Category: Call for Papers

CFP: Gender and Archiving: Past, Present, and Future

Thanks to SAA’s Facebook for posting this! I had not heard of this publication and it’s a great opportunity for archivists. While I always recommend reading the Author Guidelines, because this is an international publication I strongly advise reading them thoroughly. A few items of note: write in British English, Oxford spelling, and many other very specific style issues.

Yearbook of Women’s History 2017 in collaboration with Atria on Gender and Archiving
Atria will be the Guest Editor of the Yearbook of Women’s History that will be published in May 2017. The volume is a follow-up of the international conference celebrating the 80th anniversary of the IAV-collection (International Archive of the Women’s Movement) that was hosted by Atria in December 2015. It will focus on the meaning and potential of archiving for enhancing gender equality and the position of women worldwide.

Call For Papers
There is an increasing interest in the significance of Women’s archives. Contemporary theory on gender and women’s archives and women’s libraries emphasizes that libraries and archives are more than storehouses of knowledge (De Jong en Koevoets 2013). Eichhorn, writing on feminist archiving, states that: “A turn toward the archive is not a turn toward the past but rather an essential way of understanding and imagining other ways to live in the present”(Eichhorn 2014). What is the meaning of archiving for the women’s movement then, now and in the future? What is the impact of practices of libraries and archives as they are undergoing profound transformations under the influence of new (technological) developments? What concepts, categories, discoveries, and theories can help expand our understanding of the meaning and potential of women´s archives and other institutions in the domain of history and gender research for enhancing gender equality and the position of women worldwide?

This issue will discuss these questions taking into account historical, contemporary and future perspectives. The focus will be international and comparative, looking at women’s archives from various parts of the globe and in different geopolitical settings. We would particularly welcome contributions outside Europe, notably on the role of women’s organisations in evolving democracies.

Abstracts (maximum 300 words) are to be submitted before 16 September 2016 to Saskia Bultman (editorial secretary): s.m.bultman.3@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

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.7 (2016:Winter).

The submission timeline is as follows:

Proposals due: September 23
Selections made: October 7
1st drafts due: November 4
Draft reviews: November 18
Revisions due: December 2
Publication: December 16

Submission should be sent to:

Practical Technology for Archives
Randall Miles
Managing Editor
rm527@cornell.edu

CFP: Manuscript Studies

reposted from H-NET:

Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies aims to bring together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today’s world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports.

The editors are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2017 issue. To submit, please send a cover page with your name and contact info, the title of the submission and a short abstract along with your submission to sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org.

We are delighted to announce that the first issue is out and available online through Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33571).

The Fall 2016 issue will be devoted to histories of collecting and provenance studies, featuring the following contributions:

  • Megan L. Cook, Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book
  • Anne-Marie Eze, “Safe from Destruction by Fire”: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venetian Manuscripts
  • Julia Verkholantsev From Sinai to California: The Trajectory of Greek NT Codex 712 from the UCLA Young Research Library’s Special Collections (170/347)
  • Eric Johnson and Scott Gwara, “The Butcher’s Bill”: Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments
  • William P. Stoneman, The Linked Collections of William Bragge (1823–1884) of Birmingham and Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1834–1885) of Liverpool
  • Peter Kidd, Medieval Origins Revealed by Modern Provenance: The Case of the Bywater Missal
  • Lisa Fagin Davis, Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries: A Breviary’s Journey from Le Mans to Reno
  • Toby Burrows, Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps in North American Institutions
  • Hanno Wijsman, The Bibale Database at the IRHT: A Digital Tool for Researching Manuscript Provenance
  • Debra Taylor Cashion, Broken Books

The Spring 2017 issue, guest-edited by Justin McDaniel, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will be devoted to a survey of major Thai manuscript collections around the world.

If you are interested in proposing a special issue for 2018 and beyond, please contact Lynn Ransom, Managing Editor, at lransom@upenn.edu.

CFP: College & Undergraduate Libraries

I saw this call come through and while the word “librarian” is everywhere in it, “archivist” is not. However, they mention things like data curation, preservation and access of DH projects, and other aspects that either archivists could (or should) have a say in, archivists with librarian duties may be involved with, or of interest to archivists with interest in digital humanities. Hope someone out there is interested in contributing!

THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIES, AND LIBRARIANSHIP

The redefinition of humanities scholarship has received major attention in higher education over the past few years. The advent of digital humanities has challenged many aspects of academic librarianship. With the acknowledgement that librarians must be a necessary part of this scholarly conversation, the challenges facing subject/liaison librarians, technical service librarians, and library administrators are many. Developing the knowledge base of digital tools, establishing best procedures and practices, understanding humanities scholarship, managing data through the research lifecycle, teaching literacies (information, data, visual) beyond the one-shot class, renegotiating the traditional librarian/faculty relationship as ‘service orientated,’ and the willingness of library and institutional administrators to allocate scarce resources to digital humanities projects while balancing the mission and priorities of their institutions are just some of the issues facing librarians as they reinvent themselves in the digital humanities sphere.

A CALL FOR PROPOSALS

College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, invites proposals for articles to be published in the fall of 2017. The issue will be co-edited by Kevin Gunn (gunn@cua.edu) of the Catholic University of America and Jason Paul (pauljn@stolaf.edu) of St. Olaf College.

The issue will deal with the digital humanities in a very broad sense, with a major focus on their implications for the roles of academic librarians and libraries as well as on librarianship in general. Possible article topics include, but are not limited to, the following themes, issues, challenges, and criticism:

  • Developing the project development mindset in librarians
  • Creating new positions and/or cross-training issues for librarians
  • Librarian as: point-of-service agent, an ongoing consultant, or as an embedded project librarian
  • Developing managerial and technological competencies in librarians
  • Administration support (or not) for DH endeavors in libraries
  • Teaching DH with faculty to students (undergraduate and graduate) and faculty
  • Helping students working with data
  • Managing the DH products of the data life cycle
  • Issues surrounding humanities data collection development and management
  • Relationships of data curation and digital libraries in DH
  • Issues in curation, preservation, sustainability, and access of DH data, projects, and products
  • Linked data, open access, and libraries
  • Librarian and staff development for non-traditional roles
  • Teaching DH in academic libraries
  • Project collaboration efforts with undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty
  • Data literacy for librarians
  • The lack of diversity of librarians and how it impacts DH development
  • Advocating and supporting DH across the institution
  • Developing institutional repositories for DH
  • Creating DH scholarship from the birth of digital objects
  • Consortial collaborations on DH projects
  • Establishing best practices for dh labs, networks, and services
  • Assessing, evaluating, and peer reviewing DH projects and librarians.

Articles may be theoretical or ideological discussions, case studies, best practices, research studies, and opinion pieces or position papers.

Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and up to six keywords describing the article, together with complete author contact information. Articles should be in the range of 20 double-spaced pages in length. Please consult the following link that contains instructions for authors: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=wcul20&page=instructions#.V0DJWE0UUdU.

Please submit proposals to Kevin Gunn (gunn@cua.edu) by August 17, 2016; please do not use Scholar One for submitting proposals. First drafts of accepted proposals will be due by February 1, 2017 with the issue being published in the fall of 2017. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions that you may have.

Kevin Gunn, Catholic University of America
Jason Paul, St. Olaf College

New Journal: KULA

I saw this announcement on the A&A listserv a couple weeks ago. I’m curious how the content will shape up and how much will be archives-related. There’s definite potential and I hope archivists consider contributing.

Inaugural Call for Papers – Spring 2016

KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, meant to encourage the formation of a multi-disciplinary community of scholars studying human knowledge processes through the ages, concerned to understand their role in the full sweep of human civilizations, and to project them into the future from both humanistic and technological perspectives. KULA has no author publication charges and articles will be published on a continuous basis.

KULA derives its name from the Sanskrit word meaning “community.” Kula is also a reference to the Pacific Rim Terrane called the “Kula Plate” from which Vancouver Island, Canada was formed millions of years ago and is where KULA is based at the University Libraries of the University of Victoria.

