New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science Volume 24, Issue 2
June 2024
Special Issue: Dignity by Design: Pathways to Participatory Recordkeeping Systems
Issue Editors: Elliot Freeman, Violet Hamence-Davies, Joanne Evans
(partial open access)

Dignity by design: pathways to participatory recordkeeping systems
Elliot Freeman, Violet Hamence-Davies, Joanne Evans

Returning love to Ancestors captured in the archives: Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and archival sovereignty
Kirsten Thorpe

Beyond access: (re)designing archival guides for changing landscapes
Mike Jones, Rebe Taylor

Archival dignity, colonial records and community narratives
Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley H. Griffin

Caring records: professional insights into child-centered case note recording
Martine HawkesJoanne EvansBarbara Reed

The need for a participatory recordkeeping system for children and young people placed in residential care homes: the case of Sweden
Proscovia Svard, Sheila Zimic

Designing recordkeeping systems for transitional justice and peace: ‘on the ground’ experiences and practices relating to organizations supporting conflict-affected peoples
Victoria Lemieux, Amber Gallant, Niloufar Vahid-Massoudi

The perpetual twilight of records: consentful recordkeeping as moral defence
Gregory Rolan, Antonina Lewis

New Issue: American Archivist

American Archivist 87.1 (Spring/Summer 2024)
Table of Contents

(Review access here)

From the Editor

Presidential Address

Theodore Calvin Pease Award Essay

Articles

Perspectives

Reviews

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal- Volume: 50, Number: 2 (June 2024)
(select articles open access)

Editorial
Libraries as Catalysts for Knowledge, Technology, and Social Resilience

Original Articles
Understanding US library diplomacy practices in the 21st century
Randolf Mariano

AI-generated content tools and students’ critical thinking: Insights from a Chinese university
Xiaozhu Zou, Ping Su, Lexing Li, and Ping Fu

Librarians’ role in the preservation and dissemination of indigenous knowledge
Josiline Chigwada and Patrick Ngulube

Professional qualifications, accreditation, and certification in library and information science schools: A global perspective
Fatih Oguz, Chris Cunningham, Núria Bautista-Puig, and Tiago Emmanuel Nunes Braga

Impact of multimedia on academic information literacy instruction in libraries
Hozefa Ramgadwala

Knowledge management for climate change in South Africa: A proposed strategy
Madeleine C Fombad

Exploring the research domains, gender gap and labour market perspectives of doctoral research in library and information science in India
Mallikarjun Dora, K Kanagasabai, Lavji N Zala, and Raj Kishor Kampa

When a disaster strikes: Are libraries in the Philippines ready?
Daryl L Superio, Joseph M Yap, Jufel Ma Lourdes Sebial-Guinanao, and Roilingel P Calilung

Research data management in selected East African libraries: A survey
A Subaveerapandiyan and Jeremiah E Ugwulebo

Information competency assessment of undergraduates: A Pakistani perspective
Naha Irfan, Muhammad Rafiq, and Muhammad Arif

Redefining academic library work: Telecommuting potential in post-COVID Ghana
Wilhemina Odarkor Ofori

The current state of academic librarians’ continuing professional development and the roles of continuing professional development providers in Thailand
Chutima Sacchanand, Nilobon Wimolsittichai, Orapan Kankonsue, and Wararak Pattanakiatpong

Effect of humble leadership on knowledge sharing, change and ethnicity in Iranian public libraries
Mahshid Eltemasi and Samira Arami

Musical score representation and retrieval in digital environments
Jéssica Beatriz Tolare, Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita, and Fabiano Ferreira de Castro

New/Recent Publications

Books

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory
Rose Miron
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Changing Heritage: How Internal Tensions and External Pressures are Threatening Our Cultural and Natural Legacy
Francesco Bandarin
Routledge, 2024

Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Diana Kamin
MIT Press, 2023

Articles

“How Accessible are European Public Archives? An Assessment of the Compliance with the Council of Europe Recommendation R(2000)13 on a European Policy on Access to Archives” written by Michael Friedewald, Ivan Szekely, and Murat Karaboga. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studieshttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/21/

“Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives” written by Sophie Penniman. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studieshttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/22/ 

Eid Mohamed. “The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics vol. 9, no. 3, June 2024.

