Category: New Publication

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science volume 26, issue 1, 2026
(subscription)

Deserts as infinite dis-archives
Brahim El GuabliItzea Goikolea-Amiano

Grounding the Semantic Web: Indigenous Sovereignty, Land-based ontologies, and the politics of Linked Data
Andrew Wiebe

Grounding the Semantic Web: Indigenous Sovereignty, Land-based ontologies, and the politics of Linked Data
Andrew Wiebe

Photography as a tool to preserve institutional memory
Jorge Dias da Silva Júnior

Intentionality, capacity, and communication: ethical donor relations strategies for archivists engaging with individuals with memory loss
Lori BirrellKatrina Windon

Sinai paths and quarantine: buried paths as alternative sources of historical narrative
Alaa Attiah Mitwaly

A child, a passion, and a mission to fill the gap: Affective, social, and personal impacts of a German minority community archive
Magdalena Wiśniewska-DrewniakAdriana KapałaKamila Siuda

New Issue: Archives & Records

Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association
Volume 46, 2025 – Issue 3: Special issue on conservation
(subscription)

Editorial

Introduction to special issue on conservation
Mark Allen & Annie Starkey

Research Articles

In safe hands: moving the medieval archive of Durham Cathedral
Tony King, Katie Brew, Alison Cullingford, Joanne Fulton, Andrew Gray & Isabelle Morse

Creating access to Archbishop John Swayne’s register through interdisciplinary collaboration, conservation, and digital advances
Sarah Graham

Large-scale archives of industrial companies: thoughts, research, choices and activities of the SNIA Viscosa collection project, with a focus on tracing paper drawings
Ilaria Camerini & Eliana Dal Sasso

Lessons from the masses: a comparison of three major conservation and rehousing projects for three Oxford College archives
Jessica Hyslop, Emma Skinner & Nikki Tomkins

Book Reviews

Conservation of books
edited by Abigail Bainbridge, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, xxxiii + 700 pp., £43.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367754914
Steph Bennett

Paper, Paper, Paper
by Rúben R. Dias, Miguel Sanches and Manuel Delago, with illustrations by Diana Amarelo and Foreword by Gavin Ambrose, Portugal, o.itemzero, 2024, 216 pp., £44 (hardback), ISBN 9789895378654
Shirley Jones

Letterlocking: the hidden history of the letter
by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, with the Unlocking History Research Group, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2025, 528 pp., $45 (hardback), ISBN 9780262049276
Katie Proctor

The conservator’s cookbook: solution preparation for the heritage professional
by Laura Chaillie, London, Routledge, 2025, 242 pp., £24.74 (paperback), ISBN 9781032489780
Lou Blackmore

New Issue: Provenance, Mini-Issue

From the Editor:

The Archivist in me acknowledges that this is being published on January 19, 2026. The Reviews Editor in me will stand by dating the issue as 12/31/2025 as a nod to the tremendous efforts this past year from the Review Contributors, whose reviews are included within. However, the Archivist in me also must note that a lot has happened in our world between 2025 and today, further highlighting the tension of timeliness for me. While my heart regrets that a full issue was not published in 2025 given a variety of challenges, there is another part of me that recognizes that with a new year often comes fresh starts to personal and professional commitments, granting a different sense of timeliness. What will you be reading in 2026? What topics might you explore more deeply? What voices are you interested in reviewing yourself for a future issue? My hope is that you feel invited to explore a variety of perspectives and options as part of your professional development reading, inspired by these reviews. Please stay tuned for a separate articles-based issue in the near future. Thank you and happy (intentional) reading in 2026 and beyond.

Brittany “Britt” Parris, Reviews Editor (2024-2026)

Reviews

Review: Photo Archives and the Place of Photography
Alex Brinson

Review: Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives
Penny Cliff

Review: Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration
Lauren Goodley

Review: Archives 101
Autumn M. Johnson

Review: The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance
Cathy Miller

Review: The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
shady Radical PhD

Review: Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners
Michelle Schabowski


Review: Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Jessica Wylie

New Issue: ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

Editorial
Segomotso Keakopa , Mehluli Masuku

Repatriation of the World Council of Churches’ 1948-1960 archives from Switzerland to South Africa
Sidney Nkholedzeni Netshakhuma

Engaging the public through archives: a systematic review of participatory approaches in public programming
Mthokozisi Masumbika Ncube, Patrick Ngulube

Leveraging artificial intelligence for ethical archiving and democratising access to sensitive historical narratives
Prince Kudakwashe Madziwa, Takunda Michael Ralph Chingonzo

