In the digital-only issue of American Archivist 85.2, two international perspectives share steps taken toward disaster preparedness in Germany’s cultural archives, and lessons learned from a data recovery project at the National Archives of Australia; Heather Soyka discusses the effectiveness of the Archives Leadership Institute’s career building opportunities; and Alston Brake Cobourn, Jen Corrinne Brown, Edward Warga, and Lisa Louis show how metaliteracy and transliteracy projects are doable at underserved institutions.
Other articles examine the current state of archival education, user experience and reference staffing in archives, and the personal archiving habits of modern soldiers. In addition, contributors review several books that consider social and cultural movements and the fate of historical archives.
On the cover: German archivists participate in a training course on disaster and emergency response at the Augsburg City Archive in 2016. Guided by a conservator, small groups practiced the handling, packaging, and transport of damaged materials. In his article, “’Together We Are Strong’: Emergency Associations for the Protection of Germany’s Cultural Heritage,” Rainer Jedlitschka discusses the creation and development of several emergency associations in Germany that have collaborated to offer mutual support in the event of natural and humanmade disasters. Read more about the role and success of the new networks and German archivists’ new experience and preparedness. Photo courtesy of Kerstin Lengger, Augsburg City Archive.
American Archivist 85.2 (Fall/Winter 2022)
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- “And You May Ask Yourself, ‘Well, How Did I Get Here?'”
Amy Cooper Cary
Articles
- “Together We Are Strong”: Emergency Associations for the Protection of Germany’s Cultural Heritage
Rainer Jedlitschka - Tales from “THE disK FILES”: Lessons Learnt from a Data Recovery Project in 2003–2006 at the National Archives of Australia
David Pearson and James Doig - Level Up!: Lessons Learned from Six Years of Collaborative Technical Skills Development
Max Eckard, Elizabeth Gadelha, and Mike Shallcross - Redesigning Program Assessment for Teaching with Primary Sources: Understanding the Impacts of Our Work
Jen Hoyer, Kaitlin Holt, John Voiklis, Bennett Attaway, and Rebecca Joy Norlander - Reference Staffing and Scheduling Models in Archives and Special Collections: A Survey Analysis of Prepandemic Practices
Amanda K. Hawk - Using Oral History to Study the Personal Digital Archiving Practices of Modern Soldiers
Andrew Hinton - More Data, Less Process: A User-Centered Approach to Email and Born-Digital Archives
Lise Jaillant - Finding Aid Aggregation: Toward a Robust Future
Jody Allison-Bunnell - Toward Metaliteracy and Transliteracy in the History Classroom: A Case Study Among Underserved Students
Alston Brake Cobourn, Jen Corrinne Brown, Edward Warga, and Lisa Louis - Professional Career Building in the Archival Field: Studying the Archives Leadership Institute
Heather Soyka - Exploring the Current State of North American Graduate Archival Education
Jane Zhang and Alex H. Poole - Who Is This Godot?: The Academy of Certified Archivists and Graduate Archival Education
Ashley Todd-Diaz and Alex H. Poole
Reviews
- #Archives: Centering the Profession in Critical Conversations and Popular Discourse
Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke - A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture
Jason Lustig
Reviewed by Josie Naron and Hallel Yadin - The Social Movement Archive
Jen Hoyer and Nora Almeida
Reviewed by Lori Podolsky - The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II
Michael Lee Lanning
Reviewed by Robert Nowatzki - The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives
Edited by Daniel Gomes, Elena Demidova, Jane Winters, and Thomas Risse
Reviewed by Amanda Greenwood - Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
Jenny Rice
Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Engel
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