Thursday 31 August 2023

Vol. 16, no. 53

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Evaluation Report of Collaboration, Partnerships and Participation (2017-2022)
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/info/15ba8e2e-b81e-4833-ab17-6693a56b3e38/resource/d982b0f2-f841-4875-a5af-2c6cf6fe49fe

Library and Archives Canada – Evaluation Report on the Prime Minister Papers Project 2017–2022
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/info/df4d0c23-3b3d-4385-b9ed-a3988c9c1328/resource/8bd42316-7a33-4dcc-9243-b31fac5f84c5

Arts and Humanities Research Council and Research Libraries UK – Protecting Dispersed Collections: a Framework for Managing the At-Risk Heritage Assets of Catholic Religious Institutes
https://castrial.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/ahrc-rluk-fellowship-report-1-1.pdf

Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) – Information Governance and Information Management as a Service: Survey Report 2023
http://apo.org.au/node/323899

De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – The Seoul Vision for the Future of Safeguarding Living Heritage for Sustainable Development and Peace
https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/the-seoul-vision-outlining-the-future-of-safeguarding-living-heritage-13485

UNESCO Archives: Preserving Unesco’s Heritage for Future Generations
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385791

Level up with Digital Preservation Coalition Rapid Assessment Model
http://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpc-ram/level-up

Digital Preservation Coalition – Defining the Designated Community (General Release)
http://www.dpconline.org/news/twgn-designated-community-gen

Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos – Legislación Archivística de América Latina
http://www.alaarchivos.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Leg-archivistica-A23.pdf

The WARCnet Network: the Fourth Year
http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Bru__gger_The_fourth_year.pdf

Reporting from two Short-term Network Stays at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Royal Danish Library
http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Canelli_Reporting_from.pdf

Redefining the Library Experience: Findings from the 2023 OCLC Global Council Survey
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2023/redefining-library-experience.html

Article – Digitization of the Australian Parliamentary Debates, 1998–2022
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02464-w

Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 57 (2023)
http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue57

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, vol. 16, no. 1 (2023)
http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/16/1

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Newsletter, no. 162 (2023)
http://www.arsc-audio.org/newsletter/ARSCNews_162.pdf

Online Audiovisual Catalogers Newsletter, vol. 43, no. 2 (2023)
http://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/olac-newsletters/vol43/iss2/1

PhD Thesis (Universty of Zurich) – Flexible Techniques for Automatic Text Recognition of Historical Documents
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234886/1/Stroebel_Phillip_Benjamin_Dissertation.pdf

Mémoire d’études (Enssib) – Manuscrits d’Afrique de l’Ouest en France : mieux les identifier pour mieux les partager
http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notices/71404-manuscrits-d-afrique-de-l-ouest-en-france-mieux-les-identifier-pour-mieux-les-partager

Open Access Book – Tied and Bound: a Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
http://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111292069/html

Book – Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29963

Book – Archive of Tongues: an Intimate History of Brownness
http://www.dukeupress.edu/archive-of-tongues

Book – Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032055152

Book – In Defence of Copyright
http://www.cormorantbooks.com/in-defence-of-copyright

Book – Cataloging and Classification: an Introduction (Fifth Edition)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538132920/

Book – Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032268613

Book – The Power of Oral History Narratives
http://www.infoagepub.com/products/The-Power-of-Oral-History-Narratives

Book – Perspectives on Knowledge Communication: Concepts and Settings
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032258096

Book – The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust
http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547161/the-blockchain-and-the-new-architecture-of-trust/

Livre – Aux origines des collections musicales de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (1680-1815)
http://editions.bnf.fr/aux-origines-des-collections-musicales-de-la-biblioth%C3%A8que-nationale-de-france-1680-1815-0

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Scarborough Historical Society: Oral History, Memory and Storytelling
September 26, 2023, Toronto
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496846&R=EVT496846

Hastings County Historical Society (Ontario) – Public Presentation: a Selection of Stories
October 17, 2023, Belleville
http://hastingshistory.ca/event/public-presentation-selection-stories/

