Author: Cheryl

2017 ARSC Awards for Excellence

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) posts the following message.

— 2017 ARSC AWARDS —

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books, articles, liner notes, and monographs, to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound. In giving these awards, ARSC recognizes outstanding contributions, encourages high standards, and promotes awareness of superior works.

Two awards may be presented annually in each category — one for best history and one for best discography. Certificates of Merit are presented to runners-up of exceptionally high quality. The 2017 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2016.

For the 2017 winners, go to:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/awards/awards2017.html

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings — in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals — everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.

Research Study: Archives in Libraries

Part of supporting scholarship is helping others with their research. When they arise, I’m going to start posting calls about surveys, studies, and the like that are designed with a research study in mind. I don’t know if/how these will be published, but supporting each other in these endeavors helps build a research and scholarship community.

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Good afternoon everyone,

I am developing a research proposal focused on the administrative dynamics surrounding archives that exist organizationally in libraries and the potential effects this parent-child relationship has on users. In particular, I am interested in talking with organizations that have reorganized the placement or structure of the archives unit within a library in the last 2 years. If you work in such an organization and are interested in participating in this study, please contact me at atodddiaz@towson.edu

Thank you in advance!

Ashley

Ashley Todd-Diaz, MSIS, MA, CA
Head of Special Collections and University Archives
Albert S. Cook Library
Towson University
Towson, Maryland

Newsletter Calls and Content

Midwest Archivist

Greetings Colleagues!
Has your repository completed an amazing project, received a notable grant or accomplished something that you would like to share with your colleagues?

The Midwest Archives Conference is seeking newsletter content for the News from the Midwest column. The deadline is November 1.

I’m looking for content from Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin. We look forward to promoting archival accomplishments in the Heartland!

Alison Stankrauff
University Archivist
Wayne State University
Walter Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
alison.stankrauff@wayne.edu
313-577-4027

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Archivists and Archives of Color Quarterly Newsletter

Call for Submissions for Fall 2017 Newsletter

We want to hear from you. The Archivists and Archives of Color Quarterly Newsletter is looking for news, upcoming events, exhibits, staff news, fellowship/scholarship announcements, etc. from your institution.

If you would like your item to be published in our Fall 2017 issue, please submit your announcements/news/photos to Ashley Stevens, Newsletter Editor at asteven8@gmail.com by Friday, October 13, 2017.

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Human Rights Archives Section Newsletter

Something important to you missing from this newsletter? Send a submission my way and let me know what you would like to see.Please submit newsletter items about archives and human rights (writ broadly) to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. These can be recent publications, upcoming events or exhibitions, opportunities and scholarships, or something else entirely as long as it connects to archives and human rights. For the October newsletter, please send you submission by October 24, 2017.

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Manuscripts Section Newsletter

The Fall 2017 issue of SAA’s Manuscript Repositories Section Newsletter is available and can be accessed on the Section’s website: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/manuscript-repositories-section

This issue contains minutes from the annual meeting in Portland and the summer steering committee meeting, as well as news and announcements from Williams College, AUC Woodruff Library Archives Research Center, Boston College, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the newsletter!

For future newsletters, please send submissions to Alison Clemens, at alison.clemens@gmail.com The submissions deadline for the next newsletter is 1 March 2018.

Ashley Todd-Diaz
Chair, Manuscripts Repository Section

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The Florida Archivist

Deadline extended to October 22.

The Florida Archivist provides informative and timely information about the activities of archivists and archival repositories in the state of Florida. Press releases, conference and workshop information, job announcements, exhibition news, grant opportunities, and related topics are also published.  Contact Newsletter Editor Jessica Orozco (jmorozco@stu.edu) for more information.

CFP: Practical Technology for Archives

Practical Technology for Archives is an open-access, peer-reviewed, electronic journal focused on the practical application of technology to address challenges encountered in working with archives. Our goal is to provide a timely resource, published semi-annually, that addresses issues of interest to practitioners, and to foster community interaction through monitored comments. Submissions may be full articles, brief tips and techniques, AV tutorials, reviews (tools, software, books), or post-grant technical reports. Please visit practicaltechnologyforarchives.org for more information.

