Ressources / Resources
De l'État / From the State
France Archives - Les départements : la juste proximité depuis 230 ans
Arts Council England - Contemporary Collecting: an Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Commission for Unesco - Reports on Activies 2019-2020
Portage: Share Stewardship of Research Data - New Exemplar Data Management Plans
Manifeste du pigeon voyageur
Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data: a DARIAH Position Paper
Ithaka S+R - The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Research Enterprise: a Landscape Review
Ithaka S+R - The State of Digital Preservation in 2018: a Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps
Chapitre - Mises en récits 2.0 de l'activisme autochtone: the Indigenous Archival Photo Project et What Brings us Here
Article - Perspectives and Practices: Archival Processing Metrics Survey Findings
Publications
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 71, no. 10 (2020)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 5, no. 2 (2020)
Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020)
Collaborative Librarianship, vol. 12, no. 2 (2020)
Current Research in Digital History, vol. 3 (2020)
IFLA Section Library and Research Services for Parliaments Newsletter (2020)
Cahiers de l'Association de recherche sur l'image photographique, no 2 (2020)
Bulletin du Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail, vol. 7, no 1-4 (2020)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 16, no. 9 (2020)
Book - Archive Wars: the Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
Book - Management Information Systems
Book - Old Winnipeg: a History in Pictures
Book - Digital Audio Forensics Fundamentals: from Capture to Courtroom
Book - Engaging Students through Campus Libraries: High-Impact Learning Models
Book - Creating Accessible Online Instruction Using Universal Design Principles: a LITA Guide
Book - Riches, Rivals, and Radicals: a History of Museums in the United States (Third Edition)
Book - Interfaces on Trial: Intellectual Property and Interoperability in the Global Software Industry
Book - Cloud Computing in Libraries: Concepts, Tools and Practical Approaches
Book - The Museum as a Space of Social Care
Livre - Orient Express & Co: archives photographiques inédites d'un train mythique
Livre - Les mémoriaux du 13 novembre
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Making Indigenous language visible in your catalogue: ten years+ of Nunavut experience Registration
November 3, 2020
Virtual book Launch - Out North: an Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada
November 5, 2020
Association des archivistes du Québec - Soirée discussion
10 novembre 2020
Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Community Call for Sharing and Coordinating Canadian COVID-19 Web Archiving Efforts #2
November 10, 2020
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta - Attack on All Fronts: the War Effort at Home
November 17, 2020
Webinar - Communicating the Role of Cultural Heritage in Climate Action
October 30, 2020
When Libraries Mattered: the Rescue of Jewish Books and Manuscripts in the Vilna Ghetto
November 1, 2020
Webinar - Digital Transformation for User Engagement in Cultural Heritage
November 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence for Freedonm of Information Act Professionals
November 5, 2020
Not Again! Data Deduplication for Storage Systems
November 10, 2020
Open Preservation Foundation - The Integrated Preservation Suite
November 11, 2020
Society of Mississippi Archivists Virtual Table Talks - My Artifact Needs an Agent: how to Celebrate and Be a Good Steward of Popular History
November 20, 2020
Family Album: How to Archive and Share your Family Story
December 6, 2020
Public Interest Declassification Board: Virtual Public Meeting (Video Available)
October 7, 2020
National Archives of Ireland Webinar - Archival Activism: Community-Centred Approaches to Archives (Recording Available)
October 22, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Archives of Ontario - GLAM Wiki page
University of Toronto Video - Authorship, Print, and Sedition in Eighteenth-Century England
International Federation of Film Archives - Video messages celebrating the Cinemateca Brasileira
Vidéo de l'École nationale des chartes - La correspondance amoureuse de Natalie Clifford Barney et Liane de Pougy
Harvard Library Video - Advanced OpenRefine
Australian National University Video - Archives for a Dry and Drying Land
Video - The TEI Guidelines: Born to Be Open
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Supreme Court - Leave to Appeal Granted in Access Copyright v. York U
Canadian News Media Lobby Group Calls for Creation of Government Digital Media Regulatory Agency
Reopening Library and Archives Canada: Reservations for Ottawa to open on November 2
Library and Archives Canada - The statue of Sir Arthur Doughty, Dominion Archivist
Prince Edward Island civil servant at centre of government records probe says he did not delete emails
Nouvelles coupes à la Grande Bibliothèque