KULA will publish articles related to the past, present, and future of Citizen Science; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Heritage Informatics; Culture of Researchers; Data Sharing; Digital Archaeology; Digital Asset Management; Digital Curation; Digital Humanities; Digital Infrastructure; Digital Libraries; Digital Methods; Digital Preservation/ Curation; Digital Repositories; Digital Scholarship; Digitization; Emulation; Humanities Computing; Inclusive Design; Information Systems; Institutional and Policy Design; Knowledge & Research Infrastructures; Knowledge for Development; Knowledge Infrastructure; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Linked Data; Literary Studies; Media Studies; Multi-Institutional Collaboration; Open Access; Open Access Publishing; Open Scholarship; Open Science; Open Social Scholarship; Peer-Review Systems; Professionalization; Publishing Technologies; Research Assessment; Research Data Management; Research Libraries; Scholarly Communication; Scholarly Editing; Search and Discovery; Semantic Extraction; Social Exclusion; Social Knowledge; Sustainability Models; System Analysis and Design.

New Journal: Journal of New Librarianship

I’m momentarily breaking from this blog’s focus on archives publishing to share this CFP. Their description is pretty general, which I interpret as they are open to ideas. So who’s to say some of those ideas can’t be about archives? As many of us also have librarian duties, this journal may be a new opportunity to show that connection. Plus, it’s open access. They are also looking for editors and reviewers.

Call For Submissions: Journal of New Librarianship

http://newlibs.org/#

May 11, 2016

The Journal of New Librarianship is pleased to announce that it is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, anticipated for Fall 2016. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: Solicited articles; Scholarly Articles; Essays; Experience and opinion pieces; Media (i.e., podcasts, video, etc) relevant to innovative practices in librarianship; Book reviews; Technology reviews; Letters to the Editor on topics relevant to the field; Data sets; Manifestos; Extended scholarship (Greater than 15,000 words); and Interviews. Non-English content is welcome. Translation assistance is available for accepted works.

Authors must submit an abstract for all submissions. Authors must submit a cover letter. This should be uploaded as the “Supporting File” when submitted via Scholastica. The cover letter should include the origin of the project, whether it has been presented and if so where, and affirmation of its originality, veracity, and the author’s right to include all submitted material, data, and media. If the submission has been published or showcased publicly in any other manner (a blog post, as an uploaded YouTube video, etc) please include links to these as well as any notes about the circumstances and reception of the content. The cover letter should inform the editors of any time-related issues that should be considered. If material needs to be published that week to remain relevant, let us know. If it would be more relevant if published during a particular conference, let us know. We publish everything on a rolling basis, but hope to have all content be as timely as possible.

When submitting via Scholastica, authors will be asked to list potential reviewers who they deem to be appropriate, as well as any the editorial board should avoid. If the latter field is populated, please tell us in the cover letter (in broad strokes) why this is the case. The manuscript should be submitted in docx format only. For submissions which are not text-based, authors should submit an accompanying text document in the manuscript submission section of Scholastica, separate from the cover letter, which presents a textual presentation of the submission for the readership – something more detailed than your abstract, but not so much that it takes focus away from the primary submission.

Accompanying media of any kind should be submitted as separate files, which includes tables and images. The author is responsible for securing any rights required for the republication of any included media and for providing appropriate citations and/or rights statements. Media submissions may be submitted in two ways. If possible, please upload the media file to Scholastica via the “Supporting File” section. If the file is too large or the tool is otherwise not working, please email info@newlibs.org to make alternative arrangements.

Submissions may be published elsewhere at the author’s discretion. If they appear
elsewhere before they are submitted or during the publishing process, we ask that the author inform the editors. This will not impact the review process in any way. We just want to make sure we promote the work and give credit to wherever it might appear first as appropriate.

Recordings of interviews and conversations are welcome, and should be submitted with a verified transcript. All media in which someone other than the author is audible or visible must be submitted with appropriate release forms, or other documented evidence of the participants’ willingness to be involved.

Textual submissions should conform to APA 6th edition format wherever applicable.

CFP: Archives and Records

Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association Call for papers

from the website: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/archives-and-public-history

Archives and Public History: Places, Pasts and Identities

Archives are made visible through a broad range of public history activity, from Hollywood blockbusters and television documentaries, to national commemorative events and local community projects.  In common with other cultural heritage assets, they are recognised as a tool that enables people to engage with the past in all sorts of ways.

Nevertheless, questions remain about this intersection of archival heritage, public history and the past. For example:

  • How do archives create and inform knowledge about the past, and what role do they play in the production of histories?
  • How is digital technology changing the way that history-makers and public audiences encounter, understand and use archives?
  • What is the impact of the ‘democratisation’ of history and heritage on how people relate to archival materials?
  • What are the ethical implications of deploying archival heritage to tell stories about diverse places and identities?