The editorial board of Practical Technology for Archives is calling for proposals/abstracts for Issue no.9 (2018:Winter).

The submission timeline is as follows:

Proposals due: October 27
Selections made: November 8
1st drafts due: December 8
Draft reviews: December 22
Revisions due: January 19
Publication: February 2

Submissions should be sent to:
Practical Technology for Archives
Randall Miles
Managing Editor
rm527@cornell.edu

Recent Issue: The Reading Room

The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections is now available for download.

Volume 2 | Issue 2 – (Full Issue, Spring 2017)

Bringing Art to the Library: An Undergraduate Art Education Collaborative with the Curriculum Materials Center
Karen Nourse Reed, Middle Tennessee State University

Making the Case for Brown University’s Stamp Collections
Sarah Dylla, Rhode Island School of Design and Steven Lubar, Brown University

A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at the University of North Texas Libraries
Marcia McIntosh, Jacob Mangum, and Mark E. Phillips, University of North Texas

Literary Manuscripts in the Classroom: Using Manuscript Collections to Engage Undergraduate Students
Libby Hertenstein, Bowling Green State University

What was Old is New Again: Managing Streaming Archival Films on Multiple Hosted Platforms
Jessica Clemons, University at Buffalo, and Reed Bresson, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

(Semi) Open Access: Taylor & Francis Journals

I recently found out that Taylor & Francis provides some content as open access. Much of what they have is behind subscription paywalls, but I am pleasantly surprised they offer a way to search their journals that’s available to anyone.

The search function is on their website. After a search, you’ll see both open and subscription content. On the left side is a box to check to limit to open access journals.

A quick search for “archives” yielded quite a few results. However, I know not all were relevant to the archival profession. But there are several library and archives journals published by Taylor & Francis, including Archives & Manuscripts, Journal of Archival Organization, Archives and Records, and others.

This is a helpful resource for the many archivists whose institutions don’t subscribe to the database. Enjoy!

Recent Issue: Manuscript Studies

Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Spring 2017 Vol. 2.1

Dedication
Justin McDaniel

Illuminating Archives: Collectors and Collections in the History of Thai Manuscripts
Justin McDaniel

Henry D. Ginsburg and the Thai Manuscripts Collection at the British Library and Beyond
Jana Igunma

Cultural Goods and Flotsam: Early Thai Manuscripts in Germany and Those Who Collected Them
Barend Jan Terwiel

Thai Manuscripts in Italian Libraries: Three Manuscripts from G. E. Gerini’s Collection Kept at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Claudio Cicuzza

Manuscripts in Central Thailand: Samut Khoi from Phetchaburi Province
Peter Skilling and Santi Pakdeekham

Manuscripts from the Kingdom of Siam in Japan 
Toshiya Unebe

The Chester Beatty Collection of Siamese Manuscripts in Ireland
Justin McDaniel

Siamese Manuscript Collections in the United States
Susanne Ryuyin Kerekes and Justin McDaniel

Reviews

The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches eds. by Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen (review)
Benjamin C. Tilghman

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library by Christopher Wright et al. (review)
Georgi Parpulov
Christine de Pizan in Bruges: “Le livre de la cité des dames” as “Het Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen” (London, British Library, Add. 20698) by Orlanda S. H. Lie et al. (review)
Hanno Wijsman

Borthwick Institute for Archives by York’s Archbishops’ (review)
Alexander Devine

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al., and: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections eds. by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al. (review)
Jessica Brantley

2016 Publications Mander Jones Awards Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the 2016 Publications Mander Jones Award recipients who were presented with a certificate at the 2017 AGM.

Recipients

Category 1A:  City of Sydney, Records Management Challenge eLearning module

Category 1B: Anne Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew Lau, Research in the Archival Multiverse, Social Informatics Series, Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Press, 2016.

