Thursday 28 June 2018

Vol. 11, no. 43

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Government of Canada - Responce to Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Report on Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act Review

Library and Archives Canada - Annual Report 2017-2018

Speaking Notes: Honorary Doctorate Awarded to the Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Bibliothèque nationale de France - Rapport d'activité 2017

NARA - Format Guidance for the Transfer of Permanent Electronic Records (for Comments)

U.S. Government Accountability Office - Freedom of Information Act: Agencies are Implementing Requirements but Additional Actions are Needed

De la communauté / From the community
National Self-Represented Litigants Project - Is Access to Court Transcripts in Canada an Access to Justice Issue?

Society of American Archivists - Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy

Society of American Archivists Case Study - Dangerous Liaisons: Working Collaboratively with a Donor on a Mass-Digitization Project at University of North Carolina

Society of American Archivists - Issue Brief: Net Neutrality

IFLA - Net Neutrality Toolkit

Knight Foundation - Americans' Views of Misinformation in the News and how to Counteract it

Paper - It's Not Easy Being Green(e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change 

Paper - Current Best Practices among Cultural Heritage Institutions when Dealing with Copyright Orphan Works and Analysis of Crowdsourcing Options 

Publications
Revista arhivelor / Archives Review, no. 1-2 (2015)

Library Management, vol. 39, no. 6-7 (2018)

The Library, vol. 19, no. 2 (2018)

National Archives of Australia - Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 3 (2018)

The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 14, no. 6 (2018)

Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Lyon) - Les coopérations entre chercheurs et bibliothécaires dans le cadre des projets de numérisation de corpus documentaires

Book - Archive that, Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

Book - Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive 

Book - Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from South-East Asia 

Book - The Economics of Open Access: on the Future of Academic Publishing

Book - In our Own Voices, Redux: the Faces of Librarianship Today

Book - Engaging Data: Smart Strategies for School Communication

Book - The GDPR Handbook: a Guide to Implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation

Book - Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250 

Book - A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

Book - Connecting Families? Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course

Livre - Graffitis & bas-reliefs de la Grande Guerre : archives souterraines de combattants

Livre - De la Haute-Volta au Burkina Faso : cent ans de patrimoine

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exposition - Matane : ville commerciale et industrielle
Jusqu'au 15 septembre 2018, Matane

Online Course - Japanese Culture through Rare Books

Documents publics, documents privés : classification archivistique ou problème social 
12 juillet 2018, Paris

Successful Service Transformation for Archives
July 18, 2018, Birmingham (UK)

Preserving the Near Future Symposium
July 28, 2018, University of Melbourne

Second Workshop on Scientific Archives
August 13-14, 2018, Washington, D.C.

Preserving the Evidence: the Trials of an Early Modern Map
August 16, 2018, Kew (UK)

Sharing the Sources: Innovative Technologies for Libraries, Archives and Research Communities
October 4-5, 2018, Rostock (Germany)

Sur le web / On the web
New Blog - Conceptualizing Recordkeeping as Grief Work (by Jennifer Douglas, Assistant Professor at the iSchool at the University of British Columbia)

Podcast - A Conversation with Library and Archives Canada Reference Archivist Rebecca Murray

Historical Reminiscents Podcast - Confidence and Job Applications

International Tracing Service - e-Guide on Nazi documents

National Archives of Australia - Information Management and Data Capabilities (for Comments)

Vidéo de l'École nationale des chartes - Quand l'archéologie dialogue avec les archives : la ville médiévale et moderne

San Jose State University School of Information Video - National Treasures: Preserving and Providing Access to Cultural Heritage

Video - Explore the Digital Humanities Course Registry 

UK National Archives Podcast - West Africa and the First World War

Podcast - Interview with Brooke Schreier Ganz of Reclaim the Records

Slides - Presidential Tweets, Self-Destructing Messages, and Private Email: why Information Governance is More Important than Ever

Slides - A Grounded Theory of Information Quality for Web Archives

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Why Ottawa needs to follow Europe's lead and immediately mandate data privacy protection

Canada's Access to Information Open Data Fail: Departments Months Behind Posting Summaries of Completed Requests 

New Info Commissioner Maynard already making her mark, and reducing backlog is priority No. 1

Keeping Supreme Court discussions secret for 50 years is in the public interest, Chief Justice Richard Wagner says

