In issue 88.2 of American Archivist, Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz evaluate the efficacy of North American graduate archival education curriculum; Elizabeth Joffrion considers the history and current situation of state archives; and Sonia Yaco, Bala Desinghu, Claire Warwick, and Richard Anderson share their research findings after testing thirty-three software tools to explore how AI can be used in special collections to improve accessibility and discoverability.
This issue also includes seven reviews of recent publications in archival literature that explore historical collecting around the Panama Canal, the development of archives on the internet, disability and archives, and much more!
From the Editor
No Time (Not) to Read
Amy Cooper Cary
Articles
“Putting It into Practice Is the Best Way to Really Learn Something”: Evaluating the North American Graduate Archival Education Curriculum
Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz
Charting a Profession: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Regional Archival Journals and American Archivist, 2013–2023
Daines, J. Gordon, Coulter Gill, Ryan K. Lee, and Cory L. Nimer
The State of American State Archives (Revisited)
Elizabeth Joffrion
Instilling Primary-Source Research Confidence in Undergraduate History Majors: Insight into Instructional Impact and Student Preferences
Matthew Gorzalski
The Mumia Rules for Carceral Collecting
Murphy, Mary O., and Amanda M. Knox
“I Despise It, But It Works”: Social Media Outreach in Special Collections
Thomas, Nikki Lynn, Colleen Theisen, Juli McLoone, and Sean Heyliger
What Can AI Do for Special Collections?
Yaco, Sonia, Bala Desinghu, Claire Warwick, and Richard Anderson
Reviews
From Local to Global: Variety in the Archival Literature
Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
Katie Sutrina-Haney
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Gabrielle Dean
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory
Kailyn Slater
Beyond Evidence: The Use of Archives in Transitional Justice
Sarah R. Demb
Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession
Moira Armstrong
Records and Information Management
Brady Kal Cox
The Handbook of Archival Practice
Audie Robinson
Publishing in the Archives Profession 