This special issue of Archives and Records seeks to explore approaches to the public use of archives, emanating from all fields of study.  We recognise that ground-breaking work on the nature and value of archival heritage is happening across the disciplines, in history, literature, art, sociology, geography, heritage and information studies and beyond.  Many of these voices rarely enter the archives sector literature.  This issue aims to provide a space for encounters between researcher and practitioner discourses, and to encourage the cross-pollination of ideas.

We invite papers on any aspect of the public use of archives.  Contributions might consider, but need not be confined to, the following themes:

  • Popular conceptions and representations of archival heritage
  • The value of the archive to historians and other ‘history-makers’ (including historical fiction authors, TV producers, artists, community groups)
  • Social, historical, political and economic uses of archives by governments, local authorities, universities, community groups and individuals
  • The role of archives in commemorative activity and anniversary events
  • Discourses of memory, remembering/forgetting and archival heritage
  • Intersections with other forms of cultural heritage, e.g. material culture, built environment, intangible heritage

How to submit

Prospective authors are invited to contact the Guest Editor, Victoria Hoyle to discuss potential articles. The deadline for submissions is 31st July 2016. All submissions will be double blind peer-reviewed and should be presented in line with Archives and Records style guidelines.

CFP: Journal of Western Archives

The most notable web archiving effort to date (Internet Archive) started in California in 1996. Twenty years later, archival institutions throughout the Western United States are engaged in the curation and preservation of web content.

To better explore this rapidly evolving domain of the archival frontier, the Journal of Western Archives (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/) is currently seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue focused entirely on web archiving.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

* Application of new tools and workflows
* Calls to action or imagined futures
* Collaborative collections or projects
* Implementation of new programs or policies
* Lessons from advocacy or outreach
* (Local but likely shared) challenges, and solutions
* Quality assurance approaches and insights
* (Web) archival theory and practice

Acceptable formats for submission include final or work-in-progress research articles or case studies, as well as reviews of books, collections, services, or other media substantively concerning web archiving.

Potential contributors are encouraged to consult the more general submission guidelines. (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/styleguide.html). Begin the submission process by creating a contributor account (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/useradd.cgi?context=westernarchives).

The submission deadline for this special issue on web archiving is August 15, 2016.

Please contact JWA editor J. Gordon Daines III/gordon_daines@byu.edu or guest editor Nicholas Taylor/ntay@stanford.edu if you have any questions.

Journal of Western Archives is an open source and peer-reviewed journal that provides a venue where archivists working in the American West can highlight their unique contributions to the archival profession. See the journal overview (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/about.html) for complete coverage of the journal’s scope and aims.

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J. Gordon Daines III
Supervisor of Reference Services
Department Chair
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-5821
gordon_daines@byu.edu

CFP: Provenance

Provenance: The Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists, a peer reviewed academic publication, seeks articles on archival theory and practice for the 2016 issue. Please note that the content of the journal is not limited to the state of Georgia, and articles of regional or national significance are welcome. First-time authors are especially encouraged to submit articles for consideration. As evidenced by the forthcoming audiovisual issue, composed of video, audio, and traditional article formats, Provenance is also interested in innovative and unique methods for presenting scholarly content.

Articles on archival topics outside of theory and practice which meet publication standards will also be considered. Typical papers should be a Word document, 10-20 pages, double spaced, and formatted according to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Please review information for contributors: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/policies.html. Articles are to be submitted utilizing Provenance’s online system: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/.

For additional information contact Editor Heather Oswald at: provenance@soga.org. Deadline for contributions is July 31, 2016.

Gracy Award 

Each year the SGA awards the Gracy Award, a $350 prize which recognizes a superior contribution to Provenance. Named for David B. Gracy II, founder and first editor of Georgia Archive, the award began in 1990 and is judged by the editorial board.

*Back issues of Provenance and Georgia Archive available online*

At nearly 50,000 hits/downloads, the back issues (1972-2015) are a great
resource for archivists: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/

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The 2015 print issue is on its way to subscribers now, and will be publicly available online following a year long embargo for membership benefit. Become a member today!

