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CFP: Compelling Tensions in Library and Information Science, Library Trends special issue

Library Trendsis pleased to announce a Call for Papers for an issue on Compelling Tensions in Library and Information Science.

The field of library and information science (LIS) has compelling tensions similar to those explored by Thomas Kuhn in the fields of science. Many of these tensions have been a part of the discipline and profession for a long time, and others have emerged in the digital age with the explosion of information and the ways to access, manipulate, and share that information.

This issue of Library Trends seeks to reveal and explore compelling tensions within LIS. We welcome articles that provide analyses of theories that contribute to or dispel those tensions and explorations of how those tensions inform practice in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Articles can address tensions such as: 

  • Access versus privacy
  • The Right to Remember versus the Right to be Forgotten
  • Evidence versus spectacle
  • Connotative meanings and denotative meanings
  • Linked data and data management
  • Cultural sensitivity and cultural control
  • Epistemicide and cultural preservation
  • Intellectual freedom and social good/responsibility 
  • Neutrality versus activism 
  • AI & algorithms versus human-mediated services

The complete Call for Papers, including a timeline for publication, is available on the Library Trends website. Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract outlining their proposed article by January 3, 2025.

Inquiries about the planned issue and ideas for articles should be director to Katherine Wisser, Guest Editor (wisser@simmons.edu).

New/Recent Publications

Books

Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
Charles G. Palm
Hoover Institution Press, 2024

Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa: Toward a Digitalized and Sustainable Society
Edited by Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise and Shumani Eric Madima
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

De l’écran à l’émotion: Quand le numérique devient patrimoine [From screen to emotion: When digital becomes heritage]
Emmanuelle Bermès
École nationale des chartes, 2024

Oral History at a Distance
Steven Sielaff, Stephen M. Sloan, Adrienne A. Cain Darough, Michelle Holland
Routledge, 2024

Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City
Ferda Kolatan
Routledge, 2024

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches
Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, Rebecca Uhl, Core
Facet Publishing, 2024

Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
Edited By Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, Linda M. Morra
Routledge, 2024

Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Edited by: Eike Grossmann
De Gruyter, 2024

The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives
Melanie Micir
Princeton University Press, 2024

Articles

Salse-Rovira, M., Jornet-Benito, N., Guallar, J. et al. Universities, heritage, and non-museum institutions: a methodological proposal for sustainable documentation. Int J Digit Libr 25, 603–622 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00383-0

Charitidis, P., Moschos, S., Bakouras, C. et al. OAVA: the open audio-visual archives aggregator. Int J Digit Libr 25, 623–637 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00384-z

Late, E., Ruotsalainen, H. & Kumpulainen, S. Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research. Int J Digit Libr 25, 715–728 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00390-1

Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Thomas J. Brown, Pam Parry, Nathan Saunders, Dianne Bragg, Simon Vodrey, and Thomas C. Terry. “Roundtable: How Historians and Archivists Worked Through and Survived the Pandemic.” Historiography in Mass Communication 10, no. 1 (2024).

Ahmad, R., Rafiq, M., & Arif, M. (2024). Global trends in digital preservation: Outsourcing versus in-house practices. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 56(4), 1114-1125. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231173461.

Harper, Elizabeth (2024) “Listening to Ghosts in the Appalachian Mountains: The Western North Carolina Tomorrow’s Black Oral History Project as a Community Archive,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 7.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol11/iss1/7.

Force, Donald (2024) ““What the Heck Am I Looking At?”: A User-Based Examination of the Metadata Associated with Digital Archival Objects,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 8.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol11/iss1/8.

Oluwayemi IbukunOluwa Odularu. “Perceptions on the utilisation of archives in enhancing research in Higher Educational Institutions.” African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 34, no. 1 (2024).

Maimuna Janneh, Olugbade Oladokun, Tshepho Mosweu. “From crisis to continuity: Analysing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on public records and archives management in the Gambia.” African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 34, no. 1 (2024).

Podcasts

In the newest episode of SAA’s podcast, cohosts Camila Zorrilla Tessler and Conor Casey speak with historians Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey about Decolonial Archival Futures, their new book that challenges non-Indigenous practitioners to think consciously about the histories we tell. Listen for a discussion about rethinking structures of archival provenance and ownership, community relationship building, and decentering the settler perspective in archives.