Second Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference
July 12-14, 2024, Toronto
http://counterarchive.ca/gava-2024

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Online Course: Embedding Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Practice in UK Archive Sector
http://www.archives.org.uk/embedding-eedi

Nordic Web Archives for Researchers: Access, Tools and Services
September 6, 2023
http://netpreserve.org/event/iipc-webinar-nordic-web-archives-for-researchers-access-tools-and-services/?occurrence=2023-09-06

Safe Havens for Archives at Risk
September 7, 2023
http://www.ica.org/en/eurbica-lectures-series-safe-havens-for-archives-at-risk

International Federation of Film Archives Commissions Workshop – Institutionalized Curation
September 14, 2023
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdOmvpjIjG9IsN_gs2QWlOzQsfrKV3FXW#/registration

A Fireside Chat with the 11th Archivist of the United States
September 19, 2023
http://3256.blackbaudhosting.com/3256/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=b6671887-c203-4ccb-82b0-f7fd27284a34

Supporting Community Archives into the Future
September 29, 2023, Dublin
http://dri.ie/events/conference-supporting-community-archives-into-the-future/

Cours en ligne – Impacts du numérique sur l’environnement
À partir du 20 octobre 2023
https://www.inria-academy.fr/formation/impacts-numerique-environnement/

Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists – Open Wide our Archives: Truth, Transparency & Access
October 30-31, 2023, St. Louis
http://diocesanarchivists.org/?page_id=995

Sur le web / On the web
Archives and Things Podcast – Nana aba Duncan, Carleton University
http://open.spotify.com/episode/3B6uvVpy0wPAAFiqGrPFhq?si=umMVXj7nRi-CFKpmZs-GKQ&nd=1

Vidéo – Je vais au Québec et remonte une branche sur plusieurs siècles (généalogie)
http://youtu.be/SqMbJnXy9SY?si=eyuv9v9YUfq6Zerx

Solidarity History Initiative Podcast – Michelle Caswell
http://solidarityhistory.org/what-is-solidarity-history/season-2-episode-1

Transkribus – New Web App
http://readcoop.eu/introducing-the-new-transkribus-web-app/

Open Historical Map – New Forum
http://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) Video – Records Management Network August 2023
http://youtu.be/pOnCqIpj0Iw?si=VCenujKJAJccplLi

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Looking for Captain Evans
http://thediscoverblog.com/2023/08/31/looking-for-captain-evans/

What are Library and Archives Canada’s intentions on Handwritten Text Recognition technology?
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2023/08/28/what-are-lacs-intentions-on-handwritten-text-recognition-technology/

Vintage Barbies discovered in Manitoba Museum archives
http://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/vintage-barbies-discovered-in-manitoba-museum-archives-1.20171626

BAnQ – Prêt, pas prêt, c’est la rentrée
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/pret-pas-pret-cest-la-rentree/

Association des archivistes du Québec – Compte-rendu de la Table-ronde sur la diffusion archivistique
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/diffusion-archivistique/

University of Waterloo – Human Resources records retention schedule updates
http://uwaterloo.ca/records-management/news/human-resources-records-retention-schedule-updates

University of British Columbia – Aftermath of 1997 APEC Protest
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/aftermath-of-1997-apec-protest/

Université de Montréal – Annaëlle Winand, archiver l’inarchivable
http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2023/08/29/annaelle-winand-archiver-l-inarchivable/

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton) launches its online digital collection of nearly 5000 works of art
http://artdaily.com/news/161573/The-Beaverbrook-Art-Gallery-launches-its-online-digital-collection-of-nearly-5000-works-of-art

Le Musée de la photographie de Drummondville lutte pour sa survie
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/796903/culture-le-musee-de-la-photographie-de-drummondville-lutte-pour-sa-survie

La Société d’histoire d’Asbestos, gardienne de la mémoire de la municipalité
http://www.latribune.ca/la-vitrine/2023/08/28/la-societe-dhistoire-dasbestos-gardienne-de-la-memoire-de-la-municipalite-KL7CFFCH6JG4LKAXZ7WAAOCIMU/

