Category: General

G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion

Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives invites everyone to join the next G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion:

THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom

[The next discussion (we’re switching things up a bit): 
THE VAULTS by Toby Ball
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom]

Please share with anyone who might be interested-​all are welcome to join the book club!

Please let me know if you have any questions: lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Regards,
Ms. Lou Ellen Kramer
Archives Manager
Miami Dade College

Seeking Associate Editor: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) is looking for a new volunteer Associate Editor! Associate Editors work with the JCAS Editorial Board to solicit, select, and develop content for the journal. Primary duties include:

  • Selection of peer reviewers for assigned submissions
  • Supervising the peer review process in consultation with the Managing Editor
  • Evaluating peer review reports
  • Making recommendations to the Managing Editor on the suitability of submissions for publication
  • Participation in programming at events
  • Soliciting submissions
  • Assisting in the development of content
  • Actively participating in the management of the journal

The term of service runs July 2024 – June 2027 with the opportunity to renew for another three-year term.

Applicants must submit a résumé or CV and a brief statement of interest to email.jcas@gmail.com by Friday, June 28.

Imago Mundi journal at the International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 2024

Date: July 1, 2024 – July 5, 2024

Location: France

The editors of Imago Mundi are looking forward to attending ICHC 2024 in Lyon, France. Imago Mundi turns 90 years old in 2025 and ICHC 2024 offers us a chance to reflect on and connect with our community. They are eager to speak with researchers about prospective submissions, as well as to discuss the journal’s scope and reach. 

The editors will lead a workshop on Wednesday, 3 July. Attendees will tackle questions that include how, in the next decade, Imago Mundi might:

  • foster debate on methodological and conceptual questions, advance pedagogy, increase public impact?  
  • ensure a full range of maps and mapmaking practices are presented? 
  • contribute to connecting researchers, collectors, librarians and archivists? 

In short, we invite the map history community’s thoughts on what a flagship journal should strive for as it looks towards a second century.

Additionally, the editors will be available for discussions and one-on-ones during the lunch session each day during the conference. Please feel free to approach Jordana Dym or Katie Parker at the ICHC to chat about possible article topics, how to write an article, special issues, or other matters. Alternatively, reach out ahead of time to plan a time. 

Questions? Please contact editor.imagomundi@gmail.com. We will see you in Lyon and remember, early bird registration ends April 20! Learn more at https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/registration  

Contact Information

Katie Parker and Jordana Dym, editors

Contact Email

editor.imagomundi@gmail.com

Call for Applicants: Associate Editor for SAA Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources

The Teaching with Primary Sources sub-committee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for the role of Associate Editor for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series. For more information about the series, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Case-Studies-Teaching-With-Primary-Sources.

The Associate Editor works with the Editor to maintain the Teaching with Primary Sources Case Studies as a contribution to the professional scholarship and illustration of the application of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. The position, in collaboration with the Editor, coordinates the review process and works with peer reviewers. The Associate Editor role shall become the Editor when their term expires, requiring a two-year commitment. The expected start date for the Associate Editor is July 1, 2024.

Duties:

●       In consultation with the Editor, identify potential authors and solicit proposals

●       Assist in coordinating the peer review process, and work with peer reviewers to provide timely feedback

●       As directed by the Editor, communicate reviews and feedback to authors

●       Promote recently published case studies to the RAO membership and broader community of practitioners

Applications will be accepted to twps-casestudies@archivists.org until June 7, 2024. Applicants should submit a statement of interest explaining their experience editing; their ideas for including more diverse voices, institutions, and/or case studies; and a resume/CV. Questions may be addressed to current editors, Mary Feeney and Kara Flynn, at twps-casestudies@archivists.org.

American Archivist Generative AI Statement

Introduction:

In Spring of 2023, American Archivist editors learned that authors had used artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as ChatGPT in submissions to the Reviews Portal. This sparked a conversation within the Editorial Board about the ethical use of AI in American Archivist content. As ChatGPT and other AI programs are becoming ubiquitous, the American Archivist Editorial Board is endorsing the following Norms and Recommendations for AI use within our publications. 

The Editorial Board recognizes that the technological landscape is rapidly evolving with regard to AI in scholarship and journal publication. We recognize that AI has great potential to contribute to archivists’ professional work, including creating summary documents for finding aids and facilitating data analysis for large projects. The American Archivist Editorial Board recognizes the opportunity to engage AI for scholarship and professional growth.

For the integrity of the journal, our goal is to define standards for the journal and the reviews portal, and to encourage authors to be transparent about their use of generative AI platforms, including ChatGPT, in content they submit. While the Editorial Board will not reject a piece solely based on the use of AI, we want to be clear about how AI is used in any context in American Archivist. We value an ethical approach to publishing and transparency for our professional membership and our readership.

