Thursday 29 December 2022

Vol. 16, no. 18

                                                         Ressources / Resources


De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Regulations Amending the Access to Information Regulations

NARA – Update to Transition to Electronic Records

White House – Fifth United States Open Government National Action Plan

Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France – Tableau comparatif des traitements de désinsectisation

De la communauté / From the community
International Federation of Film Archives – FAQ: CMS, DAM, MAM for Film Archives

Unesco – Understanding Open Science

Publications
The American Archivists, vol. 85, no. 2 (2022)

Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 41 (2022)

Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4 (2022)

News in Conservation, no. 93 (2023)

Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal, vol. 32, no. 1 (2022)

The Library, vol. 23, no. 4 (2022)

Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 48, no. 4 (2022)

Open Acces Book – Making Humanitarian Crises: Emotions and Images in History

Book – A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive

Book – Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Book – Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning through and from Collaboration

Book – Copyright’s Broken Promise: how to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science

Book – Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Book – Regulating Social Network Sites: Data Protection, Copyright and Power

Book – Project Management in Technical Services: Practical Tips and Case Studies

Book – Living Beyond Data: Toward Sustainable Value Creation

Book – The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

Book – Question Answering over Text and Knowledge Base

Livre – La notion de crime contre le patrimoine culturel en droit international

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives et manuscrits : les pratiques de la recherche scientifique
18 janvier 2023, La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée)

Archiver, dominer ? Les sciences sociales face aux archives des mobilisations
19 janvier 2023, Paris

UK National Archives – Torn from Home: in Discussion with Holocaust Survivor John Dobai
January 27, 2022

Sur le web / On the web
Archives Association of British Columbia Video – Residential School Records in British Columbia

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Elizabeth Betty Hewes

Video – This Video Game Collection is worth Nearly $2 Million

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Canadian Public Domain Day postponed 20 years. In the meantime… Public Domain Awareness and Advocacy Day

Canadian Copyright Collecting Changes Coming for Visual Artists

Archive and history museum team up to offer Unexpected!’ look at Canada’s past

Jouer la carte de Noël en politique

In pictures: Christmas in the Northwest Territories through the years

Yukon Archives celebrates 50 years of collecting memories

Leonard Cohen’s mountainous archive captured by Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit

Our language is still here: Revitalizing Indigenous languages in the North

University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collections – Remembering Jeannine Green

The lost treaties of Lithuania: priceless diplomatic treasures found in Toronto

Toronto – One of the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries Was Born out of Tragedy

The curious case of West Vancouver’s whalebone hash pipe

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Whistler Mountain’s Mighty Rope Tow

Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) – Eaton’s: a Holly Jolly Catalogue

Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Constable du bon ordre dans les églises et leurs alentours

Reflections: Treasured New Year wishes from the Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario)

Honorary degree caps a career spent preserving, promoting, Dene culture, language

Afrique / Africa
Accès à l’information en Côte d’Ivoire : une loi, rien derrière

Amériques / Americas
White House sets June 2024 deadline for digitization of agency records

The National Archives puts records from long-ago racial discrimination online

Library of Congress Labs Letter: December 2022

Library of Congress – The Soldier’s Letter: the Civil War from the Western Frontier

Summary of Fiscal Year 2023 Federal Budget for History, Archival, Education and Preservation Programs

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all

Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property

Law protects export of sacred Native American items from US

Preserving the Ephemeral at the Texas General Land Office: Digitizing the John and Diana Cobb Map Collection

2,000 boxes of Colorado archives documents to be checked for damage after multiple pipes leak

Papers from nationally-recognized University of Hawai’i criminologist now available

Le premier film Technicolor était un désastre total il y a un siècle

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia’s treasure Trove under threat from budget cuts

Many ministries not sharing records’: National Archives of India head says no documents on 1962, 1965, 1971 wars

India: Ministries must share records with National Archives, which must also get more proactive

Pakistan – Balochistan cabinet approves rules and regulations of Access to Information Act

Europe / Europa
Minister Dacic opens the exhibition of the State Archives of Serbia “Kingdom of Serbia and Japan”

The National Archives of Finland open on fewer days throughout Finland at the beginning of 2023 due to fewer customer visits

Austria – Unesco Commission Enters Salzburg Festival’s Audio-Visual Collection in the Memory of the World Registry

Jehovah’s Witnesses Launch New Legal Case in Germany over Annemarie Kusserow’s Archive

What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?

Malta – Notarial Archives Foundation breathes new life into 16th century documents

Belgique – Les secrets d’État peu à peu versés aux Archives générales du royaume

Des archives volées en Belgique bientôt de retour en France

Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France

Restrictions de la consommation de l’électricité à la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Le don d’Alfred Porcabeuf au Cabinet des estampes

25 ans du Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, 60 ans du traité d’amitié franco-allemand

Irish archives reveal struggle to disarm Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries

British Library – The Physiognomy of Christmas

British Library – Christmas Day petition to the East India Company

British Library – A beloved in every port: Iskandar’s encounters with women

British Library – Songs, games and fortune telling: the story behind Koliada

Jack the Ripper’s only known facial composite found in archives

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel - Lawrence of Arabia or Lawrence of Zion?

