with-lena-gluck/
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Making Space Between Work And Home
Video – An Overview of the Development of the Irish Military Archives, 1924 to the Present
Scottish Council Archives Video – Collecting in a Crisis: a Guide to Rescuing Business Records
Government after Shock Interview Series – Marie-Louise Ayres, Director General of the National Library of Australia
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
What Happened to Canada’s Innovation Agenda?: how Innovation Policy Has Been Sidelined by Cultural Policies and Misplaced Provincial Prioritization of Patents
Opinion – The law that helps citizens pry information from government is near collapse. Here are some ways to fix it
Library and Archives Canada-Ottawa Public Library joint facility: Indigenous blessing ceremony before ground preparatory work begins on site
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Le fonds d’un premier ministre canadien à l’ère du numérique
The Oberlander Files: the secret history of the last suspected Nazi war criminal in Canada
Association of Canadian Archivists – Equity Task Force: Equity Statement and Commitments
Friends of the British Columbia Archives Welcomes New Collections Facility; Questions Remain
BAnQ – Souvenirs d’amitié : Aurélie Papineau et Louisa Trudeau
Fédération des milieux documentaires – La culture en confinement ?
CBC Inuktitut language podcast Inuit Unikkaangit reunites Inuit with their stories
Indigenous Canada Online Course Attracts 64,000
Newfoundland Ancestors: Directories online at Memorial University
University of British Columbia Library blog series explores personal archives of archivists, librarians and library staff
Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the University of British Columbia Archives
Help archive 2020 for future generations, urges University of Waterloo history prof
Will Covid-19 become the 21st century’s forgotten pandemic?
Toronto Public Library – Ontario History: 40 Colouring Pages from our Special Collections
Crisp collection of rare pioneer Vancouver images surfaces
Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center – Introducing the Kahnawà:ke Beadwork Oral History Project
Coronavirus: Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario) receives $97K emergency support grant
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Burning Down the House
Galt Museum & Archives (Alberta) unveils new Refuge Canada exhibit
Northumberland County (Ontario) Receives Government of Canada Funding Towards New Archives & Museum Facility
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Concession de la seigneurie de Courval
Archives Bois-Francs prend de plus en plus sa place
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Nécessité d’impliquer la population locale dans la préservation du patrimoine culturel
Namibia – Access to obsolete microfilm in national archive revived by new scanner, courtesy of German embassy
Amériques / Americas
Reportedly stolen from Mexico, letters from the Spanish conquest go for thousands at auction
NARA – Native American Treaties Now Online for the First Time
NARA – Hispanic Heritage Month: Recognizing and Celebrating Hispanic Culture
NARA – Women in Diplomatic Service, 1924
Library of Congress and National Park Service Receive Historic Collection on Women’s Rights from National Woman’s Party
Library of Congress – Unpublished Twilight Sequel Sparks Interest in Copyright Deposits
What Health Literacy Outreach Looks Like at National Library of Medicine
Keeping Alaska’s history preserved, one film at a time
Digitizing Public Media at the Center for Public Television & Radio at University of Alabama: an On-the-Ground Report from PBPF Fellow Hannah Hurdle During a Pandemic
Columbia University Library Acquires Archive of Playwright Myrna Casas
University of Wyoming Libraries-Led Project Adds First Set of Wyoming Newspapers to National Database
Archive of Venezuelan Intellectual and Photographer Alfredo Boulton Comes to the Getty Research Institute
Estimating Energy Use for Digital Preservation, Part I
Houston Jewish History Archive Seeks High Holy Days Reflections
Communities creating archives to document Long Island’s COVID-19 journey for future generations
A Native American Community in Baltimore Reclaims its History
A former Austin Library employee is accused of stealing $1.3M in printer toner
Black culture is flourishing. Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew want to preserve it. Here’s what that means.
Better World Books Donates Frederick Douglass First Edition to Enoch Pratt Library
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Archives New Zealand Announces Permanent Chief Archivist
New Zealand – Algorithmic Accountability and Recordkeeping
Inconvenient or Accessible? Archives and Research Libraries in Australasia
Island Culture Archival Support – Learning Traditional and Treasure Ways in Cook Islands
Europe / Europa
It was 30 years ago: digital exhibition by the European Parliament
European Parliament Archives to curate 20 original exhibitions over four years in 24 languages
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure-Preparatory Phase Consortium Takes Important Steps Towards Establishing EHRI as a Permanent Organisation
Japanese internee documents archived in Moscow
It wasn’t Oceans 11: inside the rise and fall of Romania’s £2.5m book heist gang
L’accord de gouvernement De Croo I et les Archives de l’État en Belgique
France – L’ombre du général Massu menace-t-elle toujours ceux qui travaillent sur la guerre d’Algérie ?
France – Vitam : programme interministériel archivage numérique : déjà 5 ans
The final chapter? Covid spells crisis for Paris’ riverside booksellers
How machine learning is bringing National Library of Scotland’s maps to life
Court to rule on UK freedom of information bids from overseas
UK Parliamentary Archives – The Noble David Pitt: from Grenada to Camden
UK Parliamentary Archives – Royal Subjects in Satires of the Trial of Queen Caroline
British Library – The Bamberg Book of Relics
The future of our digital past: how do we stop our precious files from being lost forever?
From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world’s strangest books
Global online library Open Texts goes live with 8m books and rare works
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Missing Tomes: Gershom Scholem’s Wandering Talmud
Israel – In time for lockdown, Cinematheque puts film history treasure trove online
Letter Writing Isn’t a Lost Art in Egypt. It’s an Ancient Ministry.
International
Second Edition of ISO 16175 Complete and Published
United Nations – Digitization Update: Trusteeship Council
Elephind: a Digital Newspaper Collections Search Engine
Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present)
Conducting Reappraisal on your Archival Collections
Formulating an Archival Mission Statement
Now More than Ever, the World Needs Data Stewards