Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de France – 60 ans de rapports annuels et rapport annuel 2018
Archives New Zealand – State of Government Recordkeeping 2018-2019 and Survey of Public Sector Information Management
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Parliamentary Service Te Ratonga Whare Pāremata (for Comments)
Appraisal Report: https://assets.ctfassets.net/etfoy87fj9he/OTwk2eH92iZdochNlqnQc/0095267f54553d0bef593dd48613f31a/APP2017-0049_-_Appraisal_Report.pdf
Disposal Schedule: https://assets.ctfassets.net/etfoy87fj9he/2xusNtbbdZSeOymTzjppf3/bb4f958f4d8f009d24c095fbb0fc75db/APP2017-0049_-_Disposal_Schedule.pdf
National Archives of Australia – 2019 Australian Public Service Employee Census
De la communauté / From the community
Consultation Draft of Competencies for Canadian Association of Research Libraries Librarians
Wits History Workshop, Historical Papers Research Archive, South African History Archive and Public Affairs Research Institute – A People’s Guide to Archives in South Africa
Sedona Conference – Commentary on Application of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection to Documents and Communications Generated in the Cybersecurity Context
Contract for the Web: a Global Plan of Action to Make our Online World Safe and Empowering for Everyone
iPres Working Group’s Recommendations
Article – The Fundamental Problem Blocking Open Access and how to Overcome it: the BitViews Project
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 29, no. 3 (2019)
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 20, no. 2 (2019)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 31, no. 4 (2019)
Histoire et informatique, vol. 20 (2019)
Doctoral Thesis (King’s College London) – Technical Narratives : Analysis, Description and Representation in the Conservation of Software-based Art
Occasional Paper – Memory and Mission: Methodist and Roman Catholic Perspectives on Archives as Tools for Evangelism
Book – Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
Book – The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives
Book – Photo-Museology: the Presence of Absence and the Absence of Presence
Book – Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Book – Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Second Edition)
Book – Arrows in a Quiver: from Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations
Book – Native Provenance: the Betrayal of Cultural Creativity
Book – European Data Protection Regulation, Journalism and Traditional Publishers: Balancing on a Tightrope?
Book – Privacy in Peril: Hunter v Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections
Book – Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined
Book – Library Information Systems (Second Edition)
Book – Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire: Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns
Book – The Art of Paper: from the Holy Land to the Americas
Livre – Confessions d’un faussaire : la face cachée du marché d’art
Livre – Ataï, un chef kanak au musée: histoire d’un héritage colonial
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Supporting Open Educational Practices from the Library
December 5, 2019
ARMA Canada Annual Conference
June 1-3, 2020, Winnipeg
Webinar – Integrating ArchivesSpace and Archive-It
December 4, 2019
Archives de l’Unesco et Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – Journée d’étude
4 décembre 2019, Paris
Webinar – Open source Software for Showcasing Scholarship: an Introduction to VIVO for Librarians
December 5, 2019
Webinar – Towards an Australian GLAM Labs network
December 11, 2019
National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages Worskhop
July 13-17, 2020, University of Oregon
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Anna St. Onge (York University): Archival Labor, Community Content & Refocusing the Archival Narrative
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Authority File
Decolonising through Critical Librarianship: a Platform for Cambridge Librarians Approaching Decolonisation
Library of Congress Video – Anticipating the New RDA
Video – Rights in Records By Design: Co-designing for Archival Autonomy
Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects) 1.4.0
Jpylyzer 2.0.0
Slides – Hacking Heritage: Exploring the Limits of Access
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Liberals promise to make stronger privacy laws a priority
Launch of Copyright Board’s New Regime for Publication of Proposed Tariffs & Other Changes
Canadian Copyright Website Blocking Underway as TekSavvy Appeals Federal Court Ruling
Library and Archives Canada – Top five topics addressed by our Reference Librarians
Library and Archives Canada – The reactions of the “Third Group” to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Centre national de recherches Canada – Les technologies au service des langues autochtones
Sasha Suda’s grand plans for the National Gallery of Canada
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Update
British Columbia becomes First Canadian province to pass UN Indigenous rights declaration
Privacy Commissioner responds to Amnesty International critique of Ontario’s information freedom act
Québec – Accès à l’information: pas de réforme à court terme
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec et la Fondation de BAnQ honorent les sept boursiers du concours 2019-2020 du Programme de soutien à la recherche
BAnQ – Hull aux portes de l’enfer : le grand feu de 1900
Une campagne pour revoir la Loi sur le droit d’auteur
Documenting University of Toronto’s history: one well-kept secret that everyone should know
University of British Columbia – Advertisements for Canadian Pacific Steamships: Part II
A Montreal University Celebrates the Physical Presence of Digital Archives
A Yiddish literary treasure lies in the McGill library
McGill University – Student Spotlight: Marion Dessalles at Rare Books & Special Collections
Archives highlighting local education donated to College of New Caledonia
Des universitaires défendent la pertinence de l’encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia
Reflections on Volunteering at the Ontario Jewish Archives
This West End brewery is using beer to bring Toronto’s history to life
Archives de la ville de Québec – 250 bougies pour le Service de protection contre l’incendie
Le centre d’archives fermé jusqu’en janvier à Amos
A Heritage Christmas Brings the Sights & Sounds of Christmas Past to the Okotoks Museum and Archives (Alberta)
Yet More Vernon City Directories Online
Friends of the Richmond Archives (B.C.) – Reach for the Sky: the Dawn of the High-Rise in Richmond
Simcoe County Archives (Ontario) – Preserving the past by looking to the future