10 ans comme archiviste à la Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel
http://shps.qc.ca/10-ans/

Whistler Museum & Archives Society – Whistler’s First Triathlon
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2023/08/29/whistlers-first-triathlon/

This most important document in Kamloops’ history
http://thewrennews.ca/this-most-important-document-in-kamloops-history/

Tri-City News donates bound editions to Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia)
http://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/tri-city-news-donates-bound-editions-to-coquitlam-archives-7452877

Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Wong Bing and Jessie Goldie: an Unlikely Friendship
http://www.lakecountrymuseum.com/wong-bing-and-jessie-goldie-an-unlikely-friendship/

Ontario – Thousands of historical documents related to Burlington’s past go online
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burlington-public-library-digital-archive-1.6947659

Ontario – This high school went deep into its archives to celebrate its 150th birthday
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sydenham-high-school-ontario-kingston-reunion-150-history-anniversary-archives-film-photos-rocky-nostalgia-1.6935377

Wait: Is ChatGPT Even Legal?
http://thewalrus.ca/wait-is-chatgpt-even-legal/

Amériques / Americas
Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: 20 Years Later
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/peru/2023-08-28/perus-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-20-years-later

National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – 61st Anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago’s Independence: Guide to Information Resources on Independence
http://natt.gov.tt/node/294

NARA – Presidential Records Act Special Access Requests from Congress
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr23-017-0

National Archives to Hold Ceremonial Swearing-In Ceremony for 11th Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr23-018

NARA – Disaster Preparedness during the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/28/disaster-preparedness-during-the-2023-atlantic-hurricane-season/

National Archives discloses planned artificial intelligence uses for record management
http://fedscoop.com/national-archives-plans-ai-record-management/

Library of Congress – The March on Washington, Revisited
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/08/the-march-on-washington-revisited/

Library of Congress – The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions about the Web Archives
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/the-web-archiving-team-answers-questions-about-the-web-archives/

Library of Congress – The Scenic Route? The Library’s 117-foot Map from 17th-century Japan
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/08/the-scenic-route-the-librarys-117-foot-map-from-17th-century-japan/

Library of Congress – Creating New Opportunities with Digital Strategy: an Interview with Margaret Gentry
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/creating-new-opportunities-with-digital-strategy-an-interview-with-margaret-gentry/

Harvard University – Lost in fictional maps
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/getting-lost-in-fictional-maps-narnia-middle-earth-westeros-twin-peaks-oz-zelda/

Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University
http://www.libraryjournal.com/story/science-fiction-and-fantasy-research-collection-at-texas-am-university-archives-deep-dive

Pop culture on the plains: Marvel creator Stan Lee’s personal archives are housed at University of Wyoming
http://www.buffalobulletin.com/article_32593fa4-45b0-11ee-af45-3b8b8d810559.html

Brown University – Critical Archives
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/08/24/critical-archives/

Legacy of Native American boarding schools comes into view through a new interactive map
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/legacy-native-american-boarding-schools-225040282.html

Presbyterian Historical Society – 60 Years Since ’63: Newly Digitized March on Washington Records
http://www.history.pcusa.org/blog/2023/08/60-years-63-newly-digitized-march-washington-records

Getty Acquires Maren Hassinger’s Archive
https://www.artforum.com/news/getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-s-archive-90990

Archives in the Anthropocene: an Interview with Eira Tansey
http://sr.ithaka.org/blog/archives-in-the-anthropocene/

Paramount Pictures’ Archive Team Andrea Kalas & Randall Thropp on a Few of their Favorite Things
http://www.motionpictures.org/2023/08/paramount-pictures-archive-team-andrea-kalas-randall-thropp-on-a-few-of-their-favorite-things/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Archives, access, and history: can the National Archives of Australia democratic function survive?
http://johnmenadue.com/archives-access-and-history-can-the-national-archives-democratic-function-survive/

State Library and Tasmanian Archives (Australia) – Conservation of a tastevin
http://archivesandheritageblog.libraries.tas.gov.au/conservation-of-a-tastevin/