The custody questionownership and control of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Elizabeth Kyazike, Peterson Dewah

Digital transformation for leveraging police case records management to support justice for all in South Africa
Ngoako Marutha

International diplomacy versus Zimbabwean archival heritage: challenges and prospects of repatriating migrated archives in Zimbabwe
Adock Dube, Trevor Gumbo, Masithokoze Hlabangana

An assessment of the storage systems for medical records in public healthcare facilities in Malawi
Austin Phiri, Antonio Rodrigues

Expanding the archival boundary through a “community archives” project in Zimbabwe
Samuel Chabikwa, Patrick Ngulube

Unlocking digital records enhancing accessibility for effective records management at Zomba District Council in Malawi
Clement Mweso

The impact of artificial intelligence on modern records and archives management practices
Andrew Asasiira

Artificial intelligence in records management in Africa: opportunities and threats
Ndakasharwa Muchaonyerwa, Sharon Ndlovu

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Onifer, D., & Finkel, I. (2026). Using What We’ve Got: Activating Institutional Archives in Uncertain Times. Urban Library Journal, 31 (2). Retrieved from https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/vol31/iss2/1.

Candela, G. (2023). Towards a semantic approach in GLAM Labs: The case of the Data Foundry at the National Library of Scotland. Journal of Information Science, 52(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515231174386

Arran J. Rees and Elizabeth Stainforth. “Disentangling Ownership in Digital Collecting Practices: Approaches From Across Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2025).

Luyombya, D., Sendikadiwa, E., & Mulindwa, E. (2023). Examining archives management practices and service delivery in Mpigi district local government in Uganda. Information Development, 42(1), 300-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669231209958

Books

Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
Angela Kipp
Bloomsbury, 2024

Efficiency by Design: Transforming Libraries and Archives through Process Management
Joy M. Perrin
Bloomsbury, 2025

Paduano, Michael , éd. 2025. Imperfect Itineraries: Literature and Literary Research in the Archives. Book Page Text Image. Nancy (France): Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine. https://doi.org/10.62688/edul/b9782384511914.

Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18
Edited by Matthew James Driscoll
University of Chicago Press, 2023

The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum: Decolonization and the Crisis of Knowledge
Janet Kraynak
Routledge, 2026

Collection Management Basics
Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro, John Novak G. Edward Evans
Bloomsbury, 2025

Opening up our Heritage: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research Collections
François Renaville, Renaud Adam and Cécile Oger (Eds.)
2025

The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening
Alejandro L. Madrid
Duke University Press, 2025

Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage
Edited By Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Johanna Turunen, Andrei Terian, Renaud Garcia-Bardidia
Routledge, 2025

Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Lorri Mon, Christie Koontz
Bloomsbury, 2025

Contemporary Archival Fiction: A Multimodal Cognitive Stylistic Approach
Elin Ivansson
Routledge, 2026

Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures: Setting the Scene for Participation
Quoc-Tan Tran
Routledge, 2025

Paper

Approaches to Integrating Supervised Machine Learning in Libraries and Archives
Gregory Tharp, 2025

Podcasts

Archives in Context
In episode 4 of season 9, cohosts Adreonna Bennett and Conor Casey speak with Julie Thomas, the instruction and electronic records archivist at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), about her new book, Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners. The conversation touches upon active learning strategies, effective methods of incorporating archival materials into instruction, and the importance of adapting our teaching approach to the learning styles of today’s students.

Sound Files, National Recording Preservation Foundation
The Cuttlefish Project: Preserving Unangax̂ Culture
Discover the journey of the Cuttlefish Project, where the voices of the Unangam Tunuu language come alive through archival recordings in Alaska. In this episode of Sound Files, we explore how these valuable tapes were rescued from obscurity and digitized, thanks to the dedicated efforts of educators Ray Hudson, George Pletnikoff Junior, and curator Leslie McCartney. We’ll hear the powerful stories behind these recordings, highlighting the unwavering commitment to preserve the cultural heritage of the Unangax̂ community and the vital role these sounds play in revitalizing a language on the brink of extinction.

