Vol. 4, no. 35

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - PIPEDA and Your Practice: A Privacy Handbook for Lawyers

http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/pub/gd_phl_201106_e.cfm

Press release: http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2011/nr-c_110816_e.cfm

 

De la communauté / From the community

OCLC - Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-07.pdf

 

The Digital Revolution and Higher Education

http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2011/08/online-learning.pdf

 

National Science Foundation - Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/oise11003/

 

JISC - Legal Cloud Computing and the Law Toolkit

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ManageContent/tabid/243/ID/2135/JISC-Legal-Cloud-Computing-and-the-Law-Toolkit-31082011.aspx

 

Creative Commons Corporation - The Power of Open

http://thepowerofopen.org/assets/pdfs/tpoo_webres.pdf

 

Publications

Family History Monthly, no. 199, August 2011 (Special issue: "Support your local archives")

http://www.familyhistorymonthly.com/issues/issue-detail/199

 

Book - Resource Description and Access (RDA) and Cartographic Resources

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3542

 

Book - Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568989365

 

Book - Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=597-1

 

Book - Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=707-4

 

Book - No Shelf Required 2: Use and Management of Electronic Books

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3525

 

Book - Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation

http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780195368116.html

Q&A with the author: http://cinespect.com/qa-with-academic-and-preservationist-caroline-frick/

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

An Introduction to Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, & Museums

September 16, 2011, Washington D.C.

http://lodlamdc-intro.eventbrite.com/

 

Webinar - Standards for Digital Archives

September 29, 2011

http://saa.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=8787

 

Preservation Policies and Long-term Collections Management Workshop

September 29-30, 2011, Halle (Germany)

http://www.libereurope.eu/event/workshop-preservation-policies-and-long-term-collections-management-halle-29-30-september-2011

 

Sur le web / On the web

Video - Long Term Digital Preservation (Some initiatives in India and Germany)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YodX7L17nfI

 

Video - Who guards the guards: Meeting the challenges of digital preservation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoU4R2laTWM

 

Outils/ Tools

Zotero 3.0 Beta Release (now a an entire separate desktop application)

http://www.zotero.org/blog/announcing-zotero-3-0-beta-release/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Largest Online Collection of Study Notes to Launch Across Canada

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/24/c5790.html

 

Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/29/a_debate_over_fair_use_rights_and_copyright_expenses_in_canada

 

Who cares about libraries? Canadians apparently.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/29/who-cares-about-libraries/

 

145-year-old journals provide glimpse into Windsor’s distant past

http://www.windsorstar.com/sports/year+journals+provide+glimpse+into+Windsor+distant+past/5324735/story.html

 

Afrique / Africa

New Library of Alexandria - More than 18 Thousand Complete Books Available for Free on the Digital Assets Repository

http://www.bibalex.org/News/NewsDetails_en.aspx?id=3317&Keywords=&fromDD=-1&fromMM=-1&fromYY=-1&toDD=-1&toMM=-1&toYY=-1

 

Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles, il est urgent d’agir

http://www.webmanagercenter.com/management/article-109604-tunisie-2-2-archives-audiovisuelles-il-est-urgent-d-agir

 

Ghana - About 95 per cent of national records in paper form

http://www.ghananewsagency.org/details/Social/About-95-per-cent-of-national-records-in-paper-form-/?ci=4&ai=32977

 

Amériques / Americas

Cayman Island - National Archive ‘a treasure trove’

http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2011/08/12/National-Archive---a-treasure-trove-/

 

A new project, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, will make hard-to-find data on war and conflict available to academics

http://www.fastcompany.com/1776331/esoc-empirical-study-of-conflict-stanford-princeton

 

Millions of US court records bound for shredder

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/25/3861939/millions-of-us-court-records-bound.html

 

Huge Internet Archive Launches as Comprehensive 9/11 Media Commemorations Planned

http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/news/huge-internet-archive-launches-as-comprehensive-9-11-media-commemorations-planned/1000547288/

 

Arraignment set for presidential historian’s assistant charged in document theft conspiracy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/arraignment-set-for-presidential-historians-assistant-charged-in-document-theft-conspiracy/2011/08/26/gIQAG8pSfJ_story.html

 

Records Task Force Tracks Down Texas's History, Some of Which Could Be Lost Forever

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/08/records_task_force_tracks_down.php

 

San Francisco - Crowdsourced Mapping Projects Mine Library Archives

http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/culturefeed/crowdsourced-mapping-projects-mine/

 

Early Career of Steve Jobs and Apple Documented in Stanford Archives

http://cupertino.patch.com/articles/early-career-of-steve-jobs-and-apple-documented-in-stanford-archives

 

