Category: Journals

New Issue: ARSC Journal

ARSC Journal 56.2 (Fall 2025)
(subscription)

Original Articles

“Misirlou” and Beyond: The Impact of Nicholas Roubanis on Global Music
Maria Kapkidi

Ampex Master Equalization (AME)
Gary A. Galo

“Buried Deep”: George W. Broome, A Lost Pioneer of Black Culture and Sound
Tim Brooks

Audio Tape: An Introduction to Analogue Magnetic Tape Recorders for Archivists and Audiophiles
Harold Tichenor

Louisville Lockout
Ron Geesin

Book Reviews

Hanna-Barbera: The Recorded History (From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids), by Greg Ehrbar, with foreword by Tim Matheson and preface by Leonard Maltin (University Press of Mississippi)
Cary Ginell

Lou Reed: The King of New York, by Will Hermes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Matt Chiu

The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present, by Ya-Hui Cheng (Routledge)
Ted Liebler

Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, From Its Beginnings Through 1929″ by Fumi Tomita (State University of New York Press)
Monk Rowe

Soon and Very Soon: Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch, by Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby. Foreword by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Oxford University Press)
Robert M. Marovich

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemon Jefferson, by Alan Govenar and Kip Lornell (La Reunion/Deep Vellum)
Edward Komara

Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams, by Clifford R. Murphy (University of Illinois Press)
Edward Komara

Paramount 12000/13000 Series. Second, revised edition, by Max Vreede and Guido van Rijn (Agram Blues Books)
Edward Komara

Sounding Human: Music and Machines 1740-2020, by Deirdre Loughridge (University of Chicago Press)
Edward Komara

Sound Recording Reviews

Gloria Gaynor: Love Tracks (Polydor)
Lawrence Schulman

Johnny Mercer Sings Johnny Mercer (Everest Records/43 North Broadway); Fats Waller: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Olympic Records/43 North Broadway; Cy Coleman: If My Friends Could See Me Now (Columbia – Legacy)
Lawrence Schulman

Judy Garland: At The Palace Closing Night 1952 – The Bravo Series (BFD1011) (1 CD); Judy Garland: At The Palace Closing Night 1952 – The Bravo Series (BFD1012) (2 x LP); Judy Garland: At The Palace Closing Night 1952 – The Bravo Series (16-Bit/44.1 kHz)
Lawrence Schulman

Patsy Cline – New Mono to Stereo Mixes (PRS/Voice Masters/Good Music, 1 CD, 2024); Patsy Cline – The Complete Studio Recordings (Enlightenment Records, EN3CD9240, 3 CDs, 2025); Patsy Cline – Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963) (Deep Digs/Elemental Music Records); Patsy Cline – Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963) (Deep Digs/Elemental Music Records, 180-Gram Double LP, 2025)
Lawrence Schulman

The Mills Brothers: World Broadcast Recordings (Circle Records CCD-195, 24-Bit/96 kHz FLAC download, 2024); Tiger Rag: Mills Brothers – The Singles Collection Vol. 1 1931-47 (Acrobat, 4 CDs, 2024); Tiger Rag: Mills Brothers – The Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 (Acrobat, 4 CDs, 2024)
Lawrence Schulman

The Songs of Vincent Youmans: Tea for Two, his 27 finest, 1925-1951 (Retrospective RTR 4424, 2025, 1 CD)
Lawrence Schulman

Wham! – Make It Big (Sony Music – 19658870759, Epic – 19658870759, SDE Surround Series – 20, High Fidelity Pure Audio, Blu-ray, Blu-ray Audio, Album Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo, Multichannel, 1984/2024); Wham! – Fantastic. (Sony Music – 19658870749, Epic – 19658870749, SDE Surround Series – 19, High Fidelity Pure Audio, Blu-ray, Blu-ray Audio, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo, Multichannel, 1983/2024)
Lawrence Schulman
Regular Sections

Current Bibliography
edited by Tim Brooks

New Special Issue: MUSICultures: The Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La revue de la Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales

MUSICultures: The Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La revue de la Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales. Volume 52, 2025.
(open access)

From the Editor / Mot du Rédacteur en Chef
Gordon E. Smith

Articles: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology / Archives, Accès et Ethnomusicologie

Introduction: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology
Laura Risk et Janice Esther Tulk

