New/Recent Publications

Articles

Williams, Andrew (2025) “Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 12, Article 17.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/17

Larson, Julia D. (2025) “Faxes, Emails, and CAD: A Case Study of the Changing Landscape in Born-digital Design Records, 1994-2006,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 6. DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1195. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol16/iss1/6

Robert Olbrycht, Alfonso Bahillo Martínez, Ernesto Marcheggiani, Müge Akkar Ercan, Pinar Karagöz, Karol Kropidłowski, Giuseppe Pace, “Methods for real-time underground built heritage visualization enhancement,” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 75, 2025, Pages 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2025.07.006.

Qingxia Meng, Chenshu Liu, Chongwen Liu, Qian Jiao, Shuangshuang Li, Haolin Fan, Songbin Ben, “A novel nanocomposite hydrogel system for synergistic paper deacidification and reinforcement,” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 75, 2025, Pages 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2025.07.015.

Stanisław Piotr Skulimowski, Jerzy Montusiewicz, “A novel approach for assemblage of historical artefacts using the Levenshtein distance and feedback loop,” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 75, 2025, Pages 158-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2025.07.007.

Books

The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
Carl Öhman
University of Chicago Press, 2024

We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Brian Michael Murphy
University of North Carolina Press, 2026

Digitization of Built Heritage: Approaches and Methods for Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Intervention
Cristina Cantagallo, Valentino Sangiorgio, Humberto Varum, Francesco Fiorito, Fabio Fatiguso
SpringerCham, 2025

The Indigenous Right of Reply to Archives: Working towards Indigenous Sovereignty, Healing, and Justice in Archival Practice
Edited By The Indigenous Archives Collective
Routledge, 2026

The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Material Approaches to Digital Codicology
Suzette van Haaren
Brill, 2025

Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture
Sarah Hegenbart
Bloomsbury, 2025

Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675–1775
Leah Orr
Brill, 2025

Curating the Colonial Past: The ‘Migrated Archives’ and the Struggle for Kenya’s History
Riley Linebaugh
Cambridge University Press, 2025

Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland
Asta Mønsted
Routledge, 2026

Digital Content in Museums: Delivering Discoverable, Usable and Strategic Content in Museums, Galleries and Heritage Institutions
Georgina Brooke
Facet Publishing, 2025

Fundamentals of Metadata Management
Ole Olesen-Bagneux
O’Reilly, 2025

The Organization of Information
Daniel N. Joudrey
Bloomsbury, 2025

Podcasts

Future Knowledge: Preserving Government Information
August 2025

Electronic Freedom Foundation: Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
September 2025

Dissertation

Expanding the margins in the history of sexuality & galleries, libraries, archives, museums & special collections (GLAMS)
Watson, B. M., University of British Columbia, 2025

Novel

Archives of the Unexplained: Area 51 (Volume 1)
Archives of the Unexplained: Unwanted Guests (Volume 2)
Steve Foxe; illustrated by Fran Bueno
Macmillan, 2025

Children’s Book

Le Loup des Archives [The Wolf of the Archives]
Mathilde Morin

New Issue: Arbido

2025 Issue 2

Arbido is the Swiss professional journal for archives, libraries, and documentation. Arbido addresses the topics of preserving and transmitting socially relevant knowledge and information.

The current issue focuses on the topic of family archives. The subject is examined from various perspectives, including those of families themselves, archivists, genealogists, and archives. Various aspects such as cataloging, access, and preservation are discussed.

Table of contents

Bernasconi Laura, editor arbido
Editorial

Ackermann Nadja, Editor at arbido
Ein wichtiger Identitätstifter – Familienarchive aus der Perspektive der Familien
An important source of identity – family archives from the perspective of families

Bessourour Youssef, Archiviste aux Archives de l’Etat de Neuchâtel
Les Caisses de famille aux Archives de l’Etat de Neuchâtel : un outil de conservation des archives familiales
Les Caisses de famille aux Archives de l’Etat de Neuchâtel: an tool for conservation of the archives familiales

Ackermann Nadja, Editor at arbido
Familienarchive aus der Perspektive einer Archivarin
Family archives from the archivist’s perspective

Le Sommer Venice, archivist
Réseaux sociaux : les fonds familiaux d’aujourd’hui et demain ?
Réseaux socials: les fonds familiaux d’aujourd’hui et demain?

