Archival Science Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2026
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Two-Spirit is bugs: classification, archival translation, and the limits of description
Andrew Wiebe
Toward a Christian Hymnology Metadata Schema: the description of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (407 A.C.)
Spyros Tzanavaris, Efthalia Xanthopoulou, …Marios Poulos
Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives
Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kidd, Lingjia Zhao
Archival buildings as archives: recording through design
Zheqiong Mo, Tie Ji
Record-surface visibility and evidential accessibility in administrative disclosure
Youngsoon Yang
“You’re a little bit self-editing”: identity curation in Chinese American family archiving practices
Jiarui Sun
Looking at the back of a document: a case of repurposing swastikas into creating Polish statehood in bureaucratic practices in the formerly German lands (1945–1948)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Izabela Mrzygłód
Archivists’ use of AI: practices and impacts
Jinfang Niu
Modular archive construction for conservation documentation: an archival information framework for palm-leaf manuscript conservation
Yan LiJingyu Zhang…Yanyan Huang
Mediated recordkeeping and epistemic accountability in social media archiving
Leisa Gibbons
Repressive regimes and the manipulations of archival records: an investigation into selected countries in Africa
Kofi Koranteng Adu
“It definitely got my mind whirling:” Building community partnerships for teaching with primary sources
Alexandra Chassanoff, Elliott Kuecker…Gabi Benedit
“In the end, people are people”: positionality statements in the archival enterprise
Alex H. Poole, Ashley Todd-Diaz
Beyond custodianship: public archives, democratic agency, and the limits of transformative discourse
Geerd De Ceulaerde
Locating disability in digital archives: an analysis of accessibility and inclusion in UK-based special collections
Kaitlynn Buchbaum, Paul Gooding