Thesis

Archival Workers as Climate Advocates
Amy Wickner
University of Maryland, 2024

Fiction

National Archive Hunters 1: Capitol Chase
Matthew Landis
Holiday House, 2024

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal Volume 34, Issue 2/3
partial open access

Editorial: The carrot and the stick: the impact of legislation and regulation on records management best practice, change and innovation
Elizabeth Jane Lomas

Searching for a smoking gun: access to information and release of the John F. Kennedy assassination records
Amy Howard

Presidential prerogative, congressional inaction, and the problem of presidential libraries
Abigail Guay

The Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011: creating a culture that values public records
Hugh Patrick Hagan

Local regulations for the use of artificial intelligence in the management of public records – a literature review
Proscovia Svärd, Esteban Guerrero, Tolulope Balogun, Nampombe Saurombe, Lorette Jacobs, Pekka Henttonen

Strategy for auditing investigation records and information: a case study of records and information management in the Royal Malaysian Police
Widura Abd Kadir, Umi Asma’ Mokhtar, Zawiyah M. Yusof

Enhancing transparency and accountability in public procurement: exploring blockchain technology to mitigate records fraud
Danielle Alves Batista

Participatory and proactive: real-time rights-based recordkeeping governance for the alternative care of children
Joanne Evans, Moira Paterson, Melissa Castan, Jade Purtell, Mya Ballin

Accountability as a mechanism and a virtue in Irish public sector recordkeeping
Mark Farrell

Hidden stakeholder views in Finnish archival act law drafting: a recordkeeping perspective
Tuija Kautto, Virpi Hotti

The historical development and implementation effect of Chinese village-level archival legislation
Xinxin Xu

New Special Issue: Humanities Research

Humanities Research: Volume XX, Number 1, 2024
(open access)

I. Articles

II. Research in other forms: Reports, reflections, reviews, interviews, etc.

New Issue: Collections

Collections, 20 no. 4, December 2024
(subcription)

Articles

How to Curate and Digitize Bryozoa: Experiences at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Daniel L. Geiger, Vanessa Delnavaz, Alexandria N. Gour, and Van Henderson

Where to Start: Creating a Roadmap for Collection Storage Planning Through a Collaborative Values-Based Approach: A National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections project at The New York Public Library
Rebecca Fifield

Why Digital Preservation Should Be Treated as Public Policy
Wellington da Silva

The Nazi’s Mummy: The Afterlife of a Woman from Taltal
Avigail Rotbain

Can We Accept Today That the Museum Continues to Convey Colonial Ideology? An Analysis of Two Fundamental European Instruments to Decolonize Museums
Alice Duarte

Preserving Library Collections in South Asia: Techniques, Policies, and Capacity Building Programs in University Libraries
Tajamul Ahmad Bhat, Zahid Ashraf Wani, Umer Yousuf Parray, Shahid Rashid, Shahid Maqbool Mir, and Aamirul Haq

Case Studies

Ver en Español: A Pilot Project to Investigate Translation Methods for Archival Exhibits and Finding Aids
Julie Judkins, Jaimi K. Parker, and Maia Gibbons

A Tiny Box, Big Dreams: The Lamasco Microgallery as a Nontraditional Venue for Art & Community Engagement
Tory Schendel-Vyvoda

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science 24, no. 4, December 2024
Special Issue: Provenance
Issue Editors: Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley H. Griffin, James Lowry
(partial open access)

Dedication and introduction to the provenance special issue
Jeannette A. BastianStanley H. GriffinJames Lowry

The archive as home: ruminations on domestic notions of provenance
Ciaran B. Trace

Provenance and theatre archives
Francesca Marini

Misplaced archives, statehood and provenance out of place: the case of two personal records from the peripheries
Ana Grondona, Juan Ignacio Trovero, Celeste Viedma

Provenance through storytelling: application of Indigenous relationality toward arrangement and description
Vina Begay, Kelley M. Klor

Touches across time: queer as provenance
Elliot Freeman

Custody, provenance and meaning in the context of state intelligence records: the case of las carpetas in Puerto Rico
Joel A. Blanco-Rivera

“Nothing much was lost”: exploring feminist process as records creation
Jessica M. Lapp

