Category: New Publication

New Issue: Arbido

Theme: Archives and Durability, 2026
(open access)

Ackermann Nadja
Editorial

Lorenz Natalie
The Liechtenstein National Archives: Experiences with a sustainable archive building

Pfister Magdalen
Where sustainability is practiced. For people, culture, and the mountain region

Nicolet Aurèle
Pour des archives durables: small panorama of solutions and existing initiatives

Nina Hens
Preventive conservation and sustainability in the PTT archive

Makhlouf Shabou Basma
Nicolet Aurèle
Evaluating the durability of the artificial intelligence: défis et enjeux

Casula Philipp
Amsler Eri
Sievi Olivier
Sustainability remains an important issue in academic libraries

Akgül Vedat
“Lessons learned” and “Best Practices” – Digital sustainability in the St.Gallen State Archives

New Issue: Archival Issues

Archival Issues 43, no. 1 (2026)
(open access)

Articles

Student Life Materials in Association of Research Libraries University Archives: Connecting Policy to Practice
Leanna Barcelona and Paula Dempsey

Accessible AI in the Archives: Tools and Methods for Small Repositories
Liz Bloodworth

Using Data to Identify Gaps and Improve Institutional Collecting in Public University Archives
Hannah Pryor

Publication Reviews

Decolonial Archival Futures. By Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey
Gianni Brassil

Family and Justice in the Archives: Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law. Edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore.
Ruth Cody

Alone in the Stacks: Succeeding as a Solo Archivist. By Christina Zamon.
Jayne Kelley

Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners. By Julie Thomas.
Laura Kiely

Thriving as a Mid-Career Librarian: Identity, Advocacy, and Pathways. Edited by Brandon K. West and Elizabeth Galoozis.
Krista M. Oldham

Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice. Edited by Hannah Leah Crummé.
shady Radical

The Burpee Seed Company: Planting U.S. History since the Nineteenth Century. By Christopher M. DeMairo.
Leah Tams

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2026
(subscription)

Two-Spirit is bugs: classification, archival translation, and the limits of description
Andrew Wiebe

Toward a Christian Hymnology Metadata Schema: the description of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (407 A.C.)
Spyros Tzanavaris, Efthalia Xanthopoulou, …Marios Poulos

Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives
Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kidd, Lingjia Zhao

Archival buildings as archives: recording through design
Zheqiong Mo, Tie Ji

Record-surface visibility and evidential accessibility in administrative disclosure
Youngsoon Yang

“You’re a little bit self-editing”: identity curation in Chinese American family archiving practices
Jiarui Sun

Looking at the back of a document: a case of repurposing swastikas into creating Polish statehood in bureaucratic practices in the formerly German lands (1945–1948)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Izabela Mrzygłód

Archivists’ use of AI: practices and impacts
Jinfang Niu

Modular archive construction for conservation documentation: an archival information framework for palm-leaf manuscript conservation
Yan LiJingyu Zhang…Yanyan Huang

Mediated recordkeeping and epistemic accountability in social media archiving
Leisa Gibbons

Repressive regimes and the manipulations of archival records: an investigation into selected countries in Africa
Kofi Koranteng Adu

“It definitely got my mind whirling:” Building community partnerships for teaching with primary sources
Alexandra Chassanoff, Elliott Kuecker…Gabi Benedit

“In the end, people are people”: positionality statements in the archival enterprise
Alex H. Poole, Ashley Todd-Diaz

Beyond custodianship: public archives, democratic agency, and the limits of transformative discourse
Geerd De Ceulaerde

Locating disability in digital archives: an analysis of accessibility and inclusion in UK-based special collections
Kaitlynn Buchbaum, Paul Gooding

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal 52, no. 2 (June 2026)
(open access)

Essays

Knowledge for life: The evolution of Korea’s library ecosystem
Jee Yeon Lee

Artificial intelligence regulation matures: Landscapes of the USA, European Union, and China
Leo S Lo

Original Articles

Protecting Indigenous cultural heritage across borders: A Delphi study of international Traditional Cultural Expression laws
Sara R Benson, Melissa Ocepek and Siyao Cheng

Generative artificial intelligence and Indigenous heritage in libraries: A proof-of-concept study using Ao Naga oral traditions
Supongtemjen and Paokholun Hangsing