Dirna arrun “We Hold It”: Rematriating Junba with Archival Collections and Living Knowledge in the Kimberley, Northwest Australia
Pete Myadooma O’Connor, John Nyunjuma Divilli, Rona Goonginda Charles et Sally Treloyn

Heterophonic Mayhem in the Archive: The Poetics, Surprises, and Disruptions of Animating the Arab Musical Diaspora
Anne K. Rasmussen, Jared Holton, Anne Elise Thomas et Albert Agha

Digital Ethnomusicological Research Data and the Institutional Repository
Farzaneh Hemmasi et Hannah M. Brown

Archival Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge, and Challenges in Collection Management: An Australian Case Study
Peter Toner

Epistemologies of Access: Hugh Tracey’s Organizing Principles at the International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Nicole Madeleine Pooley

Cultures of Sound Network: The Genesis of an International Alliance
Marcia Ostashewski, Harris M. Berger, Darrell Bernard Sr., Logan E. Clark, Michael Frishkopf, Judith Klassen, Maureen Loughran et Graham Marshall

Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival
Rachel Horner

Articles: Voices / Voix

Canadian Music Studies and/under the Second Trump Presidency
Robin Elliott

Articles: Open Topics / Hors Thème

Twerking, Alcohol, Ordination: Rethinking Sacred and Secular with Rot Hae’s Mobile and Participatory Performances in Thailand
Nattapol Wisuttipat

Developing a Community-Engaged Research-Creation Methodology through the Resonance Project
Ellen Waterman et Gale Franklin

Navigating Power and Positionality in Ethnographic Spaces
Tracey Mia Stewart

Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus de Livres

Stock, Jonathan P. J., with Chou Chiener. 2021. Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
Tangmuyang Zhang

Martin, Denis-Constant. 2020. Plus que de la musique… Musiques, sociétés et politique, Caraïbes, États-Unis, Afrique du Sud
Marie-Christine Parent

Stanbridge, Alan. 2023. Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse
Robbie MacKay

Donaghy, Joseph Keola. 2024. Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea
Kati Szego

Pilzer, Joshua. 2023. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima”
Benjamin Tausig

Jacobsen, Kristina. 2024. Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Felicia K. Youngblood

Exhibition Reviews / Comptes Rendus d’Expositions

Yamaima Hilwa: As sung by Salim Doumani with Takht Naim Karakand
Daoud Husni, Muhammad Younis Al-Kady, Anne K. Rasmussen et Anne Elise Thomas

Il-Ḥilwa Dī (“This Beautiful Girl”)
Badi‘ Khayri, Sayyid Darwish et Jared Holton

Yā Ghazālan (“Oh Gazelle”): موشّح (muwashshaḥ)
Jared Holton

Call for Chapters: The Community College Library: Outreach and Engagement

Call for Proposals

We are soliciting chapter proposals for our forthcoming ACRL book, The Community College Library: Outreach and Engagement with an anticipated publication date of Spring 2027. This book is part of the book series, The Community College Library.  With 1,167 public and independent community colleges across the United States, community colleges are educating nearly half of the undergraduates in the nation.  Community colleges serve a unique student population including high school students, first-generation students, parents, veterans, homeless students, returning students, those looking to transfer to a four-year university, those seeking technical vocational skills, and many more.This series aims to highlight the work, dedication, challenges, and innovation occurring in community college libraries across the country. 

Focus of the Book:

This edited volume will present chapters written by community college librarians leading outreach programs across the United States. In order to create equity in access, inclusivity, promote social justice, and support the whole student, community college librarians must actively reach out and engage all students. Outreach is that attempt to promote and provide services to students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved. It can also be an opportunity to engage the broader community to support student learning. This book will compile examples of innovative, engaging, and effective outreach programs in community college libraries. Each chapter will provide details on such programs including program purpose or mission, required resources and labor, outcomes, challenges and opportunities, sustainability of programs, and other processes or collaborations needed to make the program successful. 

Possible topics:

  • Book clubs
  • Finals activities
  • Exhibits
  • Cultural events
  • Library participation in campus events
  • Unlikely partnerships
  • Social media
  • Creative marketing campaigns
  • Collaborations across campus (student services, students organizations, faculty)
  • External collaborations
  • Community partnerships
  • Student advisory boards

Don’t see an outreach topic here that you would like to write about?   That’s okay!  We want you to submit your proposal! If you have any questions, contact the editors at thecclibrary@gmail.com to discuss how your idea may fit within this book’s scope.

