Category: Journals

CFP: Journal of Archival Organization

JAO is an international, peer-reviewed journal encompassing all aspects of the arrangement, description, and provision of access to all forms of archival materials.   Seehttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjao20/current for more information.

The journal is seeking articles that include but are not limited to the following topics:

  • User experience design (UXD)
  • Non-traditional archival description/discovery methods (e.g., information visualization)
  • Archival implications for the discussion of information ethics
  • Diversity, inclusion, liberated archives
  • Social media – how can it be collected, organized, displayed to/used by patrons, metadata implications for, etc.
  • “Fake news” – Archival response to and responsibilities for; metadata implications, etc.
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Archival organization
  • Archival education

Please send articles or article queries to the Editor, Marta Mestrovic Deyrup [MartaDeyrup@gmail.com]

CFP: IASA Journal

IASA Journal invites proposals covering general topics of interest to the sound and audiovisual archives communities throughout the world. Articles, reviews, essays, and technical documents are welcome.

Important dates:
May 15, 2018: Full article submission deadline
July 15, 2018: Journal release
Issue no. 49 special considerations:
We encourage submissions that respond to critical issues for audiovisual archives today:
  • Degradation in legacy physical collections, especially magnetic carriers
  • Obsolescence of playback equipment and strategies for acquiring spare parts for playback machines
  • Selecting sustainable and compatible target codecs and wrappers for A-to-D video reformatting projects
  • Strategies for handling the proliferation of born-digital audiovisual formats and codecs
  • Planning for the necessary technical infrastructure needed to ingest and manage the large digital collections being created and acquired at sound and audiovisual archives worldwide
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Metadata strategies for time-based media objects
  • Providing meaningful and useful access to sound and audiovisual collections for researchers of all kinds and in all locations
Please consider submitting an article covering one of these topics or the results of independent research that would be of interest to the IASA membership and the international audiovisual archives community.
To make a submission:
Visit the IASA Journal’s new beta website (http://journal.iasa-web.org) and follow the submission instructions. If you have questions or difficulty with the new site, please contact the IASA Editor (editor@iasa-web.org).
About the IASA Journal:
The Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives represents the collected research and applied work of the global audiovisual archives community. It is published in issues bi-annually and available to all members of the IASA community. The IASA Journal uses a double-blind peer-review methodology (the authors do not know who reviews their papers, and reviewers do not know who wrote the papers they are reviewing).
Previous issues, older than 5 years, can be found on the IASA website as PDFs for public download. IASA Journal issues from no. 32 and later are published in both hard copy form and electronically. Hard copy editions are supplied to all IASA Members, IASA Supporters and IASA Subscribers (unless they opt out of receiving print copies in favour of an electronic version – and the environment!).
IASA Journal is testing a new online home as it considers providing open access to all content. The new online home provides a portal for submissions, review, and journal preparation, even as we await to move from print to online. See https://journal.iasa-web.org for more info.
Best regards —
Bertram Lyons
IASA Editor

CFP: Archival Issues

Archival Issues: The Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference is accepting submissions from both new and experienced authors. The journal’s readership is international, and authors from the Midwest and beyond are encoucaged to submit. Acceptable subjects include all aspects of archival activities, both theory and practice. For questions and submissions, contact Archival Issues editorial board chair Alexandra A. A. Orchard at alexandra@wayne.edu.

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Archival Organization

The Journal of Archival Organizations (JAO), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis is looking to share information about special projects and initiatives relating to the value of Religious Archives for a special issue being planned for late 2018/early 2019. Here is more information regarding the publication and focus . . .

The Journal of Archival Organization is an international journal encompassing all aspects of the arrangement, description, and provision of access to all forms of archival materials.

