Category: Journals

New Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

RBM, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Fall 2025
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Fact Check
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Navigating Social Networks at the Margins: Women in Science Archives, Then and Now
Bethany G. Anderson, Mary Borgo Ton, Kristen Allen Wilson

Neutrality Unbound: The Value of Rare Book Collections in STEMM Classrooms
Chad Kamen

“If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections
Elliott Kuecker, Katie Grotewiel, Zoe Thomas

Reviews

Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession. Library Juice Press, 2024.
Matrice Young

Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, eds. Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives. Lever Press, 2023. Print/Open access.
Jeannette Schollaert

New Issue: OHA Journal

Issue No. 47, 2025
The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities
(open access)

Editorial and Contents

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Reports

Reviews

Awards

Awards report including:

  • Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History 2024
  • Oral History Australia Book Award 2024
  • Oral History Australia Media Awards 2024

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica“
Andrew Williams

“Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning“
Jinfang Niu

“Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education“
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak

“Archival Notations of the Norwegian Charter Material“
Juliane Tiemann

New Issue: Archives & Records

Archives & Records, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2025

Articles

Records of resilience: preserving and promoting de-identified access to the Whitechapel Clinic records
E. Kate Jarman, Richard A. McKay & Richard Meunier

Digital records curation practices in Institutional Repositories (IRs) at selected public universities in Kenya
Juliet A. Erima & Elsebah Maseh

The evolution of archival policies and regulations in China: a topic modelling approach
Li Su & Yunjie Tang

An archive for a school for autistic learners: documenting a distinctive pedagogy
Andrew Alexandra & Mary Thomson

Perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Natasha Khramtsovsky

Toward understanding: practices as common ground and starting point reflections on perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Sherry Xie

How agreeing with or confronting canon can help us face the challenges of the information age?
Zhanna Rozhneva

Reviews

Family and justice in the archives: historical perspectives on intimacy and the law
edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore, Montreal, Concordia University Press, 2024
Jessamy Carlson

History in flames: the destruction and survival of medieval manuscripts
by Robert Bartlett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Daniella M. Gonzalez

Recent Issue: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2025

Strangers in a Strange Land: Connections among Spanish Chant Manuscripts in US Public Collections
Kathleen Sewright

A Scribe’s Luxury Manuscript: Text and Image in a Hebrew Medical Tract (Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.10.68)
Sivan Gottlieb

From St Albans to Chartres: John of Salisbury and the Lost Historia Johannis Turonensis
Joanna Frońska

Est / Non Est: Crafting the Shield of Faith Trinity in Thirteenth-Century England
Sophie Kelly

Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
Kathleen E. Kennedy

“The Most Precious Volume That Has Been Sold for a Century”: The Golden Gospels and the Manuscripts Trade, ca. 1882–1900
Ana de Oliveira Dias

Confucius and the Richness of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts
Maddalena Poli

A Note on UPenn LJS 358: (Re-)Identifying a Manuscript
Eva Del Soldato

A Tree with Many Roots: Introducing the Zysk Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Anuj Misra, Kenneth Gregory Zysk

Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin “Physiologus,” ca. 700–1000 by Anna Dorofeeva (review)
Aylin Malcolm

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley (review)
Caroline R. Batten

The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England by Peter Murray Jones (review)
Sarah Star

Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture ed. by Michelle C. Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey (review)
Xin Wen

Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan by William D. Fleming (review)
William C. Hedberg

The Cartulary of Prémontré ed. by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (review)
Joanna Tucker

Radomir Psalter, and: Paleographic and textological analysis edition ed. by Catherine Mary MacRobert et al., and: Facsimile reproduction by Ekaterina Dikova, Hieromonk Athanasius, Liljana Makarijoska (review)
Julia Verkholantsev

Lost but Not Forgotten: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its Manuscript Transmission by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (review)
Christine Schott

Special Issue: The iJournal

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2025)
Special Summer Issue: Diasporas and Cultural Heritage Institutions in the GTA and Beyond

Curating Diasporas
Community Museological Practices and Politics of Immigration Memories in the GTA and Beyond
Bruno Véras

Behind the 1944 “Great Escape”
Cycling and Politicized Memories at the VEMU Estonian Museum Canada
Kim, Yoonkyung, Ke Wang

Capturing the Migration Memory of Canada’s Diverse Ismaili Muslims
A Case Study of the 50 Years of Migration Exhibit
Zhikall Kakei, Samantha Tsang

“Don’t Talk Defeat to Me”
The Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the First Baptist Church of Toronto
Alejandra Mendoza, Laura Prior

Sharing Histories of Immigration
Narratives on Display at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Jacob Fralic, Vasiana Moraru

Trunk Tales
A Case Study of the Ukrainian Museum of Canada – Ontario Branch
Kathryn Hawkins

