Thursday 25 August 2016

Vol. 9, no. 52

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute - Caring for Leather, Skin and Fur

NARA - Social Media Strategy 2017-2020 (for Comments)

Confédération Suisse et Swisspeace - La Suisse en tant que refuge pour des archives en danger ? 

Archives de l'État du Valais (Suisse) - Rapport annuel 2015

De la communauté / From the community
United Nations - Access Policy for the Records Held by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals

EAD, ISAD(G) and the Digital Repository of Ireland

Information and Records Management Society - A Guide for Guarding Personal Information in the Workplace

Coalition for Networked Information - Privacy in the Age of Analytics

Article - L'enjeu du web de données pour l'édition scientifique


Publications
Arbido : périodique de l'Association des Archivistes suisse et de Bibliothèque Information Suisse, 2/2016

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 3 (September 2016)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 9 (September 2016)

Book - A Thousand Cuts: the Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers who Saved the Movies

Book - American Treasures: the Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address

Book - Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

Book - Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction

Book - Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century: Archives, Stories, Memories

Book - Memory and Democratization: Memory, Politics and Social Movements in Mexico, Turkey and El Salvador

Book - Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice

Book - The Red Baron: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Book - Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers

Book - The Brontës: a Family Writes

Book - Data Stream Management

Livre - Auschwitz : l'archive et le témoin

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webcast - Conservation Science and the Daguerreotype: Preserving our Earliest Photographic Treasures
September 1, 2016

On the Trace: Passing, Presence and the Persistence of the Past
September 22-23, 2016, University of Copenhagen

On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
October 21, 2016, New York

UK National Archives - Archives at Night: Victorian Crime
October 28, 2016, Kew

Computational Archival Science: Digital Records in the Age of Big Data
December 8, 2016, Washington D.C.

12th International Digital Curation Conference
February 20-23, 2017, Edinburgh (Scotland)

Sur le web / On the web
International Council on Archives Section of Professional Associations - Film Festival: People's Award

A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Federal spies suddenly intercepting 26 times more Canadian phone calls and communications

Editorial: All together now! Give us a portrait gallery!

Files show what U.K. diplomats really thought of 1980s Canada, but were too polite to say

Library and Archives Canada - Lucy Maud Montgomery collection promoted in podcast

Library and Archives Canada - 69 Days as Prime Minister: the Legacy of Sir Charles Tupper

Canadian Photography Institute aims to be a centre of photographic study, display 

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum Has Got Game

World Photo Day and Newfoundland and Labrador Collections

Alberta woman's historic diary celebrates early homestead life

Archives Alberta - The Exhibit Series: Lighting 

Archives of Manitoba - One Manitoba Soldier: I think it will be over pretty soon…

BAnQ - Une cicatrice en plein centre-ville de Montréal: l'autoroute Ville-Marie

UBC acquires rare hand-printed Victorian Chaucer volume

University of Toronto hires new librarian to focus on indigenous issues

University of Alberta Libraries Announces Availability of Subscription Expenditures Data

Alice Albarda on her Dalhousie University Archives Internship

Ontario Jewish Archives - Art exhibit evokes memory of Yiddish creamery sign

Behind one Toronto library's seedy initiative with a lot of growth potential

Le registre de plans des propriétés de la Ville de Montréal (1900-2000)

Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque to extend opening hours, expand digital collection

Winnipeg police share archived mugshots from early 1900s

Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface - Projets d'étudiant 2016

Société historique du Saguenay - 40 000 photos d'archives numérisées

Timiskaming First Nation : l'histoire trouble de la première réserve autochtone d'Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Cambridge (Ontario) - Flash from the past: readers offer clues to postcard mysteries

Peterborough, Ontario, opens time capsule from 1864

Saanich Archives (B.C.) tackles oral history project

Brantford (Ontario) - School archives outgrowing space

Privatisation du service des archives au CISSS de Laval

Corner Brook (Newfoundland) - Matthew Connolly thinks family heirloom best belongs in the museum

Museum exhibit to focus on Chinese history in Kamloops (B.C.) through new lens

Art Gallery of Northumberland (Ontario) seeks First World War artifacts 

Bob Egan leaving Blue Rodeo to work at Kitchener Public Library

The National Heritage Defeatist Strategy

A mini-taxonomy of digitization

Afrique / Africa
Somalia to reopen National Library Soon: the president

Islamic extremist's trial over Timbuktu cultural destruction to open at The Hague