Articles on processing techniques and procedures, preparation of finding aids, and cataloging of archival and manuscript collections in accordance with MARC, AACR2, and other rules, standards, and cataloging conventions are only part of what is featured in this publication.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Management and staffing issues relating to archival organizational functions; specifically, arrangement and description of historical records collections

  • Innovative approaches to methods of intellectual and physical access
  • Retrieval of historical records in information systems
  • Reviews of projects and procedures, standards, and issues in organizing archival collections for storage and onsite use and availability through the Internet
  • Innovations in Reading Rooms or reference practices that interact with the tools created through arrangement and description

For more information about this special issue please contact Alan Delozier at <Alan.Delozier@shu.edu>

New Recent Publications: Articles

“What Is Learned in College History Classes?”
Sam Wineburg Mark Smith Joel Breakstone
Journal of American History, Volume 104, Issue 4, 1 March 2018

“Towards Knowledge Discovery from the Vatican Secret Archives. In Codice Ratio – Episode 1: Machine Transcription of the Manuscripts.”
Donatella Firmani, Paolo Merialdo, Marco Maiorino, Elena Nieddu

“Finding parallel passages in cultural heritage archives,”
Harris, Martyn and Levene, Mark and Zhang, Dell
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 11 (2018)

“From Corpus to Bio-Text; Peter Carey’s Archives as Literary Networks”
Keyvan Allahyari
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, No. 2 (2017)

“Documenting Local History: Using the Library of Congress Site, Primary Sources, and Community Resources for Teaching Social Studies”
Mary Ann Hanlin, Chris Herridge, Katie Janovetz, Cindy Alcaraz, David McMullen, Dean Cantu, Sherrie Pardieck
The Councilor, Vol 78, No 2 (2017)

“The Site of Memory: Reading Surveillance, Alterity, and South Australia’s Indigenous Archives in Natalie Harkin”
Matthew Hall
Contemporary Women’s Writing, 23 March 2018

“The national project Digital Library and Digital Archives: Mass digitisation of printed cultural heritage materials in Slovakia”
Ján Kováčik
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 2018

“Digitizing sound archives at Royal Library of Belgium. Challenges and difficulties encountered during a major digitization project”
Frédéric Lemmers
(Preprints der Zeitschrift BIBLIOTHEK – Forschung und Praxis, 2018)

“If These Crawls Could Talk: Studying and Documenting Web Archives Provenance”
Emily Maemura, Nicholas Worby, Ian Milligan, Christoph Becker

“Manuscripts in the Archives of Academician M.V. Keldysh Memorial Museum-Study”
Afendikova N.G.
KIAM Preprint № 24, Moscow, 2018

New Issue: IASA Journal

IASA journal No 48, February 2018
(membership)

  • Editorial and President’s Letter
  • ‘It’s Your Story, Don’t Lose It’ – Using Sound And Image Heritage to Bridge Cultures
    Judith Opoku-Boateng, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
  • Interview with Robyn Holmes 2016 ASRA Award Recipient: Sound is My Passion
    Melinda Barrie, University of Melbourne Archives, Australia
  • Archiving the Digital RAI Collection of Traditional Folk Culture
    Ettore Pacetti, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy; Daniela Floris, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy
  • From International Shortwave to Digital Rebroadcast: Transforming Music Time in Africa for a New Worldwide Audience
    Paul Conway, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, USA; Kelly Askew, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA
  • IASA Research Grant Report: Pilot Project in Re-Study and Repatriation (Digital Return) of the International Library of African Music’s Hugh Tracey Field Recordings
    Diane Thram, International Library of African Music, South Africa
  • Innovation and Human Failure in Small-Scale Audiovisual Archives – What Do We Need to Learn from Each Other?
    Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Putra University, Malaysia (UPM), Faculty of Human Ecology, Music Department, Malaysia; Thongbang Homsombat, National Library of Laos, Archives of Traditional Music in Laos; Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Gisa Jähnichen, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China; Xiao Mei, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
  • Broadcaster’s Dilemma with Archive Asset Management: Torn Between Long Term and Production Requirements
    Silvester Stöger, NOA, Austria; Jean-Christophe Kummer, NOA, Austria
  • Compressed Video Quality
    Iain Richardson, Vcodex Ltd., UK
  • Ka Mua, Ka Muri—Looking Back to Look Forward: Digital Preservation and Oral History Workflows at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
    Valerie Love, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
  • The Importance of Memories in the Transmedia Era
    Ariane Cristina Gervásio da Silva, Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Archives, Brazil

