Category: Journals

New Issue: Archives and Records

Archives and Records, 44 (2023)
Special Issue: New Professional and Student Research

Articles

Establishing special collections literacy for undergraduate students: an investigation into benefits and barriers of access
Joanna Baines

The ghosts of old readers: social media, representation and gender in the information sector
Gabrielle Bex

Preserving Ancient Egyptian cultural heritage: an examination of the role of egyptological archives
Alix Robinson

Grave concerns: the state of public cemetery records management in South Africa
Marie-Louise Rouget

Engagement with decolonizing archival practices in the UK archives sector: a survey of archives workers’ attitudes
Flore Janssen

‘It’s good for them to feel stretched’: collaborative volunteer projects at the Staffordshire Record Office
Helen Houghton-Foster

Re-animation and interrogation: Irish visual and performing artists’ encounters with the archive
Jennifer Branigan

Book Reviews

Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1450-1550: an edition of Oxford, Bodleian MS Tanner 221, and associated material
edited by Elizabeth A. New, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press for the London Record Society, 2022, xvi + 311 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-90095-262-3 (London Record Society Publications, Volume LVI)
Anthony Smith

Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
by Angela Fritz, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021, xv, 95 pp, £30 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-5381-4286-8
Rachel MacGregor

Trinity College Library Dublin: a descriptive catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English
by John Scattergood, Niamh Pattwell and Emma Williams, Four Courts Press, 2021, xxxvii + 367 pp., €55 (hardback),ISBN 978-1-84682-852-2
Jade Godsall

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and connections
edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story, with Eleanor Jackson, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2021, xviii + 242 pp., €65 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84682-866-9
Richard Wragg

Economic considerations for libraries, archives and museums
edited by Lorraine A. Stuart, Thomas F. R. Clareson and Joyce Ray, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 238 pp., £29.59 (eBook), ISBN 978-1-003-03710-1
Louise Ray

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Sunil Tyagi, “Preservation and conservation of indigenous manuscripts,” IFLA Journal, 49 no. 1 (2023): 143–156.

Ana Roeschley, “Symbiosis or friction: Understanding participant motivations for information sharing and institutional goals in participatory archive initiatives,” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2023.

Naiman, J.P., Williams, P.K.G. & Goodman, A. “The digitization of historical astrophysical literature with highly localized figures and figure captions.” International Journal of Digital Libraries (2023).

dos Santos, E.A., Peroni, S. & Mucheroni, M.L. “Referencing behaviours across disciplines: publication types and common metadata for defining bibliographic references.” 

Naiman, J.P., Williams, P.K.G. & Goodman, A. “The digitization of historical astrophysical literature with highly localized figures and figure captions.” International Journal of Digital Libraries (2023).

Books

Virginie Rey. Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016). Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib Series. Leiden: Brill, 2019

CFP: Hip Hop Archives

At the age 50, Hip Hop is finally understood as an essential facet of world-wide culture, with wide-ranging influence on our shared world. The continued lack of hip hop documents in traditional archives indicates both a lack of interest in, or understanding of that impact, as well as the inherent ephemerality of the five pillars of hip hop, leaving interested archivists without a path for documentation.

Taking Mark V. Campbell’s assertion that archival presentations of hip hop “signal the continued importance of the culture’s fifth element: knowledge” which “indicate[s] an ‘archival state of mind’ with increased attentiveness to the preservation of hip-hop culture through lived, embodied and affective practices” pathways to documentation do exist, and can be replicated in traditional archival settings.

This special issue of the Journal of Archival Organization will focus on the efforts of creators, collectors, activists, scholars, archivists, and polymaths that can guide and inspire the collecting, study and celebration of hip hop in all of its forms. We welcome original research articles, review articles, and critical essays that examine the intersection of hip-hop and archives.

JCAS Call for Book Reviewers

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) is looking for book reviewers for the following titles. Please note that some are digital only and you must have a way to access e-books. If you’re interested, please email us at email.jcas@gmail.com by April 3. In your email, please include 1) a brief description of your professional interests 2) which title you’d like to review and why 3) your preferred mailing address for review copies. Please also include [Book Reviews] in the subject line. You can find the reviewer guidelines at our website: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/bookreview.html

  • Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Making the Case to Government, Foundation, Corporate, and Individual Funders by Kathryn K. Matthew (e-book only)
  • Museum Archives: Issues, Practice, Advocacy edited by Rachel Chatalbash, Susan Hernandez, and Megan Schwenke
  • Disputed Archival Heritage edited by James Lowry (e-book only)
  • Residencies Revisited: Reflections on Library Residency Programs from the Past and Present edited by Preethi Gorecki and Arielle Petrovich
  • Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Library Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

American Archivist Call for Microreviews

Are you interested in reviewing the latest archives resources for your colleagues? The American Archivist wants to hear from you!

We are actively seeking microreviews of archives-related books for our Reviews Portal. Microreviews are short, informal contributions (about 100–400 words) that summarize a work and share your reaction to it. An example is Samantha Cross’s 2022 microreview of the podcast The Magnus Archives.

Microreviews are a great way to contribute to the archival literature no matter where you are in your professional journey. Never written a review before? No problem! Our Reviews Editors, Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, are available to answer questions and guide contributors through the entire review process.

