Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Annual Report 2019-2020
Commission nationale informatique et liberté et Archives de France – Guide pratique : les durées de conservation
Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques (Suisse) – Lire et écrire des fichiers SIARD
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress 2019
State Archives of North Carolina – State Agency Records Liaisons Manual
De la communauté / From the community
Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives – A Reconciliation Framework for Canadian Archives (Draft for Public Review)
UK Archives and Records Associations – Covid-19 Inquiry: Digital by Default
Paper – Implementing an Archival, Multi-lingual and Semantic Web-compliant Taxonomy by Means of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
Paper – Life and Death of Data in Data Lakes: Preserving Data Usability and Responsible Governance
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 21, no. 3 (2020)
International Journal of Librarianship, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020 (Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Libraries)
Online Window into the Vatican Library, no. 14 (2020)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 39, no. 4 (2020)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 36, no. 3 (2020)
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter (Summer 2020)
Book – The Partisan Counter Archive: Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle
Book – The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
Book – Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
Book – Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
Book – Copyright Policies and Workflows in Libraries: a Concise Handbook
Book – Our Shared Future: Windows into Canada’s Reconciliation Journey
Book – Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Book – Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum
Book – Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Book – Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Association of Ontario Archival Conversations – Solo Archivists and Small Staff Archives
August 12, 2020
Royal BC Musem @ Home – Indigenous Genealogy
August 25, 2020
Webinar – Understanding the Impact of the Research Data Alliance Covid-19 Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing
August 7, 2020
Australasia Preserves August Meetup: Emulation
August 18, 2020
Online Conference – Museums and Social Responsibility: Values Revisited
September 17-18, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Landscapes of Injustice
History Slam Podcast – Cataloguing Culture
LawBytes Podcast – Senator James Cowan on the Extraordinary Battle for a Genetic Anti-Discrimination Law in Canada
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – New Release of the Internet Warsaw Ghetto and Aryan Side Database
British Library – Minimum Preservation Tool
Bibliographie Zotero – Archives minoritaires, archives minorisés
Slides – Community Archival Description and Community Access
Slides – Remote exhibitions: VE Day 75 at Berkshire Record Office
Slides – University of Reading Special Collections: Please, don’t Touch: how do we Offer Teaching with Collections Opportunities in a Virtual Setting?
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s out-of-date online privacy rules aren’t protecting you
A Quarter-Billion Dollar Bag of Beans: Responding to Ken Whyte’s Attack on Library Book Loans
Canadian Urban Libraries Council Response to Globe & Mail article
Ry Moran on Archiving Truth and Reconciliation Materials and Respecting the Record
Archives Association of Ontario – Anti-racism Statement
BAnQ – Joseph-Émile Chabot, l’ingénieux photographe
Canadian Centre for the Great War – Demystifying the Return of First World War Soldiers
University of Calgary – Digital archives of Alberta residential schools may serve educational role
New to University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special collections
University of Alberta Special Collections – Voynitch Manuscript among History’s Greatest Mysteries
Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – These are a few of our favourite things: the Expo Watch Camera
http://library.ryerson.ca/asc/2020/07/these-are-a-few-of-our-favourite-things-the-expo-watch-camera/
McGill University Library Council revises Open Access statement
University of Waterloo – Archives Unleashed Project scales up with Archive-It for better collection and analysis of digital history
Waterloo researchers land $1 million grant for early internet archival project
Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Haywire sawmills
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Paradise Pudding
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Alta Lake Speeders
Baisse d’achalandage marquée dans les musées
Le Centre d’archives de la région de Rivière-du-Loup est désormais ouvert au public
Une retraite consacrée à la recherche historique pour Pierrette Maurais (Archiviste, Centre d’archives de la Côte-du-Sud)
I’m leaving a legacy: first translator completes stories for Indigenous archives project
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/bertha-catholique-indigenous-archives-project-complete-1.5660440
Indigenous histories on Wikipedia
Learning language through whispers: Indigenous youth launch ASMR campaign
A Recipe for Canadian Family History
Afrique / Africa
Cameroun – Joseph Le : Dématérialisation des procédures de recrutement ; numérisation des archives, suivi en ligne des dossiers et Sigipes II sont nos défis
Algérie – Absence de l’autorité de régulation des archives
Ethiopian Researcher Collects Rare Islamic Manuscripts
Amériques / Americas
