Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information Commissioner of Canada – Systemic Investigation of Library and Archives Canada
Audit of NARA’s Holdings Protection Program
NARA – Farm Credit Administration Records Management Program Records Management Inspection Report
De la communauté / From the community
ARMA – Information Governance Implementation Model (Version 2)
Examples of Born Digital Description in Finding Aids
Indigenous Oral History Reader
Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations Network – Case Study 2: Computer Vision and Cultural Heritage
Document de travail – La gouvernance de l’information dans les organisations : proposition d’un cadre unifié d’évaluation
Publications
Reference Services Review, vol. 50, no. 2 (2022)
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Newsletter, no. 158 (2022)
Greynet – Quarterly Newsletter on Grey Literature, vol. 14, no. 2 (2022)
Library and Archives Canada – Documentary Heritage and Official Language Minority Communities Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 7 (2022)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 42, no. 3 (2022)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 38, no. 2 (2022)
Archivore: bulletin de l’Association des étudiants et diplômés en archivistique d’Angers (France), no 43 (2022)
Book now in Open Access – Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections
Open Access Book – Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts: Case Studies from Ireland to Japan
Book – Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive
Book – Metadata Matters
Book – Text Mining for Information Professionals: an Uncharted Territory
Book – Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation: the Keeping Place
Book – Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Book – The Many Faces of Art Forgery: from the Dark Side to Shades of Gray
Book – Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic
Book – Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Book – The Business of Digital Publishing: an Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries (Second Edition)
Book – Wounds of our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives
Livre – La gestion des archives : maîtriser les documents et les données
Livre – Miroirs d’encre : histoire du livre, désirs de lecture
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Conservation Institute Self-Paced Course – Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums
Canadian Conservation Institute Self-Paced Course – Museum Collections Documentation and Data Cleaning
The World of Yousuf Karsh: a Private Essence
Until October 16, 2022, Halifax
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Office of the Chief Information Officer – Metadata Symposium
May 5, 2022
The Future of the British Columbia Archives: a Chance to Speak
May 9, 2022
Précieuse source historique : les albums d’E.-Z. Massicotte
15 mai 2022, Montréal
Fédération des milieux documentaires – Cybersécurité à l’ère du numérique
18 mai 2022
Association for Manitoba Archives – Intro to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Report and Calls for Justice
May 19, 2022
Council of Nova Scotia Archives – Introduction to Archives
May 24-27, June 20-23, July 4-7, 2022
Performance in the Archives
April 29, 2022
International Seminar on Sport Archives
May 9, 2022
Understanding and Mitigating Bias and Racism across Collections at Yale University’s Museums, Libraries, and Archives
May 10, 2022
Journées d’études – Les archives des associations en Europe et au Moyen-Orient
17-18 mai 2022, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
June 27, 29-30, 2022
Image and Research Conference
November 16-19, 2022
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Kahentinetha Horn: Nothing but the Truth: Part 1
Podcast – Sean Smith, Archives of Ontario
United Nations Archives Geneva Platform
Vidéo – Dans les coulisses des archives de l’Église de France
Irish History Podcast – Getting Dirty in a Digital Archive
Slides – Collaboration on Registration, Deposit and Digitization of Flemish non-fiction Film Heritage
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Canadian Government Makes its Choice: Implementation of Copyright Term Extension without Mitigating against the Harms
Statement by the Librarian and Archivist of Canada following the Office of the Information Commissioner’s systemic investigation on Access to Information
Library and Archives Canada – Anne Heggtveit: a good night’s sleep brings Olympic gold
Library and Archives Canada changes to the system: April 2022
Kudos Library and Archives Canada front line staff
Canadian War Museum – In their own Voices: Stories from Canadian Veterans and their Families
More than 200 boxes of records under scrutiny by Ottawa, courts for residential school connections
History on record: how the CBC Northern Service built a unique trove of Canadian music
A Preliminary Analysis of Authorship in Archivaria (2011-2021)
Northwest Territories launches online art portal in bid to open up collection
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Ontario Society of Artists
Why healthcare data is the latest cyber battlefield
BAnQ – Guy Lafleur, on te dit « Chapeau »!
Québec annonce 3 M$ pour mettre en valeur et protéger notre mémoire collective
La ministre Nathalie Roy défend ses critères de nomination (incluant à BAnQ)
Is Canada ready for open access?
