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CFP: SNCA/SCAA Annual Meeting Advocacy through Community

SNCA/SCAA Annual Meeting 

Call for Proposals

Many Voices, Stronger Archives: Advocacy through Community

UNC-Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | May 28-29, 2026

The Programming Committee encourages you to submit proposals for the SNCA/SCAA Joint 2026 Annual Meeting. This year’s theme, “Many Voices, Stronger Archives: Advocacy through Community” calls us to reflect on the roles and impacts of advocacy and community within the archival profession.

We encourage submissions that address a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:

  • America’s 250th
  • Reflections of past communities
  • Outreach to communities: engagement and partnerships
  • Community-driven projects/exhibits
  • Community among archival professionals
  • Various aspects of advocacy
  • Support for small archives/lone archivists
  • Grant writing
  • Inclusive metadata and description practices

Proposal Form

Proposals are due by February 6, 2026 at 5:00 pm

CFP:  International Conference on Archives Management – Digital Governance and Smart Services 

The first National Archives of Taiwan opened its doors in November 2025, as part of the celebration of the new National Archives, an international conference will be held in June 2026. We sincerely invite your proposal for the conference. 

As information technology plays an increasingly vital role in the development of the public and private sectors, it has brought about significant changes in archival management automation processes and digital governance. This includes the application of Artificial 

Intelligence (AI), digital archives management, archive retrieval and open access. These digital technologies are transforming how archival value is created and transmitted, bringing benefits to the archival management field. 

In anticipation of the inauguration of the first National Archives, this bureau plans to hold the International Conference on Archives Management – Digital Governance and Smart Services on Wednesday, 10th – Thursday, 11th June 2026 at the National Archives, Linkou, New Taipei City. The conference will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, presentation sessions, and poster presentations. 

The National Archives hereby invites your proposals for presentations and posters related to the theme, and subthemes are described below. 

Subthemes 

1. Emerging Information Technology 

How is the new information technology used in archives management, access, and use of archives? 

• Blockchain 

• Big Data 

• Artificial Intelligence 

• Next Generation Wireless Technology 

• Digital Communication Tools 

• Machine Learning 

• 5G Internet of Things (IoT) 

• Text Mining 

2. Digital Transformation of Archives Management 

Digital transformation and its influence on archive management, including the digital transformation of the archival workspace, management, smart appraisal, and the use of mobile devices. 

• Evolution of Archives Digital Transformation 

• Digital Transformation and Organizational Adjustment 

• Digital Archive Professional Work Space 

• Management of Electronic Archives 

• Public Participation in the Digital Age 

• Creating Archive Value through Digital Transformation 

• Smart Archival Management 

• Smart Review and Appraisal 

• The use of Mobile Devices 

3. Smart Archival Services 

Discussion and experience sharing on applying digital tools to archive-related service, including access, value-adding, personal information protection and curation, promotion, and customer service on archives. 

• Archive Access and Digital Innovation 

• Digital Value-Adding of Archive 

• Personal Data Protection in Archive Application 

• Digital Curation and Promotion of Archive 

• Smart Customer Service on Archive 

4. Digital Resilience and Security 

How to protect and manage the risk of information security in archive management. 

• Digital Policy and Legal System on archive 

• Information Security on Archive Management 

• Digital Risk Management of Archive 

• Digital Ethics of Archive 

5. Digital Archival Competency 

How to empower archivists and archives management field with digital ability. 

• Digital Strategy Planning for Archives 

• Archivists’ digital training 

• Collaboration with Digital Tools 

• Use of Digital Data 

• Mobile working on archival workspace 

• Digital Communication on archival service 

6. Cross-disciplinary Archival Development 

How do digital tools and technology play a part in the cross-disciplinary archive use and promotion? 