Table of Contents for the 2015 issue:

2015 Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting Keynote Address
Only Connect: Communities, Archives and the Making and Keeping of Memory
Jeannette A. Bastian

Articles

 A Push in the Right Direction: Expanding Models of Mentorship
Lynette Stoudt, Caitlin Birch, Michelle Chiles, Luciana Spracher, Darla White

Time, Money and Effort: A Practical Approach to Digital Content Management
Christine S. Wiseman, Alfred S. Matthews

Our Love Won’t Fade Away: Processing the Jerry Garcia Memorial Altar Collection
Scott J. Carlson

Archivists and Faculty Collaborative Course Development
Courtney Chartier, Gabrielle M. Dudley, Donna Troka

The Right to Know … Or Not: The Freedom of Information Act, 1955-1974
Tommy C. Brown

Hoarding and Its Effects on Acquisition and Appraisal: Two Case Studies from the University of Illinois Archives
Roxanne M. Dunn

The Case of Stanly Will
Ryan Speer

Reviews

Gorman, Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World
Reviewed by Debra Branson March

Santamaria, Extensible Processing for Archives and Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs
Reviewed by Michael Nagy

Caldera and Neal, Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion
Reviewed by Laura Starratt

Behrnd-Klodt and Prom, eds. Rights in the Digital Era
Reviewed by Mandy Mastrovita

Delve and Anderson, Preserving Complex Digital Objects
Reviewed by Carol Waggoner-Angleton

Corrado and Moulaison, Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Reviewed by Grant Maher

Eichhorn, The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
Reviewed by Cheryl Oestreicher

Cloonon, Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Reviewed by Michael Law

Theimer, ed., Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
Reviewed by Pamela Nye

Pénichon, Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care
Reviewed by Mandi D. Johnson

Bradley, Social Media for Creative Libraries
Reviewed by Amanda Pellerin

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Heather Oswald

Editor, Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

CFP: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal – Themed issue call for papers

Fresh Insights: Student Research in Records Management

Editor: Fiorella Foscarini, University of Amsterdam

Guest Editor: Donald Force, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The Records Management Journal invites submissions for a themed issue dedicated to emerging scholars who are engaged in original research broadly related to the area of records and information management.  Students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programs at the time of the issuing of this call are invited to submit papers based on course assignments, projects, theses, or other kinds of research work carried out as part of their education.

We welcome contributions about, but not limited to, the following themes:

  • Concepts of record, document, information, archives
  • Recordkeeping theories, methods, and practices
  • History of recordkeeping
  • Professional roles and skills
  • Recordkeeping systems, technologies, and infrastructures
  • Digital preservation and access
  • User perspectives
  • Organizational culture
  • Personal recordkeeping
  • Studies of textual and non-textual documents
  • Contemporary perspectives on records, information, and archives

Students at all stages of their study who have done some research on issues that may be of interest to the Records Management Journal are invited to submit an extended abstract according to the instructions mentioned below.

Submission Deadlines:

  • Extended abstracts (more info below): 1 May 2016
  • Abstracts accepted and authors notified no later than: 30 May 2016
  • Full paper submitted: 1 October 2016
  • Review, revision and final acceptance: 28 February 2017

Submission Process:

Extended abstracts should be a 500-word version of the Records Management Journal?s structured abstract, using the headings described in the author guidelines (http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj). Under the design/methodology/approach heading, please include the following as appropriate to the type of paper:

  • (If it is a theoretical or conceptual paper) what is the approach to the topic? Briefly outline existing knowledge and the value added by the paper compared to that.
  • (If it is a research paper) what is the main research question or aim? What are the research strategy and the main method(s) used?
  • (If the paper is a case study) outline its scope and nature and the method of deriving conclusions.

Please send your extended abstract to the Journal Editor Fiorella Foscarini: f.foscarini@uva.nl

Full papers (for accepted abstracts) should be 3000-7000 words (excluding references) and should be prepared using the RMJ guidelines, which can be read here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj. Papers will be reviewed following the journal?s standard double-blind peer review process.

Fiorella Foscarini (f.foscarini@uva.nl<mailto:f.foscarini@uva.nl>) is also happy to receive informal enquiries.

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Donald C. Force, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Office: NWQ 3495
Phone: (414) 229-2792