Recent Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Volume 51, No.3 (October 2025)
Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence (AI): Transforming Global Librarianship
(open access)

Editorial

Artificial intelligence in libraries: The emerging research agenda
Andrew M Cox and Xuemao Wang

Original Article

Do we trust ourselves? Is the human the weak link?
Kate Mercer, Kari D Weaver, Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and Makhan Virdi

Review Article

AI literacy guidelines and policies for academic libraries: A scoping review
Muhammad Yousuf Ali and Joanna Richardson

Case Study

Skills and AI literacy of engineering students
Thuy Thanh Bui, Son Hong Do and Ly Dieu Dinh

Original Articles

Artificial intelligence literacy among South Asian library and information science students: Socio-demographic influences and educational implications
Zakir Hossain, Md Sakib Biswas, Nadim Akhtar Khan and Ghalib Khan

Generative artificial intelligence and university libraries in Latin America
Humberto Martínez-Camacho, César Saavedra-Alamillas, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza and Juan D Machin-Mastromatteo

Use of artificial intelligence innovations in public academic libraries
Amogelang Isaac Molaudzi and Patrick Ngulube

The potential of GPTs for enhanced information access and user services at academic libraries
Faten Hamad and Ahmed Shehata

Bridging the AI gap: Comparative analysis of AI integration, education, and outreach in academic libraries
Jairo Buitrago-Ciro, Marta Samokishyn, Rachel Moylan, Jonathan Hernández Pérez, Oluwabunmi Bakare-Fatungase and Carmel Firdawsi

Preserving indigenous knowledge: Leveraging digital technology and artificial intelligence
Adeyinka Tella, Esther Oluwayemi Jatto and Yusuf Ayodeji Ajani

The development of policies on generative artificial intelligence in UK universities
Thomas D Wilson

Essay

Cutting through the noise: Assessing tools that employ artificial intelligence
Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Stine Thordarson Moltubakk, Andreas Fagervik and Inga Buset Langfeldt

Original Articles

Exploring the potential of artificial intelligence usage in the knowledge and evidence services of a public health body: A working group approach
Zalaya Simmons, Charlotte Bruce, Samuel Thomas, Patricia Lacey, Wendy Marsh, Scott Rosenberg and Daphne Duval

ChatGPT’s potential in the deep exploration of Islamic manuscripts
Elsayed Elsawy, Yousry Elseadawy and Sarah Attia

Facing the era of generative artificial intelligence: Strategies of information and digital literacy in Chinese studies
Bing Wang, Cecilia Zhang, Khamo and Shuqi Ye

Case Study

AI and labor: Captioning library audiovisual content with Whisper
Nina Rao, Simon O’Riordan and Jonathan Coulis

Original Articles

Transforming parliamentary libraries: Enhancing processes delivering new services with artificial intelligence 
Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Hernán Astudillo and Jose Emilio Labra Gayo

Enhancing library services with artificial intelligence: A framework for an automated news delivery system
PJ Jhan, MG Sreekumar and Rosemary Kuriakose

Recent Issue: The Journal of the Copyright Society

The Journal of the Copyright Society 72, no. 3
Special Issue: Libraries and Collections
(open access)

From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief
PART I: PRESERVATION
Heritage Collections and Preservation Panel
With Rina Pantalony, Brian O’Leary, David Sutton,
Trevor Reed, and Margaret Bodde 559

Revisiting The National Film Preservation Act of 1988: An Introduction and Reprinting of Eric J. Schwartz’s
1989 Journal of the Copyright Society Article
By Eric J. Schwartz 587

PART II: ARTICLES
Will Google v. Oracle Save the World’s Cultural Heritage?
By Brandon Butler 593

No One “Owns” That: Metadata, Copyright, and Problems with [Library] Vendor Agreements
By Kyle Courtney, Kathleen DeLaurenti, Matthew Kopel,
and Katie Zimmerman 621

Protecting Library Exceptions Against Contract Override
By Jonathan Band 659

Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine  the Goals of Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers,
And What We Can Do About It
By Dave Hansen, Yuanxiao Xu, and Rachael G. Samberg 675

Protecting Progress: Copyright’s Common Law and Libraries
By Margaret Chon 761

Understanding the Internet Archive Litigation Cases
By Sara Benson 819

“Beam Me A Book, Scotty:” Virtual Access Rooms Under Section 108 of the Copyright Act
By Kyle Courtney 831

PART III: LECTURE
Libraries, Education, and Fair Use: A Lecture
By Kenneth D. Crews with Elizabeth Townsend Gard 861

PART IV: ANNUAL CASE SUMMARIES
Recent Developments in Copyright Law: Selected Annotated Cases
By Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, Dasha Chestukhin,
Jaime Berman, Allison Furnari, Paige Geier, Justin Karasick,
Sarah Sue Landau, John Miranda, Raphael Nemes,
Reema Pangarkar, Emily Stein and Lyndsey Waddington – 897

Recent Issue: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)

Volume 28, Issue 3
September 2025
Special Issue: Advanced Topics in Document Analysis and Recognition