Why don’t scholars have access to Rosa Parks’s archives?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-dont-scholars-have-access-to-rosa-parkss-archives/2011/08/29/gIQAKezHoJ_story.html

 

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Archivists reclaim 2 silent Philippine films ‘pirated’ by US

http://entertainment.inquirer.net/11043/archivists-reclaim-2-silent-ph-films-%E2%80%98pirated%E2%80%99-by-us-film-fest-opens-friday

 

Azerbaijan Library Digitizes Old Gramophone Recordings

http://news.az/articles/society/43260

 

Tahiti - Les archives audiovisuelles du Tourisme

http://www.tahiti-infos.com/Les-archives-audiovisuelles-du-Tourisme_a30533.html?com

 

Australia - National Library archives graffiti website

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8291235/national-library-archives-graffiti-website

 

Europe / Europa

Council of the European Union approves new action plan for EU historical archives

http://www.europolitics.info/institutions/council-approves-new-action-plan-for-eu-historical-archives-art311346-33.html

 

EU parliaments consider open source XML tools for legal documents

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/EU-parliaments-consider-open-source-XML-tools-for-legal-documents-1333672.html

 

Denmark - New digitisation strategy aims to make the public sector paperless by 2015

http://epractice.eu/en/news/5312648

 

Dutch Legislation Now As Linked Open Data

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/dutch_legislation_now_as_linked_open_data

 

The Dutch returned an item they had recovered which had been removed from Guyana’s national archives

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/opinion/letters/08/28/the-dutch-returned-an-item-they-had-recovered-which-had-been-removed-from-guyana%E2%80%99s-national-archives/

 

Italy - Hidden archive exposes WWII slaughters

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/11/wus.italy.war.crimes/index.html?iref=obinsite

 

La généalogie mormone : quand une religion s'empare de l'état-civil français

http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/08/28/2577519_la-genealogie-mormone-quand-une-religion-s-empare-de-l-etat-civil-francais.html

 

UK - The National Archives releases new files from the Security Service

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/613.htm

 

New chilled vault for British film heritage

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article2412255.ece

 

International

The death of books has been greatly exaggerated

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/30/death-books-exaggerated

 

WorldCat turns 40

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2011/201149.htm

 

Associated Press and Corbis team up for ‘unprecedented’ collection of photos

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/310989

 

Reference Resources for the Budding Know-It-All

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/technology/personaltech/reference-apps-for-the-budding-know-it-all.html?ref=technology

 

Qu’apportent les digital humanities ? Quelques exemples

http://www.homo-numericus.net/spip.php?breve1011

 

20 Celebrities With Stunning Home Libraries

http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/20-celebrities-with-stunning-home-libraries

Vol. 4, no. 34

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Google Books contract with the British Library

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/BL%20Google%20Contract.pdf

See also: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/access-to-the-agreement-between-google-books-and-the-british-library

 

De la communauté / From the community

L’ebook a 40 ans (1971-2011)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-49501

 

Council on Library and Information Resources - "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics

http://clir.org/pubs/reports/pub150/pub150.pdf

 

The Power of Knowledge Rhase 2: Research Libraries UK Strategic Plan 2011–2014

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/RLUK%20Strategic%20Plan-%202011%20-%202014.pdf

 

OCLC - Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-17.pdf

 

Evaluating Open Source Digital Preservation Systems: A Case Study

http://e-records.chrisprom.com/?p=2261

 

Publications

Book - Waldo Gifford Leland and the Origins of the American Archival Profession

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0575.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free OCLC webinar - Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives

22 September 2011

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-08-18.htm

 

Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper: Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges

24-25 October 2011, London

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/#IMPACT-conference-2011-09-F2011-08-19-10-14-mg

 

Journée des archives des établissements d’enseignement collégial du Québec

5 octobre 2011, Montréal

http://archivistique.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/journee-des-archives-des-etablissements-denseignement-collegial-du-quebec/

 

11es rencontres FORMIST - Nouveaux horizons de la formation à l'information (présentations disponibles)

16 juin 2011, Villeurbane (France)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notice-49488

 

Sur le web / On the web

Video - The Provincial Archives of Alberta

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=2694

 

Video - Dublin City Library and Archive: Wide Street Commission Map Conservation Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlS_K95mBoQ

 

Outils / Tools

Fedora 3.5 (framework for building digital repositories) now available

http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2011/08/23/now-available-fedora-35/

 

InterPares3 - Shared Drive Migration Toolkit

http://www.interpares.org/ip3/ip3_cs14_report.cfm

 

Library of Congress - Full Open Source Release of Recollection Platform (a web application to create dynamic interfaces to cultural heritage collections)

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/full-open-source-release-of-recollection-platform/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Government institutions don't respect access to information laws

