Category: Journals

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

Vol 27, No 1 (2026)
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note: Organization
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Algae in Special Collections: Making Room for STEM
Lucy Perrin

The Ordinary Numinosity of the Book: A Framework for Understanding Affective Encounters in Book Exhibition Contexts
Susana Sanchez-Gonzalez

Widening the Poison Books Scope: Addressing Bibliotoxicology at a Medium- Sized Public University Library
Judith L Silva, Zachary Voras

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Cataloging a Life’s Work: Notes from the George Bixby James Baldwin Collection
Indica Mattson

Book Reviews

What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom
Laura French

Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing
Chelcie Juliet Rowell

From the Editorial Board

On Crafting a Policy: Reflections on Membership and Community
Sarah Allison, Anne Bahde, Jeremy Brett, Juli McLoone with Diane Dias De Fazio

New Issue: Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

Volume 47, Issue 1 2026
(open access)

Original Works

Effects of Stone-Calendering on Traditional Handmade Paper: Mechanical Properties and Shape Stability
Dongyoung Yoo, Yumei Tang, Decai Gong

Dimensional Stability of Sanskrit Manuscript Supports Exposed to Environmental Humidity: Tibetan Paper, Palm Leaf, and Birch Bark
Bing Li, Chen Yu, Meifang Zhang, Danrui Cao

Historic Tibetan Manuscripts in Border Monasteries: Current State and Conservation Challenges
Ze Wan, Tiancai Li

New Issue: Archival Science

Volume 26, Issue 2 June 2026

Music as cultural representation of the archival profession: a reflexive textual analysis
Dwi Ridho Aulianto

Archival time simultaneity (ATS): a post-linear temporal framework for record ontology in the digital era
Abderrahmane Kalem

Evaluating usability in digital humanities features for archival retrieval systems
Chiao-Min LinYu-Ting Huang

A prospetto of 1803: records classification from Austrian Lombardy to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
Dan Farrell

Advancing archives as agents of change: paradigmatic tensions and professional identity
Geerd De Ceulaerde

Diasporic archive and archival diaspora: negotiating collective identity through community audiovisual archiving among Polish Highlanders in Chicago
Agata Zborowska

Collecting evidence of counter-narrative: the unspoken labor of archiving justice & recovering the material wages owed
Sydney M. Triola

Archives, archival bond, and digital representation: a case study with the International Image Interoperability Framework
Martin Critelli

Migrating memory, diasporic counter archives, and transnational reckoning with repressed past
Karolina Koziura

Positioning the archives: a strategy based on the survey of visit motivations to cultural heritage institutions
Gyubin YoonBonJin KooDurk Hyun Chang

“You can read their words and see they fight for the same things”: strategies of social movement archivists for coalition building
Maciej KowalewskiIzabela Kujawa

A kind of personal paper and ephemera: hotel stationery accommodation, communication, art and memory
Hakan Anameriç

Conceptualising archival literacy as an organisational capability
Primus Sanbein

Global context and diversity of community archiving: memory, identity, and representation in community digital archives of the South Asian Diaspora
Sushanta BaruaProf. Mainak Ghosh

Echo after presence: performing Derrida in the archive
Mahsa AkbarabadiMohammad Ali Safoora

CFP: 2026 issue of the Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists

J-SNCA is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to support the theoretical, practical, and scholarly aspects of the archival profession. The editorial board of J-SNCA invites members of the research and archival communities to submit articles for a general issue on archival topics to be published winter 26/27. Submissions on archival methodology, metadata, collecting practices, outreach, and rethinking the goals of archival work in our current age, are all welcome. We especially welcome submissions related to the theme of this year’s annual meeting, “Many Voices, Stronger Archives: Advocacy through Community” which calls us to reflect on the roles and impacts of advocacy and community within the archival profession.

The deadline for article submission is August 15, 2026. All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles. Contributors need not be members of the Society of North Carolina Archivists or live in the state of North Carolina.

Submission contact: jsncajournal@gmail.com

Manuscript Submission and Preparation

The Journal accepts a range of articles related to the research, study, theory, or practice in the archival professions.

All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles and reviews. Contributors need not be members of SNCA or live in the state of North Carolina.

A Word document via email attachment will be requested for accepted articles.

Please submit original, unpublished manuscripts only. The Journal will not reprint or republish articles submitted and accepted by other publications. If the article was presented at a conference, please supply the name and date of the conference on the cover page.

Submissions should be no longer than 30 pages or 7500 words, including citations. On the cover page, please provide a title for the article as well as the author(s)’s names, position(s), institutional affiliation(s), and business address(es). No other page of the manuscript should have the author’s name on it.

Call for Applications: Exhibition Journal Editorial Advisors

Description:

Exhibition, the peer-reviewed journal of exhibition theory and practice, is published by AAM twice a year, with each issue organized around a theme. 

Exhibition offers 128 pages of thought-provoking articles, exhibition critiques and commentary, technical articles, and essays. 

Volunteer Editorial Advisors promote AAM’s mission and exhibition best practices through their service.

Download the Editorial Advisor volunteer role here!