We recognize that there is a distinction between using AI for assistance with spelling and grammar, and using AI to generate content. Multiple disciplines are voicing concerns about generative AI, and as a journal representing one arm of the allied information professions, this is what concerns us most. First, generative AI may pose substantial issues for copyright and intellectual property: generative AI uses other publications and writings that appear online, and these may not be appropriately attributed for copyright purposes. AI generated content may also reproduce biases from existing online content, and spread misinformation. In addition, our own editorial experience has shown that AI generated citations may produce references to articles that simply do not exist.[1]

In an effort to discourage the spread of misinformation, in an effort to maintain integrity of the journal, and to value our responsibility to authors, Society of American Archivist (SAA) members, and readers, the American Archivist Editorial Board is setting forth these Norms and Recommendations for the use of AI in our publications.

Norms and Recommendations:

These Norms and Recommendations represent an ethical agreement between authors submitting content to the journal and portal, and the Editorial Board. They are intended to encourage transparency in the use of AI in the research and publication process. They are not strictly enforced, nor do they purport to be a legally binding agreement between SAA, American Archivist, or the authors submitting content. The Editorial Board will review these norms and recommendations on an annual basis.

• No article will be summarily rejected because of the use of AI.

• Articles containing purely generated AI content are prohibited. 

• Authors must disclose the use of AI when a manuscript (review or article) is submitted. This includes, but is not limited to, AI generated content and data analysis. For maximum transparency, this disclosure should appear at the beginning of the article—in an author’s note, the abstract, or a statement prior to the article’s introduction.

• All content—regardless of the use of AI—will go through normal review channels (double blind peer review and/or editorial review, as appropriate).

• Editorial decisions are made based on peer/editorial review, quality of writing, and content. 

• Editors reserve the right to request AI transcripts from authors as well as additional information about its specific use, including where and how AI was used in the piece.

• Editors reserve the right to provide AI transcripts to peer reviewers as context for the piece.

Adopted February 15, 2024

Next scheduled review: February 2025

[1] Why does ChatGPT generate fake references? – TECHE (mq.edu.au) 

Read other submissions guidelines here. 

Announcement: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing, RBM Editorial Board

Join editors for printing history and special collections journals and book reviews on May 1 with your questions about publishing!

Have questions about how to turn your work into an article? Want to know more about the vast landscape that is special collections, printing history, and cultural heritage peer-reviewed publications? Join us for a conversation with editors of the following, who are all confirmed speakers:

  • RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Diane Dias De Fazio)
  • RBM book reviews (John Henry Adams)
  • American Printing History Association’s Printing History (Josef Beery)
  • Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Sarah Werner)
  • Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (Jennifer Hoyer)
  • Book History, journal of the Society of History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) (Greg Barnheisel)

Attendance to this special one-time-only event is open to the public and free, but you must register in advance through ACRL.

Register at the following link: ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/…

Title: ACRL RBM Editorial Board: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing

When: May 1, 2024

Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

We looking forward to seeing you there!

Call for Volunteers: H-HistBibl Listserv

Join us in making H-HistBibl bigger, better, and more useful!

H-HistBibl is an international network of librarians, archivists, curators, and other scholars and practitioners interested in the practice and study of bibliographic, library and cultural heritage services to support the study and teaching of history. In line with the guidelines of our parent non-profit, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences online, our network is an open, moderated forum that makes all its digital content available for free and is committed to academic and editorial best practices. We are free from spamming, trolling, and narrowly self-promotional behaviors. Our content circulates directly to our subscribers around the world.

Service with an H-Net network like H-HistBibl can be an excellent way to support scholarship and pedagogy, gain experience and academic connections, and drive the field forward. H-Net provides quick and helpful online training to our editors and sustains an editorial support network.

If you are interested in joining our volunteer staff, please note that we require that all volunteers: 1) have regular internet access; 2) can read and write English well; 3) can work collaboratively with other scholars as well as independently of them; 4) remain in regular communication with the rest of our staff and H-Net via email; and 5) are active in our fields of study and practice.  If you haven’t already done so, please take some time to acquaint yourself with the topics we cover.

We are always eager to correspond with scholars and practitioners who believe they might be interested in volunteering, so please do not hesitate to contact us with questions at editorial-histbibl@mail.h-net.org

Open Positions

We are very interested in volunteers who can help develop the following projects and initiatives.

Announcements: we would welcome support with circulating academic announcements to our subscribers. This work is light and routine in nature, but interesting as it helps us stay current with significant issues of interest to subscribers. It can be particularly helpful to junior scholars and other academics seeking to gain a broad view of the field. Duties include browsing H-Announce for relevant posts (like calls for papers) and monitoring relevant submissions to H-HistBibl.