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/printpage/-08-22-2011

 

Audit of B.C. RCMP remains sealed

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/25/bc-rcmp-audit.html

 

UBC’s University Librarian first Canadian to head IFLA

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/08/23/ubc%E2%80%99s-university-librarian-first-canadian-to-head-global-group/

 

Digital readers are changing the traditional library system

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/digital-readers-are-changing-the-traditional-library-system/article2136000/

 

Afrique

Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles (1/2): Des trésors menacés!

http://www.webmanagercenter.com/management/article-109445-tunisie-archives-audiovisuelles-1-2-des-tresors-menaces

 

Tenue du 1er Conseil d'administration des Archives du Maroc

http://www.marocjournal.net/actualites-maroc/37713.html

 

Amériques/Americas

Brazil's military opened file on Pele in 1970

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hm6pP-ystocd7vdQ2L6fLifHHLMw?docId=87644aa656854bd4bb563911463665ab

 

Copyright battles break out in North America

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417143

 

U.S. Department of Defence Changes its Freedom of Information Act Policy on bin Laden Documents

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/dod-changes-its-foia-policy-on-bin-laden-documents/

 

Secret Service Must Turn Over Visitor Logs

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/24/39250.htm

 

National Archives Recovers Lincoln Documents

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-166.html

 

Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/24/pioneering_internet_archivists_brewster_kahle_and

 

Vermont state archives awarded grant to preserve court records

http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/22/vermont-state-archives-awarded-grant-to-preserve-court-records/

 

Fishing in Boston College’s archives (IRA oral history issue)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/08/23/fishing_for_troubles_in_bcs_archives/

 

Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8789&utm_term=uni

 

Archivist helps Vietnam veterans tell their stories

http://starherald.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/local_news/doc4e4926d21f444474024758.txt

 

Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/08/25/saving-the-smithsonians-web/

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia to build national health records infrastructure

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/aug/19/australia-build-national-health-records-infrastruc/

 

Chaos hinders Japanese e-book market

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/chaos-hinders-japanese-e-book-market.html

 

Europe

Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis including English copy of Communist Manifesto

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/berlin-library-returning-books-stolen-by-nazis-including-english-copy-of-communist-manifesto/2011/08/22/gIQA58p1VJ_story.html

 

Estonia - Interior Ministry Archives: Gorbachev Killed

http://news.err.ee/politics/21199154-13bb-452d-8854-f3a834617ae1

 

France - Les archives diplomatiques vont-elles déménager ?

http://www.acteurspublics.com/article/19-08-11/les-archives-diplomatiques-vont-elles-demenager

 

France - Archives de la Défense : « Un lien Nation - Armée »

http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Archives-de-la-Defense-Un-lien-Nation-Armee-_-1966673------50129-aud_actu.Htm

 

Oral History Network of Ireland - Preserving stories of the past, for the future

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/preserving_stories_of_the_past_for_the_future_1_2978116

 

Scotland - 'Edible archive' needs strong stomach

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Edible-archive39-needs-strong-stomach.6822222.jp

 

British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/british-library-dark-ages-exhibition

 

UK - Archives of West End composer donated to Kingston University

http://www.kingstoninformer.co.uk/2011/08/archives-of-west-end-composer.html

 

Moyen-Orient/Middle East

Israel State Archives - Appointment of the new State Archivist

http://www.archives.gov.il/ArchiveGov_Eng/about/Notices2/NewArchivist.htm

 

Western agencies eager for crack at Gadhafi archives

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/22/7441419-western-agencies-eager-for-crack-at-gadhafi-archives

 

15 millions de tablettes numériques dans les écoles turques

http://www.sobookonline.fr/actu-ebooks/15-millions-de-tablettes-numeriques-dans-les-ecoles-turques/

 

International

The Art of the Letter: what we can learn from illustrated letters in the collections

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2011/fall/letters.html

 

Experts worry that the family photo album is being lost to technology

http://host.madison.com/wsj/entertainment/city_life/article_83905f80-ca82-11e0-8db0-001cc4c03286.html

 

Metadata looms large at International Broadcasting Convention

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/metadata_ibc_2011_08222011/

 

Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/accessibility-vs-access-how-the-rhetoric-of-rare-is-changing-in-the-age-of-information-abundance/

 

100 000 partitions partagées en ligne pour l’amour de la musique

http://www.tdg.ch/actu/hi-tech/100-000-partitions-partagees-ligne-amour-musique-2011-08-22

 

How Data Science is Shaping Social Science

http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2011/08/22/how-data-science-is-shaping-social-science/

 

Booktrack adds soundtrack to your eBooks

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/08/booktrack-soundtrack-ebooks/