For more information about writing a microreview, please see our guidelines for preparing a microreview. If you’re interested in writing a review, please contact us at ReviewsEditor@archivists.org.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Rose Buchanan & Stephanie Luke
Reviews Editors, American Archivist

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science, Volume 23, issue 1, March 2023

Farewell and thank you to Beth Yakel; welcome to Fiorella Foscarini
Karen AndersonGillian Oliver

Archives and the Digital World
Ricardo L. Punzalan

US–soviet fisheries research during the cold war: data legacies
Adam KriesbergJacob Kowall

The representation of NARA’s INS records in Ancestry’s database portal
Katharina Hering

In search of the item: Irish traditional music, archived fieldwork and the digital
Patrick Egan

The impact of the shift to cloud computing on digital recordkeeping practices at the University of Michigan Bentley historical library
Dallas PillenMax Eckard

Digital knowledge sharing: perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
Diana E. Marsh

“The only way we knew how:” provenancial fabulation in archives of feminist materials
Jessica M. Lapp

CFP: “Government Film,” Special Issue The Moving Image

Call for Special Issue 24.1
“Government Film”

Guest editor: Brian Real

Submissions Due: May 31, 2023

The Moving Image, the peer reviewed academic journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), invites submissions for possible inclusion in a special issue on Government Film. Full submissions are due by May 31, 2023, but contributors are encouraged to contact the special issue editor, Brian Real, in advance to discuss potential contributions and receive preliminary feedback.

  • Discussions of motion pictures produced by national, regional, state, and local governments, with a specific focus on how these works served policy objectives.
    This can include analyses of the output of particular directors or agencies.
  • Research on audience reception to government-made films and the effectiveness of their messaging.
  • Analyses of less-formal works made by government employees and their families, such as home movies.
  • Interviews with filmmakers, producers, and government officials who were involved in the creation of motion pictures for governments.
  • Overviews and comparisons of institutions that collect and preserve motion pictures made by governments, with a specific focus on how they preserve and provide access to these works.
  • Short pieces on specialized government film collections, paper-based collections of documents related to government-made films, and the acquisition and restoration of individual works.
  • Reviews of books, conferences, festivals, and media related to government-made films.

Types of Submissions:

  • Features: Double-blind peer reviewed research articles, 4,000 – 6,000 words
  • Forum pieces: Shorter, less formal pieces that include interviews and “notes from the field” that involve discussions of single institutions or archivists’ own work, such as specific restoration projects
  • Collections: Discussions of collections held by moving image archives, including their provenance
  • Reviews: Analyses of recent books, media (e.g., DVDs, Blu-Rays), conferences, film festivals, and exhibitions

Although the reviews section of the issue will remain open to all books, conferences, and discs related to film history and media preservation, the guest editor is particularly interested in reviews of works related to government produced motion pictures or review articles covering several relevant works.

Inquiries and submissions:

Please send initial proposals and final submissions to special issue editor Brian Real at brian.real@uky.edu and CC journal editor Devin Orgeron at editor@themovingimage.org.

All manuscripts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word e-mail attachment, double-spaced throughout, using 12-point type with 1-inch margins, following the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Please note if your piece should be considered for the Features, Forum, Collections, or Reviews sections. If you have an idea for a submission but are not sure as to which section would be the best for your work, the guest editor would be glad to discuss this during the planning stages.

CFP: Archives Journal

ARCHIVES, a peer -reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of the British Records Association, invites submissions that inform, explore, and inspire all those who use historical records. ARCHIVES provides accessible and engaging articles that increase understanding of the whereabouts, interpretation and historical significance of archival material of all historical periods. It provides a platform for historians and archivists to share their discoveries and information about the sources they have used for research.  We particularly welcome contributions from those at an early stage of their careers.

Themes that can be addressed include, but are not limited to:

  • Archival trends, theories and practices
  • Archives and the community
  • Archives and diversity
  • Approaches towards using archives and source materials
  • Archives and accessibility
  • Record keeping practices
  • Digital curation

A fuller statement of the editorial policy can be found at: https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/publications/archives-the-journal-of-the-british-records-association/.

Articles can be submitted at any time. Suggestions for articles and submissions should be sent electronically to the editor at mailto:editor@britishrecordsassociaton.org.uk who looks forward to hearing from you.

Call for Papers: Indigenous Librarianship (Library Trends Journal)

We are looking for a contributor or a collaboration of contributors to submit an article for a special issue of the Library Trends journal focused on Indigenous Librarianship. 

We are most interested in a contribution focusing on Indigenous cultural institutions of North America, histories, issues and problems, functions and significance tribal libraries and archives, but we are open to other topics. Examples include discussions on: protection of Indigenous ways of knowledge and/or communities’ way of life; language revitalization; land and resource management; and protection of sensitive information such as intellectual Indigenous property rights.

Library Trends is one of the leading library journals in North America.  It is published quarterly by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Contact Info: 

Please contact co-editors, Ulia Gosart and Rachel Fu with a proposal of 350 words or less by February 20 (the latest, we have strict deadlines and will consider submissions on the first sent basis), at:

ulia.gosart@sjsu.edu

rueih-chew.fu@sjsu.edu

Contact Email: 

rueih-chew.fu@sjsu.edu

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