Library and Archives Canada - Fourth anniversary: Dr Guy Berthiaume

Library and Archives Canada - Celebrating the history of the Outaouais

Library and Archives Canada - A Unique Example of Canadian Research: HMCS Bras d'Or

Library and Archives Canada - Nursing Sisters who died in service during the First World War, Part 2

Library and Archives Canada - The Peace Tower carillon

Canadian Federation of Library Associations Highlights Progress Made in Truth and Reconciliation Initiatives


Nova Scotia Archives - Photographs by A.E. Cornwall, Hantsport and Area collected by B.R. Alexander

Province hears allegations that Calgary police violated critic's privacy

Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives - What's New in the Archives: the Works of Anton Wagner

University of Western Ontario - X-ray beam illuminates long-forgotten faces on damaged daguerreotypes

A glimpse of the past: First Nations University aims to put names to faces in century-old photos

New University of Alberta archives facility opens at South Campus

University of Victoria Transgender Archives named one of top LGBTQ museums worldwide

McGill University - The Black Whale Cookbook: an artistic reflection of Gaspé summers gone by

Au Centre d'archives de la grande zone argileuse, cet été

Les géants de l'édition étouffent les bibliothèques universitaires 

Watch Canada's cities transform completely: then and now

Ottawa - Human remains, artifacts left at doorstep of Inuit organization

Regina Archives - 150 stories timeline unveiled at National Indigenous Peoples Day

Strathcona redevelopment files easier to find in the Vancouver Archives

The Lost Vancouver: Fred Herzog's Early Color Street Photographs of Canada From the 1950s and 1960s

Vancouver - An archive of colours: decades of history preserved in historic cabin on North Shore

Toronto Public Library - Typewriters Lost in Time

Toronto Public Library - Ontario's Historic Breweries

La Saint-Jean-Baptiste sur fond de nationalisme en Outaouais

A look at the Alberta Genealogical Society: Red Deer Branch's 40th Anniversary

Picton's (Ontario) history comes alive with guided tours

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) recognizing National Indigenous History Month

A Visit from Massachusetts By Tammy Donahue Buziak, Archivist City of North Battleford Historic Archives (Saskatchewan)

Students use art to shed light on Canada's dark past

Une Canadienne en visite aux archives municipales de Vittel (France)

Association of Canadian Archivists 2018: Truths, Trust, and Technology

Archives as Miracles, 2018

Retour sur la session étudiante du congrès de l'Association des archivistes du Québec 2018

Au-delà de l'investissement : le point de vue d'un archiviste religieux

Afrique / Africa
Rwanda, à quand l'ouverture réelle des archives??

Admitting guilt in Ethiopia: towards a truth and reconciliation commission?

Mali - Preserving the priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu

Amériques / Americas
Trump and the Presidential Records Act

Society of American Archivists Statement on Presidential Records

Society of American Archivists - Preliminary Results from Mid-Career Archivists Pop-Up Survey

Congressional Research Service Previews Public Release of its Reports

Reports Show Spike in Lawsuits Against Intelligence Agencies Due to High Rate of Freedom of Information Act Denials and Slow Processing Time

New Digital National Security Archive Document Collection Highlights CIA Covert Operations from 1961-1974

The Freedom of Information Act: Text Messages as Public Records

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Is Everywhere: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

The Librarian and the Archivist: Carla Hayden and David S. Ferriero engage in good-natured rivalry

National Archives updates progress on Immigration and Customs Enforcement records disposition

NARA - Celebrating 10 million patents

NARA - Seven Patents to Delight your Steampunk Friends

NARA - Hiding in Plain Sight: the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Interstate Highway Map

A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking

Library of Congress - Baseball Americana: a House of Cards

Library of Congress - My Job at the Library: Sharing a Love for the Library's Music Collections

Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel Directed to Help with Foreign Relations of the United States Volume Even though Backlog at All-Time High, and More

Wisconsin - Justices considering how records law applies to courts

Harvard University - Schlesinger Library Awarded Grant to Create Comprehensive Digital Media Archive of #metoo

Harvard Library acquires archive of iconic Greek poet Nikos Gatsos

Harvard University - Why personal agency matters more than personal data

Stanford Libraries awarded $4 Million grant to implement linked data metadata environment

University of North Carolina - Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

Decades of student publications digitized at Indiana University Southeast

Emory University librarians bring home books, insight from global buying trips

University of Alabama at Birmingham - Study reveals misuse of archive services by fringe communities on the web 

$100 million rare map collection donated to University of Southern Maine

Rare collection of Jewish texts finds home at Brown University's library

Student Digital Preservation Consultants Looking for Small Cultural Heritage Organizations

A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at her Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More

Can US Catholics attempt racial truth and reconciliation?

