Stolen Historic Documents Surface in Attic—Ten Years After an Employee Used Them as Collateral to Borrow Money.

The thief likely took the trove when he worked for the Dutch National Archives in 2015. Recently, someone found them in storage and contacted art detective Arthur Brand

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stolen-historic-documents-surface-in-attic-ten-years-after-an-employee-used-them-as-collateral-to-borrow-money-180986965/ #archives #Holland #globalmuseum

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Je recrute un.e archiviste en alternance (master) dans mon service l'an prochain. Au menu, un focus sur le traitement des fonds issus de l'EPHE et une mission liée au système d'archivage électronique, le tout dans une super équipe : https://www.campus-condorcet.fr/fr/le-campus/etablissement-public/les-offres-d-emlpois-et-de-stages/un-e-archiviste-en-alternance

My 'People Inside' userscript that displays the faces of people living under the White Australia policy alongside file details in RecordSearch is working again! https://gist.github.com/wragge/2941e473ee70152f4de7 #archives #GLAM

This is a really excellent talk at #openrepos2025 by Ben Zhao about the limits of and misconceptions about LLMs, that is tailored for the #libraries #archives and #digitalpreservation crowd. He focuses in on how they work, and don't work -- and bridges that to a discussion of the impacts that the technology is having on the larger web (bots).

It gives me no measure of good vibes to know that a big crowd of people in my profession got to hear this for a Keynote about AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JicpcYwQe3w

Un lieu sympa à explorer : « C’est assez jouissif à lire » : plongée dans les archives de la Fanzinothèque de Poitiers : https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/poitiers/c-est-assez-jouissif-a-lire-plongee-dans-les-archives-de-la-fanzinotheque-de-poitiers-1751895060

#archives #poitiers #fanzine @archivistodon

New horrors. The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs help. The Smithsonian Institution will end its support as of 1 Jan 2026.

This is the world's largest open-source archive for biodiversity literature and archives -- the place where you can find all the old, but still very useful, botanical literature, among other things.

Please share widely with your networks. #biodiversity #Archives #defendresearch #botany

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

How the University of Iowa's Center for the Book played a major hand in protecting the United States' founding documents. (Iowa) #TimBarrett #Papermaking #archives
https://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2025/07/08/university-of-iowa-center-for-the-book-us-constitution-charters-of-freedom/84495167007/

Si vous êtes au Journées suisses d'histoire 2025 à Lucerne, passez nous voir. Nous tenons un stand de librairie dans le hall de l'Université de Lucerne. L'occasion d'acquérir nos dernières publications et de poser toutes vos questions sur nos collections.

L’accès aux archives privées du nucléaire, « une question de démocratie », les archives départementales de la Côte-d’Or ont accueilli un événement consacré aux archives privées du nucléaire : https://www.bienpublic.com/economie/2025/07/07/l-acces-aux-archives-privees-du-nucleaire-une-question-de-democratie

#archives #nucleaire @archivistodon

There's still time to register for FUN WITH ARCHIVES! Are you curious about using #archives in your research or creative projects, but not sure how to go about it or make it a practice? Join my upcoming live online class Fun With Archives on July 9 to learn how to use these valuable and fascinating resources, and gain confidence in navigating the decentralized and varied systems of archival discovery and access. #history #research https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fun-with-archives-tickets-1393100945429?aff=oddtdtcreator

Oof. As a Canadian who mostly does US history these days — this sounds about right. I can much easier get US archival materials than ones from my own city. And in rare cases when I tried doing research at LAC it was a painful exercise
https://thewalrus.ca/canada-archives-in-trouble/

Vu ailleurs concernant les AD de Vaucluse : "Cette carte, c’est bien plus qu’un outil : c’est une réponse concrète à la fermeture temporaire de notre salle de lecture. Elle permet à tous les chercheurs, passionnés ou curieux, d’accéder à distance aux informations suivantes, commune par commune :
Les bureaux d’enregistrement (de la Révolution à nos jours)
Les bureaux des hypothèques
Les circonscriptions administratives
Les tribunaux" #Archives #HistoricalMaps # Vaucluse https://maps.vaucluse.fr/index.php/view/map?repository=archives&project=cartographie_historique

With Glitch closing down, I've moved my micro app that helps you create persistent links into the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database: https://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch-links/ #Archives #histodons #maintenance