The relationship between AI literacy and research skills in Vietnam’s universities
Thuy Thanh Bui, Tram Phan Thi Bao Hoang, Quang Ngoc Hoang, Thao Thi Phuong Tran, Viet Hoang Trieu and Ly Dieu Dinh

Legislation and policy framework to apply artificial intelligence in providing information services of academic libraries in South Africa: A case study
Phuti Concilia Rabatseta, Mashilo Modiba and Patrick Ngulube

Developing and validating an AI literacy scale for university students in Vietnam
Hung Van Do, Thuy Thanh Bui, Duc Hoa Tran, Hai Thi Nguyen and Ly Dieu Dinh

Unpacking the research methods used by Indian LIS researchers: A longitudinal study
Mallikarjun Dora, Lavji N Zala and Raj Kishor Kampa

Ethical practices and professional responsibilities in upholding confidentiality in academic libraries in Tanzania
Beth Kachota, Bernard Ronald and Silver Hokororo

Equity at stake? Fostering social justice in Pakistani academic libraries
Murtaza Ashiq, Nosheen Fatima Warraich and Shafiq Ur Rehman

From policy to pedagogy: Applying infodemic governance to instructional design
Bethany McGowan

Outreach services of public libraries for disadvantaged communities
Mariam Keshvari and Morteza Mohammadi Ostani

Researchers’ knowledge and awareness regarding predatory publishers in Tanzanian universities
Sevelina S Moshi, Frankwell Dulle and Ronard Bernard Tarimo

Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access
Jayshree Mamtora, Wayne Bradshaw and Tove Lemberget

Exploring trends and patterns of theory use in library and information science research in Tanzania, 1990–2024
Mohamed Kassim

Open access publishing in an African context: Notable improvements and recurring challenges
Sodiq Onaolapo, Philips Ayeni and Siphamandla Mncube

Factors driving knowledge dissemination among university academics in Zanzibar
Riziki Ameir Hassan, Paul Samwel Muneja and Hosea Mungwabi

Core capability boundaries in library Reading promotion: Insourcing versus outsourcing configurations
Rende Li, Ying Jiang and Alia Erbolat

Review Articles

School library projects in Türkiye: A critical view
Güler Demir

Mapping IDEA in collection development: A scoping and bibliometric review
Efren M Torres Jr. and Janice DC Peñaflor

Toward reforms: Revisiting public library legislation in Indian states
Sheshagiri Kulkarni, B Preedip Balaji and Dhanamjaya M

New Issue: Archeota

Archeota, Spring/Summer 2026

Contents: 

“It’s Virtual, Baby!!”: Creating a Secure Digital Space for an At-risk Community Archives Online Conference by Diane Curtis

My Experience as a MARA Student at Queer History South 2026 by Ryan Martin

AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives and Museums for the Future by Angela Brooks

The Threshold of Erasure: A Review of The Ministry of Time by Gaby Stephenson, The Hidden Gems of Las Vegas: The Archives of UNLV by Nana Turkson

Black Information Futures: A Symposium & A Summoning by Siera Milton Beal

Photogrammetry & the Chalk Festival by Charlene Hardin

From Dusty Volumes to Digital Access: An Internship with the California State Library by Emily Stockton

Material History Complicates Cold War Memory by Lola Jalbert

Farewell to Spring ’26 Graduates, Meet the 2026 Archeota Team, SAASC 2026-2027 Team, and SAASC Spring 2026 Events

New Issue: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 22, No. 3, September 2026
(subscription)

Introduction

Editor’s Introduction
Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Articles

The Acquisition, Use and Fate of Anatomical Teaching Models: The McGill University Medical Museum Experience 1852 to 2025
Noah Tonnesen, Sabina Boudames and Rick Fraser

From Tactile to Digital: Translating Complex Physical Collections Through Digitization and Description
Stephanie M. Luke, Ruthann E. Mowry, Siobhan McKissic, Angela Waarala and Rachael Johns

Practicing Archival Sustainability Through Degrowth
Hannah Pryor

Case Studies

Archives and Artifact Collections: Managing Political Buttons at the University of Idaho
Rebecca Hastings and Kelley Moulton
A Multi-Institutional Approach: Honoring the Early Black Descendants of Evansville, Indiana Through

