Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Service interministériel des archives de France – Aide pour la reprise d’activité et la réouverture au public des services d’archives
National Archives of Australia – Notice of Disposal Freeze: Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements
National Archives of Australia – Administrative Functions Disposal Authority Express Version 2 Implementation Guideline: Records Relating to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Council of State Archivists – Social Media as State Public Records: a Collection Practices Scan
NARA – Managing Permanent Records: Multi-Agency Records Management Inspection Report
NARA – Department of State Records Management Program Inspection Report
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Institutional Open Access Policy Template
International Council on Archives – Cultural Rights and Climate Change
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Guidance on Archives and Legal Proceedings
2020 National Digital Stewardship Alliance Agenda for Digital Stewardship
Research Data Alliance – Covid-19 Working Group Recommendations and Guidelines (Third release)
Europe Day Manifesto – Cultural Heritage: a Powerful Catalyst for the Future of Europe
Network of European Museum Organisations – Survey on the Impact of the COVID-19 Situation on Museums in Europe: Final Report
Communia – Policy Paper on Fundamental Rights as a Limit to Copyright during Emergencies
Publications
Archivaria, no. 89 (2020)
Code4lib Journal, no. 48 (2020)
IFLA Journal, vol. 46, no. 1 (2020)
Les Cahiers du numériques, vol. 16, no. 1 (2020)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 4 (2020)
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Newsletter, no. 152 (2020)
Free eBook (for a Limited Time) – The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web Domains
Book – Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
Book – Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
Book – Information Rights: a Practitioner’s Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and other Information Rights
Book – Emergency Preparedness for Libraries (Second Edition)
Book – Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature
Book – The Closet: the Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
Book – Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History
Book – Text Analysis with R: for Students of Literature
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Association of Ontario Webinar – Introduction to Archeion
May 15, 2020
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta Webinar – Farmers, Peddlers, Philanthropists and More: the Jewish Experience in Southern Alberta
May 24, 2020
Webinaire – La médiation sociale avec les communautés autochtones à BAnQ
28 mai 2020
Association des archivistes du Québec – Congrès 2020 sur le web
4 et 5 juin 2020
Webinar – Change Management for Information Management Projects
May 19, 2020
Webinar – Webinar on Vulnerable Persons and Recordkeeping
May 20, 2020
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2020/05/12/event-webinar-on-vulnerable-persons-and-recordkeeping/
Airtable for A/V Archivists
May 20-21, 2020
Society of American Archivists Webinar – Community Discussion: Archival Acquisitions in the Time of Coronavirus
May 21, 2020
Webinar – Impacts of the Covid-19 Response on Government Archives and Records Management
May 21, 2020
Webinar – Identifying and Developing eDRMS Business Requirements
May 21, 2020
Webinar – Surveying Institutional Preparedness for Research Data Management
May 26, 2020
Open Preservation Foundation Conference
June 9-10, 2020
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
September 24-26, 2020, Burgas (Bulgaria)
Colour Photography and Film: Sharing Knowledge of Analysis, Preservation, Conservation, Migration of Analogue and Digital Materials
March 29-31, 2021, Florence
Information Awareness Month 2020 Launch Webinar (Video Available)
May 1, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Historica Canada – Canada during Covid-19: a Living Archive: Junior and Senior Learning Tools
City of Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia) Online Exhibit – An Emerging Profession: Psychiatric Nursing at Essondale, 1913-1973
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador Video – Double your Bubble with Mike Hickey: Documenting Social Interaction during #Covid19
Video – Indigenous Subject Headings Modifications
LawBytes Podcast – Ariel Katz on the Long-Awaited York University v. Access Copyright Ruling
Organizing Ideas Podcast – Books and Feelings in the Time of Covid-19
http://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/ep-26-books-and-feelings-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Records Search and Rescue Podcast – “Coco” Gabrielle Chanel
Unesco – Platform on Living Heritage and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Library of Congress – Newspaper Navigator
Institute of National Remembrance (Poland) – Katyn Massacre: Educational Materials
Open Preservation Foundation – veraPDF 1.16
Video – Society of American Archivists: Encoded Archival Standards Update
Association of College and Research Libraries Video – Advocating for Library Workers during Uncertain Times
Video – Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works
Tomaquaq Museum Video – Indigenous Collections: Care, Research & Representation
Video – Advice from an Archivist: an IS Lab Chat with Courtney Dean
Video – Federal Crowdsourcing: a Match Made in History
Video – Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws
Video – Digital Decision-making: Approaches to Online Engagement During Museum Closure
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Documentary Heritage Communities Program: Funding history 2020-2021
Library and Archives Canada – I leave you Éva Gauthier
Canadian War Diaries from the Second World War
The Rooms – Hey Newfoundland Students! We want your family stories about the #Covid19 pandemic
A brief history of Ontario’s First Nations Public Libraries
DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story
Québec – La Covid-19 ralentit l’accès aux documents des ministères
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1701260/la-covid-19-ralentit-lacces-aux-documents-des-ministeres
BAnQ – Marguerite Lescop, une femme au parcours de vie riche et inspirant
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Sérieux fous rires
University of Saskatchewan – Covid-19 Community Archive launched
Share your Covid-19 experiences with Athabaska University
Ryerson University Library calls for community content for Covid-19 digital archive
University of British Columbia – Celebrating Nurses and Health Care Professionals at Rare Books and Special Collections
The Pandemic Papers: University of Toronto Mississauga students make history with donation to Mississauga archives
University of Toronto – French Manuscripts at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (and a Little Springtime Cheer)
University of Toronto – Finding the Golden Age of Watercolour in the Stacks of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Romance in Precarious Times: Harlequin Medical Romances
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – The Otto Schneid Treasure
Mountain Legacy Project – Following their Footsteps: Indigenous Territory Acknowledgement
Vincent Larivière – La fois où j’ai démissionné d’une revue exploitant les chercheurs
University of Pennsylvania – Professor Jean-Christophe Cloutier (born in Quebec) Receives Waldo Gifford Leland Award from Society of American Archivists
Regards sur les archives d’écrivains francophones au Canada : entretien avec Sophie Marcotte
Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia – Make your Zoom Meetings Historic
Vancouver – Covid-19: reopening in a pandemic means big challenges for metro’s art galleries, museums
Archives de Montréal – L’influenza de 1918-1919 à Montréal : les mesures énergiques?
