Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Heritage Collections during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Privacy Commissioner of Canada – A Framework for the Government of Canada to Assess Privacy-Impactful Initiatives in Response to Covid-19
Université Concordia – Stratégie de préservation numérique
NARA – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Records Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NARA – Senior Agency Official for Records Management 2019 Annual Report
Department of Agriculture: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/usda-saorm-2019.pdf
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/usdtr-occ-saorm-2019.pdf
Federal Election Commission: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/fec-saorm-2019.pdf
United States Agency for International Development: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/usaid-saorm-2019.pdf
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Rapport annuel 2019
De la communauté / From the community
Blue Shield Australia – Impact of Fire and Storm Events on GLAM Institutions 2020
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Bingo! Engaging History of Science Students with Primary Sources
Australian Library and Information Association – Annual Report 2019
Educopia Institute – Annual Report 2019
Sedona Conference – Commentary and Principles on Jurisdictional Conflicts over Transfers of Personal Data Across Borders
Wellcome Collection – Digitisation Strategy 2020-2025
Article – Out of the Archives and into the Streets: Teaching with Primary Sources to Cultivate Civic Engagement
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 256 (2020)
The American Archivist, vol. 82, no. 2 (2019)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 76, no. 39 (2020)
Collections: a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 16, no. 1 (2020)
DttP: Documents to the People, vol. 48, no. 1 (2020)
Free eBook – The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures
Book – Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies
Book – Management Basics for Information Professionals (Fourth Edition)
Book – Mastering United States Government Information: Sources and Services
Book – Blockchain Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy
Book – Comparative Print Culture: a Study of Alternative Literary Modernities
Book – Doing Women’s History in Public: a Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites
Book – The Machine Never Blinks: a Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance
Book – Beyond Memory: Can we Really Learn from the Past?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Virtual Brown Bag on Intelligence History
Starting April 21, 2020
ARMA Saskatchewan Chapter Webinar – Drafting Effective Information Management Policies
April 28-30, 2020
Online Conference – Archives Association of British Columbia and ARMA Vancouver Island 2020 Conference
May 8, 2020
Massive Open Online Course – Data to Insight: an Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualisation
Open Preservation Foundation Webinar – Collaborative Preservation with PAR
April 29, 2020
Webinar – GLAM Collections on Social Media: Navigating Copyright Questions
April 30, 2020
Celebrating the Launch of Novice to Know-How Online Digital Preservation Training
May 4, 2020
Free Online Course – Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research
May 6-27, 2020
Online Conference – Archiving 2020
May 7-21, 2020
Webinar – Copyright and Remote Supply for Australian Libraries and Archives
May 11, 2020
Virtual Conference – 54th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference
May 20-23, 2020
Association of Canadian Archivists @ University of British Columbia 12th Annual Seminar and Symposium (Slides now Available)
February 13-14, 2020, Vancouver
Sur le web / On the web
Canadian Conservation Institute Video – Caring for Heritage Collections during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Video – Canadian Web Archiving Coalition Community Call for Sharing and Coordinating Canadian Covid-19 Web Archiving Efforts
LawBytes Podcast – Brewster Kahle, Chris Freeland and Kyle Courtney on the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library
Ontario Jewish Archives Prologue Podcast – Allan Gardens
Organizing Ideas Podcast – Libraries, Democracy, and Intellectual Freedom with Sam Popowich
Video – Canadian Archival Newspapers Subscription Sites Online Reveal Family Secrets
Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – Every Name Counts: Help us Build a Unique Digital Monument
RIC-O Converter 1.0.0 (to Convert EAD and EAC files to RDF/XML RiC-O files)
IFLA – Resource Sharing during Covid-19 (RSCVD) Tool
Library of Congress – Collections App
Institute of Historical Research – Open and Free Access Materials for Research
Video – Not Just a Number: Negotiating Salary in Academic Archives and Special Collections
Video – Protecting Our Cultural Icons from Fire: Lessons Learned from Notre-Dame and Beyond
National University of Ireland Podcast – Kevin Boyle: the Archive and Human Rights
Baladodiffusion – Archiver le confinement avec Louis Faivre d’Arcier
Wiener Holocaust Library – Online Exhibition: the Kitchener Camp, 1939-1940
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal Court of Appeal Deals Access Copyright Huge Blow as it Overturns York University Copyright Decision
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Access Copyright Tariffs Confirmed Not Mandatory: a Positive Outcome for Universities and their Libraries
Two Plus Two Doesn’t Always Equal Four: Federal Court Clarifies what Is Publicly Disclosed Information for the Purposes of the Access to Information Act
Going digital not easy for cultural institutions
Covid-19 Canada: Institutions strive to record pandemic history through eyes of everyday people
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab update for April
When a Pandemic Threatens to Erase a Community’s Memory: First Nations are working to protect Elders in the face of Covid-19 threat
Royal BC Museum asks for pandemic stories, photos for COVID-19 exhibit
Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia – Extension of Time for Public Bodies to Respond to Freedom of Information Requests
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta Responds to Government of Alberta’s Contact Tracing App Announcement
Bored during Covid-19? Nova Scotia Archives seeks transcription help
Covid-19: BanQ adapte ses contenus pour répondre à l’explosion de la demande en ligne
BAnQ numérique – Ajout des archives de notaires et des registres de l’état civil
La conservation des sceaux : techniques, difficultés et réussites
Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections – Big win for the Peel team!