Archives New Zealand – Release of previously classified Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade files to the public
http://www.archives.govt.nz/about-us/whats-new/release-of-previously-classified-mfat-files-to-the-public

China unveils first standard for digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage
http://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202308/1297109.shtml

Europe / Europa
Results from the SOLID-based Decentralised Aggregation Task Force in Europeana
http://www.photoconsortium.net/solid-task-force-europeana-report/

Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: summary of the final report
http://www.justiceinfo.net/en/120849-norway-truth-reconciliation-process-change.html

Luxembourg – Qu’est-ce les Archives nationales ont-elles à cacher ?
http://majerus.hypotheses.org/1454

Guerre d’Algérie : la France assouplit plus encore l’accès à ses archives
http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/08/27/guerre-d-algerie-la-france-assouplit-encore-l-acces-a-ses-archives_6186716_3212.html

National Library of Ireland – Web archiving: Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival
http://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/web-archiving-electric-picnic

The British Library Loves Manuscripts on Wikisource
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/08/the-british-library-loves-manuscripts-on-wikisource.html

British Library – New light on the earliest professor of Spanish in the UK?
http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2023/08/new-light-on-the-earliest-professor-of-spanish-in-the-uk.html

British Library – What about the East India Company women?
https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/08/what-about-the-east-india-company-women.html

Artefacts stolen from British Museum may be untraceable due to poor records
http://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/25/artefacts-stolen-from-british-museum-may-be-untraceable-due-to-poor-records

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Mysterious Collector who Founded our Islamic Manuscript Collection
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/yohanan_ben_david/

National Library of Israel – Prisoner 4859: the Hero who Volunteered for Auschwitz
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/witold_pilecki/

Don’t Let Palestinian Music Be Destroyed
http://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/08/dont-let-palestinian-music-be-destroyed

Sixty years of sound: the cassette’s past, present and future in Egypt
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/30/sixty-years-of-sound-the-cassettes-past-present-and-future-in-egypt

International
Manga Archive Organization Dedicated to Archiving Manga Materials Founded
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-08-27/manga-archive-organization-dedicated-to-archiving-manga-materials-founded/.201487

Keeping the classics alive: how archivists are preserving video game history
http://www.theverge.com/23850347/video-game-preservation

Researching file formats 3: JPEG File Interchange Format Family
http://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2023/08/25/researching-file-formats-3-jpeg-family-interchange-format/

Machine Learning and WorldCat: improving records for cataloging and discovery

https://hangingtogether.org/machine-learning-and-worldcat-improving-records-for-cataloging-and-discovery/ 

Thursday 24 August 2023

Vol. 16, no. 52

                                                         Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Data Protection Agencies from 11 Countries – Joint Statement on Data Scraping and the Protection of Privacy
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/speeches/2023/js-dc_20230824/

Library and Archives Canada – Quarterly Financial Report for the Quarter Ended June 30, 2023
https://opencanada.blob.core.windows.net/opengovprod/resources/b498155f-1820-4c92-8dd0-f0d2bfbed257/23-24-quarterly-financial-report-as-of-june-30-2023.pdf?sr=b&sp=r&sig=2QkwJU3AVrBxo5F/kmLAgbPEXGc7iZhFB8PXIzg%2BUaU%3D&sv=2019-07-07&se=2023-08-24T13%3A28%3A19Z

Information Commissioner of Canada Decision – Library and Archives Canada (Re), 2023 OIC 24
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/en/decisions/final-reports/library-and-archives-canada-re-2023-oic-24

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Ithaka S+R – Redressing Relationships with the Historically Marginalized
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/arl-carl-and-ithaka-sr-release-issue-brief-on-redressing-relationships-with-historically-marginalized-communities/

Unesco – National Capacity Building on Inventorying the Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Arab Republic of Egypt
http://ich.unesco.org/en/news/new-publication-on-community-inventorying-living-heritage-in-egypt-13484

Manifeste pour l’intelligibilité du numérique
http://intelligibilite-numerique.numerev.com/manifeste