Recalling Through Belonging at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Melanie Dunch

Is e an Taigh an Taisbeanadh
Hillary House and the Exhibition at Home
Erica Michele Frail-Brocco

A Living History Museum
Joseph Schneider Haus
Yvonne Wang

Navigating Shifting Identities
Culturally Specific Museums in the Rise of Multiracialism
Felicity Brassard

New Issue: Archival Science

Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2025

Introduction: resilience and dissidence in post-Ottoman minority sources
Alexis Rappas, Angelos Dalachanis

A case study of guerrilla virtual reunification from the Morningside Hospital History Project: privacy and access, independence and sustainability
Shir Bach

Situating the animal presence in colonial archives: a case of the Madras Presidency
Joshy Teresa

Counter-surveying apartheid-era forced removals in South Africa: a spatial approach to archival social justice
Siddique Motala, Tlotliso Mokomane, David A. Wallace

Armenian Genocide survivor oral history as an archival resource
Manuk Avedikyan, Arman Khachatryan

Multiple voices in a majlis: the growth of archives in the United Arab Emirates and the role of New York University Abu Dhabi
Brad Bauer

“The desert is coming!”: tracing transitions through a personal archive
Maria João Fonseca

Global sufferings, local voices: archival reactivations in Jewish theatre ephemera from Turkey
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay

Obligation in Finnish records and information management laws
Tuija Kautto

Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity
Christina Banalopoulou

“The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: how practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids
Travis L. Wagner, Evan M. Allgood, Mateo Caballero

The Greek communities of Egypt and national identity building as reflected in the archival records of the Hellenic literary and historical archive/MIET, 1843–1950
Mathilde Pyrli

Neither imperial nor national? The archival trails and legacies of (post)Ottoman-Armenians
Varak KetsemanianBedross Der Matossian

Exploring non-archival trajectories of written artefacts: an introduction
Markus Friedrich, Konrad Hirschler, Cécile Michel

Removed archives: the case of the royal palace of Mari (ca 1810–1760 BCE)
Philippe Abrahami

Jewish Egyptian archives and heritage sites between dispersal and entrenchment
Alon Tam

The Oyster Model: understanding community roles in sustaining digital cultural knowledge infrastructures
Katrina Fenlon, Jessica Grimmer … Travis Wagner

Beyond capstone: toward a new strategy for appraising and selecting emails to transfer to archives within French public agencies
Edgar Lejeune, Bénédicte Grailles … Patrice Marcilloux

New Issue: Collections

Collections- Volume: 21, Number: 4 (December 2025)
(partial open access)

Notes from the Field

Introduction to the Focus Issue “Re-Collections 2025”: Reflections on Collections
Juilee Decker

Affective Collecting: Ethics, Emotions, and Collecting the Holocaust
Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Blackness for Sale: Collections, Auction Block, and (Anti)racist (Counter)framing in Cyber Marketplace
Paul Akpomuje

Making Deafness Visible: Preserving Deaf History in the Deaf Catholic Archives
Lisa M. Villa and R. A. R. Edwards

Rethinking Digital Collections: A Personal Reflection
Martha A. Anderson

Historic Buildings as Living Collections: Cities as Museums of Cultural Narratives
Sanaeya Vandrewala

Library and Archives Conservation: A Re-Collection Retrospection (2005–2025)
Whitney Baker

“Re-Collections” on Conservation
Dee Stubbs-Lee

Preventive Conservation’s Evolution: A Brief Reflection
Mary Coughlin

A Historical Perspective on Collecting and Sorting Methods: Key Issues in the Development of a Small Local Museum’s Policy
Efrat Haberman and Assaf Selzer

Reimagining the World Wildlife Gallery, Kendal Museum: A Community Engagement and Reinterpretation Project
Joseph Rigby, Lavinia Haslam, Ila Colley and Peter Lincoln

Curating the Invisible, the Mundane, the Intimate: On VHS Home Movie Collections
Ursula-Helen Kassaveti

Finding Lived Experiences in Historic Zooarchaeological Museum Collections: A Brief Case Study from Jamestown, Virginia
Magen Grayce Hodapp

From Shells to 3D Printed Art Models: Digitizing David Brown’s Collection of Medically-Important Snails
Adam P. Cieplinski, Jonathan D. Ablett and Aidan M. Emery

The Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens: Past, Present, and Future of Their Collection
Isabel Allen

Lost Afterlife: Collections and Preservation at Pioneer Cemetery
Alexandra Zoellner

A Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Natural History Museum Treasures
Consuelo Sendino

Twenty Years of a World Culture Museum: Between Wonder, Discomfort, and Repair
Adriana Muñoz

