Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute – Five Steps to Safe Shipment
Library of Congress – The Orrin Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act: a Guide for Sound Recordings Collectors
Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Scénographie des expositions temporaires et gestion de la conservation préventive : orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
You, me and History: an Activity Book from the Ontario Jewish Archives and PJ Library
Indigenous Innovation Initiative (Toronto) – Indigenous Knowledges & Data Governance Protocol
OCLC: Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums Project – Research Briefing: Vaccines, Variants and Ventilation
Association of Research Libraries – Issue Brief: New US Federal Compliance Rules for Sensitive Information
Paper – Exploring the Relevance of ORCID as a Source of Study of Data Sharing Activities at the Individual-Level: a Methodological Discussion
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 22, no. 2 (2021)
Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 37, no. 2 (2021)
The Electronic Library, vol. 39, no. 1 (2021)
Library Management, vol. 42, no. 4-5 (2021)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2021)
San Jose State University’s School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (2021)
University of Toronto – iJournal, vol. 6, no. 2 (2021)
Library and Archives Canada – Documentary Heritage and Official Language Minority Communities, vol. 2, no. 9 (2021)
Book – Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice (Fourth Edition)
Book – The Filing Cabinet: a Vertical History of Information
Book – Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital
Book – Digital Heritage: Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection
Book – Boolean Structures: Combinatorics, Codification, Representation
Book – Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (Second Edition)
Book – Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France
Book – Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture
Book – The Voice Catchers: how Marketers Listen in to Exploit your Feelings, your Privacy, and your Wallet
Book – Knowledge Management: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and why we Need them
Livre – Je vous écris d’Auschwitz : les lettres retrouvées
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Continuum: a Digital Storytelling Project by Collective 2030 (Halifax)
Until June 15, 2021
The Hundredth Anniversary of the Canadian Copyright Act
June 4, 2021
Technical Aspects of Oral History: Q&A
June 1, 2021
Legal Issues and Religious Archival Practice
June 2, 2021
Artificial Intelligence and its Implications for the Present and Future of Historical Research
June 8, 2021
Different Cultures in Digital History
June 8, 2021
What I Wish I Knew about Digital Preservation: Collaboration and Networking Edition
June 9, 2021
Ambitions for Online Services in City and Regional Archives
June 21, 2021
Metadata Mixology: Tools for Stirring and Shaking Up Metadata Workflows
June 22, 2021
Conducting Oral History Interviews using the Zencastr Recording Platform
June 22, 2021
Using Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Historic Towns and Landscapes
June 23, 2021
Annual Information and Records Management Society Conference
November 28-30, 2021, Birmingham (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
City of Winnipeg Archives – Archives Strategy (Survey and Virtual Events)
Great Canadian Genealogy Blogs
National Library of Israel – Franz Kafka Digitized Archives
Video – Should Open Content be Used to Train Artificial Intelligence?
Video – Archival Technologies Lab: Michelle Caswell reads from Urgent Archives
Vidéo – Les centres de documentation d’institutions muséales face à la crise sanitaire
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – From the Lowy Room: Acquisitions in the age of COVID
Meanwhile, at Library and Archives Canada … neglect
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada launches efforts to streamline and modernize access to information and privacy system
Alberta energy war room may be subject to freedom-of-information law
Les Archives nationales du Québec fêtent leur 100e anniversaire
Jean-Louis Roy quitte la tête de BAnQ
Update: Research Data Management in Canada
Ontario Council of University Libraries – Grant Hurley Recognized for Contribution to Digital Preservation
University of British Columbia – Five titles from Chinese Rare Books
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library- Doors Open: a Personal History
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Doors Open: Thomas Fisher, the Man Behind the Name
The Falcon: the Statue of a Winged Youth at McGill University
Canadian prof says he’s discovered the ‘1st known book from Shakespeare’s library’
ACA 2021 Conference: an Interview with Greg Bak, University of Manitoba
ACA 2021 Conference: an Interview with Isabel Carlin, student, University of British Columbia iSchool
Canadian Musical Theatre Database Announced
Gathering the Memories: an Oral History of Toronto Labour
City of Vancouver Archives – Go by Bike Week: a Selection of Bicycle-Related Photographs
Summer and Races at the Whistler Museum and Archives Society
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Whistler’s Answers: May 27, 1982
Coquitlam (British Columbia) Archives remembers the Great Flood of ’48
Greater Vernon Museum and Archives (British Columbia) has more than 30,000 images on hand
Lake Country Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Owners of the V Bar V Ranch, Part Two
Parksville Museum (British Columbia) – What Does a Mohel Do?