Towards a Glossary for Web Archive Research: Version 1.0
https://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Healy_et_al_Towards_a_Glossary.pdf

Scholarly Use of Web Archives Across Ireland: The Past, Present & Future(s)
https://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Healy_Byrne_Scholarly_Use_01.pdf

Understanding the history of national domain crawls: mapping and archiving the national web domain in Denmark and France
https://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Teszelszky_Understanding_the_history.pdf

Using a National Web Archive for the Study of Web Defacements? A Case-study Approach
http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Kurzmeier_Using_a_national.pdf

Article – Mrs. his Name: Reparative Description as a Tool for Cultural Sensitivity and Discoverability
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol14/iss1/10/

Publications
Journal of Documentation, vol. 79, no. 5 (2023)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0022-0418/vol/79/iss/5

Library Hi Tech, vol. 41, no. 4 (2023)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0737-8831/vol/41/iss/4

Internet Archaeology, no. 63, 2023 (Special Issue: Digital Archiving in Archaeology: the State of the Art II)
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue63/index.html

Open Access Book – Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives
http://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/0z709037v?locale=en

Book – 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel
http://scalapublishers.com/treasures-from-the-national-library-of-israel/

Book – The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367627287

Book – On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/on-the-digital-humanities

Book – Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032553337

Book – On Disinformation: how to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546300/on-disinformation/

Book – The Anticolonial Museum: Reclaiming our Colonial Heritage
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032437941

Book – A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film
https://academic.oup.com/book/46703

Book – Computational Methods and GIS Applications in Social Science (Third Edition)
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032266817

Book – Trends in Data Protection and Encryption Technologies
http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-33386-6

Livre – Allemagne et généalogie : retrouver ses ancêtres allemands
http://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/allemagne-et-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9alogie

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Beyond Digital Humanities
September 4, 2023
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/beyond-digital-humanities-tickets-695239749807

Making the Case for Institutional Repository Services
September 6, 2023
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scuqgqjMiHNfmxiA12O62i1E9QEOSJljh#/registration

Disaster Preparedness for Community Archives
September 6, 2023
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOioqD4iEteHRYu4n7H7bJR0FqbUl2hA#/registration

2023 Virtual Fedora Showcase
September 12-14, 2023
https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=62192B02-9D25-EE11-8107-00155D0A2732

Environment, Storage, and Integrated Pest Management
September 18, 2023
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C0wKrBKyRRu9jwT2hFaq4w#/registration

Decolonising through Critical Librarianship: Accessibility Workshop
September 20, 2023
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-through-critical-librarianship-accessibility-workshop-tickets-705231364997

Immersive Collections Symposium: Diversifying Narratives through Embodied Learning
October 13, 2023
http://ds-pages.swarthmore.edu/immersive-collections/

Ai4Libraries
October 19, 2023
https://www.ai4libraries.org/about

Transkribus User Conference 2024
February 14, 2024, Insbruck
http://readcoop.eu/tuc24-call/

Archival Secrecy in Early Modern Monarchies and Republics
September 5-6, 2024, Berne
http://www.infoclio.ch/de/cfp-archival-secrecy-early-modern-monarchies-and-republics

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Treasures Revealed: Pregnancy Photos
http://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/engage-learn/podcast/Pages/treasures-12-pregnancy-photos.aspx

Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Online Exhibit – The Regina Cyclone of 1912
https://www.saskarchives.com/exhibits/Regina-Cyclone-1912

Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Online Exhibit – Winter Sports in Saskatchewan
https://www.saskarchives.com/exhibits/SK-Winter-Sports

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – Voices of Old Strathcona: Patrick Rose
https://fromthevaults.buzzsprout.com/1209881/12076970-voices-of-old-strathcona-patrick-rose

Video – Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project
https://youtu.be/V6cZuKbkPz4?si=liEprks0DVunyGWa

Video – Learning about the Invisible: Using Linked Data to Enhance Collection Analysis
https://youtu.be/-xNGMjRPYig?si=ok2UI96gEWYKxvwy