Collaborative Community Memorialization
Tory Luel Schendel-Vyvoda and Oliva Horn

Collaborative Dynamic System for Enriching and Disseminating Digital Collections
Alí Martínez Albarrán

Notes from the Field

Review of Exhibition of the Pagoda Odyssey 1915: From Shanghai to San Francisco at Singapore’s Asian Civilizations Museum
Neha Khetrapal

Teaching Archives and Museum Studies: Using Collections in the Classroom to Enhance Learning Outcomes
Mary Alice Weppler-Van Diver

Book Review

Book Review: Museum Design with, by, and for Children: Innovative International Approaches
Arunima Baiju

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Sameera M Al-Ghamdi, Nadia Yusuf, Digital heritage and fashion: preserving cultural identity through AI and virtual archives, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 581–593, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqag008

Yumeng Hou, Computational curation of traditional martial arts: from archives to systems, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 738–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqag038

Xiaoyu Zhou, Jing Lin, Multimodal RAG for cultural heritage: a technical exploration based on Jino traditional knowledge, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 1138–1153, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqag042

Shaffer, Elizabeth. 2026. “Beyond Repair: Wake Work, Refusal, and Diasporic Reimagining of Colonial Archival Regimes”. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS Actes du Congrès Annuel de L’ACSI, June. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais2067.

Pineo, Elizabeth. 2026. “Expectations of Music Archivists and Disabled Music Archive Users: Preliminary Findings from a Survey on Music Archive Accessibility”. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS Actes du Congrès Annuel de L’ACSI, June. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais2023.

Jaeger, P. T., Baron, J. R. & Marsh, D., (2026) “Beyond Schools and Libraries: Trump Administration Information Policies in Archives, Museums, and Galleries”, The Political Librarian 9(1), 1-14. doi: https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9315

Chmielewski, W. E., (2026) “Ellen Starr Brinton:  Archivist and Activist for Peace in Time of War”, The Political Librarian 9(1), 30-39. doi: https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9285

Menna, M. & Bailey, L., (2026) “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory”, The Political Librarian 9(1), 106-125. doi: https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9287

Samantha Blickhan, Victoria Van Hyning. “A Generalized Framework for Participatory Transcription: Lessons, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Impact from the Zooniverse Platform.” Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 11, no. 1 (2026): Article 19.

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS)
“Unpacking Architectural Drawing Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy Approach to Architecture Collection” by Shima Hosseininasab, Virginia Ferris, and Burak Erdim
“An Architecture of Vanishing: Toward a Protocol of Archival Disappearance” by Edgardo Civallero
“A Case for Societal Provenance: Marguerite Harper as told by the men she represented” by V. Emily Cranwell Deinert

Books

The Preservation of Born-digital Photographs
Millard Schisler
Routledge, 2026

Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution: Art-Historical, Legal, and Museological Perspectives
Edited by: Mary-Ann Middelkoop and Lucy Wasensteiner
De Gruyter, 2026

Green Archiving: Imaginaries of Archival Futures
Editor: Annet Dekker
Valiz, 2026

Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archive
Edited By Caitlin A. Kane, Erin Stoneking
Routledge, 2026

Black Heritage Voices: the Importance of Black Archives in Preserving Historical Memory
Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage, 2026

Rendered in Bits and Stone (Book): Studies in (In)Tangible Digital Heritage
Edited by Maciej Stasiowski
Intellect, 2026

African Digital Cultures: Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures
Edited By James Yeku, Leah Junck
Routledge, 2026

Teaching with Primary Sources Today
Kathleen Ross
Teacher Created Materials, 2026

Who Tells Your Story: On the Construction of Public Memory
Editor: Sanford Levinson
Duke University Press, 2026

Archives in Artistic, Activist and Applied Contexts
Editors: Andy Henry, Victoria Bianchi, Vlad Butucea
SpringerNature, 2026

Advanced Imaging for Examining, Monitoring and Analysing Cultural Heritage Artefacts: Cultural Heritage Analysis for New Generations
Edited By Christian Degrigny, Sony George, Jon Yngve Hardeberg
Routledge, 2026