Proposal Guidelines:

Interested authors are invited to submit a proposal and fill out the short online proposal form. The form will require: 

  • Author names, job titles, and institutional affiliations
  • A working chapter title
  • An abstract up to 500 words
  • A current CV

Proposals are due by April 20, 2026 and must be submitted via online form.

Acceptance

  • Contributors will be notified of their status (acceptance or rejection) within 3-4 weeks of the due date of proposals.
  • Completed chapters will be approximately 2,500 – 4,000 words in length excluding endnotes and bibliography.

Timeline

  • The first draft of chapters will be due August 28, 2026, and final draft on November 20, 2026.
  • Projected publication date: Spring 2027

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Kaela Casey, Librarian, Ventura College

Janet Pinkley, Head of Access Services, CSU Channel Islands, and Adjunct Librarian, Ventura College

Contact us at: thecclibrary@gmail.com

https://sites.google.com/view/thecclibrary/home/outreach-and-engagement

New Issue: Cinergie: Il Cinema e le altre Arti

Cinergie, no. 28, 2025 (Special Issue: Tele-Archives: Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions across Europe)
(open access)

Introduction: Tele-Archives. Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions Across Europe
Giulia Crisanti, Myriam Mereu, Emiliano Rossi, Paola Zeni

Broadcasting Knowledge: The Role of the Television Archive in the Pedagogical Legacy of OU’s A305 History of Architecture and Design (1890-1939)
Marco Manfra, Grazia Quercia

Studio Azzurro and Rai: Retrieving Neglected Histories from Artist Archives
Chiara Borgonovo, Laura Marcolini

Adapting Manchester: Granada Studios, Brideshead Revisited (1981) and the “Performance” of Place
Victoria Lowe

Reconstructing Histories: Mapping Artists’ Film and Video on Channel 4 (1982–1992) through the Archives of LUX, British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, and REWIND Artists’ Video Archive
Nicole Atkinson

Mus-Mus-Musica! Videomusic’s Archive at Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Gabriele Angelo Perrone

The Transition Period to Multi-Channel Television Broadcasting in Turkey and the Analysis of Television Programme Guides
Pınar Aslan, Hakan Koluman, Sena Özşirin

Tele-Archives and OTT Platforms between National Recollection and Algorithmic Memory. A Comparison of Three European Models: RaiPlay, RTVE Play, and INA Madelen
Alessia Francesca Casiraghi

“A Public Service Through a Private TV”: Tracing Multidimensional Approaches to Researching Italian Local Television Through the History of TeleRoma56
Giulia Crisanti

Broadcasting the Island: Sardegna 1 and the Archival Reconstruction of a Local Media Story
Myriam Mereu

All Passionately On Stage: Antenna 3’s Creative Journey between Entertainment and Advertising
Luca Barra, Emiliano Rossi

Aliens in Emilia-Romagna: TeleSanterno from Local Roots to National Entertainment
Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello

Our Studio Is the City. Local Broadcasting and Political Information in the Archives of Videogruppo Piemonte
Riccardo Fassone, Paola Zeni

Miscellanea

“It’s Some Revisionist Horseshit From a Fading Director”. Transgender Meanings and Popular Culture: The Case of The Matrix
Claudio Bisoni

New Frontiers for Historical Dissemination: Alessandro Barbero Between Fandom and Performativity
Lucia Di Girolamo, Mariangela Palmieri

Constructing a Stratified Representative Sample of Italian TV Series (2000–2023): A Methodological Framework for Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Greta Iapalucci, Guglielmo Pescatore

Songs from Sanremo, from CD to Streaming: Analysis of Lengths and Introductions
Dino Mignogna

Call for Papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history, cultural sociology, or legal history. Issues are published semi-annually and exclusively online in Diamond Open Access. Research articles and research reports, to be submitted in English or German, are subject to a double-blind peer-review. All submissions undergo an internal evaluation by the editors supported by the advisory board and receive professional copy-editing before publication. The journal is based at the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law at the University of Bonn and at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. transfer receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Webhosting is provided by our partner institution Heidelberg University Library via arthistoricum.net.

