Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
BAnQ – La gestion des documents des centres de services scolaires dans le contexte de la Loi modifiant principalement la Loi sur l’instruction publique relativement à l’organisation et à la gouvernance scolaires
NARA – Sending Records to NARA during the Pandemic
Alabama Department of Archives and History – Statement of Recommitment
Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) – Electronic approvals
UK Government – Working Safely During Coronavirus: Guidance for People who Work or Volunteer in Heritage Locations (Updated)
European Commission – Two years of the General Data Protection Regulation: Questions and Answers
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – Digital Preservation Procurement Toolkit
Association of European Research Libraries – Open Science Training Methods and Practices Across European Research Libraries
Association of European Research Libraries – Why Do Measures Fluctuate? Metrics Report: Guidelines for Talking to Management
American Library Association – Report of the Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on Alternatives to Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal aliens”
AIHA – Reopening: Guidance for Museums and Collecting Institutions
UK National Museum Directors’ Council – Good Practice Guidelines on Opening Museums
Article – Contribuer à la diffusion du patrimoine documentaire sur Wikipédia : pratiques et enjeux pour les institutions culturelles
Publications
Research Library Issues, no. 300 (2020)
Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal, vol. 29, no. 2 (2020)
Le cri du Portail international archivistique francophone, no 21 (2020)
Mémoire d’avenir : journal des Archives nationales de France, no 39 (2020)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 38 (2020)
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 3 (2020)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 16, no. 6 (2020)
ISO/TR 22038:2020 – Information and Documentation – Description and Presentation of Rights Information
Free eBook – Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
Book – Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy
Book – Open Heritage Data: an Introduction to Research, Publishing and Programming with Open Data in the Heritage Sector
Book – Bordered Lives: Immigration Detention Archive
Book – Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology: Expert Curation at the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution (New Edition)
Book – Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers
Book – Data Analytics Using R: Foundations
Book – Picturing the Page: Soviet Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin
Book – The Paradoxes of Posterity
Book – The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Book – Computational Frameworks for Political and Social Research with Python
Book – Autobiographical Memory Development: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Livre – Erinnerung – Recht und Pflicht! / Devoir de mémoire
Communiqué de presse: https://www.adk-cda.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/CP_CDA_Publication_MCFA_20200622.pdf
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Conférence en ligne de l’Association des archivistes du Québec – Gestion des archives des entreprises
29 septembre 2020
Conférence en ligne de l’Association des archivistes du Québec – Gestion des courriels
3 novembre 2020
Association des archivistes suisses – Smapshot : la machine à remonter le temps participative
30 juin 2020
Webinar – Strategies for Advancing Knowledge through Copyright
June 30, 2020
Archival Education and Research Initiative
July 6-10, 2020
Europeana – Running Webinars: what we’ve Learnt so far
July 7, 2020
Symposium on Emergency Planning in Libraries and Archives
July 10, 2020
Second Global Policy Forum on Memory of the World
October 27-28, 2020, Paris
Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities (Proceedings Available)
December 2019, Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Emergency Access and the Prospect of Controlled Digital Lending in Canada: Perspectives
LawBytes Podcast – Eloïse Gratton on Quebec’s Plan to Overhaul its Privacy Law
Pétition de l’Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique – Les archives privées en danger : pour une révision ambitieuse du décret
Video – Archiving Protest Content while Protecting Activists
Video – Europeana in History lessons
Vidéo – Wikimedia Commons : des millions d’images en liberté
Baladodiffusion – Destruction de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg en 1870 : le trou noir de la mémoire alsacienne
Podcast – Down in the New Zealand Archives: the Big Digitize
Library Carpentry Archives and Records Association Hack: OpenRefine
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Access Copyright and York University File Leave to Appeal Material in the Supreme Court of Canada
See newly digitized Indigenous heritage content at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Brodie Macpherson: Early photo printer
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – The Immigrants: the Story of a Photograph
The National Heritage Digitization Strategy and Canadian Research Knowledge Network Agree to Explore the Future of the NHDS Secretariat
Non-profit suspends talks with Canadian Museum for Human Rights over planned exhibit on gay purge
The Royal British Columbia Museum opens up thousands of digitized photos of Indigenous communities across BC to the public
Indigenous repatriation projects get new funding from British Columbia government
Prince Edward Island Archives has reopened
Manitoba – Province blasted for deficient access to information
Ontario Court of Justice – Text Message Conversations and Privacy
Association des archivistes du Québec – À quand la reprise des activités pour les centres et services d’archives ?