Western University – Loyalist project teams up to map history
University of Waterloo – Archiving Covid-19 experiences
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Types of Photographs: Part 1
University of Victoria – Records Management Archivist Dave Young reflects on horses and hugs
University of Victoria – How the Secrets Were Revealed: a journey towards the making of BC Legislative Assembly
University of Toronto – At Home with Books: a Librarian’s View of Working away from Books
University of Toronto Curating the Qur’anic Page at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – Gardens on University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus
Congress 2020, Interrupted: a Brief History of University Codes of Conduct
Nouvelles du Regroupement des archivistes religieux
Regroupement des archivistes religieux – Les Soeurs de la Charité de Saint-Hyacinthe aux temps des épidémies
B’nai Brith Proud to Revive Nizkor Holocaust Historical Archive
Ottawa Jewish Archives – From Ginger Ale to Cream Soda: the Story of Ottawa’s Very Own Soft Drink Company
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador – I live in Bug Town: Mapping out the heritage assets of Deer Lake
McCord Museum – Framing Everyday Life: Stories of Confinement
Toronto Public Library – We Asked Toronto to Remix Wartime Posters for the Current Moment: See the Amazing Results
City of Vancouver Archives – Co-op Radio fonds now available
Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Témoignages en temps de crise
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) collecting, sharing historical recipes
Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives (Ontario) creating Covid-19 time capsule
Documenting Whitby’s (Ontario) Covid-19 stories
Revolstoke Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Curating your Home
Revelstoke library celebrates 100 years
Wellington County Museum and Archives (Ontario) Collecting Personal Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Galt Museum & Archives (Alberta) bringing exhibits online, creating interactive videos for Lethbridgians
Alberta Ancestors: the Wainwright Public Library Newspaper Archives
Alberta – St. Albert’s Métis museum goes international
First Nations Tiktokers Are Sharing Knowledge of Indigenous Culture
Booknet Canada – The impact of Covid-19 on reading
British Columbia – Publishing house looking for stories written during Covid-19 pandemic
Small-town Saskatchewan film processor gets photo development requests from around the world
Call for artists – Visible minority: a local creator facing the pandemic
Annual Year in Review (100 Years Later): Physical Distancing/Bored at Home Edition
Plagues and Social Change: Putting Covid-19 in Historical Context
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Citizen Archivists Triple Contributions to National Archives Catalog During Pandemic
NARA – Searching the National Archives Catalog for Still Photographs
NARA – Duck and Cover in the Family Fallout Shelter: Civil Defense Preparedness in the Cold War Era
NARA – Seicheprey, Crucible of the 26th Division, Part II
Library of Congress – Dav Pilkey: love inspires us to become better people
Library of Congress – Moving Forward: the Copyright Office During Covid-19
Mapping Pandemics at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress – Newspaper Navigator Surfaces Treasure Trove of Historic Images: Get a Sneak Peek at Upcoming Data Jam
Library of Congress – Four-on-the-Floor: Keep the Beat with Music Modernization Act Developments
Library of Congress – The Evangelical and the Journalist: Billy Sunday & A.B. MacDonald
Library of Congress – My Job: Victoria Van Hyning
Keeping the lights on at the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Profiles in Science: Exploring Stories of Scientific Discovery
National WWII Museum – Stories Worth Remembering: Preserving WWII History at Home
Veterans group continues legal battle over discharge records
Court’s Ruling in Missouri Open-Records Case Could Clear Way for More Access to Covid-19 Data
Indiana Archives and Records Administration – Working from Home: the WPA Card Catalog
Maine State Archives provide virtual tours of Maine landmarks
Maryland Historical Society: Collecting in Quarantine
Yale University – 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.
