Thursday 26 January 2017

Vol. 10, no. 22

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
UK Information Commissioner Speech - The Extent of our Care: Archives, Memory and Information Rights

France - La numérisation du patrimoine écrit de la Grande Guerre : état des lieux et perspectives

Safeguarding Wales' Culture and Heritage for All: Moving the National Library Forward 2017-2021

De la communauté / From the community
Association of Canadian Archivists - Response to the Consultation Request of the University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

OCLC - Advancing the National Digital Platform: the State of Digitization in U.S. Public and State Libraries

Confederation of Open Access Repositories - Research Data Management Survey Report

Pew Research Center - Americans and Cybersecurity

Article - Open Data Meets Digital Curation: an Investigation of Practices and Needs

Article - L'enseignement de l'archivistique dans le programme LMD à l'heure des mutations des métiers

Le concept d'archives : d'une définition à l'autre

Publications
Information Management, vol. 51, no. 1 (January-February 2017)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 2 (February 2017)

Voices: Topics in Canadian Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1 (2017)

San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2 (2017)

Book - Collective Intelligence and Digital Archives: Towards Knowledge Ecosystem

Book - Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

Book - The Woman who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico

Book - Newsworthy: the Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom

Book - How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

Book - Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past

Book - Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence 

Book - Academic Librarianship Today

Book - Writing Effectively in Print and on the Web: a Practical Guide for Librarians

Book - Cataloging Library Resources: an Introduction

Book - The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory

Book - Fuzzy Information Retrieval

Livre - Histoires de l'Internet et du Web

Livre - Mutualiser les pratiques documentaires : bibliothèques en réseau


Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives of Ontario - The Films of Prieto and McTair: a Retrospective
February 5 and 9, 2017, Toronto

Saskatchewan Archives Week
February 5-11, 2017, Saskatchewan

Picturing the Past: Treasures from the City of Regina Archives
February 7, 2017, Regina

Third Big Data and Analytics Summit Canada
February 13-14, 2017, Toronto

Archives Society of Alberta Flood Advisory Programme Wrap-up Party 
February 15, 2017, Edmonton

ARMA Canada Conference
May 29-31, 2017, Toronto

Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation
August 28 - Septembrer 1, 2017, Ottawa

The Triumph of the Image: the Daguerreotype in Spain
January 26 - April 23, 2017, University of Valencia (Spain)

Society of American Archivists Google Handout - Open Source Tools for Records Management
February 2, 2017

Social Movements, Archives and Memory
February 8, 2017, University of Melbourne

High Level Training Course on ISO 14721, ISO 16363 and ISO 16919 for Managers of Digital Repositories
March 6-10, Gaithersburg (Maryland)

BitCurator Users Forum 2017
April 27-28, Northwestern University

Reframing the Archive: the Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
June 1, 2017, London (UK)

Archival Afterlives: the 2017 John Rylands Research Institute Conference
June 27-29, 2017, University of Manchester

Photographs Beyond Ruins: Women and Photography in Africa
July 17, 2017, London (UK)

Images, Copyright, & the Public Domain in the 19th Century
March 29-30, 2018, Paris

Webinar - Discovering Solutions to Researchers' Common Data Management Problems (Recording Available)
January 24, 2017

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast - Glenn Gould: Remixing the Classics

Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Slidecast - Government and Big Data: Privacy Risks and Solutions

Exposition virtuelle - 100 ans de l'Action nationale (1917-2017)

International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA/SUV) - New Blog

Video - E-Ark at the European Commission 

UK National Archives Podcast - Archive Notes: Prosthethics and the First World War

Baladodiffusion - Le Musée de la parole : archives de la radio publique en Uruguay

American Archive of Public Broadcasting - Virtual Exhibit: Speaking and Protesting in America

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The non-transparent reality of Canadian corporate welfare

Canada Government Contractors should Mind Data Access

Privacy experts call for rules on government monitoring social media

The Australian Ben Grubb decision and its link to Canada

Library and Archives Canada - Inuit women and seals: a relationship like no other

Library and Archives Canada - Protecting Fort Anne: One of Canada's First Parks

Library and Archives Canada - Guest curator: James Bone

Archives Alberta - Reflectance Transformation Imaging

Hommage à Pierre-Georges Roy : en route vers le 100e anniversaire des Archives nationales du Québec