Category 2A: SDN Children’s Services / Dr Leone Huntsman Children, a life interest: a biography of Joan Fry OBE

Category 3: National Library of Australia, Guide to manuscript collections containing currency related items in the National Library of Australia

Category 5: Two winners in this category:

Michael Jones and Richard Vine, “Cultivating Capability: The Socio-Technical Challenges of Integrating Approaches to Records and Knowledge Management” Records Management Journal, Vol. 26 Issue: 3, pp.242-258

Sue McKemmish, “Recordkeeping in the Continuum: an Australian tradition” in ed. Anne J Gilliand; Sue McKemmish; Andrew J Lau Research in the Archival Multiverse, Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Press, 2016. p. 122-160.

Category 6: Dr Rachel Buchanan, How Shakespeare helped shape Germaine Greer’s feminist masterpiece, The Conversation, Australian edition, May 26, 2016.

Category 8: Find & Connect web resource team, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Find and Connect Web Resource Blog

Commendations

Category 2A: University of Melbourne Archives and Millicent Weber, “A fortune built on slavery: the Bright Family Papers and their journey from UK to Melbourne”, The Conversation, 22 August 2016

Category 3: Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria Ward Records Collection Guide

Recent Issue: Past & Present

While this is not an archives journal, they had a special issue about archives.

Past & Present, Volume 230, Issue suppl_11, 2016

The Social History of the Archive: Record-Keeping in Early Modern Europe
Alexandra Walsham

PART 1: CREATION, CURATION, AND EXPERTISE

The Rise of Archival Consciousness in Provincial France: French Feudal Records and Eighteenth-Century Seigneurial Society
Markus Friedrich

Roman Notarial Records between Market and State
Laurie Nussdorfer

The Archive of Orientalism and its Keepers: Re-Imagining the Histories of Arabic Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe
John-Paul Ghobrial

The Clerk’s Tale: Civic Writing in Sixteenth-Century London
Jennifer Bishop

PART 2: CREDIBILITY, TESTIMONY, AND AUTHENTICITY

Record-Keeping and Status Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries
Frederik Buylaert; Jelle Haemers

Early Modern Bookkeeping and Life-Writing Revisited: Accounting for Richard Stonley
Jason Scott-Warren

Archives, Eyewitnesses and Rumours: Writing About Shrines in Early Modern France
Virginia Reinburg

Recording Miracles in Renaissance Italy
Mary Laven

PART 3: COLLECTING, COMPILING, AND CONTROLLING KNOWLEDGE

Tales from the ‘Yarmouth Hutch’: Civic Identities and Hidden Histories in an Urban Archive
Andy Wood

Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe
Judith Pollmann

Common Places and Private Spaces: Libraries, Record-Keeping and Orders of Information in Sixteenth-Century Medicine
Hannah Murphy

Dislocation and Record-Keeping: The Counter Archives of the Catholic Diaspora
Liesbeth Corens

PART 4: MEMORY, HISTORY, AND OBLIVION

Recording the Wars of Religion: The ‘Drolleries of the League’ from Ephemeral Print to Scrapbook History
Tom Hamilton

‘The Accounts of the Kingdom’: Memory, Community and the English Civil War
Ann Hughes

Archiving and Narration in Post-Reformation Germany and the Netherlands
Jesse Spohnholz

New/Recent Scholarship: Various Publications

“‘Reacting to the Past:’ How to Use and Assess Role Playing Games in American History”
Jennifer Hanley

“Novel Ideas: Archives in English-Canadian Literary Life and Fiction, 1960-2017”
Chantel Fehr (thesis)

“A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries”
Jodi Reeves Eyre, John C. Maclachlan, and Christa Williford, editors (CLIR Report)

“Migrating Web Archives from HTML4 to HTML5: A Block-Based Approach and Its Evaluation” ADBIS 2017: Advances in Databases and Information Systems (conference proceedings)
Andrés Sanoja, Stéphane Gançarski

“Optimization Process of Compiling and Researching Archives in Universities
Under the Background of Information Sharing” 2017 3rd International Conference on Social Science, Management and Economics (SSME 2017)
Wang Ling

“Born Digital Access Research Project”
Kathryn Antonelli, Will Clements, Valencia Johnson
Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections
Graduate Fellows, Summer 2017