Website: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

Editors: Felicity Bodenstein, Ulrike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag

Managing Editor: Florian Schönfuß

Advisory Board: Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., dbv-Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung, Didier Houénoudé, Larissa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, Antoinette Maget-Dominicé, Barbara K. Murovec, Gesa Vietzen

Open Call for Submissions

transfer is an interdisciplinary, cross-epoch and international journal. It primarily addresses a scholarly audience. Besides experienced researchers, transfer equally aims at early career researchers, including PhD students, offering broad impact and high accessibility for the publication of recent research. Abstaining from any author charges or other publication fees, transfer provides a Diamond Open Access platform assuring research quality as well as transparency, fostering research interconnection and the crossing of disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:

– Provenance research on individual objects or object groups

– Collections, History of collection

– Translocation of art and cultural assets 

– Art and cultural property law

– Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory

– Art trade, Art market studies

– Art policy, Sociology of art, Cultural sociology

– Restitution, Return, Repatriation

In conjunction with the articles in transfer, corresponding research data sets can be published via the Open Research Data platform heiData. For further information on this and regarding submissions, text categories, peer-review as well as our Style Sheet, please see the journal-website or contact us under redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de.

The editorial deadline for issue 5 (2026), no. 2, is July 15, 2026.

Contact Information

Dr. Florian Schönfuß

transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / 

Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Forschungsstelle Provenienzforschung, 

Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht

Kunsthistorisches Institut

Rabinstraße 1

53111 Bonn (Germany)

florian.schoenfuss@uni-bonn.de

Contact Email

redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de

URL

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, March 1, 2026
(partial open access)

Editorial
Introduction: Stewarding Indigenous knowledge through ethics, law and the archive

Essay
(Re)connecting with Indigenous cultural expression(s): Emerging frameworks for empowering Indigenous voices, agency, and authority
Nancy E Weiss

Articles
Protecting traditional cultural expressions: Law, Indigenous protocols, library practices
Ulia Gosart, Valmaine Toki and Susan Townzen

The silences and absences in Botswana’s archives: Cross-examining colonial legacy
Tshepho Mosweu

Influence of Indigenous data governance principles on Indigenous knowledge management: Lessons from the Southern African Intangible Cultural Heritage Project
Josiline Chigwada, Jacob Mapara, Patrick Ngulube and Tavhiringwa Chabvutagondo

Stewarding Indigenous language data: Case studies in CARE
Sandra Littletree, Nestor Guerrero and Miranda Belarde-Lewis

Exploring control of access to the Japadhola indigenous information
Gilbert Okello, Joyce Bukirwa and Elisam Magara

Sowing the future: The vision of community libraries at Amawtay Wasi University, Ecuador1
Adriana Guandinango

Affective encounters with digital knowledge collections: Towards supporting Indigenous wellbeing
Ailsa Lipscombe and Chern Li Liew

Beyond acknowledgement: Indigenous-centered projects on reclamation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bethany G Anderson, Krystiana L Krupa, Elizabeth A Sutton and Oliver G Tapaha

Bibliometric analysis of Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change adaptation literature, 1993–2023
Reniko Gondo

Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation among Tanzanian smallholder farmers: A systematic review
Martinus E Sospeter, Wulystan Pius Mtega and Andrew Malekani

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections,” by Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford of University at Buffalo Librarieshttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/4/

“An Archival Responsibility: A Scoping Review of Literature Regarding the Documentary Burdens of Refugees,” by Ana Roeschley, Kinza Alizai, Crystal Tharayil, Amy Lanier, Merrion D. Frederick, and Homero R. Cuevas of UNT Libraries: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/5/

“Accepting and implementing virtual reality in archives: Archivists’ perspective,” by Farzaneh Talebhaghighi of U of A College of Information Science: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/6/

“Archives and Children’s Knowledge,” by Elliott Kuecker of UNC-Chapel Hill Library and Ashley Rockenbach of City Tech CUNY: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/7/

Reviews

“Review of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History,” by Kai H. Uchida of UNH Libraryhttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/1/

“Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education,” by Anna Z. Szapiro of Yale University Library: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/2/

“Review of Ethics in Linked Data,” by Rebecca Fried of Schaffer Library at Union College: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/3/