NARA – RG 76: Maps and Records Pertaining to the Northeastern Boundary of the United States: an Artistic Glimpse of Past
NARA – The Most Barbarous and Inhuman Practice: the Elimination of Slavery in the Territories, as Seen in the Office of Indian Affairs Microfilm Series
NARA – Commemorating the 19th Amendment Centennial
NARA – An Update on Still Picture Catalog Additions
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/07/30/an-update-on-still-picture-catalog-additions/
Interactive Maps, Oral Histories, LC for Robots, and More! 2020 Library of Congress Junior Fellows Explored the Library’s Collections, Data, and Access
Library of Congress – Ten Weeks of Digital Content Management at a Distance: An Interview with Junior Fellow Randi Proescholdt
Library of Congress – World War II through Patton’s Lens
Library of Congress – Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Just for Kids and Families
National Library of Medicine – Some Insights on the Roles and Uses of Generalist Repositories
New Digital National Security Archive Collection Publishes Thousands of Declassified Nixon and Ford President’s Daily Briefs
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – How to Approach an Office Records Management Overhaul
State Archives of North Carolina – The Reemergence of the Colonial Court Records
Harvard University – This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton: Library pauses other work for ‘Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom’
Harvard Business School – Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Policies and Workflows
Illinois State University – Milner Library preserves vital history with the digitization of circus route books
University of Chicago Library launches Covid-19 Archive
University of Washington Libraries publishes new online research guides on racial justice, African American experience in Pacific Northwest
University of West Florida – T.T. Wentworth KKK documents reveal untold resistance to Klan in 1920s Pensacola
Libraries Digitizes Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection
New York’s School of Visual Arts launches archive of work created during the Covid-19 pandemic
Pandemic archive records life in middle of history for future scholars
Museums and historians are navigating how to write the history of Covid-19 when the end isn’t in sight
George Eastman Museum has 23 digitized films available for free; including a film on Kodak
White Control of Native American Culture can Never be Responsible Collecting
Inside the Quest for Documents that Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery
Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known Stereo Recordings?
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – The precedent of the pandemic
New South Wales (Australia) – Just nuts: historian decries archives merger proposal
UFO file sheds light on strange encounters in Western Australia
Recovered ancient Thai manuscripts in perfect condition
Adventures of a lone archivist: Nepali overseas worker takes it upon himself to collect as much as he can of Nepal’s historical memorabilia
Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Tracing 120 years of summer Olympic Games poster design
140,000 secret archive materials of Nazi occupation period released in Ukraine
Discover Bosnian history through archive photos dating back to the 19th century
Writer Milan Kundera donating archive to Czech library
The Danish Coronavirus web collection: Coronavirus on the curator’s minds
Why an Italian pianist has been archiving music composed by prisoners in World War II concentration camps
Belgium – Archive collection tells the story of Dutch-speakers in Brussels
La Bibliothèque nationale de France veut se doter d’un Conservatoire national de la presse
France – Quand votre portable devient votre guide de musée
Ireland – Learning from the past: the power of archives
UK Parliamentary Archives – Baroness Darcy de Knayth: Paralympian & Peer
UK National Archives – Exploring the possibilities of citizen research and heritage data
UK National Archives – Watermarks: New ways to see and search them
UK National Archives – Dancing with Love: a dance project inspired by letters of love, loss and longing
British Library – 15 Years of UK Web Archives: Looking back at our first collections
British Library – Anglo-Jewish deeds from medieval England: a treasure trove for historians
British Library – Two Inches of Ivory: a New(ish) Jane Austen Acquisition
British Library – Exploring Robert Lowell’s English years in the Sound Archive
British Library – Sir Andrew Scott Waugh and the naming of Everest
Bottling the smells of the Magna Carta, Iliad and Shakespeare for a whiff of history
Potential antibiotic alternative found in 1000 year old manuscript
Man jailed for attempting to steal Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – How the Western Wall Became One of Judaism’s Holiest Sites
Study on Palestinian Audiovisual Heritage
150 years since establishing the Egyptian National Library & Archives
International
Arolsen Archives International Center on Nazi Persecution – Stigmatized their whole lives long
Open Preservation Foundation – WARC validation tool experiences
Open Preservation Foundation – So, have you got a Preservation Plan for that
Robustify your links! A working solution to create persistently robust links
Why Information Management vendors need to rethink their M365 approach
Arrangement in Archival Collections
Shadow attack allows alteration of signed PDF files
Twitter Was Already Difficult to Archive, Now it’s Worse!
An unprecedented Nintendo leak turns into a moral dilemma for archivists
How to Create and Manage Digital Family Documents