BAnQ - La fin du cirque Barnum and Bailey

Archives of Manitoba - One Manitoba Soldier: not in the humour to write

McMaster University - 500 year-old book paints a vivid portrait of life in the 12th Century

Anne Daniel and the treasures of Western University's archives

University of Manitoba - Practical Digital Preservation: in-House Solutions to Digital Preservation for Small Institutions

Student Features University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections in Film

University of Alberta - Avoid rude awakenings: a primer on the Notice and Notice regime

The American Library Association's (ALA) Committee on Accreditation has granted full accreditation status to the Master of Library and Information Studies

University of Toronto Truth and Reconciliation Steering Committee Releases Report

The rising price of knowledge: University of Calgary cuts 1,600 academic resources

Aaron Devor, Research Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria - Non-Binary Voices: Gender in the Media

The motives of hidden authorship: new researcher-in-residence Emily Kopley explores Concordia University Library's anonymous literature collection

Vancouver Archives - New in the public domain 2017

Thousands of photos of Canadian prairie towns available online

An Exclusive Inside Tour of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Library

Halifax Explosion plaque tells wrong story for 17 years

City of Burnaby (B.C.) passes potentially illegal motion to remove fire department from Freedom of Information act

Le gouvernement du Canada soutient la Société d'histoire de Sherbrooke  

From the archives: Remembering lives lost in the Battle of Vimy Ridge

South Peace Historical Society (B.C.) near collapse without new funding: Society seeks $100,000 in city funding for professional archivist

Share family stories in Delta (B.C.) libraries project

Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail - Nouveau fonds d'archives : Fonds Syndicat du transport de Montréal, employé-es des services d'entretien CSN

Vers un centre d'archives régional des Bois-Francs

Peterborough (Ontario) - Ablaze in the dead of winter: Historic photos lost to flames in 1904 studio fire

Kelowna Art Gallery (B.C.) is launching its collection online

Yukon - How one man's basement collection became a Canadian treasure

English man traces family ties to Kitchener home child

Studying "gruesome" versions of Little Red Riding Hood a dream come true for librarian: Nova Scotia librarian Angela Reynolds to travel to Florida to study large collection

Daniel Ducharme - Archivage et archivistique

Why it's so hard for doctors to create electronic medical records

Afrique / Africa
Lost photographs of the Great War: in a Moroccan flea market, a photojournalist happens on an inexplicable treasure

L'archive Frantz Fanon : clés de lecture pour le présent, par Roberto Beneduce

Amériques / Americas
Bolivie - Le baron de l'étain a sauvé des milliers de juifs de l'Holocauste

National Archives launches Barack Obama Library website including access to archived web and social media content

President Trump's tweets might be a violation of the Presidential Records Act

Going for the Save: Archivists Caution Trump Administration Against Destroying Records, History

How we will forget: in the Trump era, we risk not the apocalypse, but the collapse of cultural memory


The Case for Donald Trump's Official White House Photographer

What Freedom of Information Act might look like under the Trump administration: long delays and lots of litigation look likely


National Archives releases inauguration letters Clinton wrote to Bush, Bush wrote to Obama

Ten Extremely Weird Documents in the CIA's Online Freedom of Information Act Archives

Library of Congress - New Online: the George Washington Papers Move to a New Digital Platform

Library of Congress - Nearly 300,000 Lomax documents now accessible online

Library of Congress - World War I: Restoring Poland

Library of Congress - Lots of Transfer Collectives Keep Cultural Memory Safe: the Importance of Community Audio/Visual Archiving

New Register of Copyrights should put public at the center of technology and policy goals

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site - A Piece of Civil Rights History Found in the Archives

Minnesota - Avoiding the case of the missing government emails

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Taming data: system finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy querying and filtering

Works of notable poets find new home in University of Minnesota archives

In Discarded Women's March Signs, Professors Saw a Chance to Save History

Internet Archive - Trump Archive, end-of-term preservation, & link rot

CNN.com has been unarchivable since November 1st, 2016

How the Los Angeles Public Library Amassed a Collection of 3.1 Million Historical Photos

New York - Records Documenting the First American Secular Philanthropic Institution Now Online