The voices of images: photographs and collective provenance
Iyra S. Buenrostro-Cabbab

Whose provenance? Plurality of provenance and the redistribution of archival authority
Jesse Boiteau

Transformative provenance: memory work in the Palestinian diaspora
Tamara N. Rayan

Kindred contexts: archives, archaeology, and the concept of provenance
Bethany G. Anderson

A recontextualization of provenance: Records in Contexts and the principle of provenance
Anouk Stephano

Archival context, provenance, and a tool to capture archival context*
Qing ZouEun G. Park

The power of provenance in the records continuum
Chris Hurley, Sue McKemmish, Narissa Timbery

Digital provenance
Greg Bak

“Somebody has to be crazy about that kid”: Speculating on the transformative recordkeeping potential of the caring corporate parent
Mya Ballin

Locating yourself in the historical record: challenges of provenance and metadata schemas in the library of congress’s digital materials
Kathryn Manis, Patricia Wilde

Documenting Territorialidad: an intercultural approach to the provenance of Mapuche land records
María Montenegro

New Special Issue: Open Library of Humanities Journal

Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
(open access)

Guest Editor: Angela Dressen

Implementing Linked Art in a Multi-Modal Database for Cross-Collection Discovery
Robert Sanderson

Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts with SPARQL
Toby Burrows

Photo Archives and Linked Open Data. The Added Value
Marilena Daquino

The Dragoman Renaissance Research Project in Library/DH Linked Data Partnerships
Natalie Rothman and Kirsta Stapelfeldt

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Itza A. Carbajal, Tara Saleh, Yubing Tian, Marika Cifor, & Ricardo Gomez. “A Labyrinth of Public Information: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ongoing Research and Advocacy Using Public Records Requests.” The Journal of Civic Information 6, no. 2 (September 2024).

Treasa Harkin. “Interactive Scores at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).” Fontes Artis Musicae Volume 71, Number 3 July–September 2024.

Emma C. Beck, Terri L. Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, and Randy Kuehn. “Customizing Open-Source Digital Collections: What We Need, What We Want, and What We Can Afford.” Code4Lib Issue 59, 2024-10-07.

Challen R. Wright & Rayla E. Tokarz. “Analyzing course descriptions and student learning outcomes for digital primary source collection development.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship vol. 36 (2024).

Books

Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice
Jae Jennifer Rossman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project
Ana Bonet Miró
Bloomsbury, 2024

Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry
Edited By Alia Yunis, Robert Parthesius, NiccolòAcram Cappelletto
Routledge, 2024

Heritage and Wellbeing: The Impact of Heritage Places on Visitors’ Wellbeing
Faye Sayer
Oxford University Press, 2024

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches
Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, Rebecca Uhl, Core
Facet Publishing, 2024

Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): L’archiviste inimitable (Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): The inimitable archivist)
Anne-Cécile Tizon-Germe, Édouard Vasseur
l’École nationale des chartes – PSL, 2024

Objects in the Archives: Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North
Edited By Kristján Mímisson, Davið Ólafsson
Routledge, 2024

Digitization, Copyright and the Law: Copyleft and the Future of Intellectual Property
Ettore M. Lombardi
Routledge, 2024

Recruiting and Managing Volunteers in Museums and Other Nonprofit Organizations: A Handbook for Volunteer Management, Second Edition
Kristy Van Hoven and Loni Wellman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion
Edited By Alberta Fabbricotti
Routledge, 2024

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy
Matthew White
Routledge, 2024

Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World
Hannah Goodwin
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice
Jennifer Carter
Routledge, 2024

Podcasts

Discover Library and Archives Canada, Porter Talk

Archives & Things, Phil Vassell & Donna McCurvin, Canada Black Music Archives

Reports

A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe
COMMUNIA Association

Recent Issue: Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volume 67 (May-June 2024)
partial open access

Capturing experts’ knowledge in heritage planning enhanced by AI: A case study of windcatchers in Yazd, Iran
Mahda Foroughi, Bruno Andrade, Ana Pereira Roders

Historical silks: a novel method to evaluate their condition with ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis
Ludovico Geminiani, Francesco Paolo Campione, Cristina Corti, Barbara Giussani, … Laura Rampazzi