Association professionnelle des techniciennes et techniciens en documentation du Québec – Être technicienne ou technicien en documentation en temps de pandémie
Association of Research Libraries and Canadian Association of Research Libraries Form Joint Task Force on Marrakesh Treaty Implementation
New interactive project aims to map the displacement of ’60s Scoop survivors
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation founding director hired to decolonize archives at Victoria university
One Decolonizing Change to Subject Headings at University of British Columbia Library
University of Toronto – Covid-19 Collecting Community Experience Project
InsightOut: Archiving St. Michael’s College in Quarantine
Vintage McMaster University footage provides glimpse of convocations past
Mountain legacy project – Introducing a century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian rocky mountains
Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives – Behind the scenes: cataloguing and storage part II
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – So Long… for Now
Ottawa Jewish Archives – Lending a Hand: the Ottawa Hebrew Benefit Society
City of Ottawa Archives seeking donations to document Covid-19
The Reopening in Ottawa – Not
Hamilton – Sharing Covid memories for posterity
Barrie Historical Archives (Ontario) – From Barrie with Love Part II: Wartime Letters from a Briton in Barrie
Dundas Museum and Archives (Ontario) launches new digital resources
Alberta – Archives reveal when archives department opened at Cochrane Public Library
British Columbia – Sooke Region Museum launches online photo archive
British Columbia – Sidney Museum and Archives reopens brick by brick with Lego exhibit
Reflections: Family histories at the Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario)
Allendale (Alberta) – Submissions Wanted! COVID-19 Community Archive Project
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Welcome, Stephanie
Stronger Together: the Potential Collaborative Agency of Historians and Archivists
Transformation numérique et travail humain: collaboration entre intelligence humaine et artificielle
UK to Canada Genealogy
How every member of an Alberta First Nation lost Indian Status
Five Questions with Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian, Law Society of Saskatchewan
20/20 Vision: Seeing a Conference Differently
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Film Preservation 101: why does this film smell like vinegar?
NARA – The Kamikaze Attack on the USS Braine, May 27, 1945
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/06/23/the-kamikaze-attack-on-the-uss-braine-may-27-1945/
NARA – Covert Cartoons: Animated Anti-Communism in Mexico and Beyond
Free Pop-Up Display from the National Archives
Melania Trump tours National Archives to see historic documents ending slavery
Original Juneteenth order found in the National Archives
Library of Congress – The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved
Selected Datasets: a New Library of Congress Collection
Library of Congress – How Will we Remember Covid-19?
Library of Congress – Copyright in Pride
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Research Shows Virus Undetectable on Five Highly Circulated Library Materials After Three Days
Association of Research Libraries Urges End to Litigation against Internet Archive
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Emergency Preparedness for Local Governments
State Archives launches project to document Arizona’s Covid-19 response
Has Yale’s mysterious Voynich Manuscript finally been deciphered?