• Digital Sharing on Archival resource 

• Digital Innovation and Cooperation on Archive 

• Promotion and Exchange of Digital Skills of Archive 

• Collaborative writing of Audio-Visual Archives 

• Digital Marketing of Archive 

Submission form (bottom of page)

New Issue: VIEW, Journal of European Television History and Culture

Volume 14 – Issue 28 – 2025
With and Against the Grain: Creative Dialogues with Broadcast Archives

Editorial

With and Against the Grain: Creative Dialogues with Broadcast Archives
Bas Agterberg, Lisa Kerrigan, Dana Mustata, Alistair Scott

Enthusiasms

More Than a Game: Television Archives in Two Acts
Nevena Popović

“They Lack Imagination…” ─ Valérie Wilson and Trans Life in the Audiovisual Archive
Christopher Wolff, Jesse Blanchard

‘Angélica la palenquera’: Collective Memory and a Decolonial Reimagining of Archival Futures
Laura Alhach, Rodolfo Palomino Cassiani

Decolonising the BBC Radio Archive: Challenges, Opportunities, Ethics of Care and Access
Sylvie Carlos, Matt Green, Eleni Liarou

ATLas Chronicles. Designing and Valorising an Italian Archive of Past Local TV Channels
Luca Barra, Diego Cavallotti, Emiliano Rossi

Coventry Cathedral: Exploring Reflexivity in a Collage Film
John Wyver

Lockerbie Pan Am 103 – Tracking the Evolving Re-Use of Archive Broadcast News
Alistair Scott

“Preserving Atrocity”: Mental Health and the Broadcast Media Archivist
Michael Marlatt

Expanding the Small Screen: Exhibiting Northern Irish Television Archive
Rose Baker

Academic Research Articles

Caring for Past Media from Below: Bottom-up Practices and Networks Supporting Obsolete Broadcast Technologies
Sergio Minniti, Roberta Spada

Broadcasting from Below: Television Archives, Microhistory, and the Many Voices of 1990s Sicily
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar

From the Culch: Lost in the Archives, Found in the Community
Paul Mulraney

Open Contributions

Pingu and the Emergence of Merchandising within Swiss Public Service Television
Chloé Hofmann

Call for Participation: practices and attitudes of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) refusal amongst academic library workers in the United States

We are a faculty member and graduate student in the Information, Library and Research Sciences Department at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro, and we are conducting a research study to explore the practices and attitudes of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) refusal amongst academic library workers in the United States. This survey will ask you questions about your attitudes and practices related to generative AI at your workplace.

The survey is open to anyone who works in an academic or university library in the United States. If you are a paraprofessional, student worker, or professional librarian in an academic or university library, we welcome your participation. Employees at university, college, community college, and special or branch libraries at an academic institution qualify to participate in this survey. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

The survey is expected to take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Participation is totally voluntary, and respondents can stop filling out the survey at any point. At the end of the survey, you will be asked if you would like to participate in a follow-up interview to further elaborate on your thoughts on this topic; participation in the interview is also entirely voluntary. Respondents will not receive any compensation for filling out this survey, though this information may contribute to the development of policy recommendations to support AI refusal in academic libraries. Responses will be anonymized to protect participants’ privacy.

Please review the full information sheet on the next page. After reviewing this sheet, we will ask you to agree to participate in the survey.

Survey form

Call for Participation: Food in Collections Survey

We are a group of archivists and librarians at Oberlin College working to quantify the impact of food in collections. We are asking you to consider participating in a brief Qualtrics survey about food in museum, library, or archival collections. The purpose of the survey is to assess inherent vice within different types of collections and its impact on preservation and conservation priorities. We are surveying librarians, curators, collections managers, conservators, and archivists from collecting institutions who are at least 18 years old and who currently work in the United States. 

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary. Should you agree to participate in the survey, your responses will be kept confidential. Your anonymized data will be used for analysis. This study, Protocol AY25-26-ER-02, has been deemed exempt by Oberlin College’s institutional ethics board. For questions related to this survey and your rights as a participant or information about its IRB approval, please contact Associate Archivist Emily Rebmann (erebmann@oberlin.edu) or the Oberlin College Institutional Review Board, Cox 101, (440-775-8410) or email: ocirb@oberlin.edu.

To learn more about the project or to take the survey, please use this link. The Qualtrics survey will remain open until February 28, and we anticipate that it will take no more than 10 minutes to complete. 

