Thursday, 1 September 2011

Vol. 4, no. 35


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - PIPEDA and Your Practice: A Privacy Handbook for Lawyers
 
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC - Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment
 
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education
 
National Science Foundation - Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age
 
JISC - Legal Cloud Computing and the Law Toolkit
 
Creative Commons Corporation - The Power of Open
 
Publications
Family History Monthly, no. 199, August 2011 (Special issue: "Support your local archives")
 
Book - Resource Description and Access (RDA) and Cartographic Resources
 
Book - Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
 
Book - Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age
 
Book - Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval
 
Book - No Shelf Required 2: Use and Management of Electronic Books
 
Book - Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation
 
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
An Introduction to Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, & Museums
September 16, 2011, Washington D.C.
 
Webinar - Standards for Digital Archives
September 29, 2011
 
Preservation Policies and Long-term Collections Management Workshop
September 29-30, 2011, Halle (Germany)
 
Sur le web / On the web
Video - Long Term Digital Preservation (Some initiatives in India and Germany)
 
Video - Who guards the guards: Meeting the challenges of digital preservation
 
Outils/ Tools
Zotero 3.0 Beta Release (now a an entire separate desktop application)

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Largest Online Collection of Study Notes to Launch Across Canada
 
Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition
 
Who cares about libraries? Canadians apparently.
 
145-year-old journals provide glimpse into Windsor’s distant past
 
Afrique / Africa
New Library of Alexandria - More than 18 Thousand Complete Books Available for Free on the Digital Assets Repository
 
Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles, il est urgent d’agir
 
Ghana - About 95 per cent of national records in paper form
 
Amériques / Americas
Cayman Island - National Archive ‘a treasure trove’
 
A new project, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, will make hard-to-find data on war and conflict available to academics
 
Millions of US court records bound for shredder
 
Huge Internet Archive Launches as Comprehensive 9/11 Media Commemorations Planned
 
Arraignment set for presidential historian’s assistant charged in document theft conspiracy
 
Records Task Force Tracks Down Texas's History, Some of Which Could Be Lost Forever
 
San Francisco - Crowdsourced Mapping Projects Mine Library Archives
 
Early Career of Steve Jobs and Apple Documented in Stanford Archives
 
Why don’t scholars have access to Rosa Parks’s archives?
 
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Archivists reclaim 2 silent Philippine films ‘pirated’ by US
 
Azerbaijan Library Digitizes Old Gramophone Recordings
 
Tahiti - Les archives audiovisuelles du Tourisme
 
Australia - National Library archives graffiti website
 
Europe / Europa
Council of the European Union approves new action plan for EU historical archives
 
EU parliaments consider open source XML tools for legal documents
 
Denmark - New digitisation strategy aims to make the public sector paperless by 2015
 
Dutch Legislation Now As Linked Open Data
 
The Dutch returned an item they had recovered which had been removed from Guyana’s national archives
 
Italy - Hidden archive exposes WWII slaughters
 
La généalogie mormone : quand une religion s'empare de l'état-civil français
 
UK - The National Archives releases new files from the Security Service
 
New chilled vault for British film heritage
 
International
The death of books has been greatly exaggerated
 
WorldCat turns 40
 
Associated Press and Corbis team up for ‘unprecedented’ collection of photos
 
Reference Resources for the Budding Know-It-All
 
Qu’apportent les digital humanities ? Quelques exemples
 
20 Celebrities With Stunning Home Libraries

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