Author: Cheryl

New Issue: Archivaria

Archivaria 84 (Fall 2017)
(subscription)

Articles
Catalogues and the Collecting and Ordering of Knowledge (II): Debates about Cataloguing Practices in the British Museum and the Forebears of the Public Record Office of Great Britain, ca. 1750–1850
Heather MacNeil

Everything Old Is New Again: The Evolution of Generic Appraisal at Library and Archives Canada
Rebecca Giesbrecht and Jenna Murdock Smith

Beyond Clicks, Likes, and Downloads: Identifying Meaningful Impacts for Digitized Ethnographic Archives
Ricardo L. Punzalan, Diana E. Marsh, and Kyla Cools

Meaning-Making and Memory-Making in the Archives: Oral History Interviews with Archives Donors
Carmen Ruschiensky

Study in Documents From Meteorological Registers to Climate Data: Information Gathering in the Early Years of the Meteorological Service of Canada
Tom Belton

Notes and Communications
He Tohu
Lillie le Dorré

Book Reviews
Heather MacNeil and Terry Eastwood, eds., Currents of Archival Thinking, 2nd ed. (Jonathan Dorey)

Katherine Biber and Trish Luker, eds., Evidence and the Archive: Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion (Steven Maynard)

Anne J. Gilliland, Sue McKemmish, and Andrew J. Lau, eds., Research in the Archival Multiverse (Rebecka T. Sheffield)

Sonja Luehrmann, Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge (Alexandra Wieland)

Exhibition Reviews
Arresting Images: Mug Shots from the OPP Museum. Peterborough Museum & Archives (Jodi Aoki)

Free Black North. Art Gallery of Ontario (Rachel Lobo)

Hank Bull: Connexion. Burnaby Art Gallery (Shyla Seller)

Archivaria Awards 

AIEF: Call for Researchers: Industry in One Series

The ARMA International Education Foundation is currently seeking up to six (3 US, 3CA) researchers to work with us on a freelance basis. Each paper will identify the state of information management within the industry, highlighting records management in a condensed report (25-30 pages) for each of the following initial industries to be addressed: energy, finance, and legal. A report is to be generated for each topic by a subject matter expert (SME) to provide distinct United States and Canadian perspectives. It is conceivable that a SME with expertise and extensive experience in both countries could conduct research for both reports in a specific industry. In this case, the researcher would be awarded two contracts: one for the United States project, and one for the Canadian project. The Foundation would like to see this research address, at a minimum, the following questions:

* For the purposes of this research, define the scope of this industry and its role in the general economy.
* What is the primary regulatory agency or oversight body that oversees the industry?
* What are the information management-related risks for the industry?
* What record categories are critical to this industry and central to its operations?
* What are the primary laws and regulations that effect information management?
* What operational considerations affect information management?
* What are industry best practices for information management?
* What is the future outlook for the industry?
* Are records managers present in the industry? If not, who manages and controls the records?

The report will be reviewed prior to publication. A Foundation liaison will be assigned to the project and be a resource with the subject matter expert through its duration.
Available Funding: $2,000.00 (USD) per topic, per country, paid in three installments ($500, $500, $1,000).

Contract Term: To be negotiated. Goal is 3-6 months from the date of signed contract.
Applications: Please send a resume with a cover letter detailing why you are the person for this project, relevant experience, and suggestions for the project as email attachments to: coordinator@armaedfoundation.org

Copyright: Copyright will be retained by the Foundation.

Deadline for Applications: February 9, 2018

The AIEF is a funding resource for research and scholarships in the field of records and information management. The primary funding source is derived from concerned individuals and organizations in the profession. The Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit entity. Potential donors are invited to contact the foundation administration for additional information: coordinator@armaedfoundation.org or visit http://armaedfoundation.org for additional information about the organization.

Archivaria Awards

The Association of Canadian Archivists has established the following three
awards to recognize excellent writing in Archivaria: the W. Kaye Lamb Prize,
the Hugh A. Taylor Prize, and the Gordon Dodds Prize.
Winners receive a certificate, a cash prize, formal notification in Archivaria,
and ongoing listing on the ACA website (www.archivists.ca). A description of
the adjudication procedures for these awards may also be found there.

Read the full article.

W. Kaye Lamb Prize (established 1983)
J.J. Ghaddar for her article, “The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory,” in Archivaria 82 (Fall 2016).

Hugh A. Taylor Prize (established 2006)
Naomi Norquay for her article, “An Accidental Archive of the Old Durham Road: Reclaiming a Black Pioneer Settlement,” which appeared in Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016).

Gordon Dodds Prize (established 2011)
Alyssa Hamer for her paper “Ethics of Archival Practice: New Considerations in the Digital Age.”