Learn more about:

  • Exhibition journal
  • Who We’re Looking For
    • Accepting early, mid-, or senior-level industry experience professionals
  • What Editorial Advisors do
    • Our Editorial Advisors are a dedicated group of 10-12 individuals, who each serve a three-year rotating term. Advisors provide candid and critical feedback on the overall direction of the journal and help authors develop their articles through our peer-review process. Advisors represent a range of diverse perspectives within the museum field based on their own lived experiences as well as their work throughout the museum field—in institutions large and small, spread across the country and around the world, and of all types, including art, history, science and natural history, and those dedicated to living collections—and in industries including exhibition design, independent consultancies, and more.

Application Deadline is July 3, 2026. 

How to Apply

Volunteers Needed:

20 (18 open slots)

Experience Desired:

1 to 3 Years Industry Experience

Points:

250

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Ferrucci, Giada; Oliver, Amanda; Belton, Tom; and Chacon, Fernando (2026) “Toward Healing and Justice: Building Equitable Relationships with Community Archives in El Salvador,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 13, Article 12.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/12

Foscarini, Fiorella (2026) “Reflections on Language and Translation: Toward a “Translation Turn” in Archival Studies,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 13, Article 11.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/11

New Issue: Collections

Collections- Volume: 22, Number: 2 (June 2026)

Focus Issue: Ethical AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Collections Stewardship in GLAM

Introduction

Finding Common Ground in GLAM: Ethical AI in Three Themes
Angela I. Fritz

Articles

Enhancing Ethical AI Literacy: A Thematic Review for GLAM Practitioners
Izabella Botto, Carmela Furio and Rachel Romero

Assessing Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Use in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Erin Baucom

Archival Reference Services in an Age of AI
Jesse A. Johnston and Meghan Courtney

“Learning in the Flow”: AI Microskilling and Ethical Stewardship in GLAMs
Angela I. Fritz

Case Studies

Transparent Practices: OCR and AI in the Archives
Rebecca Hastings and Andrew Weymouth

Ethical AI at the British Library: A PhD Placement Project
Jeanette Croen

Ethical AI Implementation in Archival Metadata Generation: A Case Study of the WBFO Radio Archive AI Pilot Project
Hope Dunbar and Kenneth Axford

Notes from the Field

Navigating the Limitations of AI in Archival Description: Can and Should AI Write Biographical Notes?
Amelia Verkerk and Ren Harman

New Issue: Exhibition

VOL. 45 ISSUE 1
(partial open access)

In “Present Tense,” the Spring 2026 issue of Exhibition, museums are finding ways to highlight our shared experience instead of our differences, bringing communities together and providing space for new understanding in these tense times. Learn their approaches and strategies for tackling complex topics with visitors, and how museums are responding to pressing current issues.

Editor’s Letter
Jeanne Normand Goswami

Contested Figures in Museum Praxis
Julia Peristerakis and Isabelle Masson

Echoes from the Key Bridge: Collecting and Interpreting Contemporary Events
Anita Kassof, Beth Maloney, and Verónica E. Betancourt

Centering the Cellphone, Decentering the Museum
Laura Donnelly-Smith, Christyna Solhan, Marion Le Voyer, and Nicole Webster

A Colossal Mirror: Museums as a Refuge for the Real in the Age of AI
Lauren Thompson and Stefania Van Dyke

Exhibition as Process: CoLab Studio’s Adaptive Model for Rapid, Collaborative Curation
Devon M. Akmon

From Neutrality to Narrative: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exhibiting Science
Anna Mirzayan, Rachel Reeb, and Mason Heberling

Vanishing Space: Interpreting Agricultural Change in Real Time
Jennifer Rogers, PhD and LaShell Martinez

Present Tensions: A Snapshot of the Pressures Facing U.S. Museums
Leander Gussmann

Entwined Histories of Monstrous Proportions
Andy King

How to Navigate Uncertainty Through Contract Negotiation
Sharon Hotchkiss, Esq.

Rethinking Exhibition Mounts: Bio- Based Prototypes
Nikoletta Karastathi and Alicia González-Lafita Pérez

Restorative Museums: A Primer for Exhibition Practice
Kate Merrick

Contemplating Colonial Echoes
Tamara Newton

CFP: RBM Fall 2026 Issue

RBM: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is accepting proposals for its Fall (November) 2026 issue! We welcome articles related to special collections librarianship, archives, or museum practice.

Articles should be written in a formal style and range between 3,000 and 5,000 words. The submission deadline is June 20th. If interested in submitting, get in touch with the Editor, Diane Dias De Fazio (diane.diasdefazio@gmail.com). Guidelines for authors can be found here.

CFP: Printing History Themed Issue: Printing Across Borders

Printing History 39 will spotlight print practices that engage critically with the theme of borders and border crossings. The topic can be approached literally and/or conceptually. We are particularly interested in articles that challenge, upend, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity, imagined communities, and borderlands. 

We invite interested researchers, professionals, and practitioners to share work engaged with the following topics:

  • Print production straddling geographic and/or figurative borders
  • Printed materials that resist xenophobia and challenge nationalist impulses 
  • Activist print cultures: posters, broadsides, zines, ephemera
  • Anticolonial, radical, revolutionary printing
  • Print as political and cultural critique
  • Print practices of underresearched and/or marginalized groups and individuals

In general, Printing History follows the Chicago Manual of Style. An APHA style guide and further information for contributors can be downloaded here. 

Submissions should be emailed to editor@printinghistory.org. If you have questions about this issue, the process, or the journal in general, do not hesitate to write. We do not solicit proposals for articles, but we are happy to discuss ideas and abstracts via email.

Submission deadline: June 12, 2026