Take a digital tour through Inuit oral culture with Inuit Unikkaangit
Young broadcasters to spur Indigenous language revitalization
University of Manitoba - Contacting the undead: Psychic News digital archives go live
Concordia University Archives and Records Management opens its virtual doors to the wider community
University of Calgary offers a new state-of-the-art home for a massive collection of Western Canadian history
University of Waterloo - A year later: what's new with the Archives Database
Dalhousie University - Shedding light on Nova Scotia's LGBT history with new seniors archive
McMaster University - Newly conserved rare map provides unique snapshot of life in 19th century Ontario
Historical photographs of York University for virtual backgrounds
Halifax Municipal Archives: Solving Mini Mysteries by Identifying Unidentified Photos
Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan) - City hall tames beastly paper problem that grew over 80 years
Moose Jaw - City Digitally Archives Records Dating Back to the 1940s
Medicine Hat (Alberta) - Esplanade archives elaborate on historical human remains found last month
Mysterious 1900s writing box finds a home among Saanich Archives (British Columbia)
Saanich Pioneer Society - The Councillor's Cottage
Colchester Historeum (Nova Scotia) - The Relationship between the Mi'kmaw People and the Fisheries: a Historical Perspective
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) - An archivist's night at the movies, part V: spooky Halloween edition
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) - History of Halloween in Canada
Reflections: a Happy Halloween from the Stratford-Perth (Ontario) archives
Whistler Museum and Archives Society - Whistler's Posters
Sur la route des archives : les Bois-Francs
Centre d'archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine - Aréna de Cap-aux-Meules, Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Reconnecting with the Past in Ukraine
How to properly destroy a document
Afrique / Africa
Algeria may take France to arbitration over "stolen" archive
Algérie - Abdelmadjid Chikhi à propos des archives détenues par la France : ce qui a été rendu est insignifiant
Amériques / Americas
A unique pre-Columbian manuscript and the mystery behind its colors
NARA - Appraisal Activities during the Covid-19 Pandemic
NARA - A Front Line of Defense: the 758th Radar Squadron and the Makah Air Force Station, Neah Bay, Washington, 1950-1988
NARA - Travelling Back in Time to the New York City of 1767-1768 via the Ratzen Map
NARA - Hell Yes, I'll Vote for him: Jimmy Carter's First Voter
NARA - The Sum of the People: how the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
Pamela Wright on Leading Digital Innovation at the National Archives
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Is Asking the National Archives for Permission to Destroy Misconduct Records
Library of Congress - Nominations sought for the U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term 2020 Web Archive
Library of Congress - Copyright Horror Stories
Library of Congress - That Magical, Mystical Book on Witchcraft from 1584
Library of Congress - Houdini and the Spirit Realm? Transcribe Hockley's World of the Beyond
National Library of Medicine - Four Years of Conversation with you
Freedom of Information Act officials confront pandemic challenges in meeting records requests
I'm Absolutely Expecting him to Do Something Weird: how Trump Could End his Presidency (See Number Four in the List)
New Insights into Mysterious Soviet Dome of Light Phenomenon in Declassified Documents
Texas State Library and Archives Commission - Cross-Post from out of the Stacks: how to Convert your Home Movie Tapes to Digital
North Carolina State Archives - Decorative Inspiration from the Appalachians: the Eleanor Park Vance Papers
Students write postcards for Yale University's Covid-19 archives
University of Minnesota Duluth professors creating historic archive of Covid-19
University of Pittsburgh Library System Acquires Archive of Renowned Playwright August Wilson
What we Don't Have: Confronting the Absence of Diversity in the Canergie Mellon University Archives
California State University, Northridge Library's Virtual Exhibit Connects Cinematic Representation of Los Angeles with Historical Archives
University of Dayton - Archives Month Spotlight: Documenting Mary in the Digital Age
Bigger than ourselves: Claremont Collge Covid-19 digital archive preserves history for future generations
Ken Bradbury collection goes to archives at Illinois College
Voynich manuscript mystery unravelled with 'potentially vital clue to book's meaning’
National Comedy Center to lead preservation of Johnny Carson archives; open new multi-media exhibit in 2022
The Vieques (Puerto Rico) Historical Archive Continues Digitizing its Collections
Philly's Chronicling Resistance curator plans to bring more voices and images into libraries and archives
Salem preserves 400 year old documents, creates online database for public to search about Joshua Ward House, genealogy and more
I'm the archivist of the Tree of Life shooting. This is how I process it.