Lütteken Anett, Head of Manuscript Department, Zurich Central Library
Ein «Beweis schönen Gemeinsinnes»: Familienarchive in der Zentralbibliothek Zürich
A “proof of fine community spirit”: family archives in the Zurich Central Library

Bos François, Co-president and archivist of the association
Les archives de famille au sein des Archives de la Vie privée. Quelle histoire ?!
Les archives de famille au sein des Archives de la Vie privée. Source histoire?!

Münger Kurt, President of the Swiss Society for Family Research (SGFF/SSEG)
Familienarchive aus genealogischer Sicht
Family archives from a genealogical perspective

Kern Gilliane, archivist
Pertinence et impertinence des archives familiales – Partie II
Pertinence and impertinence of the family archives – Part II

Anelli Stefano, Collaboratore scientifico e archivista presso theArchivio di Stato del Cantone Ticino
Gestione dei fondi di famiglia all’Archivio di Stato del Cantone Ticino

Lepourtois Bérangère, Conservatrice du domaine de La Doges
Cornut Simren, Historical archivist
Les Archives de La Doges : le papier qui enveloppe la pierre
Les Archives de La Doges: the paper that enveloppe the pierre

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

RBM, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Fall 2025
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Fact Check
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Navigating Social Networks at the Margins: Women in Science Archives, Then and Now
Bethany G. Anderson, Mary Borgo Ton, Kristen Allen Wilson

Neutrality Unbound: The Value of Rare Book Collections in STEMM Classrooms
Chad Kamen

“If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections
Elliott Kuecker, Katie Grotewiel, Zoe Thomas

Reviews

Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession. Library Juice Press, 2024.
Matrice Young

Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, eds. Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives. Lever Press, 2023. Print/Open access.
Jeannette Schollaert

New Issue: OHA Journal

Issue No. 47, 2025
The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities
(open access)

Editorial and Contents

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Reports

Reviews

Awards

Awards report including:

  • Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History 2024
  • Oral History Australia Book Award 2024
  • Oral History Australia Media Awards 2024

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica
Andrew Williams

Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning
Jinfang Niu

Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak

Archival Notations of the Norwegian Charter Material
Juliane Tiemann

New Issue: Archives & Records

Archives & Records, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2025

Articles

Records of resilience: preserving and promoting de-identified access to the Whitechapel Clinic records
E. Kate Jarman, Richard A. McKay & Richard Meunier

Digital records curation practices in Institutional Repositories (IRs) at selected public universities in Kenya
Juliet A. Erima & Elsebah Maseh

The evolution of archival policies and regulations in China: a topic modelling approach
Li Su & Yunjie Tang

An archive for a school for autistic learners: documenting a distinctive pedagogy
Andrew Alexandra & Mary Thomson

Perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Natasha Khramtsovsky

Toward understanding: practices as common ground and starting point reflections on perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Sherry Xie

How agreeing with or confronting canon can help us face the challenges of the information age?
Zhanna Rozhneva

Reviews

Family and justice in the archives: historical perspectives on intimacy and the law
edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore, Montreal, Concordia University Press, 2024
Jessamy Carlson

History in flames: the destruction and survival of medieval manuscripts
by Robert Bartlett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Daniella M. Gonzalez

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Estill, Laura. 2025. “Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 15(1): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.18897.

Gamm, Margaret. “OneNote as Evergreen Documentation: Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit.” College & Research Libraries News [Online], 86.10 (2025): 399. Web. 16 Nov. 2025.

