Articles

Sloane, B. 2026 ‘Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation’, Internet Archaeology 72. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.72.11

Rabaev, I., Litvak, M. Recent advances in text line segmentation and baseline detection in historical document images: a systematic review. IJDAR 29, 3–39 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-025-00526-w

Demir, A.A., Özkaya, U. An Object Detection-Based Character Recognition Method for Ottoman Handwritten Documents. IJDAR 29, 111–128 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-025-00529-7

Ganai, A.F., Hurrah, N.N. & Khursheed, F. Towards automatic efficient recognition of multiresolution offline handwritten Urdu text using swin transformers. IJDAR 29, 191–208 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-025-00544-8

Khakhlari, G., Kalita, S.K., Gogoi, M. et al. A benchmark image dataset of unconstrained isolated Assamese handwritten compound characters. IJDAR 29, 209–224 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-025-00534-w

Liu, Q., Liu, Y., Wang, L. et al. Restoration of archival film with large areas of structural damage. npj Herit. Sci. 14, 272 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-025-02235-3

Whitlock, Angela R. (2026) “Cultivating Empathy through Exhibit Design to Engage Students in the AI and Handheld Tech Era – Three Case Studies,” The Primary Source: Vol. 38: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/theprimarysource/vol38/iss1/1

Jonathan Bourne, Reading the unreadable: creating a dataset of 19th century English newspapers using image-to-text language models, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 41, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 22–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf151

Daoling Chen, Pengpeng Cheng, Digital extraction and segmentation of intangible cultural heritage paper-cut patterns, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 41, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf006

Books

An Archivist’s Guide to Copyright: Navigating Risk Management
William J. Maher
Bloomsbury, 2026

Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums: Women Curators and Cultural Leaders
Edited By María Elena Bedoya, Jimena Perry
Routledge, 2026

Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror
Kristopher Woofter
Anthem Press, 2026

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics
Edited By Andreas Pantazatos, Tracy Ireland, John Schofield, Rouran Zhang
Routledge, 2026

Heritage Reconstruction and People: Integrated Recovery After Trauma
Edited by Amra Hadžimuhamedović
SpringerNature, 2026

Histories in Common: Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific
Alyssa A. Hunziker
The University of North Carolina Press, 2026

Methodologies and Strategies for Cultural Heritage Protection and Conservation Against Climate Changes, Natural and Anthropic Risks
Editors: Fabiana Di Ciaccio, Lidia Fiorini, Grazia Tucci
SpringerNature, 2026

The Idea of Cultural Heritage: A Liberal Perspective
Derek Gillman
Cambridge University Press, 2026

Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Derek Kane O’Leary
University of Virginia Press, 2026

Reports

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
Luca Messarra; Chris Freeland; Juliya Ziskina
2026

The Library Beyond the Library: Recasting the Library Value Proposition for Visibility and Impact
Brian Lavoie and Rebecca Bryant
OCLC, 2026

Case Study

“Archives and Campus Dialogue: Using Archival Sources to Engage Undergraduates in Contemporary Campus Debates“
Hannah King and Brian Hurley
Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources, 2026

Articles

Jiaojiao Liu, Zhi Luo, Jianghua Wei, Yi Li, Junchang Yang, Ran Chen. “Adhesives for cultural heritage conservation: Functions, performance evaluation, and application development.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 78, 2026, Pages 100-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2026.01.010

Javier Cha. “Automating the Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Next Frontiers of Digital History.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Volume 20, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2026.0361

Barrett, R. 2026 ‘The Continued Lifecycle of Archaeological Archives in Ireland’, Internet Archaeology 72. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.72.8

Whitlock, Angela R. (2026) “Cultivating Empathy through Exhibit Design to Engage Students in the AI and Handheld Tech Era – Three Case Studies,” The Primary Source: Vol. 38: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/theprimarysource/vol38/iss1/1.

Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher and Ashten Vassar-Cain. “Another Way of Knowing: Resisting Eugenic Propaganda Through Community Archiving.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe. April 2026.

Emily Rees Koerner and Lydia Ackrell. “Making museum research more visible: Open Access in the GLAM sector.” Science Museum Group Journal, Spring 2025.

Books

Knowledge into Action: Research Methods for Library, Archives, and Museum Professionals
Susan K. Burke
Bloomsbury, 2026

Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Derek Kane O’Leary
University of Virginia Press, 2026

Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (AFS III, Vol. 6)
Audra Eagle Yun and Chela Scott Weber
Society of American Archivists, 2026

The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination
Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon
Society of American Archivists, 2026

The Librarian’s Grants Handbook: Understanding the Grant Process from Start to Finish
Abigail Mann, Mary Piorun, Tony Nguyen
Bloomsbury, 2026

Du papier aux substituts numériques: Les enjeux de la numérisation des affiches publicitaires en contexte muséal
From paper to digital substitutes: The challenges of digitizing advertising posters in a museum context
Fabiola Leone
Les Editions l’Harmattan, 2026

Musicians and copyright: A history of collective rights management in the music industry
Edited by Véronique Pouillard, Marius Buning and Mala Loth
Manchester University Press, 2026

Handbook of Global Oral History
Volume Editors: Mark Cave and Selma Leydesdorff
Brill, 2026

Digital Archives of Science: Revisiting the Vestiges of Knowledge-Making
Alina Volynskaya
DeGruyter, 2026

Genealogy Methods and Techniques: A Practical Guide to Research
Karen Cummings
The Crowood Press, 2026

Flexibilities in Copyright Law
Edited By Caterina Sganga, Tatiana Eleni Synodinou
Routledge, 2026

Ethiopian Bookbinding Tradition
Bill Hanscom
The Legacy Press, 2026

Contested Heritage: Global Perspectives on Stakeholders’ (Dis)Harmony at Heritage Locales
Edited By Elgidius B. Ichumbaki
Routledge, 2026

Routledge Handbook of Dark Events: Celebrations, Heritage, and Customs of Death and the Macabre
Edited By Brianna Wyatt, Hannah Stewart, James Kennell, Philip R. Stone
Routledge, 2026

Reports

University of Virginia – Archival Artificial Intelligence Protocol: an AI Training and Access Standard for Archival Organizations
https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol

Primary Source Literacy Trends Building Foundations with Today’s Students
2025 study of Academic Research Libraries & Universities from Library Journal

Jaillant, Lise, Matthew Kidd, and Lingjia Zhao. Sifting The Digital Heap: A Scoping
Study of AI for Government Archives – Access, Backlogs, And Responsible Practice.
Loughborough University. © 2026. This work is openly licensed via CC–BY 4.0.

Guidelines for Audiovisual Resources in Libraries and Other Institutions 2026
IFLA

Policy paper
Report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Intellectual Property Office
National Archives, United Kingdom

Preserving Endangered Cultural Memory at a Time of Heightened Risk: Evaluating the Recordings at Risk Grant Program
Zakiya Collier, Lynette Johnson, and Gabriel Solís
CLIR, 2026

Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by World Intellectual Property Organization (Second Edition)

Case Studies

The #ArchivalReads series, curated by the FIAT/IFTA Value, Use and Copyright Commission, gathers essential reading on rights, use, and copyright in audiovisual archives.