Enhancing capillary action of acidified paper to achieve uniform deacidification and long-lasting aging resistance
Bei He, He Zhao, Weiying Li, Ling Meng, … Pujun Jin

Physical prospective of polyamide 6 for the consolidation of fragile vegetable tanned Leather artifacts
Gomaa Abdel-Maksoud, Ola A. Mohamed, Wael S. Mohamed, Khaled Elnagar, … Medhat A. Ibrahim

2-Mercaptobenzimidazole compounded with the conventional sealer B72 for the protection of rusted bronze
Zhifeng Han, Xia Huang, Jiachang Chen, Junying Chen

Blockchain technology applications in maintaining heritage buildings
Mohamed Marzouk, Nouran Labib, Mahmoud Metawie

An algorithm of line segmentation and reading order sorting based on adjacent character detection: A post-processing of OCR for digitization of Chinese historical texts
Aram Lee, HongYeon Yu, Gihyeon Min

Novel non-invasive method for extracting proteinaceous binders from panel paintings
Jin Dong, Zhanyun Zhu, Jianghao Du, Zhiyong Lu, … Menglian Ding

Probabilistic evaluation of cultural soil heritage hazards in China from extremely imbalanced site investigation data using SMOTE-Gaussian process classification
Chao Song, Hongzhen Peng, Ling Xu, Tengyuan Zhao, … Wenwu Chen

Research on the species identification and craftsmanship of the leather on boots (220AD∼420AD) using integrated approach
Hailiang Yang, Xin Sun, Xiaoying You, Yang Zhou

Digitizing traditional dances under extreme clothing: The case study of Eyo
Temi Ami-Williams, Christina-Georgia Serghides, Andreas Aristidou

Analysis of cracking behavior of murals in Mogao Grottoes under environmental humidity change
Huihui Zhang, Chun’an Tang, Qinglin Guo, Yanwu Wang, … Linyi Zhao

Isolation and identification of fungal biodeteriogens from the wall of a cultural heritage church and potential applicability of antifungal proteins in protection
Kinga Dán, Sándor Kocsubé, Liliána Tóth, Attila Farkas, … László Galgóczy

Comprehensive characterization of modern industrial Argentinian paints for improved chronological painting attribution
Florencia Castellá, Marta Pérez-Estebanez, María Reinoso, Michael Schilling, … Fernando Marte

Sonocatalysis: Eco-design strategy for developing novel inorganic sonogels for the conservation of stone heritage
B. Sena da Fonseca, A.P. Ferreira Pinto, S. Piçarra, M. Rucha, M.F. Montemor

A novel identification method for collagen-based cultural heritage: Integrating thermokinetics and generalized master plots
Mingrui Zhang, Zonghui Zhang, Fang Wang, Jie Liu, … Keyong Tang

Usability of eye trackers as tools for designers of anastylosis
Marta Rusnak, Zofia Koszewicz, Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka

Non-destructive microwave techniques for the quantification and elimination of moisture in cultural heritage monuments
M.E. Rizou, R. Marcelli, G. Capoccia, E. Proietti

Extension study of the assessment of aqueous cleaning on nBA/MMA and EA/MMA acrylic paints
Irene Cardaba, Itxaso Maguregui

Analysis of the ruined murals from the Resurrection Church of the Derevyanitsky Monastery (Veliky Novgorod, Russia): Dating and attribution
O.S. Philippova, N.V. Lobacheva, A.Yu. Dmitriev, T.J. Tsarevskaya, … S.G. Lennik

Automatic analysis of pottery sherds based on structure from motion scanning: The case of the Phoenician carinated-shoulder amphorae from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon)
Luca Di Angelo, Aaron Schmitt, Michael Rummel, Paolo Di Stefano

Use of a hydrotalcite isopropanol dispersion for deacidification and preservation of cellulose cultural heritage objects – Preliminary study
Milan Králik, Svetozár Katuščák, Pavel Fellner, Katarína Vizárová, … Blažej Horváth

Impact of washing and aging process on the physical and mechanical properties of pre-Hispanic fabrics found in the Museum of Site and Archeological Sanctuary of Pachacamac, Perú
María José Alván, Sergio Candiotti, Elena Flores, Samuel Charca