Training for the Curatorial Endeavor
Nancy Bryk

Collecting from the Future: Embedding Strategic Foresight in Museum Collections Development
Sandro Debono

Announcement
Introduction of New Editor
Juilee Decker

CFP: Librarians to Write About Digital Tools for IT (Information Today) Magazine

Information Today (IT) magazine (https://www.infotoday.com/it/) is seeking feature article writers for its Insights on Content: Making Sense of the Digital Maze section. If you’re a library worker who engages with digital tools and/or e-resources and you have knowledge you’d like to share, please reach out to editor in chief Brandi Scardilli (bscardilli@infotoday.com) with your topic idea(s). You can propose one article or multiple. Articles will appear in the quarterly issues of 2026, and they should be a maximum of 800 words. IT pays $200 per article.

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Editor in Chief, Computers in Libraries
Editor in Chief, Information Today
Editor in Chief, ITI NewsBreaks, ITI NewsLink
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New Issue: Museum Worlds

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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 
Volume 13 (2025) 
Table of Contents 

Editorial 
Alison K. Brown and Conal McCarthy 

I. Articles 
Finding a Form: A short account of a Small Voluntary Group Working with the National Trust on the Care and Return of the Māori Ancestress Hinemihi 
Haidy Geismar 

Making Archaeological Parks in China 
Shu-Li Wang 

Dizzying Endings: On the Multiple Alterlives of a Living Exhibition 
Martin Grünfeld 

Eclectic Collections: Un-disciplining the Museum 
Jordan Kistler and Will Tattersdill 

II. Special Section 
Editorial Introduction: Making Museum Professionals 
Kate Hill and Claire Wintle 

“An Excellent Guide to Her Own Museum”: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Professional Roles on a Visit from Scotland to Trinidad, 1898 
Kirsty Kernohan 

Precarity, Resilience, and Chen Wanli’s Museum Career in Twentieth-Century China 
Feng Schöneweiß 

“Men! Let’s Stick Together This Time”: A Review of Collective Action in US Art Museums, 1930s–Present 
Amanda Tobin Ripley 

In Conversation: Museum Activism for Democracy and Anti-Racism in South Africa: A Career in District Six 
Bonita Bennett and interviewed by Claire Wintle 

Problems of Ecological Excess: Necro-economies of Pest Management in the Museum 
Nushelle de Silva 

“Ready for Anything”: Front-of-House Staff and Mediating Controversy 
Laharee Mitra 

In Conversation: Museum Work and Experiences of Restitution 
Calixte Biah and interviewed by Bénédicte Savoy 

III. Research in Other Forms: Articles, Reports, Conversations etc. 
African Collections in Scottish Museums: Material Evidence of Scotland and Empire 
John D. Giblin, Nikki Grout, and Zachary Kingdon 

Exploring Digital Exhibitions: Typologies, Design Strategies, and Visitor Engagement 
Martin Siefkes and Julia A. J. Pfeiffer 

A Whare Taonga for Perth: Collaborative Pacific Displays at Perth Museum 
Amber Aranui, Dougal Austin, Migoto Eria, Mark Hall, Kirsty Kernohan, JP Reid, Pauline Reynolds, Awhina Tamarapa, Kararaina Te Ira, Te Kenehi Teira, and Anna Zwagerman 

Forum or Assembly?: Governance and Diplomacy at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin 
Anthony Alan Shelton and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas 

Armenian Woman: Victim and Heroine of the Armenian Genocide: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan, Armenia 
Gevorg H. Vardanyan and Seda A. Parsamyan 

IV. Teaching and Learning in Museums, Museum Studies, and Related Fields 
Museum-Based Learning for Online Collections Students: Is It Possible? 
Luke Keogh, Ashleigh Giffney, Molly Culbertson, and Lorinda Cramer 

A Co-constructive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Art Education in the Art Museums of Aotearoa New Zealand 
Esther Helen McNaughton and Lisa Terreni 

Perspectives on Co-production of Knowledge in Fieldwork Experience for 3D Preservation of Indigenous Heritage 
Addison Vallier, Lily McEwen, Abigail Bailey, Brennan Meyerhoff, Peyton Smith, Alexandra Taitt, Lisa Ellanna, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, and Medeia Csoba Dehass 

V. Review Essays 
Pauline Reynolds, Dipti Sherchan, Julia Richard, and Paride Bolletin 

VI. Exhibition Reviews 
Amanda Thompson, Peter Brunt, Yahao Wang, Xiyuan Cai, and Ann Marie Peña 

VII. Performance Review 
Faovale Imperium: James Nokise and DJ Don Luchito Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 5 September 2024 
Arjunvir Singh 

VIII. Book Reviews 
Chanté St Clair Inglis, Stacy L. Boldrick, Jaimie Luria, Emma Martin, and Nicole Anderson 

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