Thank you for your consideration,

Emily Rebmann, Eugénie Fortier, and Gena Reynolds

Call for Chapters: Book — “Documentation of/as Violence” by Liu & Liu

Overview:

We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume titled “Documentation of/as Violence.” In this volume, we seek to explore how documentation, or the lack thereof, can function in capacities that both enforce and protect against violence. We understand documents, and documentation, through two primary functions: surveillance and preservation. The collection of materials capturing violence enacted upon marginalized communities, as well as how the practice of documentation itself can be a violent action of surveillance experienced by marginalized communities complicate the function of representation in library and archival collections.

Throughout this volume, our goal is to encourage readers to reflect on the role(s) of violence in the preservation of history. We seek to map out a range of perspectives that critically engage with how professional practice addresses the documentation of violence, as well as how documentation itself enacts violence on marginalized communities. We welcome contributors writing from critical theoretical, Black, feminist, abolitionist, Indigenous, post-colonial, and liberatory perspectives, as well as contributors working outside of libraries and archives (such as community organizers and activists, and public historians).

Proposal Submission Deadline:

February 18, 2026

Sample topics:

Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:

Documentation and Surveillance Technologies

• Histories of the surveillance of marginalized communities

• Documentation of activism and activist groups

• Absence of documentation as protection (e.g., public libraries)

• Impact of technology/technological developments on documentation and ethics

• Access to and engagement with documentation of violence

Ethical Quandaries

• Agency and consent of the subject of documentation

• Who is entitled to documentation of a community?

• What is the value of documentation of violence?

• Preservation of documentation of violence

• Impact of one’s identity and positionality relative to the content of documentation

What is the value of documentation?

• Differences in the function of documentation for institutions and communities

• Gaps in documentation

• Archival silence

• Does loss of documentation equal violence against a community / history?

Proposal Guidelines:

Proposals should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (APA-7).

Proposals should include:

• Primary author’s name, email address, position title, and institutional affiliation

• Co-authors’ names, email addresses, titles, and affiliations

• Brief author(s) biography (100 words maximum per author)

• Proposed chapter title

• A 300-500 word chapter proposal

Submit proposals via Google forms at https://forms.gle/Tb8hNu2WEQBmig6o6

Communications from the editors will be going to primary authors.

Proposal submission and timelines:

• Proposals for chapters due to editors: February 18, 2026

• Notification by editors of proposal acceptance: Late April

• Authors submit completed chapters: Mid-November 2026

• Anticipated publication is 2027 or 2028

• Additional key dates will be sent to successful proposal authors

Email questions to:

1. Tina Liu, Cataloguing Librarian, tina.liu@mcgill.ca

2. Tellina Liu, Archivist and Liaison Librarian, tellina.liu@mcgill.ca

CFP: Preservation & Migration Seminar 2026

Preservation & Migration Seminar 2026

Digital time: show me how you do it!
Recipes for audiovisual content longevity

The FIAT/IFTA Preservation & Migration Commission (PMC), in collaboration with RTÉ and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), will host the first on-site edition of the annual PMC Seminar at the Royal Irish Academy on June 4-5, 2026.

The call for proposals welcomes submissions that explore both theoretical perspectives and practical experiences, presented as presentations (30 min), discussion panels (45-60 min), or demos (20 min), within the scope of preservation, migration, and digital preservation of media content.

The deadlines to submit your proposal are:

  • March 2 – Presentations and Discussion panels
  • March 30 – Demos

Submit proposal

Open Call for Feedback: A Research Agenda for SAA

We are pleased to announce that the first version of the SAA Research Agenda Draft (SAA-RAD) is now available for public comment. 

The SAA-RAD aims to provide SAA and its membership with a focused, practical agenda to guide prioritized research on the archival profession’s most pressing issues over the next 5 years.

The SAA Research Agenda project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant.

To read more context about the project, view and comment on the draft, see the Research Agenda microsite.

The deadline to submit feedback is January 30, 2026. 

With kind regards,

Chris Marino (Project Director), Jane Fiegel, Jennifer King, Emily Lapworth, Dennis Meissner

Call for Submissions: Nontheatrical Student Essay Award, Celebrating student work in The Moving Image

In collaboration with AMIA, the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG is delighted to announce its third Nontheatrical Student Essay Award.

Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

Our second award went to Miao Wang (University of Chicago), for his paper ‘Formatting Chinese Cinema: Small-Gauge Projectors in the Socialist Era.’ Keep your eyes peeled for its publication in The Moving Image!

In 2025, we also introduced an Honorable Mention. It was received by: Gonçalo Albergaria (Utrecht University) for his paper ‘Geoscientific film in the 1957/58 Capelinhos eruption: Raquel Soeiro de Brito and the moving image as epistemic tool.’

Eligibility

Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized graduate program at the time of entry.

Submission Criteria

  • The winning scholarly essay will demonstrate original and critical analysis, clarity of argument and exposition, and engagement with varied source materials related to the study of nontheatrical media (e.g. science film, educational film, home movies, government films, etc.)
  • Students may submit their own paper, or they may be nominated by an advisor or professor with the author’s consent. In either case, the submitter should provide a short author’s CV.
  • Papers shall be submitted in English and may not have been published in part or in whole by the time of submission. The manuscript should be 4000-6000 words in length (double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt, with 1-inch margins, using the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition), including footnotes/endnotes but excluding bibliography.
  • Before the first-place essay is published in The Moving Image, its author will work with a faculty mentor and The Moving Image editors to revise the essay for publication, in keeping with the developmental editing procedures of the journal.
  • Submissions will be evaluated by the governing body of the Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and editors from The Moving Image.

Submissions will be due February 15, 2026 and can be sent to nontheatricalessayaward@gmail.com. The author of the winning paper will be contacted in early March 2026, and announced at the 2026 SCMS Annual Conference.

Point of contact for questions about the award and the submission process: Sophia Gräfe, Co-Chair of the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG: sophia.graefe@hu-berlin.de.

Download the Call for Submissions here.

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. It features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field. More here.

The Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group (SIG) of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) provides a setting for scholars working in this area to collaborate, share research tips, and debate methodological issues. Moreover, this SIG acts as another connection between the academic and archival worlds, and between other SIGs and committees within SCMS, such as the Media Archives Committee. The mission of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group is to facilitate discussion, consolidation, outreach, and inclusion. More here.

CFP: Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences Annual Meeting

2026 LAMPHHS Annual Meeting Call for Proposals

Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) invites you to submit a proposal for its annual meeting, to be held in Buffalo, New York, June 3 – 4, 2026.

The concept behind this year’s program is thinking beyond the boundaries of conventional health practices. Building on this idea, the Program Committee invites members to look beyond traditional ideas of healthcare and explore the often-overlooked world of alternative healing. We encourage you to review your collections with a new perspective, looking for stories, artifacts, and practices that highlight spiritualism, cultural medical traditions, faith healing, folk medicine, and other local health systems that are hidden in the records of midwives, physician assistants, pharmacists, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual caregivers, and family caretakers. This theme opens up conversations about how communities have found wellness in many different ways, including groups such as Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and how allopathic medicine has responded to or included these alternative treatments. By exploring these connections, the conference aims to expand our understanding of what healing has meant in different times, places, and belief systems.

Session Formats: The Program Committee encourages submission of proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following formats:

Traditional Conference Presentations: Speakers should expect to give a presentation of no more than 15 minutes followed by discussion.

Panel Discussion: 60-90 minute session with a panel of 3 to 4+ individuals informally discussing a variety of theories or perspectives on a common topic. Please confirm participation with all panelists before submitting the panel proposal.

Special Focus Session: 60-minute session designed to highlight innovative archives or museum programs, new techniques, and research projects. Audience participation is encouraged.

Workshops, Other Formats: Have a format idea that isn’t represented? Feel free to propose an alternative!

NOTE: Panels and sessions are limited to 90 minutes: 12-15 minutes for each panelist + 12-15 minutes for Q&A.

Please submit your proposal via this submission form: https://forms.gle/mUvE6EASRzPeHGvP8

The deadline for submitting session proposals is February 15, 2026.

You must be a LAMPHHS member to submit a proposal. Not a member? Join for only $25.00 at https://lamphhs.org/

If you have any questions, please email Howard Rootenberg at (howard@rootenbergbooks.com) or Brooke Fox (foxeb@musc.edu)