Characterization of 17th century archaeological metallic statuettes using combined neutron tomography and neutron diffraction
Tushar Roy, Yogesh Kashyap, M.R. More, Anita Rane-Kothare, … P.S.R. Krishna

The potential of new eco-friendly formulations in enhancing the protection of ceramic artifacts
M.G. Mohamed, N.M. Ahmed, W.S. Mohamed, A.H. Ibrahim, H.M. Mohamed

Expressiveness in metronomic rolls for player piano: A new field of research?
P. Bontempi, P. Zappalà, S. Canazza

Identification of organic binding media in ancient architectural decoration by THM–Py–GC/MS
Yingchun Fu, Yazhen Huang, Shuxuan Shi, Shu Zong, … Shuya Wei

Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications
Benjamin D. Jones, Ben Collings, Mark E. Dickson, Murray Ford, … Emma Ryan

Practices of the Mont Saint-Michel scriptorium in the use of parchment for manuscripts in the 11th century
Laurianne Robinet, Sylvie Heu-Thao, Lucie Arberet, Anne Michelin, … Stéphane Lecouteux

A miniature world: Revealing warring states period shell paintings from zhongshan state by multiple-methods
Dian Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Wenrui Zhang, Xiaokun Wang, … Wugan Luo

Insight into natural ageing of historic baltic amber objects by untargeted metabolomics approach
Xingping LI, Weiwei SI, Qi Liu, Yi Zhou, Qinghui LI

Improving non-destructive testing methods for detecting cavity damage and internal defects in stone cultural relics: A focus on ultrasonic testing and acoustic tapping technology
Wei Qian, Xujun Zhu, Tao Zhang, Ning Li, Zhaoyang Zhu

Correlative microscopy and Micro-Raman spectroscopy for enhancing the evaluation of corrosion damage in archaeological objects
Martina Bernabale, Flavio Cognigni, Silvia Contessi, Serena Silvestri, … Marco Rossi

Preparation of a nano aluminum phosphate enhanced hydroxyapatite coating for marble conservation
Yaoqi Gu, Jianrui Zha, Feng Wang, Huarui Han, … Shuya Wei

Quantitative analysis on the impact factors of salt weathering for sandstone grottoes along Silk Road, China
Yunxia Shen, Chuxin Liang, Michael Steiger, Zhangzhe Cao, Manli Sun

Stability and durability assessment of alum-tawed skin by light transmission analysis
Fulvio Mercuri, Cristina Cicero, Letizia Dadi, Carola Gottscher, … Noemi Orazi

Systematization proposal for the analysis of columns from point clouds
Agustí Costa-Jover, Amparo Núñez Andrés, Felipe Buill Pozuelo, David Moreno Garcia, Sergio Coll-Pla

Recent Issue: RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Vol 25, No 1 (2024)
open access

Articles

Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
Jacquelyn Sundberg, Kristen Howard

Narrowing the Lens: Preservation Assessment for Digital Manuscripts
Hafsah Hujaleh, Jess Whyte

“But I Believe Survival Is Based upon the Many and Not the Few:” Connecting Librarians and Artists to Build Special Connections
Courtney Becks, Sarah Carter

Describing Games for Special Collections Libraries
Elizabeth Hobart

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Practical Book History: Making an MLIS Practicum Work for Me
Anna Opryszko

Overnight College Historian: Historical Whiplash and the Flexibility of New Archivists
Louise LoBello

Archiving Against Professionalism
Lia Warner

Feeling What We Teach: Mitigating the Emotional Labor Slide in Affect-Based Instruction
Anastasia Armendariz

Artists’ Books and Critical Literacy Pedagogy: Kara Walker’s Freedom: a Fable
Sam Regal

The Necessity of Embracing Collection Gaps: Moving Towards Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Collecting
Ruth Kramer

RBMS Notes

Chair’s Note
Sarah M. Horowitz

RBMS 2024 Conference Preview
Alison Fraser, Rachel Makarowski

Reviews

Eliasof, Jane Mitchell. Rebranding: A Guide for Historic Houses, Museums, Sites, and Organizations. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield/AASLH, 2022.
Mindy Price

Fox, Adam. The Press and the People: Cheap Print & Society in Scotland, 1500–1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. (electronic book)
Marian Toledo Candelaria