Special issue on advanced topics in document analysis (2025 ICDAR-IJDAR journal track)
Daniel Lopresti, Dimosthenis Karatzasm Xu-Cheng Yin

On self-supervision in historical handwritten document segmentation
Josef Baloun, Martin Prantl…Pavel Král

Character recognition for Greek squeezes
Nicholas R. Howe, Feiran Chang…Aaron Hershkowitz

Tabular context-aware optical character recognition and tabular data reconstruction for historical records
Loitongbam Gyanendro Singh, Stuart E. Middleton

The PARES Database: Information Extraction over Historical Parish Records
José Andrés, Casey Wall…Enrique Vidal

A Low-Intervention Dual-Loop Iterative Process for Efficient Dataset Expansion and Classification in Palm Leaf Manuscript Analysis
Nimol Thuon, Jun Du…Ratana Thuon

Lightweight cross-attention-based HookNet for historical handwritten document layout analysis
Fei Wu, Mathias Seuret…Vincent Christlein

Multi-level Style Control for Chinese Handwriting Generation
Gang Yao, Liangrui Peng…Yao Tao

Enhancing music score analysis with Monte Carlo dropout: a probabilistic approach to staff-region detection
Samuel B. Oliva-Bulpitt, Juan P. Martinez-Esteso…Antonio Javier Gallego

SlimDoc: lightweight distillation of document transformer models
Marcel Lamott, Muhammad Armaghan Shakir…Faisal Shafait

Neurosymbolic Information Extraction from Transactional Documents
Arthur Hemmer, Mickaël Coustaty…Jean-Marc Ogier

New Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Journal of Digital Media Management Volume 14 / Number 1 / Autumn/Fall 2025
(subscription)

Editorial
Beckett, Simon

The AI-powered archivist: Harnessing generative artificial intelligence for streamlined archival description
Hollow, Anna Gibson; Cline, Lindsay; Kardar, Mohsen; Komarnytska, Olesya; Warkentin, Laurel

Managing a feedback system for digital libraries at the University of North Texas
Fisher, Sarah Lynn; Esparza, Daniel

A collaborative model for creating and managing Indigenous digital collections
Milenkiewicz, Eric L.

Assessing, processing and preserving the University of Houston Libraries’ digital archives: A Texas Digital Library resident librarian collaboration
Scott, Bethany; Oduok, Ima

Utilising machine-learning tools to increase access to archival collections
Querengesser, Allie

Digitising Riley House: Collaborating to bring a museum’s archives online
Thomas, Krystal; Asabea, Kiah Akosua; Cole, Noah; Ostertag, Amalie

New Issue: American Archivist

In issue 88.2 of American Archivist, Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz evaluate the efficacy of North American graduate archival education curriculum; Elizabeth Joffrion considers the history and current situation of state archives; and Sonia Yaco, Bala Desinghu, Claire Warwick, and Richard Anderson share their research findings after testing thirty-three software tools to explore how AI can be used in special collections to improve accessibility and discoverability.

This issue also includes seven reviews of recent publications in archival literature that explore historical collecting around the Panama Canal, the development of archives on the internet, disability and archives, and much more!

From the Editor

No Time (Not) to Read
Amy Cooper Cary

Articles

“Putting It into Practice Is the Best Way to Really Learn Something”: Evaluating the North American Graduate Archival Education Curriculum
Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz

Charting a Profession: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Regional Archival Journals and American Archivist, 2013–2023
Daines, J. Gordon, Coulter Gill, Ryan K. Lee, and Cory L. Nimer

The State of American State Archives (Revisited)
Elizabeth Joffrion

Instilling Primary-Source Research Confidence in Undergraduate History Majors: Insight into Instructional Impact and Student Preferences
Matthew Gorzalski

The Mumia Rules for Carceral Collecting
Murphy, Mary O., and Amanda M. Knox

“I Despise It, But It Works”: Social Media Outreach in Special Collections
Thomas, Nikki Lynn, Colleen Theisen, Juli McLoone, and Sean Heyliger

What Can AI Do for Special Collections?
Yaco, Sonia, Bala Desinghu, Claire Warwick, and Richard Anderson

Reviews

From Local to Global: Variety in the Archival Literature
Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke

Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
Katie Sutrina-Haney

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Gabrielle Dean

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory
Kailyn Slater

Beyond Evidence: The Use of Archives in Transitional Justice
Sarah R. Demb

Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession
Moira Armstrong

Records and Information Management
Brady Kal Cox

The Handbook of Archival Practice
Audie Robinson