New Issue: American Archivist

American Archivist 87.2 (Fall/Winter 2024)
Table of Contents

(Review access here)

From the Editor

• Draft No. 4: Thinking about Our Writing
  Amy Cooper Cary

Articles 

• Archival Certification Is One Piece of the Professionalization Puzzle
  Emily Hughes Dominick, Rosemary Pleva Flynn, Cheryl Oestreicher, Katy Sternberger, Margery N. Sly, Mott Linn, Gerrianne Schaad, Dara Baker
• Engaging the Space Between Minimal Processing and Inclusive Description to Create More Sustainable and Ethical Workflows
  Alexandra deGraffenreid
• An Impossible Balance: Navigating Archival Work and Caregiving Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Alexis Braun Marks, Rachael Dreyer, Jennifer Johnson, Michelle Sweetser
• Digital Preservation Practices and Challenges at University Archives in the United States
  Maali F. Alghnimi, Donald C. Force
• Archival Authority Records and the Potential of Human-centered Archival Description
  Maristella Feustle
• “I can’t work part-time for the rest of my life”: Students, Early Career Professionals, and the Uncertain Prospects of an Archival Career
  Ashley Todd-Diaz, Alex H. Poole
• Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings
  Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, Lisa Schmitz

Reviews

• Imagining Archival Futures
  Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke
• New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption
  Edited by Clare Summerskill, Amy Tooth Murphy, and Emma Vickers
  Reviewed by Kate Burns
• Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies
  Edited by Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici
  Reviewed by Drew Russell
• Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life
  Renata Cherlise
  Reviewed by Harvey Long
• Journalism History and Digital Archives
  Henrik Bødker
  Reviewed by Kailyn Slater
• ALA Editions Special Reports: Narratives of (Dis)enfranchisement: Reckoning with the History of Libraries and the Black and African American Experience
  Tracey Overbey and Amanda L. Folk
  Reviewed by Adam Stokes
• The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising Interviews
  Edited by Ricardo Santhiago and Miriam Hermeto
  Reviewed by Jenifer Monger