Wong, A. K., & Chiu, D. K. W. (2024). Digital curation practices on web and social media archiving in libraries and archives. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 57(4), 1022-1040. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241252661 (Original work published 2025)

The First Nations, Métis, Inuit Indigenous Ontology and Challenges in the Development of an Indigenous Community Vocabulary in the Canadian Context
Stacy Allison-Cassin, Camille Callison, Robin Desmeules

Kunxian Chen, Xin Tan. “Does the preservation policy of historical and cultural heritage promote economic growth? Evidence from China.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025

André Luiz Carvalho Ottoni, Lara Toledo Cordeiro Ottoni. “A deep learning approach for cultural heritage building classification using transfer learning and data augmentation.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025

Marta Rusnak, Barbara Kilijańska, Izabela Garaszczuk, Andrew Duchowski, … Zofia Koszewicz. “From eye-tracking to games: exploring low-tech solutions for sustainable cultural landscape management.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025

Paloma Guzman. “Cultural heritage in climate planning: An analysis of the Norwegian national climate documents and guidelines.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025

Books

Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History: Between the Visible and the Invisible
Edited By André Habib, Louis Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan
Routledge, 2025

Privacy Preserving Data Management: Assisting Users in Data Disclosure Scenarios
Sebastian Linsner
SpringerNature, 2025

Copyright Law in Photographic Works: Authorship, Originality, and Protection
Faisal Alamri
Routledge, 2025

Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power
Edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy Foreword by Jaipreet Virdi
University of Illinois Press, 2025

The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles
Seth Long
University of Chicago Press, 2025

Digital Libraries Across Continents
Edited By Le Yang, Alicia Salaz
Routledge, 2025

Collecting in the Icon Age: IT’s Impact on Collecting Practices
Paul Wilson , Peter Tolmie
SpringerNature, 2025

Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Authors: Isto Huvila, Lisa Andersson, Zanna Friberg, Ying-Hsang Liu, Olle Sköld, et. al.
Cambridge University Press, 2025

Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage
Fotis Liarokapis, Maria Shehade, Andreas Aristidou, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
SpringerNature, 2025

Digitization, Trust and SMEs
Anna Wziątek-Staśko, Karolina Pobiedzińska
Routledge, 2024

Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives
Brian Harnetty
The University of North Carolina Press, 2025

Theses/Dissertations

Master Thesis (Dalhousie University) – Queering the Archive: Reactivating Queer Memory in Halifax
http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/items/a1556411-4054-4107-af68-06067aea6c03

Ph. D. Thesis (Wilfrid Laurier University) – Legislating Trans Lives: an Archival Analysis on Trans Canadian Rights
http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2801/

Case Studies

Case #31: Graduate Student-Curated Exhibits: A Study
Alison Fraser
TPS Collective

Novel

National Archive Hunters 2: Eternal Flame
Matthew Landis

Recent Issue: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2025

Strangers in a Strange Land: Connections among Spanish Chant Manuscripts in US Public Collections
Kathleen Sewright

A Scribe’s Luxury Manuscript: Text and Image in a Hebrew Medical Tract (Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.10.68)
Sivan Gottlieb

From St Albans to Chartres: John of Salisbury and the Lost Historia Johannis Turonensis
Joanna Frońska

Est / Non Est: Crafting the Shield of Faith Trinity in Thirteenth-Century England
Sophie Kelly

Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
Kathleen E. Kennedy

“The Most Precious Volume That Has Been Sold for a Century”: The Golden Gospels and the Manuscripts Trade, ca. 1882–1900
Ana de Oliveira Dias

Confucius and the Richness of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts
Maddalena Poli

A Note on UPenn LJS 358: (Re-)Identifying a Manuscript
Eva Del Soldato

A Tree with Many Roots: Introducing the Zysk Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Anuj Misra, Kenneth Gregory Zysk

Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin “Physiologus,” ca. 700–1000 by Anna Dorofeeva (review)
Aylin Malcolm

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley (review)
Caroline R. Batten

The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England by Peter Murray Jones (review)
Sarah Star

Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture ed. by Michelle C. Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey (review)
Xin Wen

Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan by William D. Fleming (review)
William C. Hedberg

The Cartulary of Prémontré ed. by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (review)
Joanna Tucker

Radomir Psalter, and: Paleographic and textological analysis edition ed. by Catherine Mary MacRobert et al., and: Facsimile reproduction by Ekaterina Dikova, Hieromonk Athanasius, Liljana Makarijoska (review)
Julia Verkholantsev

Lost but Not Forgotten: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its Manuscript Transmission by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (review)
Christine Schott

Special Issue: The iJournal

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2025)
Special Summer Issue: Diasporas and Cultural Heritage Institutions in the GTA and Beyond

Curating Diasporas
Community Museological Practices and Politics of Immigration Memories in the GTA and Beyond
Bruno Véras

Behind the 1944 “Great Escape”
Cycling and Politicized Memories at the VEMU Estonian Museum Canada
Kim, Yoonkyung, Ke Wang

Capturing the Migration Memory of Canada’s Diverse Ismaili Muslims
A Case Study of the 50 Years of Migration Exhibit
Zhikall Kakei, Samantha Tsang

“Don’t Talk Defeat to Me”
The Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the First Baptist Church of Toronto
Alejandra Mendoza, Laura Prior

Sharing Histories of Immigration
Narratives on Display at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Jacob Fralic, Vasiana Moraru

Trunk Tales
A Case Study of the Ukrainian Museum of Canada – Ontario Branch
Kathryn Hawkins

Recalling Through Belonging at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Melanie Dunch

Is e an Taigh an Taisbeanadh
Hillary House and the Exhibition at Home
Erica Michele Frail-Brocco

A Living History Museum
Joseph Schneider Haus
Yvonne Wang

Navigating Shifting Identities
Culturally Specific Museums in the Rise of Multiracialism
Felicity Brassard

New Issue: Archival Science

Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2025

Introduction: resilience and dissidence in post-Ottoman minority sources
Alexis Rappas, Angelos Dalachanis

A case study of guerrilla virtual reunification from the Morningside Hospital History Project: privacy and access, independence and sustainability
Shir Bach

Situating the animal presence in colonial archives: a case of the Madras Presidency
Joshy Teresa

Counter-surveying apartheid-era forced removals in South Africa: a spatial approach to archival social justice
Siddique Motala, Tlotliso Mokomane, David A. Wallace

Armenian Genocide survivor oral history as an archival resource
Manuk Avedikyan, Arman Khachatryan

Multiple voices in a majlis: the growth of archives in the United Arab Emirates and the role of New York University Abu Dhabi
Brad Bauer

“The desert is coming!”: tracing transitions through a personal archive
Maria João Fonseca

Global sufferings, local voices: archival reactivations in Jewish theatre ephemera from Turkey
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay

Obligation in Finnish records and information management laws
Tuija Kautto

Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity
Christina Banalopoulou

“The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: how practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids
Travis L. Wagner, Evan M. Allgood, Mateo Caballero

The Greek communities of Egypt and national identity building as reflected in the archival records of the Hellenic literary and historical archive/MIET, 1843–1950
Mathilde Pyrli

Neither imperial nor national? The archival trails and legacies of (post)Ottoman-Armenians
Varak KetsemanianBedross Der Matossian

Exploring non-archival trajectories of written artefacts: an introduction
Markus Friedrich, Konrad Hirschler, Cécile Michel

Removed archives: the case of the royal palace of Mari (ca 1810–1760 BCE)
Philippe Abrahami

Jewish Egyptian archives and heritage sites between dispersal and entrenchment
Alon Tam

The Oyster Model: understanding community roles in sustaining digital cultural knowledge infrastructures
Katrina Fenlon, Jessica Grimmer … Travis Wagner

Beyond capstone: toward a new strategy for appraising and selecting emails to transfer to archives within French public agencies
Edgar Lejeune, Bénédicte Grailles … Patrice Marcilloux