Militant who Destroyed Mali Cultural Sites Pleads Guilty to War Crimes

South African History Archives - A day in the archive: preserving struggle banners

Amériques / Americas
Scientists uncover pre-colonial Mexican manuscript hidden for 500 years using high-tech imaging

NARA - The future of preserving the past

NARA - The Wartime Films Project: Setting Goals and Intended Outcomes for User-Centered Design Pilots

NARA - The Seizure of European Records during World War II

Vince Foster files have disappeared from National Archives 

The Pentagon's use of Freedom of Information Act is flawed. Now it wants to make it even stricter

FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe

The Clinton emails and proper digital records storage

Authority Catalogers-in-Training at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

The new Nixon presidential library's challenge: fairly depicting a failed presidency

Society of American Archivists - Archivists, donors, and the grieving process

National Information Standards Organization Launches New Project to Create a Flexible API Framework for E-Content in Libraries

State Archivist Aims to Find, Commemorate Indiana's Founding Fathers

As former internees die, California State University, Fullerton's Japanese American Oral History Project becomes even more important

Northern Arizona University archives shows life at Grand Canyon a century ago

Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century

The Race to Save the Films we Love

How One Audio Archivist Works to Preserve Yellowstone's Iconic Sounds

Alaska - The man who collects sounds

Open gov groups team up on new database of local open data policies

The Epidemic Archives of the Future will Be Born Digital

Rogue archivists are creating a copy of Gawker.com so that it will never die

Meet the people trying to save today's news as tomorrow's history

Harsh letter written by Bonnie and Clyde to former gang member up for auction

Love Letters and the Digital Turn

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia - Mission accomplished: LGBTI radio saved

Australia's rich food and lolly history seen in 150-year-old Nestle archives

No judicial standard yet in Japan over right to be forgotten

Vanuatu - Archives Reveal Massacres on Santo, Malekula

Island Culture Archival Support - Fiji Project 2016

High Tech Shelf Help: Singapore's Library Robot

India - Literary manuscripts must be well preserved for future generations: President Mukherjee

India - Sindh Culture Department swallows Rs 40m allocated for Ganj Risalo manuscript's preservation

Europe / Europa
Bulgaria - Many thousands of communist-era Military Intelligence staff records destroyed

Digitising of seals from the Archives of the Bohemian Crown

Romania - Socialist Modernism photography series by Bureau for Art and Urban Research aims to help preserve Eastern Bloc architecture

The Jewish father of the Reich's first lady

Séjourner aux archives du Bundestag : panorama des sources parlementaires allemandes

Spain - Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read

Switzerland's ETH-Bibliothek is uploading 134,000 images to Wikimedia Commons

France - Droit d'auteur : cession de droit d'exploitation : ce qui a changé dans le code

Archives de France - Préparation des versements : conversion des formats de fichiers

De l'intérêt de la cotation multiple en archivistique

Des moines abandonnent l'archivage électronique de documents pour devenir brasseurs de bière

L'info était bidon… mais elle est toujours en ligne sur ton site, coco

Ireland - National Archives warn rule change would bring untenable pressure on their service

Ireland - Police files on Victorian villains finally go public

Ireland - Magdalene Laundries archive to be searchable online

Ledger showing damage to Scottish church buildings during WWII to be donated to archive 

New Software Helps Uncover History with New Bilingual Archives Wales Website

UK - Files reveal approved school drug trial plans in 1960s

UK National Archives - Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from 1984 and 1985 released

UK National Archives - Tracking the market in manuscripts

UK National Archives - Daily life in Alexandra Palace internment camp

British Library - Hidden horoscopes and puzzling predictions in Papyrus 98

Fife's treasures to be safeguarded by new £2.6 million archive

Wellcome Library - What did the Victorians make of spectacles?

London - Liberal Jews support gender and faith archive project

A 1975 Letter Reveals Stanley Kubrick's Advice to Theaters Showing Barry Lyndon

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirate's and UK's National Archives sign agreement

Israel - Think about it: the State Archive

Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time

International
How digitized changed historical research

The mysterious ancien origins of the book

Not on the map: cartographic omission from New England to Palestine

From airbrush to filters to AI… The robots enter the photographic archive

At scale, at large: Wikipedia & Libraries

Librarians in the Wild: Selling Librarian Skills Outside of Libraries

The secret libraries of history

How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying their Instagram Photos

Is Wikileaks putting people at risk?