Friday, 11 November 2011

Vol. 5, no. 10

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative - Glossary of Disposal Triggers (Exposure Draft)

De la communauté / From the community
Association for Recorded Sound Collections - A Study of Embedded Metadata Support in Audio Recording Software: Summary of Findings and Conclusions

Thesis - Metaphors and Norms: Understanding copyright law in a digital society

Conference paper - Evolving Domains, Problems and Solutions for Long Term Digital Preservation 

Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 35, no. 4 (December 2011)

RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 2011)

Archives and Records Association Ireland Newsletter (Autumn-Winter 2011)
 
Library of Congress - Digital Preservation Newsletter (November 2011)

Book - Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives

Book - Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa

Book - Electronics Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide

Book - The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
38th Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property conference
22 to 26 May 2012, Peterborough, Ontario

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives - Archives and Science: Connections
November 18, 2011, St. Johns

Webinar - WAS Under the Hood: How Web Archives Work 
November 16, 2011
 
OCLC Research - Scan and Deliver Webinar Recording Now Available

Sur le web / On the web
Launch of new Confederation of Open Access Repositories website
 
IFLA - New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

Podcast - Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Library and Archives Canada, Canadian Urban Libraries Council, and Canadian War Museum expand collaboration for the delivery of Lest We Forget workshops

Dalhousie University - Remembering Our Fallen Through Archival Records

Rich resources available for finding military records of beloved vets

Mennonite archive of Ontario marks anniversary

Jewish archives founder, author honoured by the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation

Archive acquisition to preserve a piece of Vancouver’s film industry

Historical B.C. newspapers digitized by University of British Columbia Library

Tasting event celebrates University of Guelph archive

Le Groupe d’archivistes de la région de Montréal (GARM) se joint au Réseau des services d’archives du Québec (RAQ)

Afrique / Africa
In Egypt, Director Of Famed Library Of Alexandria Under Fire

Burkina Faso - Calls for France to open its archives for evidence of involvement of the French secret services in the 1987 death of Thomas Sankara

Amériques / Americas
BBC Caribbean archives donated to University of West Indies

La mémoire guatémaltèque sous la garde de la Suisse

Leading North American institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge

U.S. - More than thirty organizations support the Presidential Records Act Amendments 

NARA Launches Initial Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Registry

NARA to launch Citizen Archivist Dashboard

NARA extends its reach via social media

Nixon Grand Jury records and additional records have been released

Holocaust stories pieced together with photos

NAACP Archives Go Digital

Illinois, Indiana archives have top websites

New tool makes Delaware Public Archives searches easier

Ravers and time travellers re-record history

Texas Tech University - Thanks to music archive, show will go on

'New' Lincoln documents found

KFC Discovers Unpublished "Food Autobiography" Written by Colonel Sanders Four Decades Ago Hidden in Archive Storage Facility

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Malaysia - Discussion on access to Archives documents

Japan Earthquake: Libraries to Recover

Rare Chinese papercuts, liberated from University of Michigan storage room, now on display 

Europe / Europa
Pressure mounts to open Sweden's Stasi archive

Armenia’s National Archives to Publish Genocide Testimonials

Sketches of Hitler and Nazi officials by British artist given access to the dictator's HQ to go under the hammer
 
IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund Launched

Scottish Freedom of Information watchdog reports 20% boost in appeals
 
UK - Opportunity for archives to help develop a new accreditation standard

How New Labour gave the Royal family exemption from the Freedom of Information Act
 
Parliament Week 2011: Jeremy McIlwaine on the Conservative Party Archive

Tiny Bronte manuscript that introduces world to Jane Eyre character Bertha goes up for auction

France - L’Etat revendique les manuscrits du général de Gaulle

La Préfecture de police signe une convention avec les Archives de France

France - Des archives inédites du procès de Nuremberg confiées à la Maison d’Izieu

France - Les entreprises face aux secrets du passé

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
40 Years Since the Establishment of the Israeli "Black Panther" Movement: New Documents on the Response of Government Institutions

Library of Congress to expand ties with Qatar Foundation 

International

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