Ressources / Resources
De l'État / From the State
Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada - Letter on open government for the President of the Treasury Board
European Commission - Comprehensive reform of the data protection rules
NARA - Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center
De la communauté / From the community
Doctoral Thesis - The Long Reach of War: Canadian Records Management and the Public Archives
Business Archives Council - Managing Business Archives leaflet
Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online
Publications
Archival science, vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2012)
American Archivist Online Supplement to Volume 74
National Archives of Australia - Your Memento, no. 5 (January 2012)
Library Management, vol. 33, no. 1/2 (2012)
Book - The Library Catalogue as Social Space: Promoting Patron Driven Collections, Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers' Services
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar - Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow
March 7, 2012
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Annual Conference
12-15 June 2012, Toronto
Digital Preservation - A Wicked Problem
February 15, 2012, Ottawa
Sur le web / On the web
Titanic in Nova Scotia
Press release: http://www.gov.ns.ca/ news/details.asp?id= 20120120004
Paper through time: nondestructive analysis of 14th through 19th-century papers
App reveals never-before-seen media from Jacques Cousteau archive
US National Archives Transcription Pilot Project
Valentine’s Day 2012 in archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Digital lock rules in Canadian copyright bill go too far, critics say
Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie Flickr Image Set is Now Available
CBC dismantling LP, CD archives
From iconic to obscure: the push to save Canadian commercials
Arctic Canada caught on 1919 silent film
Archivematica at the City of Vancouver Archives
Ottawa - City archives busting but not with treasures
Brock University - Staff member uses Special Collections and Archives to find War of 1812 link
Peterborough Museum and Archives seeking an extra $500,000 for more storage, archive space
Case closed: Library and Archives Canada Archivists solve mystery of Wolfe statuette
Afrique / Africa
Malawi - Moving National Archives to Lilongwe irrational: Friends of Zomba
Cayman Island - Nostalgic moments from national archive
U.S. Naval Observatory Donates Rare Book to Library of Congress
Final JFK White House recordings released
Vintage American Ads Get Online Archive
National Geographic to Launch Content Archive for Library Use
Living the history: Archivist makes NAACP papers accessible
Stanford Library manages digital archiving
New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the New York Public Library Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
Mongolia - An archival document exhibition to be held soon
Europe / Europa
Les archives diplomatiques suisses de la période 1933-1945 sont désormais disponibles sur Internet
France - Au secours de la mémoire du cinéma
Archive reveals Scotland overtook England in historic transport stakes
Ireland National library gets digital
Ireland - Gerry Adams has 'nothing to fear' in Boston archives
Legislation.gov.uk wins Public Sector Digital Award
Voltaire's English alter ego unmasked in letters discovered by Oxford University Professor
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Finding Kuwait's Missing National Archives
Who should save Egypt's archives?
Turkey - General Staff to return confiscated documents to Parliament
National Library and Archives of Iran concerned with Persian docs, manuscripts in Tanzania
International
Survey finds 45% SMBs fail to adopt Email Archival Technology
Gaming preservation a growing concern
Bit By Bit: Recent Projects on Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions
Some First Thoughts on Online Science and Digital Preservation
The 10 Most Expensive Books in the World