Vol. 5, no. 18

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

U.S. Copyright Office - Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings

http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sound/pre-72-report.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

President of the American Historical Association: The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age

http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2012/1201/The-Public-Practice-of-History-in-and-for-a-Digital-Age.cfm

Centre d'animation et de recherche en écologie politique (Belgique) - Les archives, un médicament générique pour la démocratie

http://www.etopia.be/spip.php?article1926

Publications

International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 2012)

http://bit.ly/xd8rrl

Book - Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810883598

Book - Digital Libraries and Archives: 7th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2011

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/book/978-3-642-27301-8

Book - Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465021425 

Interview with the author: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/01/are_we_on_information_overload/singleton/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free Webinar - 10 Ways To Jump Start Your Genealogy In 2012

January 10, 2012

http://ilgensoc.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-isgs-webinar-series.html

Sur le web / On the web

Start the New Year Right with Tips from the Smithsonian Institution Archives

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/start-new-year-right-tips-archives

NARA - Genealogy "how to" workshops now available as online videos

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-47.html

Library of Congress Podcast - Conversations about Digital Preservation

http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/digitalpreservation/podcast_tibbo.html

New Digital Preservation Videos From Archipel Steal the Show

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/new-videos-from-archipel-steal-the-show/

Outils / Tools

8 Simple Digital Tools for Scanning Documents

http://mashable.com/2012/01/01/scan-documents-apps/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

'Stagnant' cultural institutions could suffer in 2012: Heritage Minister James Moore

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Stagnant+cultural+institutions+could+suffer+2012+Heritage+Minister+James+Moore/5929718/story.html

Bureau of Canadian Archivists - New gun bill erases archival record

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/bill+erases+archival+record/5926656/story.html

Scrap the registry, then its records

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Scrap+registry+then+records/5931274/story.html

International Council on Archives Section for Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives - The Archives of Ontario Remembers an Eaton's Christmas

http://www.ica.org/?lid=12160

Multiculturalism Trudeau's gift to Canada (on the Multicultural History Society of Ontario)

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/31/multiculturalism-trudeaus-gift-to-canada

Ontario - Freedom of information to apply to hospitals

http://www.windsorstar.com/news/apply+hospitals/5926491/story.html

QuébecLeaks se dégonfle, faute de fuites

http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/339344/quebecleaks-se-degonfle-faute-de-fuites

University of Waterloo - New archives open for research

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/SpecColl/2011archives.html

Afrique / Africa

Fire consumes Niger's anti-corruption files

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-niger-corruption-firetre8021a7-20120103,0,1550985.story

Maroc - Réforme Justice Archives, boulet de la réorganisation

http://www.leconomiste.com/article/890064-reforme-justicebrarchives-boulet-de-la-reorganisation

Amériques / America

How Brazil is opening up access to official information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16292843

U.S. - Lessons Learned for 2012: Spotlighting the Top eDiscovery Cases from 2011

http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/2012/01/03/lessons-learned-for-2012-spotlighting-the-top-ediscovery-cases-from-2011/

Internet Archives - Government archives: Scan and deliver

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/01/government-archives

Boston D.A. Subpoenas Twitter Over Occupy Boston, Anonymous

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/boston-subpoena-twitter/

Wipe terror tapes and close Boston College archive, its authors urge

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/wipe-terror-tapes-and-close-boston-college-archive-its-authors-urge-16098897.html

Boston College - Reprieve for Oral History

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/03/stay-blocks-release-documents-boston-college-oral-history-project

Lazarus archive: St. Louis facility restores burned or otherwise damaged records 

http://www.stlbeacon.org/arts-life/neighborhoods/out-and-about/114919-profile-of-national-archives-at-st-louis

Scientists scan damaged audio discs, resurrect fresh beats

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/29/scientists-scan-damaged-audio-discs-resurrect-fresh-beats/

Kansas - After years of uncertainty, Black Archives has found its way

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/25/3349630/after-years-of-uncertainty-black.html

Archives of American Art announces the opening of Carnegie Institute exhibition records for research

http://bit.ly/tMqXH7

Museum of Fine Arts Houston to launch Latin America online archive

http://ultimatewestu.com/stories/306654-events-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-to-launch-latin-america-online-archive

Scorsese talks preservation: director still passionate about protecting film history

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048017/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - The 1982 and 1983 Cabinet records release

http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/cabinet/by-year/1982-83.aspx

New Zealand - Archives reveal threats over Timor

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10776233

China’s secrecy about its past could stifle its future

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-secrecy-about-its-past-could-stifle-its-future/2011/12/21/gIQAd9FORP_story.html

Digital Preservation In India Needed

http://ptlbindia.blogspot.com/2011/12/digital-preservation-in-india-needed.html

National Diet Library - Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Launching New Services

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/news/fy2011/1192655_1671.html

German mould-warriors help to save Thailand's wet books 

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1683644.php/German-mould-warriors-help-to-save-Thailand-s-wet-books

Europe / Europa

Dutch National Archives repositioning in the digital world

http://www.ncdd.nl/blog/?p=549

Dutch Court: Road Data as Open Data

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/dutch-court-road-data-open-data

Spain - Books, archives and libraries shredded by government's culture cutbacks

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Books/archives/and/libraries/shredded/by/government/s/culture/cutbacks/elpepueng/20120103elpeng_5/Ten

Estonia - National Archive Comes Under Education Ministry Jurisidiction

http://news.err.ee/education/e3d5cc2d-0f3b-4148-b7d1-9b2f51637824

Germans remember 20 years' access to Stasi archives

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15640053,00.html

Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424659

Papers of Europe's first female professor to become available online, with help from Stanford's libraries

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/january/libraries-scan-bassi-010412.html

L'Open Data continue de se développer en France

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/21145-l-open-data-continue-de-se-developper-en-france.html

Ireland's Military Archives go online

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0103/archive.html

UK - Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/30/gems-national-archives-30-year-rule

The Blue Cross opens archives to remember real war horses

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/310955.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Tunisie: Le rôle des archives dans la lutte contre la corruption

http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201112300374.html

Iran, Afghanistan seal library MOU

http://www.ibna.ir/vdccieqsi2bqix8.-ya2.html

Medieval Jewish manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/03/medieval-jewish-manuscripts-discovered-in-afghanistan/

International

Does The Discovery of ‘Lost’ Materials Help Or Harm The Archival Field?

http://www.avpreserve.com/blog/does-the-discovery-of-lost-materials-help-or-harm-the-archival-field/

Archives New Zealand and the University of Freiburg (Germany) - Digital Archaeology and Forensics

http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/node/780

2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-2012-open-access-movement.html