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal, Volume 28 Issue 1, 2018
(subscription)

“Public Information Directive (PSI) implementation in two Swedish municipalities”
Proscovia Svärd

“Voices in the cloud: social media and trust in Canadian and US local governments”
Lois Evans, Patricia Franks, Hsuanwei Michelle Chen

“Managing university records in the world of governance”
Mathews J. Phiri, Alistair George Tough

“A review of digital curation professional competencies: theory and current practices”
Yuanyuan Feng, Lorraine Richards

“The missing link in information and records management: personal knowledge registration”
Ragna Kemp Haraldsdottir, Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir

“Recordkeeping in an outsourcing public agency”
Ann-Sofie Klareld

“Post-records survey inspections in Zimbabwe: Reflections on compliance and non-compliance with records survey recommendations”
Samson Mutsagondo

CFP: “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule” – Theme issue of Progressive Librarian

Call for Papers
Theme issue of Progressive Librarian
“Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule”

The publication Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship invites Palestinian information providers to submit papers for a special issue, “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule.” Papers accepted for this special issue may also be republished later in a book on this topic.

Submitters and Topics
We are seeking papers from Palestinian information providers, including: librarians, archivists, library staff, publishers, researchers, book dealers, and book store owners and employees. We are especially interested in papers in the following three areas:

Historical or analytical studies of how the occupation or a particular Israeli policy has made it difficult to provide information. For example, a paper might discuss the history of the confiscation of Palestinian archives, the history of the destruction of Palestinian libraries, restrictions on the import of books from “enemy states”, restrictions on the import of books dealing with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, internet restrictions, restrictions on access by Palestinians to materials in Israeli libraries and archives, the effect of curfews and travel restrictions on access to information, or limitations on professional collaboration due to travel restrictions.

Papers describing the experiences of the author or authors in confronting these problems. For example, papers might describe difficulties experienced by an information provider or providers, or explain how an information provider or providers creatively dealt with some of these challenges. We encourage the submission of even very short papers of this type.

Papers describing current efforts to create libraries and archives. Papers in this topic could describe different case studies of library and archive projects that document the experiences and histories of Palestinian life, culture and history.

Submission Details
Papers may be submitted in either English or Arabic. Papers submitted in Arabic will be translated into English. To submit a paper for consideration, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to the guest editors of this special issue of Progressive Librarian (Walid Habbas, Jessa Lingel andTom Twiss) at  progressive.librarian@protonmail.com by May 30. Notifications of acceptance will go out on June 30. Papers can be shorter (between 500 and 2000 words) or full-length research papers (of 5,000 to 8,000 words). Final versions of short papers will be due September 30, and longer papers will be due December 31. Please do not hesitate to reach out to editors with questions or inquiries.

About the Journal
Progressive Librarian is an American journal published by the Progressive Librarians Guild. It provides a forum for critical perspectives in Library and Information Science (LIS), featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues.

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

JCAS, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2018
(open access)

“Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P. T. Barnum Digital Collection”
Meghan R. Rinn

“Adapting an Analog Records Management System for the Ingest and Accession of Permanent Electronic Records”
Brandy Tunmire, Amy Dinkins, Mary K. Coker, Shelly J. Croteau, and John Korasick

Recent Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Vol. 50, 2017
(open access)

“Preservation of Endangered Archives: a Case of Timbuktu Manuscripts”
Alexio Motsi

“The Role of the South African Human Rights Commission to Records Management in the Public Sector in South Africa”
Mpho Ngoepe, Makutla Mojapelo

“Community Awareness for Archives in Tanzania: a Case Study of Zanzibar National Archives”
Maximilian Chami

“Making a Case for the Development of a University Records and Archives Management Programme at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe”
Njabulo B Khumalo, Dickson Chigariro

“Preservation of Audio-Visual Records at the National Archives of Namibia”
Hertha Lukileni-Iipinge, Nathan Mnjama

“The 150th – Year Watershed – a Secure Digital Repository Created for Standard Bank Heritage Centre”
Letitia T Myburgh