Yale University – The digital Dark Ages
Share your experience of the pandemic with Stanford University Archives
California Institute of Technology – Caltech COVID-19 Experiences Collection
University of Wyoming American Heritage Center Seeks to Archive Wyoming Residents’ Coronavirus Stories
University of Georgia libraries look to archive local Covid history
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi offers Covid-19 archival service to community
George Mason University – Pandemic Religion Project to Document Changes in American Religion
Marshall University – West Virginia residents asked to document personal experiences during coronavirus outbreak
University of Maine library archiving Covid-19 stories
University of Virginia’s Emergency Digital Collecting Toolkit Sees Increased Usage During Pandemic
Coronavirus: Emporia State University Special Collections and Archives goes online for open mic night
What’s your Set-up?: Processing Digital Records at University Albany (part 1)
Covid-19 Research Partnership to Inform Safe Handling of Collections, Reopening Practices for Libraries, Museums
Research Library Digitization Has Found its Moment: Long-term Investments Pay Off and Provide Lessons for the Future
The Huntington Acquires the Papers of Dana Gioia, Former California Poet Laureate and Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts
Huntington Library – Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers bring light to dark history
How Technology Helps Preserve Endangered Indigenous Languages
Elvis Presley archives reveal “Top secret” facility artefacts at Graceland
There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with Mathew Brock, Library And Historical Collections Manager, Mazama Library
How to Find Community in your MLIS Degree while Studying at Home
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Through the eyes of the Anzac
Australia – Koorie Heritage Trust preserves First Nations experience of COVID-19
State Library of Queensland (Australia) – Covid-19 collecting drive
Failure to digitise records raises working-from-home issues
National Library of New Zealand – Closed but partly open
National Library of New Zealand – Māori and Pacific and other Great War Stories
Island Culture Archival Support – Good News in Cook Islands
“France Is our Mother Country” Is a Sharp Archival Tour of Cambodia’s Colonial Past
Europe / Europa
The Mystery of a Medieval Blue Ink Has Been Solved
Nazis Boasted about Six Million Holocaust Victims. But it Was a Jew who First Cited that Figure
A Tango in Auschwitz: a song of optimism sung in the Nazi camps
Poland – The Institute of National Remembrance received the Unesco Memory of the World certificate
Les Archives de l’État en Belgique au temps du coronavirus : un service minimal maximalisé
France – Archives, secret défense et crise sanitaire : le rôle opaque du Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale
Association des archivistes de l’Église de France – Les archives et le Covid 19 en humour
L’open-data au service des citoyens confinés
Wikidata et les archives (1)
Archipôles : voyagez dans les archives polaires françaises et vivez les expéditions par procuration
National Archives of Ireland – Behind the Scenes: working from home, what do we do?
Ireland – Archiving Covid-19
National Library of Scotland – Archiving Scotland’s response to Covid-19
University of Stirling – Collecting Photos of Covid-19
UK Information Commissioner – Combatting Covid-19 through data: some considerations for privacy
UK – The Parliamentary Archives Jargon Buster: Acts of Parliament
UK National Archives – Free access to digital records
UK National Archives – Time Travel TV launches to help with the return to home-schooling
There is more than one way to ideate: ideation sessions at the UK National Archives
UK National Archives – John Thomson: Victorian pioneer of photojournalism
UK National Archives – Fighting a great fight: Women workers at Ford Dagenham
UK National Archives – Disappointed and forbidden love
A list of where to find free-to-access digitised British Library maps
British Library – Clean. Migrate. Validate. Enhance. Processing Archival Metadata with Open Refine
British Library – Archival Contingencies and Eclectic Sources: Using Digitised Newspapers and Periodical Literature
British Library – Slovenian gay poetry in translation: Tracing the Unspoken by Milan Šelj
British Library – Saved from the fire: conserving Charlotte Canning’s burnt diaries
How the coronavirus (Covid-19) is affecting the heritage sector
The University of Dundee’s archives show an interesting history of healthcare in the city
Nature is still there: UK diary project heralds spring during lockdown
Hidden Robert Dover poem uncovered in 17th century plea roll
A celebrity photographer is selling his entire archive, from Bowie to Beyoncé, to support the National Health Service
A UK Museum Challenged Bored Curators Worldwide to Share the Creepiest Objects in their Collections. Things Got Really Weird, Fast
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – When Israelis Stood in Line for Rations
National Library of Israel – The Exceptional Lilli Henoch: the Sad Story of a Champion Athlete
Israel – 2,400-year-old Passover Letter Shows Evolution of Jewish Ritual
Turkish intelligence operations in Greece exposed in secret documents
Turkey – Archivists uncover earliest evidence of a person being killed by a meteorite
International
Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – Interactive archive
Unesco – Intangible heritage during lockdown
International Internet Preservation Consortium – LinkGate: Let’s build a scalable visualization tool for web archive research
Teaching, outreach and advocacy for the Search Results National Digital Stewardship Alliance Levels of Preservation
Digital Preservation Coalition – The Greatest Hits: Vol. 3: Good Practice is all around us
RiC-CM, RiC-O : les archives se dotent de leur modèle conceptuel (Records in Contexts)
Archival Thesaurus Prototype for Lone Arrangers
The Professionalization of Archivists: An Overview
The coronavirus museum: how historians are documenting the pandemic
How Museums Will Eventually Tell the Story of Covid-19
OCLC – On Covid-19, research libraries, and … turtle
The Right to Record for human rights during Covid-19
Library and Information Technology Association – Strategies for Surviving a Staffing Crisis
Auction Houses Postpone Live Sales and Pivot to Online
Six things public servants need most during Covid-19
Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web