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/has-yale-s-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-finally-been-deciphered
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
Aviation company’s archive donated to Cornell University library
Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ labor unions digitized collections project completed
The Gift of Wonder: Rare Book Collection Coming to University of North Carolina
Wayne State University – Reuther Library launches Community Archive: Covid-19 Experiences
Minnesota State Mankato’s University Archives Seeks Community Input for Covid-19 Community History Project
Ohio University Libraries Preserving Student History during the Coronavirus
The University of Pittsburgh LGBTQ Archival Education Project
Angelo State University’s historical archive projects seek additional participants
The Boccaccio Project Is Capturing the Music of Quarantine
The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures
A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens vital gaming history
Using Directories to Research your African-American Ancestors
The Boston Public Library Needs Help Transcribing Anti-Slavery Letters
Julia Weist Transforms New York City’s Archival Records Into Artworks that Live in Digital Public Space
Holocaust Is Fading from Memory, Survey Finds
Culturally Responsive Museums Are Leading the Way
The importance of archiving LGBT+ history
Mourning the Letters that Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones that Were
There’s an archivist for that! Interview with Mathew Brock, library and historical collections manager, Mazama library
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Victoria (Australia) – Reading Rooms are opening up again, with restrictions
State Library of Queensland (Australia) – Covid-19 update: easing of restrictions
National Library of New Zealand – Saving your Social Media
Nepal – Government Decision Big Relief for National Archives, Archaeology Department
Images of old Hong Kong, as seen through the lens of photographer James Chung
China mulls law revisions to facilitate use of archives
The Risky Journey that Saved One of China’s Greatest Literary Treasures
Captured North Korean Records: a Promising Source for the Korean War
Europe / Europa
Ukraine declassifies Soviet KGB archives on Chornobyl disaster
Belarus’ National Archives publishes documents about Cormorant Nazi punitive operation
Burden of Proof: Inside Bosnia’s War Trial Case Archives
Summer in the Danish National Archives
Digital Archives of Armenian National Library Restored Online
Flemish Institute for Archiving – Migration and capacity expansion in the meemoo archive system
National Library of Luxembourg – Luxembourg Web Archive: Coronavirus Response
France – Ouvrez les archives : l’appel d’archivistes, juristes et historiens à Édouard Philippe
On despairing of the police and loving their archives
Digital Repository of Ireland Batch Metadata Template Blog Part Three: Exporting Tabular Metadata to XML
Very poignant and sad: shocking documents reveal more about Glasgow’s past slavery links
UK Parliamentary Archives – The talented Mr Fawcett
UK National Archives – France has lost a battle! But France hasn’t lost the war!
UK National Archives – The Devil among the Antiquaries: Archivists and arguments at the Tower of London
UK National Archives – Before Notting Hill: Causeway Green and Britain’s anti-black hostel riots
UK National Archives – Refugee Week 2020: we were the lucky few
UK National Archives – Digitising little treasures – Part 1: Egbert Rizzo and the making of an SOE Agent
UK National Archives – Digitising little treasures – Part 2: The Edouard Line
UK National Archives – Before Glastonbury there was … Hyde Park
British Library – WARCnet and the UK Web Archive
British Library – Maps and photography: a brief history, part 2
British Library – Flickr Maps on the Georeferencer Finished
British Library – Our new Science web archive collection
UK Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance – Copyright, closure of library and archive premises, and access to collections
Introducing ‘One More Voice’: a new digital humanities project which focuses on recovering non-European contributions from nineteenth-century British imperial and colonial archives
Archiving web content related to the University of Oxford and the coronavirus pandemic
Digitisation Standards at the Bodleian Library
All libraries, museums and galleries in Leeds at risk of closure as local councils count cost of coronavirus
Library of Birmingham – Tracing Family and Friends online
Frauenkultur: a new online archive of second wave feminist book titles
Resources for UK archivists about racism
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Can You Sell Judaism Like You Sell Toothpaste? The Uproar Over Advertising Jewish life
National Library of Israel – Feeling Israel: Helen Keller in the Holy Land
National Library of Israel – Marcel Marceau: the Legendary Mime who Saved Jewish Children and Fought Nazis
Israel – Yad Vashem’s head of archives: We are the building block of six million memories
Syria – Lost memories: war crimes evidence threatened by artificial intelligence moderation
International
Les Archives, un devoir plus que jamais essentiel en période de crise
International Committee of the Red Cross Library and Archives – The Annual Reports of the ICRC in one place
Cultural artififical intelligence and its steady acceptance in the heritage sector
Remote working: the biggest recent information governance challenge
The Process of Accessioning in Archives
Copyright and Public Domain: an Updated Primer
Covid-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards
Calling in Librarianship: a Manifesto
Trafficking of forgeries by forced migrants and forced migrants as false provenances for forgeries
Blockscan: the Search Engine for a Decentralized Web