New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 58 (2025)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

The impact of archives and records management legislation on administrative transparency and accountability in Sierra Leone Public Archives
Umaru Bangura

Utilisation of Internet of Things technology for managing archives of public universities in South Africa
Zolile Myeko, Edward Dakora

Digital preservation of archival materials at selected university archives in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lufuno Kgamedi, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Privatisation and displacement of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Sindiso Bhebhe

Record-keeping on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare in Ruvuma region, Tanzania
Donata Kemirembe , Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Maliwaza Mbwana

End-to-end digitisation workflows with intelligent document processing for university theses and historical newspapers
Niklas Zimmer

Maintaining compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act in Tshwane Healthcare Centres, South Africa
Isaac Mpho Mothiba

Archives and records management Fourth Industrial Revolution skills and competency requirements on the job adverts in Botswana
Olefhile Mosweu, Donald Rakemane

Enhancing recordkeeping in Tanzanian public universities through robust records disaster preparedness
George Firmin Kavishe, Francis Garaba

Managing the electronic records management system at the Workers’ Compensation Fund in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Bertha Maturo

Implementation of a records classification system for proper recordkeeping in the Northwest Provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, South Africa
Refilwe Mpho Malatji, Makutla Mojapelo

Application of the system development life cycle for the implementation of an electronic document and records management system in the public service of Namibia
Aune Iipumbu , Cathrine Nengomasha

New Issue: South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

Vol. 92 No. 1 (2026): Stewardship of Documentary Heritage in Lesotho: Reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference
(open access)

Editorial
Stewardship of documentary heritage in Lesotho: reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference

Research Articles
Preserving and indigenising chieftainship cultural heritage in Lesotho: the case of Royal Archives and Museum
Matseliso Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa

Safeguarding Basotho heritage: the role of Lesotho National Library Srvices in the digital preservation of national collection
Wole Michael Olatokun, Mamoeletsi Cecilia Monyane

Preserving the past, present and future: the case of Lesotho National Broadcasting Services
Ts’epo Joseph Rafoneke

Cloud computing as a disaster management tool for documentary heritage management: reflections by the National University of Lesotho
Tahleho Tseole, Olefhile Mosweu

Preservation management framework in library and archival institutions: a conceptual framework
Thatayaone Segaetsho

Preserving language through digital neologisms: a study of word-formation processes in the digital age
Beatrice Ekanjume, Maboleba Kolobe, Thuso Leoisa

Language and translation as tools for the archiving and preservation of Indigenous knowledge: the case of Lesotho
Mosisili Sebotsa

A case for black sartorial history: the role of orality, archives, museums, and libraries
Khaya Mchunu, Maneo Ralebitso, Kiara Gounder

Generating knowledge for archives, libraries and museums: oral history research methodology in the twenty first century
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Maneo Ralebitso

Orality as a mechanism of preserving SeMoshoeshoe Basotho History
Keneuoe Anacletta Motšoene

The complexities of shared digital curation: a case study relating to Lesotho material held in the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library
Sally Kent

New Issue: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

Collections- Volume: 22, Number: 1 (March 2026)

Introduction
Introductory Letter from the New Editor: A Tribute to the Editor Emeritus and a Gesture to the Future of Collections
Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Articles
Between the Shovel and the Showcase: Contextualizing the Categorization of Indus Valley Seals from Artifacts to Art
Swati Chandra and Koumudi Patil

Reimagining Zimbabwe’s Heritage in the Post-colonial Era: Navigating the Efforts and Challenges in Decolonizing the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Science (1980–2024)
Thubelihle Rejoyce Mnkandla, Tariro Zhou, Jonathan Nhunzvi, Shelvin Tapuwa Mapiti and Portia Mlambo

Handkerchiefs as Memorabilia at the Crystal Palace (1851): Addressing Gaps in Museum Object Descriptions
Sandi Stewart

Case Study
Visualizing the Sudan United Mission: Moving from Lists to Graphical Representations of Special Collections
Obinna Nwokike

Book Reviews
Book Review: Art as Asset: Preserving Your Investment
Dee Stubbs-Lee

Book Review: Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World: “Mentoring, Collaborations, and Interaction Knowledge Transfer in Times of Transformation”
Arunima Baiju