Unveiling Diverse Cultural Heritages: Inventive Heritages, Alternative Art Media Methods and Mobile Tourism, under the ‘Ukraine Effect’ Crisis
Editors: Pedro Andrade, Eduarda Vieira, Patrícia Moreira, Luís Teixeira, José Pinto, Fernando Contreras, Jacques Ibañez- Bueno, Cícero da Silva, Jane de Almeida
Routledge, 2026

Counter-Collections: Dialogues between Urban Space and Archives
Editors: Fernando P. Ferreira, Daniel Duarte Pereira
Onomatopee, 2026

Digital Curation in the Data Age: A Multidisciplinary and International Exploration
Hea Lim Rhee
SpringerNature, 2026

Decolonial Approaches to Data Ethics and Re-Storying: From Biocultural Landscapes at Risk to Archiving the Dead
Meryl Shriver-Rice, Sarah Hiepler-Basty
Wiley, 2026

Community Oral History Toolkit
Mary Kay Quinlan, Barbara W. Sommer, Nancy MacKay
Routledge, 2026

Reports

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Grants and Fundraising
http://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=891

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Acquisitions & Donor Management
http://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=895

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Licensing, Reproductions & Other Income Generating Activities
https://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=896

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Trends in Metadata & Remediation
https://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=898

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Preservation Needs & Conservation Capacity
https://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=900

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Budget Priorities
http://primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=902

New Issue: Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture

Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 55, no. 2 (2026)
(open access)

Editorial

Bogdan Trifunović

Articles

Evolving Digital Preservation Appraisal Criteria and Selection
Nathan Tallman, Lauren Work, Martha Anderson, Chelsea Denault, Virginia Dressler

Open-Source Digital Repositories and Preservation Systems for Digital Preservation: A Comparative Study
Ouafae El-Kasri, Bouchra El Idrissi

Memuliakan Batik: Preserving Batik as Digital Cultural Heritage through Standard Metadata
Rahmi Rahmi, Sigit Pramono, Aditia Aditia, Aviazka Firdhaussi Azmir, Haekal Mahdania, Hanggar Budi Prasetyo

Integration of Traditional Methods and Modern Technologies in the Preservation and Restoration of Wooden Artifacts of Kazakh and Turkic Culture
Assem Mukhanbet, Maksat Magzumov, Nurzat Mukan, Bauyrzhan Doszhanov, Ainur Taldybayeva

Digital Preservation of Vietnamese Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Limitations in the Age of Smart Technology
Nguyen Tri Phuong

Reshaping Power in Heritage Narratives: How Generation Z Brings Untold Stories Online
Sandra L. López Varela

Review

GeoPortOst: A Specialized Gateway to the Historical and Thematic Cartography of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Jelena Glišović

New Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Volume 14 / Number 4 / Summer 2026

Editorial
Beckett, Simon

Case Study

Radiotelevisione Italiana’s archive digitisation project: Bringing new life to newsreels
Borgotallo, Roberto; Donnini, Giuliano; Messina, Alberto; Montagnuolo, Maurizio

Migrating cultural heritage digital collections: A migration workflow and bulk metadata remediation strategies
Miller, Evan N.

Scaling museum digitisation: A technology-driven approach for object collections
Hine, Adrian

Uncharted territory: A case study in map digitisation and faculty partnerships
Jones, Victoria

Working with harmful content: Practical tools for managing vicarious trauma
Strickland, Katherine; Murphy, Devon

Practice Paper

Sharing the story of our work in digital collections
Lewis, Ethan; McClanahan, Pamela A.; Trim, Alexandra

New Issue: ARSC Journal

Association for Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC Journal Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 2026)
(subscription)

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Giving New Life to Out-of-Print Discographies: UCSB’s Discography eBooks Series
by David Seubert

Orlando R. Marsh: Chicago’s Pioneer Of Electrical Recording: An Illustrated Bio-Discography
by Richard Raichelson

Marcus Joseph Colthurst Alexander (1896–1970): A Pioneer in Early Global Sound Recording
by Maria Kapkidi

The Art of Eduard Buk Ulreich
by Matthew Barton

The Ravi Shankar Tapes: Recordings from the City College Music Department Archives
by Michael Crowley

Carly Simon: A Transgenre Artist Crosses Over to the Great American Songbook, or How a Hot Knife in Cold Butter Became a Cool Diva in White-Hot Gloves
by Lawrence Schulman

Plus Book Reviews, Sound Recording Reviews, and Current Bibliography!

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