One story at a time: Muslims in Canada Archives fill critical gap in national narrative
University College of the North online archive of traditional knowledge material now available
Canadian Lutheran World Relief donates archival material to Wilifrid Laurier University Archives
University of British Columbia Library opens new Conservation Space in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
University of British Columbia – Metadata Cleanup for the Alma Mater Society Image Collection
University of British Columbia – Kelowna’s industrial history comes alive through unique collaboration
University of Victoria – British Columbia Theatre History Preserved
Lakehead University archives – Finnish Labour Temple time capsule unsealed
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections – Archives A to Z 2022 Week 4
Funny business: Western University librarian seeks help to sort university’s 70,000 comic books
Western University – Artificial Intelligence and the Detection of Human Emotion
Origami mystery unfolding at Western University libraries in London, Ontario
University of Waterloo Archives and Special Collections – Five years down
Legal Archives Society of Alberta – The Charter of Rights and Freedoms at 40
British Columbia historical archive includes local Jewish community leader
Toronto Public Library – History of Toronto Public Library’s Staff House (1928–1964)
Maps: Check out these six funky old (and sometimes problematic) tourism maps of Vancouver
Nanaimo Community Archives asks for submissions for Heritage House Renovation Awards
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Whistler Mountain’s First Ski Patrol
Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Lumières sur le fonds de la famille Echenberg
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Arnoult de Laubia et la Seigneurie de Nicolet
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Punkeydoodle’s Corner: Part 2: The Stories Behind the Name
Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) honoured with Blackfoot name
Photographer digitizes hundreds of never-seen images of Inuit communities
American Library Association Library History Round Table presents the 2022 Gleason Book Award to Rebecka Taves Sheffield
Dématique et SAE (32): la fonction sortie des données déposées (2): le processus de gestion des communications des données déposées
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie – Le Kef : Un incendie suspect détruit les archives de la mairie
(Re)launch of South African History Archive at Wits University
Amériques / Americas
Records of 18th-century ship given to Bermuda Archives
NARA – Appointment of the First Archivist of the United States
NARA – Chernobyl Before it Was Chernobyl!
Q&A David Ferriero: Naming the Feelings and Offering Support
Library of Congress Acquires Papers of Award-Winning Playwright Neil Simon
Library of Congress – The Gorgeous Jazz Age Photography of Alfred Cheney Johnston
Library of Congress – Ulysses S. Grant: 200th Birthday
Library of Congress – The Seizure of Jewish Intellectual Property Ahead of World War II
Smithsonian – A 19th Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha Field Station digital image archive is now live
Arizona State University’s Archival Collections Highlight Histories of Latine and Chicano History
Decades after his death, Marshall University students archive forgotten Huntington writer’s work
Indiana University – Archives in the Outfield: an Intern’s Perspective of Archival Instruction
Footage in New York City’s Archives Sheds Important Light on the Northern Civil Rights Movement and Police Efforts to Undermine it
How an Unrealized Art Show Created an Archive of Black Women’s Art
Celebrating International Design Day with Architecture, Arts and Design Archivist Harold Housley
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia ramps up digitisation of at-risk records
The National Library of Australia wants your federal election ephemera
Australia – For nation: 330,000 online memorials unlock individual stories of our First World War ANZACs
An Interview with Elise Edmonds of the State Library of New South Wales (Australia)
The Tasmanian Archives (Australia) research files: giving remote researchers access to the same research material as locals
Australia – The Amazing Archive of First Nations Stories Written on Stone
New Zealand – I do what my heart tells me to do: archivist on mission to honour every fallen kiwi soldier buried overseas
New Zealand – Indigenous Knowledge and Research Infrastructure: an Interview with Katharina Ruckstuhl
An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards
Restorer uses deadly plants to repair ancient Tibetan classics
Indonesian classic films’ restoration can open new insights for youngsters
Creation of State Digital Archive planned in 2023 in Kyrgyzstan
India – Aurangabad-based university seeks Rs 4.62 cr to conserve over 3,400 rare manuscripts
Europe / Europa
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – What can I do with this messy spreadsheet? Converting from Excel sheets to fully compliant EAD-XML files
Arolsen Archives’ #everynamecounts Project Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Uncover Information on Victims of Nazi Persecution
Blue Shield supports the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Urban Lion TTX and Arrcade Expert
Blue Shield Poland helps Ukraine to protect cultural property
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Protecting endangered heritage in Ukraine
Archive that preserved Ukrainian language, history when it was banned by Soviets moves to Ukraine
‘Lost’ Viking Village Artifacts Emerge from Norwegian Basement Archive
Belgique – Passé colonial: un appel public sera lancé pour retrouver l’original du discours de Lumumba
France – La communication des jugements de divorce
National University of Ireland Galway – Eoghan Ó’Tuairisc: the Archive of a Bilingual Writer
Concerns Declaration of Arbroath and other Scots records at risk
Appeal launched as organisers reveal plans for new Edinburgh Festival Fringe archive
UK National Archives – Experimental in every sense: the Metropolitan Police Women Patrols
British Library – Medieval Manuscripts Cataloguer and Researcher
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/04/medieval-manuscripts-cataloguer-and-researcher.html
British Library – Our top 10 most unusual collection items
British Library – A 2000-year-old postcard
British Library – The Prayer Book of a Queen: Isabella of Castile and Inquisitorial Culture in Late Medieval Spain
British Library – Reframing the Tin Book
University of Westminster – Capturing and preserving practice based research
Leeds University – Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive
A Tiny Brontë Book, Sold for $1.25 Million, to Return Home
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Bar Mitzvah Gift That Survived the Holocaust
National Library of Israel – The Jews were in shock: a Nazi View of Kristallnacht
Iran – Rarely-seen Quran manuscripts unveiled at Tehran museum
International
International Committee of the Red Cross Library and Archives – The ICRC vs. fake news: Setting the record straight in the First World War
L’histoire de la Société des Nations en ligne
For Atari, preservation isn’t just about saving old games
Sony is building a game preservation team
FromThePage vs Transkribus
Importance of records management in a crisis
Resurrection by reading: an ode to used books