How did some of cinema's greatest films end up in an Iowa shed?

Emotions in the LIS Job Search: Librarians Share their Stories

Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement

Found: Rosa Parks's Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History

Amelia Earhart signed document discovered in attic box

Concert promoter collects decades of memorabilia

This mysterious recording was the missing musical link to an era when racism was the tune

An Interview with Jason Steinhauer, Public Historian and Creator of History Communication

How a History Graduate Became a Big Name in Tech Giants Like Google and Twitter

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Chair appointed to the National Library of Australia

Wirimbirra: how libraries and archives can support the cultural ecological knowledge of First Nations people

Digital humanities and oral history

Indonesia - Tata Steel Archives completes 25 glorious years

Europe / Europa
European Parliament votes to improve access to digitised cultural heritage

European Union copyright law changes could have dramatic impact on fan-created content

The End of All that's Good and Pure about the Internet

European Space Agency completes massive archive of Rosetta images and data

Historical Archives of the European Union - The visual history of space: a new system to visualize images

The Learning Curve in Sharing Data with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Project: the Example of a Memorial Site, Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen

Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents - Transcribing Michel Foucault's handwriting with Transkribus

Rare Quran Manuscripts in Russia's National Library  

Archives of Russia: State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Region Displays its Photo Documents

Gulag prisoner data secretly destroyed after 2014 order

Moscow 100 years ago: panoramic photos from the Romanov private archive 

Czech National Archive takes over control of Slánský trial recordings

Bulgarian State Security Agency Ignores Court Order in Freedom of Information Case

A Call to Action on Digital Cultural Heritage in Germany

East Germany's stolen babies: call for an official investigation and access to archives 

Bayreuth to Digitize Richard Wagner Archive and Make Available to All

Le Pape nomme un nouvel archiviste et bibliothécaire du Vatican

Images of cockatoo on 13th-century Vatican manuscript inspire trade route rethink

Suisse - Le conseil fédéral prié d’examiner les pratiques des départements fédéraux en matière d'archivage et de protection de la mémoire

France - Archives pour demain : découvrez les 12 propositions nées de la consultation publique (et votez !)

French museums swoop on books, letters and manuscripts at the mammoth auction series of the Aristophil collection

France - Circulation et falsification des nouvelles au XVIIIème siècle

La banalisation des images d'archives dans les journaux télévisés, un problème éthique

Big data : le milieu académique est-il encore pertinent ?

Ireland - Call to preserve internet sites as national archive

National Library of Ireland joins Digital Repository of Ireland

Diarmaid Ferriter: we can't let dark past define Irish social history

Scotland - University of St Andrews to create six-century archive of Cupar's history

British army files on soldiers accused of collusion over Miami Showband massacre destroyed

Voices of millions of UK taxpayers stored by HM Revenue and Customs

British Library celebrates 20 years of iconic St Pancras building

British Library statement: Elgar Archive

British Library - British-US rivalry in the race to discover oil in Iraq

Nurse recruitment and training films feature in archive released to mark National Health Service 70th birthday

BBC releases computer history archive

University College London - Recordkeeping and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Interim Report

Black Cultural Archives welcomes MPs' recognition

Piss on pity: how a new archive captures the radical spirit of the Disability Arts Movement 

Scorched, Preserved, Erased: Manuscripts Connected to Christina of Markate and her Priory

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images

United Arab Emirates National Archives updates smart platform

National Library of Israel - Leafing Through the First Printed Book: the Gutenberg Bible

Oman, Morocco ink agreement on documentation

In rebel Syria, a race to save precious property deeds

International
International Tracing Service - Post-war files on victims of Nazi persecution online

Arkivum, Artefactual, the Open Preservation Foundation and Preservica collaborate on new Jisc initiative for sharing preservation action best-practice

Indigenous Knowledge Databases: Is it Something to Be Concerned About?

Digital Preservation Prestidigitation

Where Are my Effing Pictures? Or, Finding an Archive System for my Film Photography

Selection for Digitization: Best Practices

Faire évoluer son système d'archivage dans les règles 

Open source sustainability