Archives de la ville de Québec – 1870 : une élection rocambolesque
Le Centre d’archives régional des Îles obtient une subvention pour la 2e année de financement pluriannuel par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Le marché de l’alimentation à Fatima, un bout d’histoire…
Okotoks (Alberta) – Museum Looking to Document Community’s Covid-19 Experience
Oxford Historical Society (Ontario) – Archives at Home: Staying Connected with our Community
Sombra museum and Lambton Archives (Ontario) seeking to preserve pandemic stories
Clarington Museum and Archives (Ontario) launches survey to help future historians learn about COVID-19
History in the making: Greater Vernon Museum and Archives (British Columbia) collects Covid-19 materials, stories
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Bill Bailiff’s Records of Alta Lake
Revitalizing a language, one video call at a time
MyHeritage Canadian Newspapers
Archivists in Isolation
Amériques / Americas
National Archives Awards $2.9 Million for Historical Records Projects
NARA – Popup Exhibits Celebrate Women’s Suffrage Centennial
NARA – The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: a Death in Paris
NARA – 19th Century Photographic Processes and Formats
NARA – How to Search Still Photographs for Army Personalities
National Archives Plans Shift to Electronic Records Management for Government
http://governmentciomedia.com/national-archives-plans-shift-electronic-records-management-government
Library of Congress – Free to Use and Reuse: Maps of Cities
Library of Congress – The Veterans History Project: Remembering V-E Day
Library of Congress – Color your World with the Library
Library of Congress – Dav Pilkey at Home Plus Baby Frogs
Millions of historic newspaper images get the machine learning treatment at the Library of Congress
The Librarians of the Future Will Be Artificial Intelligence Archivists
National Library of Medicine – The New and Improved PubMed Is Here
Idaho State Historical Society, Idaho Press partner on Covid-19 archive project
California – Fresno State seeks to archive Portuguese-American memories
Michigan museum seeks materials showing pandemic’s impact
Princeton University – This new database shows the reading habits of major 20th-century authors.
What’s your Set-up?: Processing Digital Records at University of Albany (part 2)
University of Maine developing online French American heritage portal
Northeastern Illinois University releases tapes of hearings on World War II-era Japanese internment camps
Sheltering in Place: Northeastern Illinois University Archives Covid-19 Documentation Project
Vanderbilt University – Documenting the pandemic: Heard Libraries launch Covid-19 Archive
University of Wisconsin-Parkside Archives Announces Covid-19 Documentation Project
Iowa State University – Announcing Covid-19 Stories Project
University of Maryland Global Campus – Collection Procedures During Covid-19
William & Mary University Libraries creates archive to document life during Covid-19
Dickinson College – New Archive’s Project Set to Collect Dickinsonians’ Perspectives of the Pandemic
The Huntington Acquires the Papers of the Chinese American Family Featured in “On Gold Mountain”
This Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily Guarded Limestone Mine: Over 11 million Getty images are on ice near Pittsburgh
New York – The sound of silence: visiting the library during lockdown
For the New York Public Library, Martha Graham Is the Missing Link
The Museum of Russian Icons offers virtual visits and free access to online collections
Thirteen Pioneering Black American Librarians you Oughta Know
Archivists on the Issues: a Defense of Institutions in the Pandemic
Morgan Library and Museum – Zoom Background
Responses and Retrospectives: but I Thought I Was an Archivist?
Dispatches from a Distance: the Process of Reinvention
Society of American Archivists – Archivists Rally to Document Covid-19
Unrecorded “Paris Journal” by Jim Morrison Heads to Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – History in the making: how libraries are capturing the pandemic for posterity
Coronavirus could have a devastating impact on endangered languages
How will Coronavirus Covid 19 be remembered in New Zealand’s national archives?