Yakel, E., Faniel, I. M., & Robert, L. P. Jr (2024). An empirical examination of data reuser trust in a digital repository. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24933

Reports

Publikation des Vereins Schweizerischer Archivar:innen:
«Das Erinnern nicht vergessen»
(Publication of the Association of Swiss Archivists: “Don’t forget to remember”)
Urs Hafner, März 2024

Fiction

The Royal Librarian
Daisy Wood
HarperCollins, 2024

Case Study

Case 26, “Teaching the History of Higher Ed through Primary Sources and Digital Exhibits,” Rhia Rae, Molly Castro, and Annia Gonzalez from Florida International University (FIU) Libraries
Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources series, an open access series sponsored by SAA’s Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section.

New Issue: Scholarly Editing

Scholarly Editing, Volume 41
(open access)

Volume 41 Introduction

Noelle A. Baker and Kathryn Tomasek

Micro-Editions

Kinship & Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana

Olivia Barnard, Emma Bilski, Leila Blackbird, Jessica Marie Johnson and Ellie Palazzolo

Paper Bullets: The Civil War Letters of John and Phebe Miller

Samantha Misa

Voices and Perspectives: Interviews and Conversations

History UnErased: An Interview with Deb Fowler and Kathleen Barker

Jenifer Ishee and Robert Riter

Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record

Reparative Editing: Working with Ukrainian Authors in Wartime

Amy Levin

Moquis and Kastiilam: The Hopi History Project

Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma

Essays

On Automating Editions: The Affordances of Handwritten Text Recognition Platforms for Scholarly Editing

Melissa Terras, Joe Nockels, Sarah Ames, Paul Gooding, Andy Stauder and Günter Mühlberger

The Assembled Book as a Map of Relations

Whitney Trettien, Penny Bee and Zoe Braccia

The College and University Classroom

Digital Editing and Pedagogy: Making Editions / Building Arguments

John Bryant, Mary Isbell, Christopher Ohge and Mary Erica Zimmer

Reviews

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist. Edited by Nneka D. Dennie

R. J. Boutelle

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacobs. Edited by Koritha Mitchell

Amy Larrabee Cotz

Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women. Edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma

Mariam Zia

Archival Gossip: A Scholarly Take on Nineteenth Century Tattletales

Chelsea Phillips

Reading Prison through the Penal Press: American Prison Newspapers, 1800s–Present: Voices from the Inside and the Prison Journalism Project

Sally F. Benson

New Issue: Collections

Collections- Volume: 20, Number: 2 (June 2024)
(subscription)

Focus Issue: Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety: Guest Editors’ Foreword
Jeffrey Hirsch, Cali Martin, Melissa Miller, and Samantha Snell

Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety (PEAS): Reflections on Conference Surveys
Jeff Hirsch, Pei Koay, Cali Martin, Melissa Miller, Robert Waller, and Amy Zavecz

The Molina Family Latino Gallery: A PEAS Case Study
Jenarae Bautista and Sarah Elston

Challenges Requiring New Thinking in Museum Security
Francis Demes, Jaime Juarez, and James H. Clark

The Problem of Compromise in Conservation and Exhibit Decision Making
Robert Waller and Jane Henderson

A Collaborative Conservation Perspective: Ensuring Preservation, Access, and Safety in Exhibits
Jennifer Herrmann and Dong Eun Kim

Defensible Collections: Designing a Safe Exhibit Space
Jeffrey Hirsch and Casey Gallagher

A Collaborative Approach to Hazardous & Contaminated Collections Conundrums
Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Mark Wilson, and Sarah M. Halter

The Wheel Is Already Invented: Planning for the Next Crisis
Julianne Snider

Breaking Down Barriers: Adopting a Holistic Approach to Safety, Collections Management, and the Visitor Experience
Carrie Heflin