Why the Truth about Israel’s Haredi Pioneers Remains Hidden in Archives

Saudi Libraries Commission’s rare manuscripts displayed in Rabat Expo

International
Innovation and why records management is in danger of disappearing

Data-Driven vs. Data-Informed: what’s the Difference?

Podcasting could be in for a rocky 2023

A Look at the Gold Rush to Become the New Twitter

Thursday 22 December 2022

Vol. 16, no. 17

                                                     Ressources / Resources


De l’État / From the State
Archives of Manitoba – Microsoft 365 Teams: Recordkeeping Guidance

Archives New Zealand – Annual Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping 2021-2022

National Archives of Australia – Born-digital File Format Standards

NARA – Guidance on Storing Radiographic Film Records

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Identity Verification Function Retention & Disposal Authority

Ministère de la Justice (France) – Tableau comparatif sur l’encadrement de l’accès en données ouvertes aux décisions de justice

Feasibility of a Digital Federal Depository Library Program: Report of the Government Printing Office Director’s Task Force

De la communauté / From the community
Towards better Sharing of Cultural Heritage: a Creative Commons Call to Action to Policymakers

Sedona Conference – Primer on Managing Electronic Discovery in Small Cases (for Public Comment)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Research Library: an Analysis of Research Libraries UK Institutions’ Job Descriptions

Article – Une archivistique sous influence : la pratique archivistique face aux innovations technologiques (1960-2022)

Publications
In situ : revue des patrimoines, no 3, 2022 (numéro spécial : enfants et patrimoines)

Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 41, no. 4 (2022)

The Indexer, vol. 40, no. 4 (2022)

Ride: a Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, no. 15 (2022)

Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 49 (2023)

Discover: the Magazine of the National Library of Scotland, no 47 (2022)

Online Window into the Vatican Library Newsletter, no. 24 (2022)

The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 70 (2022)

International Federation of Film Archives Bulletin (12/2022)

Archeota: the Official Publication of the San José State University Society of American Archivists Student Chapter, vol. 8, no. 2 (2022)

ISO 23527:2022 – Information and Documentation – Research Activity Identifier (RAiD)

Master Thesis (University of Manitoba) – Archives, Record Keeping, and Indigenous Knowledge: Issues Concerning Hydro Development in Northern Manitoba

Open Access Book – Digitised Newspapers: a New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Book – Archives vivantes

Book – Popular Music Heritage: Places, Objects, Images and Texts

Book – Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries

Book – Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science

Book – The Art of Print: from Hogarth to Hockney

Book – Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon

Book – How to Think about Data Science

Book – Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum

Livre – Archives hospitalières et de la bienfaisance

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Restitution Dialogues: Exploring the Vatican Archives
January 18, 2023

Printing Maps on Oversized Paper: the 18th century paper mills in the Toscolano district
January 9, 2023

Society of American Archivists Electronic Records Section Community Conversation – Legal and Ethical Considerations for Born-Digital Access
January 13, 2022

Libraries During Times of War
March 8, 2023

La conservation-restauration au coeur de la société civile
30-31 mars 2023, Paris

Archiving the Records of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Presentation Notes Available)
December 6, 2022

Sur le web / On the web
Law Bytes Podcast – The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy and what Lies Ahead in 2023

Podcast – Copyright and Fair Dealing with Michael Geist

Podcast – Indian Boarding School Newspapers: what’s Old is News

Transkribus Learn: a Tool for Learning how to Read Old Handwriting

OCLC Video – Move to the Future with Linked Data

Society of American Archivists Video – Archival Landscapes: Columbia

Video – Can Photographs Change the World? Aviator Says Yes and is Building Glacier Archive

Inside My Favorite Manuscript Podcast – Inside My Favorite Manuscript

Podcast – The Science of Social Media Misinformation

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Library and Archives Canada – New Preservation Storage Facility wins two national awards

Improving your online experience: how we are making digital legal deposit better for publishers, Library and Archives Canada and you

Library and Archives Canada – Co-Lab updates for December

Canadians gleaned naval intelligence from Russian defector, newly released files show

The Mobile Labs of the Canadian Conservation Institute

Copyright Board Annual Report 2021-2022

Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Addressing the Impacts of Copyright Term Extension in Canada

Québec – La Commission d’accès à l’information se prononce sur l’interprétation de nouvelles exigences en matière d’intelligence artificielle

Trinity Western University Archives provides hands-on learning opportunities for students interested in archival studies: English major Faith Nelson shares her internship experience

York University Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections – Costumes, Horn-books, and Chaucer: November 2022 Highlights

University of British Columbia – Season’s greetings from Rare Books and Special Collections

Legends of University of British Columbia: Part Two

Archives de Montréal – Nouveau fonds d’archives à découvrir : celui de la Société de développement économique Plaza St-Hubert