New Issue: International Journal of Digital Curation

International Journal of Digital Curation Volume 12 No. 2 (2017)
(open access)

Articles
Building Tools to Support Active Curation: Lessons Learned from SEAD
Dharma Akmon, Margaret Hedstrom, James D. Myers, Anna Ovchinnikova, Inna Kouper

Reuse for Research: Curating Astrophysical Datasets for Future Researchers
Anders Sparre Conrad, Rasmus Handberg, Michael Svendsen

When Scientists Become Social Scientists: How Citizen Science Projects Learn About Volunteers
Peter Darch

Introducing safe access to sensitive data at the University of Bristol
Debra Hiom, Stephen Gray, Damian Steer, Kirsty Merrett, Kellie Snow, Zosia Beckles

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Data Management Training: DataONE’s Survey Instrument
Chung-Yi Hou, Heather Soyka, Vivian Hutchison, Isis Sema, Chris Allen, Amber Budden

Encouraging and Facilitating Laboratory Scientists to Curate at Source
Cerys Willoughby, Jeremy Frey

New Issue: Journal of Western Archives

Journal of Western Archives Volume 9, Issue 1 (2018)
(open access)

Case Studies

“Reflections on Digitization, Outreach, and the Value of Ephemera in Special Collections: A Case Study”
Gregory K. Seppi

Case Studies in Campus and Community Outreach: The Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona Exhibit and the 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Trent S. Purdy

Reviews

Review of Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
Jeffrey Paul Thompson

Review of A History of Archival Practice
Randall C. Jimerson

Research Fellowship: Southern Methodist University

Bridwell Library is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars and Ministers Fellowships program. This year we are offering five fellowships with a $2,000 stipend. The stipend is meant to help defray research, living, and travel expenses during the tenure of the award and preference is given to applicants residing at least 100 miles from the Southern Methodist University campus. The program is open to all active scholars from Ph.D. students to retired professors, and to religious leaders of all faiths. If you know of persons who might benefit from this program please encourage them to go to our website where full information on the program may be found: http://www.smu.edu/Bridwell/About/ResearchStudy/BridwellFellowships. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2018.

Call for Reviews: Multimedia & Technology Reviews

Multimedia & Technology Reviews still needs you! We are seeking reviewers for the following resources:

Umbra Search
https://www.umbrasearch.org

A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816)
ArchNet
Library Stack

Please see below for reviewer guidelines and full details on the above resources.

Please fill out the reviewer interest form (https://goo.gl/forms/Y2T9HPNinHznHFeK2) by Monday, January 29.

Thank you!

Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:

Melanie Emerson
Gabriella Karl-Johnson
Alexandra Provo

New Publications: Books

The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and managing the historical records of business
Edited by Alison Turton

The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives
Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen, Ella Raidel

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership
Editors: Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi

Digital Libraries and Archives: 13th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2017, Modena, Italy, January 26-27, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Thomas S. Mullaney

Visual Literacy for Libraries: A practical, standards-based guide
Nicole E. Brown, Kaila Bussert, Denise Hattwig, and Ann Medaille

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes

Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
Nancy Moses

Forging the Future of Special Collections
Arnold Hirshon, Robert H. Jackson, Melissa A. Hubbard

America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress
John Y. Cole

The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving
edited by Brianna H Marshall

CFP: Shhhh…Murder!

Okay, this is not scholarly but too fun not to pass along. Though stated for librarians, I’m sure archivists can also submit.

Shhhh… Murder!

Scheduled for release in late spring of next year and timed for summer reading, this anthology will feature cozy to cozy-noir stories featuring libraries and librarians. Extra points will be shamelessly awarded to writers with personal ties to libraries.

The submission period for this anthology runs from November 1st to February 28th, upon the last stroke of midnight, Pacific Standard Time.

We are looking for stories from 2500 to 5000 words, but will consider stories outside that range, at our discretion. Contributors will share equally fifty percent of the royalties received. We expect between fifteen and twenty stories to be accepted and are aiming at a volume length of around eighty-five thousand words, and around two-hundred and thirty pages—all dependent, obviously, upon the length of the material chosen.

We will accept work previously published, provided it was not published after May of 2017, and that you hold the rights. Simultaneous submissions are fine, with the usual proviso that we should be notified should the work be accepted elsewhere, so that we may withdraw it from consideration.

Submissions and questions may be sent to submissions@darkhousebooks.com.

Here are some manuscript formatting tips.

Call for Nominations: Boydston Essay Prize

The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2018 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2017, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award carries a cash honorarium of $300. Eligible essays may have been published in digital and print journals, monographs, and collections. Please submit nominations and citations in the body of an e-mail, and attach essays or reviews to be considered as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the address below. Self-nominations are welcome. The prize will be awarded in June 2018 at the ADE annual meeting in Olympia, Washington.

Nominations are due by January 31, 2018.

Submit nominations to:
Tony Curtis
Assistant Editor
Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
tony.curtis@ky.gov