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Land Titles and Bowling Greens
Norfolk (Ontario) archivist recognized for service to community
British Columbia – Modern science, old crime: police are hoping genealogy can help solve 70-year-old murder
http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/334298/Police-are-hoping-genealogy-can-help-solve-70-year-old-murder
Des images inédites liées au naufrage de l’Empress of Ireland retrouvées
Five Questions with Alexandra Farolan, Library Assistant, Courthouse Libraries British Columbia
Afrique / Africa
Morocco hands to Malian President historical manuscripts of scholar Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu
Algérie – Oran : TRO mémoires, une nouvelle plateforme pour collecter les archives
South Africa – How Researchers Can Help with Recovery Efforts for the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town
Amériques / Americas
The letters from Hernán Cortes that were stolen from the Mexican Archive
NARA – Remembering Tony Dedman
NARA – Visual Cues and Clues: Looking ON the Photo
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library celebrates its 50th anniversary with LBJ’s recorded telephone conversations
Library of Congress – Ode to Cicadas
Library of Congress – Roman Totenberg: a Symphony of a Life
Library of Congress – How to Research the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Library of Congress – Every collection and project is its own unique journey: an Interview with Marcus Nappier
National Library of Medicine – Reflect, Reimagine, Reenergize Together
Smithsonian – Rare Footage of Duke Ellington Highlights When Jazz and Baseball Were in Perfect Harmony
Smithsonian – Artifacts from the Tulsa Race Massacre
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Through the Looking-Glass, and what Bonnie will Find There
Oregon, Washington partner on tool to access, share cultural heritage digital archives
New Wyoming Archives and Museum Website Showcases Covid-19 Memories
Digital North Carolina – Materials Documenting the Life of Crystal Lee Sutton, Activist and Union Organizer, Now Online
Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries are new home to Dizzy Gillespie Collection
University of Arkansas – Playing Favorites (Show and Tell): a Juxtaposition: Arkansas During World War II
The hidden history of guerrilla television: University of Chicago scholars preserve decades-old videos
New Guggenheim Publication and Digital Archive Share Findings on the Preservation and Presentation of Minimal, Post-minimal, and Conceptual Art
The Warhol Foundation Is Auctioning off the Artist’s Computer-Based Works as NFTs. An Archivist who Uncovered them Is Outraged
Boston’s Congregational Library and Archives – How an old diary is shedding light on smallpox outbreaks from the 1700s
Chicago spends millions keeping public records secret
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The urgency of preserving our National Archives of Australia and history
A national disgrace: the National Archives of Australia turns to crowdfunding to save irreplaceable historic records
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia offering up some of its international collection of records, cylinders
Inconceivable: why has Australia’s history been left to rot?
Australia – Archivists’ training package will improve records access for stolen Generations survivors and their descendants
New Zealand – Major project to allow digital access to 130 years of The Press archives
Trajectoire de l’accès aux archives du Parti Communiste Chinois depuis 1949
Tibetan culture gets preservation with all-round support: official
Hong Kongers are using blockchain archives to fight government censorship
China – Digitization helps to build online library of historical tomes
Why uprooting the National Archives of India is bad news for Indian history
India – The National Museum is an archive of time, it is inhuman to erase its history: artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari
India – Privacy Delayed Is Privacy Denied
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Supporting new professionals in the cultural heritage sector
National Library of Russia – Virtual Wander through Ancient Cities
Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era
Hungary – Karikó’s assertion cannot be refuted: the director general of the Historical Archives of the State Security Services about the agent accusation
Helsinki Has a Website of 65,000 Free Photos Anyone Can Use
National Archives of Georgia to publish WW2 memoirs, create online catalogue for Georgian cinema
Digital disclosure of Dutch East India Company archives by Huygens Institute
The Documentary Final Account Is a Rare Trove of Unfiltered Interviews with Former Nazis: To Unfiltered, Some Historians Say
How a searchable database is helping decipher a lost language
Ditching century-old family book, Spain adopts individual digital records
Monaco – A decisive step towards the creation of National Archives
Belgique – Deuxième guerre mondiale : les archives de la collaboration seront-elles un jour accessibles à tous ?
France – Archives : bientôt un standard commun pour la publication des registres des entrées
Archives Wales – The Brilliant Past: Dementia and Archives
Royal archives that we pay for but aren’t allowed to read: a brief history
Almost scandalous: Historian alerts Prince Charles to plight of crumbling archives
UK – Deleted police records were on outdated 1970s IT system
UK National Archives – After Troyes: Privy seal clerks in France and a letter for Thomas Hoccleve
UK National Archives – From Yemen to Yorkshire: Using mixed methods to investigate migration
UK National Archives – The Lion and Unicorn Pavilion: Legacies of the 1951 Festival of Britain
UK National Archives – 120 days in an archive
British Library and Findmypast announce renewal of long-term partnership
British Library – The Qatar Digital Library’s Two Millionth Image: Isa bin Tarif returns to Qatar
British Library – Endangered Archives and Notable Women
British Library – Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: from Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion
University of Cambridge – The archive of Stephen Hawking has been saved for the nation
University of Stirling – Transcribing the Asylum from Home
Reclassifying Pembroke College Library History collection
Hidden Inscriptions Discovered in Anne Boleyn’s Execution Prayer Book
Lost Library of British Literature Surfaces at Sotheby’s
Digital archive of Blocks magazine now online
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Israel’s Astounding (and Imprecise) World Record
Using Artificial Intelligence, Researchers Uncover Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Amazing Rise and Fall of Century-Old Afghan Box Cameras
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Public Library adds rare manuscript to its collection
International
Why UX research needs archivists
Creative Commons: how to protect your work in a haven for public use
Avant-garde film preservation: how a change to Kodak’s product line puts experimental film at risk
Seven Ways to Leverage Organizational History
Implementing Gamification for Museum Engagement
Charlie Bit my Finger Is Leaving YouTube after $760,999 NFT Sale
Google Photos is ending unlimited free storage next week. Here’s what to know