Video – Held In Trust: Digital Technology in the Context of Cultural Heritage Preservation
https://youtu.be/8E5UwxWcszE?si=1yMs9fjq6Ewrbuvz

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Ottawa rejected independent study of access to information system in favour of internal review, documents reveal
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-access-to-information-reforms/

Library and Archives Canada – The 1931 Census: a reading list
https://thediscoverblog.com/2023/08/24/the-1931-census-a-reading-list/

Library and Archives Canada Expenditures: Long-term Perspective
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2023/08/23/lac-expenditures-long-term-perspective/

Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update for August
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2023/08/21/lac-co-lab-update-for-august/

Reflections on the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference from a Student Perspective
https://archivists.ca/Blog/13244003

British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency release for 2023 is now available
https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/our-work/publications-news/latest-news/bc-vital-statistics-agency-release-2023-now-available

Art exhibition digs women out of archives at the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/new-winnipeg-exhibition-celebrates-indigenous-women-in-art-1.6939307

BAnQ – Cité-jardin : rêves et ambitions d’une ville nouvelle
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/cite-jardin-reves-et-ambitions-dune-ville-nouvelle/

Pseudo-privatization: why University of British Columbia Properties Trust is still not subject to provincial freedom of information laws
http://ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-properties-not-subject-foi/

1997 APEC meeting at University of British Columbia
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/1997-apec-meeting-at-ubc/

University of Toronto – Backing Student Equity Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives: the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series
http://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/backing-student-edi-initiatives-the-black-digital-humanities-speaker-series/

British Columbia attracting researchers as home to world’s largest transgender archives
http://www.peacearchnews.com/trending-now/b-c-attracting-researchers-as-home-to-worlds-largest-transgender-archives/

Why the smell of vinegar shut down a Toronto library’s historical newspaper archive
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vinegar-syndrome-acetate-film-1.6939032

Vancouver – These archival aerial photos show the staggering changes around False Creek over the last 50 years
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/aerial-photos-changes-around-false-creek-before-expo-86-olympic-village-vancouver-bc-7446745

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – The First Fun Fitness Swim
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2023/08/22/the-first-fun-fitness-swim/

New Temporary Exhibit at the Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) Celebrates Local Queer Theatre Company
http://www.galtmuseum.com/news/new-temporary-exhibit-at-the-galt-celebrates-local-queer-theatre-company

Peterborough Museum & Archives Tourism (Ontario) Named Award Finalist For Tourism
http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/peterborough-museum-archives-tourism-named-award-finalist-for-tourism

Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – A Beachville Destination: Fairmount Park
http://archives.oxfordcounty.ca/Archives/Blog

Afrique / Africa
Namibia – The Role of Archives in Accountability and Democracy
http://www.namibian.com.na/the-role-of-archives-in-accountability-and-democracy/

Amériques / Americas
Les Archives nationales d’Haïti célèbrent 163 ans de préservation du patrimoine historique
https://rezonodwes.com/?p=318200

Trinidad’s National Archives reveals legacy of master Steelpan arranger Clive Bradley
http://writeups24.com/trinidads-national-archives-reveals-legacy-of-master-steelpan-arranger-clive-bradley/

NARA – When we Say we Want Resolution: DPI and PPI Explained
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/22/when-we-say-we-want-resolution-dpi-and-ppi-explained/

NARA – 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/22/60th-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/

NARA – Hurricane Hilary Heading Toward Southern California
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/18/hurricane-hilary-heading-toward-southern-california/

NARA – National Personnel Records Center Fire Series: The Aftermath
http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/16/national-personnel-records-center-fire-series-the-aftermath/

Theodore Roosevelt presidential library taking shape in North Dakota Badlands
http://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-theodore-roosevelt-library-916ead880d144dc48bb7af782cc46b23

New details on little-known Obama Presidential Library, tucked away in Hoffman Estates
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2023/8/24/23839037/obama-presidential-library-hoffman-estates-nara-archives-records-colleen-shogan

Library of Congress Releases Newly Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts
http://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-releases-newly-digitized-hebrew-manuscripts/s/f2a83449-6dbf-4d58-a8db-ebac70c51a85