Elliot Lake Nuclear and Mining Museum (Ontario) requests $47K from city to continue digital archive project
Généreux don au Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet
Edmonton homeowner’s curiosity helps descendants of fur traders find each other
Dématique et SAE (24) : la Fonction conservation sécurisée des données (4) : processus de gestion des gels et des dégels de données
Afrique / Africa
Congo – Patrimoine : les archives nationales intègrent l’ère du numérique
12 ans après sa création, Archives du Maroc peine à démarrer
Burkina : Félicien Oké propose 10 clés pour être un archiviste efficace en Afrique
Amériques / Americas
Communiqué d’Archivistes sans frontières-Bolivie – Les archives et le patrimoine culturel
Guyana – National Archives no longer bearing Walter Rodney’s name
NARA – Mapping the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
NARA – 50 Years Ago: Government stops investigating UFOs
NARA – U.S. Army Photographers Captured Human Toll of War in 1945
Library of Congress – Introducing the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Writing Stories of Trailblazing Women
National Library of Medicine – Thanksgiving: what I am Giving Thanks for this Year
Smithsonian – No Love for White Gloves, or: the Cotton Menace
Supreme Court of the United States will consider whether publishers can copyright annotated state codes
Secrecy prevails as declassification slows
President Nixon Never Actually Gave this Apollo 11 Disaster Speech. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brought it to Life to Illustrate Power of Deepfakes
Stanford University – Silicon Valley Archives Update
Iowa State University – Manuscripts Miscellany: Native American Task Force of the Rural Coalition
Lehigh University – Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts
Binghamton University Acquires 16th-century Music Manuscript
Historians Respond to Plan S: Open Access vs Open Access Policies Redux
United States Chess Digital Archive is Live
How a Minnesota Monk Saves Middle East Manuscripts and Testifies to God’s Providence
Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher with Ties to the CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Project
Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops
New York City releases police surveillance archives from 60s and 70s
These century-old recipes from the Boston City Archives are intriguing. But boiling vegetables for hours?
Mysterious newspaper fairy places historic newspapers in Minneapolis coin boxes
Archival Preservation and Genealogy
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – A Case Study of Automated Records Management in Government
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives to Change Name
New Zealand – The week it snowed everywhere: novel handwriting recognition project casts new light on historic weather data
Singapore – Two new websites offer access to Tamil dance and Esplanade’s arts archives
India – On a mission to preserve manuscripts for posterity
Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY
Europe / Europa
Russian prosecutors seek arrest of US rabbi in fight over Jewish manuscripts
3,1 millions d’euros : le triomphe des Russes blancs aux enchères
National Library of Finland – Tutkain: Finnish Newspapers and Magazines Available Online for Research Use
Finnish missions abroad expand historical archives
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Exhibition of Old Postcards of the Sarajevo Historical Archived opened
http://www.sarajevotimes.com/exhibition-of-old-postcards-of-the-sarajevo-historical-archived-opened/
Lebanese Mogul Bought Nazi Gear at Auction to Donate to Israeli Group
Suisse – Nouvel accès en ligne aux Archives fédérales
En Suisse, des artistes congolais s’emparent d’archives coloniales au Musée Rietberg
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Les archives des Ordres des Médecins et des Pharmaciens
Bibliothèque nationale de France – La recherche par proximité : une nouvelle fonctionnalité dans Gallica
National Library of Wales to Lead on Welsh Wikipedia Project
The library of Welsh Bibles in the Snowdonia wilderness
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-wales-50508933/the-library-of-welsh-bibles-in-the-snowdonia-wilderness
Home of one of first Bibles printed in Welsh saved from flood risk
UK National Archives – Damnified, quantified and classified: descriptions of disability in government records
UK National Archives – Medieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383
UK National Archives – Baffled by Archives: Part 1
British Library Shared Research Repository launched in beta
Sacred Aboriginal artefacts given back in British museum first
University of Manchester – Cataloguing Manuscripts: a Historian’s Reflections
http://rylandscollections.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/cataloguing-manuscripts-a-historians-reflections/
University of Bristol – Rare medieval manuscript telling the legend of Charlemagne discovered in Dundee
University of London – Liberate our Library! Decolonisation and discovery
Capturing Cultural Transformation: an update on the Hull 2017 City of Culture digital archive
Go Forth Laughing: Networking, Archival Humour and Memes
Helena Bonham Carter: researching your family should be on national curriculum
Pointless emails: they’re not just irritating, they have a massive carbon footprint
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates has made great strides in preservation of its rich heritage
Iraq – Old Islamic history manuscripts presented at Salahaddin University
National Library of Israel – An SS Man, an IDF Officer and a Spy: the Story of Ulrich Schnaft
National Library of Israel – The Jewish Gangster who Founded a Gambling Desert Paradise
National Library of Israel – Mazel Tov! Celebrating 150 Years of Postcards
National Library of Israel – Asking Forgiveness from Baruch Spinoza
International
International Council on Archives – Archives in the 21st century
International Committee of the Red Cross – A 150+ Years of Movement History at your Fingertips: Digitizing the Statutory Meetings Documentation
IFLA continues efforts in World Intellectual Property Organization: a brief on NGO’s Meeting with Director-General Francis Gurry
Access to Knowledge? World Intellectual Property Organization Not Ready to Decide
New Unesco Recommendation will Promote Access to Educational Resources for All
How to Manage Archival Project Risks and Assumptions
Archives and Records Management: a Symbiotic Pairing
Twitter’s plans to start deleting inactive accounts prompts digital legacy concerns
We are witnessing the end of the “Twitter Revolution”
Handling Messy CSV Files
Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar