Vol. 4, no. 34

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Google Books contract with the British Library

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/BL%20Google%20Contract.pdf

See also: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/access-to-the-agreement-between-google-books-and-the-british-library

 

De la communauté / From the community

L’ebook a 40 ans (1971-2011)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-49501

 

Council on Library and Information Resources - "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics

http://clir.org/pubs/reports/pub150/pub150.pdf

 

The Power of Knowledge Rhase 2: Research Libraries UK Strategic Plan 2011–2014

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/RLUK%20Strategic%20Plan-%202011%20-%202014.pdf

 

OCLC - Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-17.pdf

 

Evaluating Open Source Digital Preservation Systems: A Case Study

http://e-records.chrisprom.com/?p=2261

 

Publications

Book - Waldo Gifford Leland and the Origins of the American Archival Profession

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0575.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free OCLC webinar - Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives

22 September 2011

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-08-18.htm

 

Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper: Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges

24-25 October 2011, London

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/#IMPACT-conference-2011-09-F2011-08-19-10-14-mg

 

Journée des archives des établissements d’enseignement collégial du Québec

5 octobre 2011, Montréal

http://archivistique.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/journee-des-archives-des-etablissements-denseignement-collegial-du-quebec/

 

11es rencontres FORMIST - Nouveaux horizons de la formation à l'information (présentations disponibles)

16 juin 2011, Villeurbane (France)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notice-49488

 

Sur le web / On the web

Video - The Provincial Archives of Alberta

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=2694

 

Video - Dublin City Library and Archive: Wide Street Commission Map Conservation Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlS_K95mBoQ

 

Outils / Tools

Fedora 3.5 (framework for building digital repositories) now available

http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2011/08/23/now-available-fedora-35/

 

InterPares3 - Shared Drive Migration Toolkit

http://www.interpares.org/ip3/ip3_cs14_report.cfm

 

Library of Congress - Full Open Source Release of Recollection Platform (a web application to create dynamic interfaces to cultural heritage collections)

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/full-open-source-release-of-recollection-platform/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Government institutions don't respect access to information laws

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/printpage/-08-22-2011

 

Audit of B.C. RCMP remains sealed

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/25/bc-rcmp-audit.html

 

UBC’s University Librarian first Canadian to head IFLA

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/08/23/ubc%E2%80%99s-university-librarian-first-canadian-to-head-global-group/

 

Digital readers are changing the traditional library system

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/digital-readers-are-changing-the-traditional-library-system/article2136000/

 

Afrique

Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles (1/2): Des trésors menacés!

http://www.webmanagercenter.com/management/article-109445-tunisie-archives-audiovisuelles-1-2-des-tresors-menaces

 

Tenue du 1er Conseil d'administration des Archives du Maroc

http://www.marocjournal.net/actualites-maroc/37713.html

 

Amériques/Americas

Brazil's military opened file on Pele in 1970

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hm6pP-ystocd7vdQ2L6fLifHHLMw?docId=87644aa656854bd4bb563911463665ab

 

Copyright battles break out in North America

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417143

 

U.S. Department of Defence Changes its Freedom of Information Act Policy on bin Laden Documents

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/dod-changes-its-foia-policy-on-bin-laden-documents/

 

Secret Service Must Turn Over Visitor Logs

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/24/39250.htm

 

National Archives Recovers Lincoln Documents

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-166.html

 

Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/24/pioneering_internet_archivists_brewster_kahle_and

 

Vermont state archives awarded grant to preserve court records

http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/22/vermont-state-archives-awarded-grant-to-preserve-court-records/

 

Fishing in Boston College’s archives (IRA oral history issue)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/08/23/fishing_for_troubles_in_bcs_archives/

 

Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8789&utm_term=uni

 

Archivist helps Vietnam veterans tell their stories

http://starherald.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/local_news/doc4e4926d21f444474024758.txt

 

Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/08/25/saving-the-smithsonians-web/

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia to build national health records infrastructure

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/aug/19/australia-build-national-health-records-infrastruc/

 

Chaos hinders Japanese e-book market

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/chaos-hinders-japanese-e-book-market.html

 

Europe

Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis including English copy of Communist Manifesto

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/berlin-library-returning-books-stolen-by-nazis-including-english-copy-of-communist-manifesto/2011/08/22/gIQA58p1VJ_story.html

 

Estonia - Interior Ministry Archives: Gorbachev Killed

http://news.err.ee/politics/21199154-13bb-452d-8854-f3a834617ae1

 

France - Les archives diplomatiques vont-elles déménager ?

http://www.acteurspublics.com/article/19-08-11/les-archives-diplomatiques-vont-elles-demenager

 

France - Archives de la Défense : « Un lien Nation - Armée »

http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Archives-de-la-Defense-Un-lien-Nation-Armee-_-1966673------50129-aud_actu.Htm

 

Oral History Network of Ireland - Preserving stories of the past, for the future

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/preserving_stories_of_the_past_for_the_future_1_2978116

 

Scotland - 'Edible archive' needs strong stomach

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Edible-archive39-needs-strong-stomach.6822222.jp

 

British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/british-library-dark-ages-exhibition

 

UK - Archives of West End composer donated to Kingston University

http://www.kingstoninformer.co.uk/2011/08/archives-of-west-end-composer.html

 

Moyen-Orient/Middle East

Israel State Archives - Appointment of the new State Archivist

http://www.archives.gov.il/ArchiveGov_Eng/about/Notices2/NewArchivist.htm

 

Western agencies eager for crack at Gadhafi archives

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/22/7441419-western-agencies-eager-for-crack-at-gadhafi-archives

 

15 millions de tablettes numériques dans les écoles turques

http://www.sobookonline.fr/actu-ebooks/15-millions-de-tablettes-numeriques-dans-les-ecoles-turques/

 

International

The Art of the Letter: what we can learn from illustrated letters in the collections

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2011/fall/letters.html

 

Experts worry that the family photo album is being lost to technology

http://host.madison.com/wsj/entertainment/city_life/article_83905f80-ca82-11e0-8db0-001cc4c03286.html

 

Metadata looms large at International Broadcasting Convention

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/metadata_ibc_2011_08222011/

 

Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/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

http://www.tdg.ch/actu/hi-tech/100-000-partitions-partagees-ligne-amour-musique-2011-08-22

 

How Data Science is Shaping Social Science

http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2011/08/22/how-data-science-is-shaping-social-science/

 

Booktrack adds soundtrack to your eBooks

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/08/booktrack-soundtrack-ebooks/