Library of Congress – Improvements Ahead for the Web Archives
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/improvements-ahead-for-the-web-archives/

From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: Daylong Demonstration Features Sound and Preservation at the Library of Congress
http://newsroom.loc.gov/news/from-cylinders-to-surround-mixes–daylong-demonstration-features-sound-and-preservation-at-the-libra/s/5427576b-94f8-4b9f-829f-138f59647b11

Library of Congress – Opening Doors and Reaching Communities: an Interview with Merci Silva-Acosta
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/opening-doors-and-reaching-communities-an-interview-with-merci-silva-acosta/

Library of Congress – Check out: the Secret Life of GeoTIFFs
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/check-out-the-secret-life-of-geotiffs/

The Library of Congress Reimagined, with you in Mind
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/08/the-library-reimagined-with-you-in-mind/

Library of Congress – My Job: Cheryl Regan
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/08/my-job-cheryl-regan/

American Folklife Center – The Pete Welding Collection Finding Aid
http://saadescription.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/the-pete-welding-collection-finding-aid/

Utah Division of Archives and Records Service – Mastering Accessioning: Unveiling the Art of Organizing Records at the Archives
http://archivesnews.utah.gov/2023/08/21/mastering-accessioning-unveiling-the-art-of-organizing-records-at-the-archives/

Delaware Public Archives – 2023: Third Quarter Accessions
https://archives.delaware.gov/2023/08/24/2023-third-quarter-accessions/

Washington University – New Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry
http://library.wustl.edu/news/new-grant-to-preserve-born-digital-poetry/

Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Selects Kutztown University as Home of Digital Military Archives
http://www.bctv.org/2023/08/23/johannes-schwalm-historical-association-selects-ku-as-home-of-digital-military-archives/

Wake Forest University launches a new digital guide to art collections, exhibitions
http://news.wfu.edu/2023/08/16/wake-forest-launches-a-new-digital-guide-to-art-collections-exhibitions/

American Philosophical Society – Sabin’s Women in Science: a Mystery in the Archives
http://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/sabins-women-science-mystery-archives

Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
http://apnews.com/article/native-american-boarding-schools-quaker-digitize-records-37c2c3c56a8b369f7f8e7759b6592d21

Mark Russell’s archives now part of National Comedy Center’s permanent collection
http://www.observertoday.com/news/local-region/2023/08/russells-archives-now-part-of-nccs-permanent-collection/

Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day
http://forward.com/fast-forward/557976/thousands-of-yiddish-pulp-fiction-stories-finally-seeing-the-light-of-day/

Milwaukee – Officer makes historic discovery, more than 70 ledgers found in safe dating back to the 1860s
http://www.cbs58.com/news/officer-makes-historic-discovery-more-than-70-ledgers-found-in-safe-dating-back-to-the-1860s

A Historian Reckons with Gaps in the Archives
http://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/historian-reckons-gaps-archives-on-the-media2

Archivists from around the world share their most unique finds and some are super weird
http://www.upworthy.com/23-of-the-weirdest-funniest-creepiest-most-surprising-items-found-by-archivists-hw

Transkribus: a Practical Tool for Achieving our Digital Archive Dreams
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/welcome-to-the-newest-series-on-bloggers-tales-from-chatgpt/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Nepal – Preserving Tunes and Melodies for the Posterity
http://kathmandupost.com/art-entertainment/2023/08/19/preserving-tunes-and-melodies-for-the-posterity

Sri Lanka – Public hearing on Draft National Policy on Archives and Records Management
http://island.lk/public-hearing-on-draft-national-policy-on-archives-and-records-management/

Archives and Museums for Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/archives-and-museums-reconciliation-and-peacebuilding-timor-leste?hub=343

Europe / Europa
Wartime Paperwork: how Citizens Navigated Soviet Bureaucracy During and After World War II
http://blog.ehri-project.eu/2023/08/18/wartime-paperwork-soviet-bureaucracy/

Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives – Do Friends Come to Visit with Tanks? Reactions to the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 55 Years Later
http://www.osaarchivum.org/blog/%E2%80%9Cdo-friends-come-to-visit-with-tanks%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-reactions-to-the-1968-invasion-of-czechoslovakia-55-yea

Italy – Nova Gorica (Slovenia): a restored incunable
http://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/nova-gorica-slovenia-a-restored-incunable/

Digital museum aims to preserve heritage of Swiss Abroad
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/-digital-museum–aims-to-preserve-heritage-of-swiss-abroad/48742642

IIIF, un outil pour visualiser les archives numérisées
http://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/article/714850036

Institut national du patrimoine – Les Archives nationales suédoises (Riksarkivet)
http://inp.hypotheses.org/4933

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Répertoire des manuscrits littéraires français du XXème siècle
http://literaryartisticarchives-ica.org/2023/08/18/repertoire-des-manuscrits-litteraires-francais-du-xxeme-siecle/

National Archives of Ireland – File in Focus: 75th anniversary of independence of India and Pakistan
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/news/file-in-focus-75th-anniversary-of-independence-of-india-and-pakistan/

National Library of Scotland – Women & the Anti-slavery Movement
http://blog.nls.uk/women-the-anti-slavery-movement/

Inside the archives of the Glasgow School of Art
http://www.thenational.scot/culture/23729707.inside-archives-glasgow-school-art/

Glasgow Caledonian University – People’s archive to collect memories of crime drama Taggart
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/23/taggart-crime-drama-people-archive-glasgow-caledonian-university-collect-memories

An innovative history of the historic patent collection at the British Library
http://blogs.bl.uk/business/2023/08/an-innovative-history-of-the-historic-patent-collection-at-the-british-library.html

50 years on: Information Retrieval and the British Library
http://blogs.bl.uk/science/2023/08/50-years-on-information-retrieval-and-the-british-library.html

British Library acquires unique disc from the KLF plus all of their surviving master tapes
http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2023/august/british-library-klf-acquisition

British Library – Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monuments commissioned by Lady Maria Nugent in the early 19th century
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2023/08/drawings-of-the-taj-mahal-and-agra-monuments-commissioned-by-lady-maria-nugent-in-the-early-19th-cen.html

Cambridge’s Magdalene College digitises manuscripts collected by Samuel Pepys
http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-college-digitises-manuscripts-collected-by-samuel-9326865/

Bodleian Library – Uncovering Histories of Humanitarianism: the Aborigines’ Protection Society 1837-1866
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/08/24/uncovering-histories-of-humanitarianism-the-aborigines-protection-society-1837-1866/

The Poetry Book Society launches digital archive
https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the-poetry-book-society-launches-digital-archive-22241

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Missing Milkcan of Warsaw Ghetto
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/missing-milkcan-warsaw-ghetto/

National Library of Israel – The Ballad of Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/golda-meir-and-david-ben-gurion/

Stitching together an archive of an endangered Palestinian art
http://www.theverge.com/23833322/palestinian-embroidery-digital-archive-tatreez-wafa-ghnaim-tirazain

Secret library found by explorer in Egypt offered treasure trove of early Biblical texts
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1803776/egypt-explorer-treasure-bible-spt

Turkey – New images of Atatürk published on national archive
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-images-of-ataturk-published-on-national-archive-185567

International
TC 46 SC 11 Addresses ISO’s London Declaration to Combat Climate Change Through Standards
http://committee.iso.org/sites/tc46sc11/home/news/content-left-area/news-about-standarization-in-t-1/tc-46-sc-11-addresses-iso-s-lond.html

Keeping up with… Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing
http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/cultural_heritage_crowdsourcing

Transforming Paper-Based Records the Role of OCR Technology in the Education Sector
http://www.ilounge.com/articles/transforming-paper-based-records-the-role-of-ocr-technology-in-the-education-sector

Le document en pleine forme
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/mac-diplomatique/

How to Extract Text from Images and PDFs with Google Drive
http://www.makeuseof.com/extract-text-from-image-pdf-google-drive/

Twitter Deletes All User Photos and Links from 2011-2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/