Thursday 25 August 2011

Vol. 4, no. 34


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Google Books contract with the British Library
 
De la communauté / From the community
L’ebook a 40 ans (1971-2011)
 
Council on Library and Information Resources - "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics
 
The Power of Knowledge Rhase 2: Research Libraries UK Strategic Plan 2011–2014
 
OCLC - Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail
 
Evaluating Open Source Digital Preservation Systems: A Case Study
 
Publications
Book - Waldo Gifford Leland and the Origins of the American Archival Profession
 
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free OCLC webinar - Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives
22 September 2011
 
Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper: Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges
24-25 October 2011, London
 
Journée des archives des établissements d’enseignement collégial du Québec
5 octobre 2011, Montréal
 
11es rencontres FORMIST - Nouveaux horizons de la formation à l'information (présentations disponibles)
16 juin 2011, Villeurbane (France)
 
Sur le web / On the web
Video - The Provincial Archives of Alberta
 
Video - Dublin City Library and Archive: Wide Street Commission Map Conservation Project
 
Outils / Tools
Fedora 3.5 (framework for building digital repositories) now available
 
InterPares3 - Shared Drive Migration Toolkit
 
Library of Congress - Full Open Source Release of Recollection Platform (a web application to create dynamic interfaces to cultural heritage collections)

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Government institutions don't respect access to information laws
 
Audit of B.C. RCMP remains sealed
 
UBC’s University Librarian first Canadian to head IFLA
 
Digital readers are changing the traditional library system
 
Afrique
Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles (1/2): Des trésors menacés!
 
Tenue du 1er Conseil d'administration des Archives du Maroc
 
Amériques/Americas
Brazil's military opened file on Pele in 1970
 
Copyright battles break out in North America
 
U.S. Department of Defence Changes its Freedom of Information Act Policy on bin Laden Documents
 
Secret Service Must Turn Over Visitor Logs
 
National Archives Recovers Lincoln Documents
 
Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age
 
Vermont state archives awarded grant to preserve court records
 
Fishing in Boston College’s archives (IRA oral history issue)
 
Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts
 
Archivist helps Vietnam veterans tell their stories
 
Saving the Smithsonian’s Web
 
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia to build national health records infrastructure
 
Chaos hinders Japanese e-book market
 
Europe
Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis including English copy of Communist Manifesto
 
Estonia - Interior Ministry Archives: Gorbachev Killed
 
France - Les archives diplomatiques vont-elles déménager ?
 
France - Archives de la Défense : « Un lien Nation - Armée »
 
Oral History Network of Ireland - Preserving stories of the past, for the future
 
Scotland - 'Edible archive' needs strong stomach
 
British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages
 
UK - Archives of West End composer donated to Kingston University
 
Moyen-Orient/Middle East
Israel State Archives - Appointment of the new State Archivist
 
Western agencies eager for crack at Gadhafi archives
 
15 millions de tablettes numériques dans les écoles turques
 
International
The Art of the Letter: what we can learn from illustrated letters in the collections
 
Experts worry that the family photo album is being lost to technology
 
Metadata looms large at International Broadcasting Convention
 
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance
 
100 000 partitions partagées en ligne pour l’amour de la musique
 
How Data Science is Shaping Social Science
 
Booktrack adds soundtrack to your eBooks

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