Auckland Art Gallery (New Zealand) – Archiving for Artists
Reopening Libraries in New Zealand: Slow and Steady Wins The Race
A Japanese company created the thinnest paper in the world and it’s used to preserve art at the Vatican and the Louvre: see how it’s made
Island Culture Archival Support – The Phantom Canoe: Fiji
Polynésie – L’État cède un bâtiment pour le futur centre de mémoire des essais nucléaires
I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!: the tale of India’s lost techno pioneers
Europe / Europa
History Enthusiasts Discover Hundreds of Lost Kazakh Heroes Buried in Soviet Archives
Hunt for the last Nazis: the specialist unit in former women’s prison trawling millions of documents to track down war criminals who escaped justice
Denmark – There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in: experiences with reopening libraries in the age of corona
Belgium – Recording quarantine history as it happens
Réouverture des Archives nationales de Luxembourg et nouvelles modalités de réservation et de consultation de documents
Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge – Vos photos, ces futures archives de la pandémie
France – Les projets participatifs menés par les Archives nationales durant la période du confinement
Archives de France – Télétravailler durant le confinement: retour sur le lab prospective numérique
La Bibliothèque nationale de France prépare sa réouverture progressive au cours de l’été et renforce son offre en ligne de services et de ressources
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Le manuscrit NAF 2003 : un reliquaire royal et impérial
France – Les archives coloniales : discussion entre Amélie Hurel et Fabienne Chamelot
National Archives of Ireland – Behind the Scenes: Tape is Evil (for your documents!)
National Library of Scotland lifts lid on vast archive donated by Ian Rankin
UK National Archives – Deep Discoveries: a new way of exploring and connecting digitised image collections
UK National Archives – Decided to cancel at last minute to save snarl from Uncle Joe: how VE Day became VE Day
UK National Archives – Every little helps: the history of the National Savings movement
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/every-little-helps-the-history-of-the-national-savings-movement/
UK National Archives – 10 May 1940: a day to remember
UK National Archives – African Princess in Guy’s: the story of Princess Adenrele Ademola
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/african-princess-in-guys-the-story-of-princess-adenrele-ademola/
UK National Archives – Lady in the Archives: the life of Florence Nightingale (part one)
UK National Archives – Lady in the Archives: the life of Florence Nightingale (part two)
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/lady-in-the-archives-the-life-of-florence-nightingale-part-two/
British Library – Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
British Library – A brief history of nursing in the US
British Library – Papyrus horoscopes: stars, planets and fortunes
British Library – In search of the books of Richard Amadas
British Library – Diarists and diaries
British Library – Digitised East India Company ships’ journals and related records
British Library – The Mahārnava, Conservation of a 19th Century Birch Bark Manuscript
British Library asks nation’s children to write miniature books in lockdown
University of Loughborough – Preserving the Mystery (Box)
Royal College of Nursing to Digitally Archive Covid-19 Decisions
Birmingham – Documenting the Second City’s Lockdown and Beyond
Diary entries will chart the mood of Britain in coronavirus quarantine
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Jewish Heroes and Heroines of Victory Day
National Library of Israel – Contagious Books: Epidemics in Literary Masterpieces
National Library of Israel – When the ‘Jerusalem of Austria’ Burned to the Ground (on Lag B’Omer)
500-year-old handwritten Bibles seized near Turkey-Greece border
Bertie in the Middle East: online showing for first royal tour photographs
International
International Council on Archives – The role of archives in the Covid-19 crisis
Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) Information Hub: a COVID-19 Research Project
Digital Preservation Coalition – The Greatest Hits: Vol. 5 – Don’t you Wonder Sometimes (‘Bout Audiovisual Preservation)
Protecting cultural heritage in armed conflict: the 66th anniversary of the UNESCO 1954 Hague Convention
Archives-It – COVID-19 collections and resources: an update for web archivists
Research Libraries, Archives Document Community Experiences of COVID-19 Pandemic
Archival Values and Use
A Records Management Primer for Archivists
Why Establish an Information Governance Strategy for M365 and Beyond?
Records Management in SharePoint Online: Disposition Reviews
Microsoft now blocks reply-all email storms to end our inbox nightmares
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/10/21253627/microsoft-reply-all-email-block-reply-allpocalypse-storm
Knowledge management and the impact of COVID-19
On the frontlines of an infodemic, Wikipedians and librarians join forces
The Antiquarian Book Trade Innovates in the Wake of Covid-19
Police seize 19,000 stolen artefacts in international art trafficking crackdown
Museums Have Moved Online, But they Must Reinvent Themselves to Thrive
Dungeons & Dragons Revises Archivist Subclass and More for Playtesting
The Archivist subclass is described here on page 7-9: http://media.wizards.com/2019/dnd/downloads/UA-Artificer2-2019.pdf