Accessibility and Exhibit Safety: The Importance of Sensory Maps
Emma Cieslik

Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety (PEAS): Listening and Learning Sessions
Sarah Elston, Ronald Eng, Kelsey Falquero, Jennifer Herrmann, Dong Eun Kim, Melissa Miller, Samantha Snell, Julianne Snider, Allaire Stritzinger, and Gina Whiteman

Journal of Western Archives Special Issue: Collection Stewardship in the Age of Finite Resources

The Journal of Western Archives has published its special issue, “Collection Stewardship in the Age of Finite Resources.” The five articles in the special issue cover various topics related to managing collections with limited resources, such as processing, collections surveys, and more. Read it here

New Issue: Journal of Archival Organization

Journal of Archival Organization, Volume 20, Issue 1-4 (2023)
(subscription)

Articles

The Caribbean Unfolded: Visualizing Primary Sources Through GIS
Alexander S. Butler & Medardo Gabriel Rosario

It’s All on the Table: Case Studies on Improved Workflow Management Using Airtable
Meaghan O’Riordan, Jolene Beiser, Jessica Maddox, Simon O’Riordan & Rachel Searcy

Walls Have Ears and Eyes: Taking ‘Extended Archives’ to the People through Murals
Mpho Ngoepe et al.

The Necessity and Priority of Preserving Cultural Documents as a National Collection for the Public
Ryo Shiozaki

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Silva, P. I., & Terra, A. L. (2024). The role of users in the organization of digital information: A Portuguese experience in an academic museum and archive setting. IFLA Journal50(1), 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231219667

Silva, A. L., & Terra, A. L. (2024). Cultural heritage on the Semantic Web: The Europeana Data Model. IFLA Journal50(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231202506

Milošević, M., Horvat, I., & Hasenay, D. (2024). Open educational resources on preservation: An overview. IFLA Journal50(1), 138-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231219660

Makarova, O., & Ashcraft, K. (2024). Integrating print reference materials, curated digital collections, and information needs. IFLA Journal50(1), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231219670

Gibson, R.C., Chowdhury, S. & Chowdhury, G. User versus institutional perspectives of metadata and searching: an investigation of online access to cultural heritage content during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int J Digit Libr 25, 105–121 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00385-y

Skare, R. (2024), “The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 80 No. 3, pp. 618-631. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2023-0060

Wulf, Karin. “ARCHIVAL SHOUTING: Silence and Volume in Collections and Institutions.” Perspectives on History April 2024.

Pettinger, Sara and Foster, Anne L. (2024) “Documenting Wonderland: Conducting a Collection Survey to Inform Collecting Policies,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol15/iss1/4

Milenkiewicz, Eric L. (2024) “Leveraging the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials to Support Indigenous Digital Collections: A Case Study from the Sherman Indian Museum Digital Project,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol15/iss1/3

Birrell, L. (2024). More Than Just Boxes and Lines on a Page: Stories from a Special Collections Department Reorganization. Library Leadership & Management, 37(4). https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i4.7585

Books

Jo Guldi. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for DigitalHistory. 
Cambridge University Press, 2023

Political Science & Politics — special journal section on Archives in the History of Political Thought and Beyond

The latest issue of PS: Political Science & Politics (January 2024) includes a special section on Archives in the History of Political Thought and Beyond.

Introduction: The Archival Turn in Political Theory
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

Political Theory, the Archive, and the Problem of Authority
Matthew Longo

Anarchives: The Labadie Collection
Kathy E. Ferguson

The Archives of Colonial Trauma: Politics and Psychiatry in North Africa
Nancy Luxon

Archival Silence: How Do We Write the History of the Subaltern Who Cannot Speak?
Kevin Olson

“Does it Matter…?” Political Theory in the Archives of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Nicholas Buccola

Murder in the Archive
Alison McQueen

Conclusion: Working in a “Living” Archive
Peter J. Verovšek