Subject editors: editors in these positions focus on tracking discussions about topics relevant to H-HistBibl that can be found in informed public media, such as through scholarly publications and blogs, news reporting, social media, and more. The work involves publishing posts on H-HistBibl on a regular basis, weekly or semi-weekly, pointing to an interesting resource and briefly summarizing it.

Subscriber Engagement: we would welcome an editor to help oversee the approval of new subscriptions to our network, with an emphasis on requiring new subscribers to fully complete their user profiles. 

Advisory Board Members: advisory board members actively support our editors, help with subscriber recruitment, remain in reliable email communication, advise on the scope and projects of H-HistBibl, and mediate any disputes that arise. Ideally, they may propose new initiatives and offer improvements of ongoing efforts.

We encourage candidates who will further advance the goal of fostering a diverse and inclusive online community.

More information about joining and volunteering with H-Net is available at Join H-Net.

To Apply

Please email a single PDF containing the following to editorial-histbibl@mail.h-net.org : 1) Your C.V., including current contact information. 2) A description of about 250 words explaining your areas of expertise. Before applying, please update your H-Net profile if you have not already done so (see the Updating your Profile guide for more information).

Reading Discussion: Eira Tansey’s “A Green New Deal For Archives”

Please join SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey’s A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

Tansey’s important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

  • Gaps inarchival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
  • Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
  • Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

We look forward to seeing you there!  Please reach out with any questions or concerns.  

Issues and Advocacy Section Steering Committee 

Elizabeth Call is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: I&A Hive Mind

Time: Jan 25, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

rit.zoom.us/j/91575968470

Meeting ID: 915 7596 8470

Find your local number: rit.zoom.us/u/amko9M5Sv

Event: SAA Write Away Forum

Wondering what it takes to write a research article? Draft a book proposal? Prepare a case study on archival practice? Review a professional resource? Define terminology in the archival lexicon?

Join SAA to find out how! There are a wide range of opportunities to write for SAA and contribute to its newsletters, blogs, case, studies series, reviews portal, magazine, journal, dictionary, and books. Whether you are a novice writer, an experienced voice, or anything in between, learn how to share your experiences and expertise through SAA’s writing opportunities at this free virtual forum on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. CT.

Register Here

RSVP required for Zoom security.

At the forum, SAA publications staff Hannah Stryker will kick-off a discussion with Publications Editor Stacie Williams, American Archivist Editor Amy Cooper Cary, Journal Reviews Editors Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, SAA staff Julia Pillard on Archival Outlook, and members of the Committee on Data, Research, and Assessment (CORDA) as well as the Dictionary Working Group. Each speaker will highlight their respective publishing outlet and address how to submit content, topic trends, and new directions. There will be a Q&A session following the presentations, as well as more information on how to connect with the editors after the forum.

Join SAA and “write away”!

Call for Participation: self-identified queer knowledge workers in doctoral dissertation research

My name is Bri Watson, and I am a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Library and Information Studies at University of British Columbia iSchool. Under the supervision of my advisor, Dr. Julia Bullard (the Principal Investigator), I am writing to request the participation of self-identified queer knowledge workers in my doctoral dissertation research.

By ‘queer,’ I mean any individual publicly identifying as a member of the LGTBQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit and more) or MORGAI (Margainalized Orientations, Relationships, Genders, Asexualities and Intersex) communities. By ‘knowledge workers,’ I mean individuals engaged in professional, amateur, or community-based technical services work including cataloging, classification, metadata, taxonomy, tagging/folksonomy, and so on. 

The project consists of qualitative interviews and focus groups with self-identified queer knowledge workers. The interview will focus on their experiences with and strategies around the use of knowledge organization systems like the Library of Congress Subject Headings or similar. The focus group will consist of a collaborative editing session with terminology from Homosaurus vocabulary.

Research is Canada-based but will be conducted virtually, and participants are outside of North America are welcome to participate. Participants completing the interview will be compensated $35 CAD. Participants completing the focus group will be compensated an additional $65 CAD.

Participation is voluntary and may be discontinued at any time without penalty. You will have the opportunity to review and confirm the accuracy of your interview’s transcript and recordings will be destroyed. Participants in both the interview and the focus group are welcome to participate pseudonymously (changed display name, video off), or choose to be publicly credited in resultant publications.

The initial screening utilizes the Qualtrics software to collect basic information about interested participants. Qualtrics features which collect IP addresses and panel association are disabled and no analytics metadata will be recorded.

If you are interested in participating, please follow the link to the survey: Expanding the Margins, or copy and paste the following URL: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eyfnZrMHR5WHUZU

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at brimwats@mail.ubc.ca.

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