A Toronto library will weave traditional Indigenous customs with advanced technology and sustainable practices

Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) – Watch your Phraseology

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Dining on the Mile High Mountain

Region of Peel Archives (Ontario) – Ghosts of Christmases Past in Peel and Beyond

Société d’histoire de la Haute-Yamaska – Noël à la brasserie Dow

Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Destin des captifs anglais en Nouvelle-France: deux exemples nicolétains

Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – De l’Auvergne à Saint-François-du-Lac: la vie aventureuse de François Ciquart prêtre clandestin

British Columbia history society publishes book celebrating Cranbrook’s century-old history

Elon Musk’s petulant Twitter antics threaten the survival of local journalism around the globe: here’s the story of one Canadian start-up

The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2021

Julia Thibault et Marie-Pier Lachance: la danse des archives et des matériaux

What are the attributes of a good genealogist?

Afrique / Africa
No Digital Colonialism: Africa’s Archival Collections Must Remain in the Hands of Africans

Africa’s biggest photography library opens in Ghana

La France remet au Maroc les versions numérisées d’archives historiques du XIXe siècle

Amériques / Americas
NARA Releases More JFK Records, as President Biden Approves Few Delays

Press Statement on Third Public Release of NARA Records Concerning the 15 Boxes Received from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022

NARA – Announcing the Capstone Resubmission Cycle

NARA – Notification of ERA Shutdown and the ERA 2.0 Launch

NARA – Turn the Page: Records in the National Register of Historic Places about American Authors

NARA – Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Holidays from the Cartographic Branch

Grounding iterative experimentation with Library of Congress Labs: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud and Machine Learning

Library of Congress Acquires Rare Codex from Central Mexico

Library of Congress – How “It’s a Wonderful Life” Almost Never Happened

Machine learning digs into Oregon states’ archives

Museum of Flight – Plane Talk: Navigating Subject Headings and Descriptions in Aviation Records

Preserving Labor History in the Present, for the Future

Digitized Cookbooks on the Getty Research Portal for your Holiday Feasting

Reflections from the Open Conversation on the ITHAKA S+R Report: the Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems

Rare Hand-Drawn Menorah, Manuscripts By Maimonides Coming to New York

A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era.

A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – Chief Archivist notifies public of privacy incident

Swedish company apologises over security breaches at Archives New Zealand

South Korea sets up a Truth and Reconciliation commission to investigate adoptions

India – Palm-leaf manuscript museum opens window to little-known history

Europe / Europa
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Clarin Project: Voices from Ravensbrück: the Value of Multilingual Oral History

Ukraine: Russians Pillage Kherson Cultural Institutions

New website showcases Estonian film archives

The collectors’ obsession with rare medieval manuscripts

A secret manuscript of Galileo Galilei was discovered

Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique – Démocratie et déclassification des archives

France – Paul Éluard et Charles Maurras entrent dans le domaine public en 2023

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Auguste Blanqui, L’éternité par les astres

Archivist is very proud to help preserve history of Irish distilling

Scotland – Historically significant documents saved for future generations: Campbell family’s charters are being partially restored for future generations

Crown confidential: the UK Royal Family’s obsession with secrecy is blurring history and making it hard for us to get the full picture

Seeing through the years: the Conservation of Transparent Papers in the UK Parliamentary Archives Collection Part II

UK National Archives – Education package to mark 25th anniversary of Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement

Hidden in plain sight: finding working-class women in the UK National Archives

UK National Archives – The spirit of invention in the Victorian home

UK National Archives – Beautifully wrapped in silk: Medieval seal bags unravelled

UK National Archives head: organisational culture and cohesion is vital in the digital age

UK National Archives – Drama and archives: the Bulletin & Persons Unknown

British Library – Conservation of Maps in the digitisation project: Qatar Foundation Partnership: Part 1

British Library – Exploring the Chinese & British Film Reel

Charles Dickens Crowdsourced Codebreaking Project Wins Top Award

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Woman who Ignited the Hasmonean Rebellion

National Library of Israel accepts set of Irish-Jewish genealogical archives dating to 1700s

National Library of Israel – New Artificial Intelligence Project to Enable Full-Text Searches of Medieval Manuscripts

Pourquoi Israël a-t-il peur de déclassifier les archives palestiniennes de 1948 ?

Israel – Transcriptions found in canals believed to be earliest Biblical manuscripts

United Arab Emirates – Historic Arab manuscripts showcased at Pearls of Wisdom exhibition in Abu Dhabi palace

Conservators in Iraq carry out major restoration project to save centuries-old manuscripts

International
Digital Preservation Coalition – Designated communities: a disconnect between theory and practice?

Studying Women and the COVID-19 Crisis through the International Internet Preservation Consortium Coronavirus Collection

Open Preservation Foundation – How we got preservation tools installed in our secured work environments

Préservons notre patrimoine numérique grâce au contre-archivage décentralisé et collaboratif

How to read cursive handwriting in historical documents

Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s making movies. Is Hollywood ready?

Humanists all: what is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?