Archives aim to preserve Southern queer history
Profile: Petersen Museum Archivist Laura Fisher Leads Effort to Preserve Automotive History
Scalability, Automation, and Impostor Syndrome! Oh My!
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia - Deadline 2025: the race to future-proof our audiovisual collection
National Archives of Australia to spend $3 million on saving at-risk audio and video recordings
Australia - There does remain a gap: concerns about freedom of information backlog
Tasmanian historical photographs from Hobart's Beatties Studio being digitised
Bangladesh - Government launches digital archive
Europe / Europa
European Film Archives jointly launch a catalogue of classic films
Europeana - Barriers to access: legislation and practice in Europe and beyond
Institute of National Remembrance (Poland) - Save them from oblivion: new objectives and audiovisual and photography projects
Ukraine - Cultural figures, scientists, media and MPs call on Cabinet, parliament to return funding for Archive of National Memory
Hitler's handwritten speech notes sold at auction above asking price
Dutch war museums tighten security after raids on Nazi items
History teachers from Serbia trained in use of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and mechanism archives
What the flip! The chance discovery that's uncovered treasures of the very earliest cinema
Belgium's Colonial Past: Commission urged to declassify archives
Belgium dusts off 1666 charter for post-Brexit fishing rights
France - Table ronde : une chape de plomb sur les archives historiques?
France - Rennes : une application gratuite pour découvrir l'histoire de la ville en vidéo
Ireland - Government to set up archive of records related to institutional trauma in 20th century
Ireland - Sealing archives on mother and baby homes perpetuates culture of secrecy
Archives and Records Association Ireland statement on the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020
Historic Book of Lismore returning to Ireland after centuries in British hands
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Web Archive: a Collaborative Approach
National Library of Scotland - Don't Have Nightmares… When archive films get scary
Wales - Voluntary sector history brought to life in new digital archive
UK Parliamentary Archives - Which Witch(Craft Act) Is Which?
UK Parliamentary Archives - After the Affair: Caroline and the Radical Movement in 1821
UK Parliamentary Archives - Protest and Petitions Part 2: After the Trial
UK National Archives - W E B Du Bois: Letter to London
British Library - The 1916 Easter Rising Web Archive
Royal College of Physicians plans to fix £3m crisis by selling its books
Why lockdown was the plot twist that libraries needed
The secret world of diary hunters
Cumbria's M6: Photo archive shows motorway at 50
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel - Yitzhak Rabin's First Peace Negotiation (and Necktie)
National Library of Israel - The Kaiser's Favorite “Carmen”? A Jewish Star from Budapest
Egypt's National Library & Archives celebrates birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed
International
National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross: 150 years of history
International Committee of the Red Cross - National Society documents
Unesco - Enhancing the mission of the Preservation Sub-Committee: the Inclusion of Persist
International Federation of Television Archives - Feels like heaven? Five major challenges for audiovisual archives in the era of full digitisation
Archiving the Now: how the Objects of Today will Define the Future's Past
Records Management, Information Governance, and why Words Matter
Information Governance
Making your Metadata Matter
Digital Preservation for Old Batteries
Archive Materials: an Invaluable Resource for the Documentary Genre
Optimizing Workflows and Reporting Capabilities with your CMS
La masse des données créées va poser un problème énergétique
Ten Things you Need to Know About Automating Information Governance
Treasure trove of car history: a peek into the archives of automakers
A radical new technique lets artificial intelligence learn with practically no data
The Upside to Deepfake Technology