Historical detective on the case at San Francisco Library

Preserving the deep history of the circus

Mark Twain fairytale from campus archives to be published in fall

Two Miami Institutions Receive Major Gift of Rare Books

Rare 1494 Christopher Columbus Book to be Auctioned

Frye Dips into its Archives for New Vintage Western Collection

Elizabeth England, resident in the National Digital Stewardship Residency - Using Three-Dimensional Modeling to Preserve Cultural Heritage

Fostering Digital Literacy at the Reference Desk

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Expanding open data requires social license: information mandarins

Archives New Zealand re-opens after quake

Documentary director's struggle to find footage of Hong Kong's 1967 riots exposes problems with archives

Papua New Guinea - Archive Building Ignored, Archivist calls on National and Provincial Government to visit


Island Culture Archival Support - Legend of the Coconut-Tonga

A changing North Korea demands a customized approach to freedom of information advocacy

India - Research bureau to digitize Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose special moments

India - Andra Pradesh: TTD to digitise all books in central library

Europe / Europa
Exploring 3D on Europeana with Sketchfab

European Holocaust Research Infrastructe - Digital Infrastructure, Human Network

Personal records of the Auschwitz concentration camp personnel finally made available to the public

Over 100 000 images are released for free use by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities

Polish National Film Archives (Filmoteka Narodowa) Needs your Help

Former CIA agent was watched by Polish secret service in Cold War

Open Society Archives (Hungary) - 1956 Hungarian Refugees in the US: New Photo Galleries

Jakub Leipzig Interview: Jewish Displacement in Italy through International Tracing Services Documents

Russia Blocks Vivendi's DailyMotion, Citing Copyright Breach

Georgia - Ancient manuscript set for UNESCO submission after fresh discovery

National Library of the Netherlands - Bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative research in digital newspaper archives

Belgique - Cour constitutionnelle : le refus d'accès à un dossier à l'information judiciaire doit pouvoir être contesté

France - L'accès aux documents classifiés : une jurisprudence récente du Conseil d’État

Les Archives nationales et le grand récit national 

Le périlleux processus de la rénovation de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers - Les archives des arts et métiers numérisées et libres de droit

A rare, unknown photo of Frédéric Chopin probably found

Ireland - No documents, no history

Wales - Stories from both sides of the miners' strike set for archive

UK - Sex, Puke and Pork Scratchings: House of Commons Freedom of Information

UK - Civil service's digital record legacy poses real and immediate risks to operations

New papers released from Cambridge archive show Margaret Thatcher was for turning in a Rover 800

UK National Archives - A Year in Archives 2016

UK National Archives - Capturing Archives Inspire on film

UK National Archives - British diplomats on Castro, 1959-1963: in the global spotlight

The Library of Birmingham and the British Library win Heritage Lottery Fund support to stage a major exhibition and public programme celebrating South Asian culture 

The provocative maps that tell Britain's history

Campaigning history made public in digital archive from British Safety Council

In England, an Effort to Preserve Ancient, Epic Assyrian Poetry

King's College London and its Archives Relating to the Long Eighteenth Century

University of York - Creating an annual accessions report using AtoM

Westminster Archive gets Lottery boost to research Waterloo veteran

Edgworth researchers uncover lives of 300 Bolton soldiers

Man who stole Dambuster hero's mission book also took hundreds of items from the National Archives to sell in the US

Mystery of three 400-year-old secret letters found under floorboards of historic mansion: including a shopping list

This 19th-Century Book Chronicles Victorians' Strange Cat Fears and Fascinations

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi Municipality hands over Abu Dhabi Master Development Plan to National Archives for documenting, archiving

Islamic State evacuates headquarters in Tal Afar, burns its archives

Destroying Palmyra is cultural cleansing of Syrian people: UNESCO

International
Museums Across the World Are Collecting Women's March Signs

The Vine Archive will keep the videos looping forever


Top 10 Biggest libraries in the World

The Magnificent Refuges that Hide Humanity's Information

The Role of Online Archives in Contemporary Art and Activism

Decolonizing the Digital: how to Bring Indigeneity to Online Spaces

Quand la mode recycle ses archives

This Tiny Coin Contains a Microscopic Archive of 1,000 Different Languages

Information Literacy and Fake News

A Hybrid Approach to Photogravure on Copperplate

A really obscure forgotten audio format: talking rubber