Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center
Parliament 2020: Visioning the Future Parliament (International Comparison: Australia, Canada, Chile and the United Kingdom)
De la communauté / From the community
Association pour l’Histoire de la Protection de la Nature et de l’Environnement – L’inventaire des archives des acteurs privés de la protection de la nature : une action expérimentale dans le département du Finistère (France)
Publications
Government Information Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3 (July 2011)
Ariadne, no. 67 (July 2011)
Scottish Council on Archives Newsletter, no. 5 (2011)
Book – Introduction to Information Science and Technology
Book – Switching codes: thinking through digital technology in the humanities and the arts
Book – Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries
Book – American Library Association Guide to Medical & Health Sciences Reference
Book – Using Web Analytics in the Library
Livre – Classification des documents numériques dans les organismes
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Future Perfect 2012: Digital Preservation by Design
26 & 27 March 2012, Wellington (New Zealand)
2nd World Conference of the International Council on Archives Section of Professional Associations
30 August – 2nd September 2011, Edinburgh
3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World
September 19-21, 2012, Turkey
Biennale du numérique
17 et 18 octobre 2011, Enssib (Villeurbanne, France)
Free Archived Webinar – Information Cartographer: Social Media Librarians of the Future
July 20, 2011
International Curation Education Forum (detailed report available)
29 June 2011, London
The ‘Service Turn’ and the Future of the Academic Library (video and slides available)
16 June 2011, Dublin (Ohio)
Sur le web / On the web
European Film Gateway
Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic
Email Preservation: Selected Bibliograpy
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Recording industry honours Peterborough MP for work on copyright legislation
Defeated MPs shredded files before new MPs arrived: reports
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria: Canada Tasks Govt On Information Act
Le Cap-Vert exporte son expertise en gouvernance électronique
Amériques / Americas
Committee Ponders e-Discovery Changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Obama Presidential Library Narrowed to Chicago, Honolulu
Historic document theft probe expands to National Archives
The last of their kind: Library of Congress release historic archive pictures of native Indians
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency needs help with archiving: NARA
Harvard Law School library announces expansion of Nuremberg Trials Project
Adventist history creates identity, confidence and purpose, church archives director says
The University of Connecticut scanning rare Puerto Rican historical documents into digital archive
Les archives d’Harald Szeemann (historien de l’art) bientôt à Los Angeles
Harry Ransom Center acquires the archives of filmmaker Nicholas Ray
Helmut Lang Explains Why He Destroyed His Entire Archive Of Clothing
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
One Disaster Victim’s Struggle to Rescue a Japanese City’s History
New Zealand Chief Archivist warns of need for disaster planning
Europe / Europa
EU To “Inject” Social Media in Policy Making
German intelligence agency admits destroying file on Nazi criminal in 1990s
Archive immortalizes East German punk rock scene
La Bibliothèque nationale Suisse diffuse le “Cantique suisse”
La généalogie, une passion française
France – La mort du Minitel prévue pour 2012
Irish Library Buys Teddy Roosevelt Papers
Dinham jailed for National Library of Scotland theft
UK – Web archiving pilot announced for local authority archives
UK National Archives – New datasets released on Labs
Science Fiction Gateway puts tons of out-of-print SF classics online as e-books
Man Booker Prize 2011 – Twitter ‘stopping children reading’, says judge Dame Stella Rimington
UK – Mervyn Peake’s war paintings unveiled by National Archives
University of Reading has been awarded a grant to lead an international network investigating the changing nature of literary manuscript culture
National Jazz archive receives 350k boost
Rare Charlie Chaplin archives discovered in Brum
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
How did Israel’s National Library give away a first-edition Darwin?
Israel – Project HEART’s Comprehensive Archive of Jewish Holocaust Victims’ Assets Now Contains 1.5 Million Records
Iran seeks Poland’s cooperation in collection of World War II documents
Historic Arabic medical manuscripts go online
International
Decoding Your E-Mail Personality
On Mistakenly Shredding a Prized Collection (reflections on the bookless library)
L’avenir de la réutilisation des données publiques
Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach
Humanities 2.0: With Digital Mapmaking, Scholars See History