New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, March 1, 2026
(partial open access)

Editorial
Introduction: Stewarding Indigenous knowledge through ethics, law and the archive

Essay
(Re)connecting with Indigenous cultural expression(s): Emerging frameworks for empowering Indigenous voices, agency, and authority
Nancy E Weiss

Articles
Protecting traditional cultural expressions: Law, Indigenous protocols, library practices
Ulia Gosart, Valmaine Toki and Susan Townzen

The silences and absences in Botswana’s archives: Cross-examining colonial legacy
Tshepho Mosweu

Influence of Indigenous data governance principles on Indigenous knowledge management: Lessons from the Southern African Intangible Cultural Heritage Project
Josiline Chigwada, Jacob Mapara, Patrick Ngulube and Tavhiringwa Chabvutagondo

Stewarding Indigenous language data: Case studies in CARE
Sandra Littletree, Nestor Guerrero and Miranda Belarde-Lewis

Exploring control of access to the Japadhola indigenous information
Gilbert Okello, Joyce Bukirwa and Elisam Magara

Sowing the future: The vision of community libraries at Amawtay Wasi University, Ecuador1
Adriana Guandinango

Affective encounters with digital knowledge collections: Towards supporting Indigenous wellbeing
Ailsa Lipscombe and Chern Li Liew

Beyond acknowledgement: Indigenous-centered projects on reclamation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bethany G Anderson, Krystiana L Krupa, Elizabeth A Sutton and Oliver G Tapaha

Bibliometric analysis of Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change adaptation literature, 1993–2023
Reniko Gondo

Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation among Tanzanian smallholder farmers: A systematic review
Martinus E Sospeter, Wulystan Pius Mtega and Andrew Malekani

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections,” by Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford of University at Buffalo Libraries https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/4/

“An Archival Responsibility: A Scoping Review of Literature Regarding the Documentary Burdens of Refugees,” by Ana Roeschley, Kinza Alizai, Crystal Tharayil, Amy Lanier, Merrion D. Frederick, and Homero R. Cuevas of UNT Libraries: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/5/

“Accepting and implementing virtual reality in archives: Archivists’ perspective,” by Farzaneh Talebhaghighi of U of A College of Information Science: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/6/

“Archives and Children’s Knowledge,” by Elliott Kuecker of UNC-Chapel Hill Library and Ashley Rockenbach of City Tech CUNY: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/7/

Reviews

“Review of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History,” by Kai H. Uchida of UNH Library https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/1/

“Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education,” by Anna Z. Szapiro of Yale University Library: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/2/

“Review of Ethics in Linked Data,” by Rebecca Fried of Schaffer Library at Union College: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/3/

New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 58 (2025)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

The impact of archives and records management legislation on administrative transparency and accountability in Sierra Leone Public Archives
Umaru Bangura

Utilisation of Internet of Things technology for managing archives of public universities in South Africa
Zolile Myeko, Edward Dakora

Digital preservation of archival materials at selected university archives in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lufuno Kgamedi, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Privatisation and displacement of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Sindiso Bhebhe

Record-keeping on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare in Ruvuma region, Tanzania
Donata Kemirembe , Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Maliwaza Mbwana

End-to-end digitisation workflows with intelligent document processing for university theses and historical newspapers
Niklas Zimmer

Maintaining compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act in Tshwane Healthcare Centres, South Africa
Isaac Mpho Mothiba

Archives and records management Fourth Industrial Revolution skills and competency requirements on the job adverts in Botswana
Olefhile Mosweu, Donald Rakemane

Enhancing recordkeeping in Tanzanian public universities through robust records disaster preparedness
George Firmin Kavishe, Francis Garaba

Managing the electronic records management system at the Workers’ Compensation Fund in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Bertha Maturo

Implementation of a records classification system for proper recordkeeping in the Northwest Provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, South Africa
Refilwe Mpho Malatji, Makutla Mojapelo

Application of the system development life cycle for the implementation of an electronic document and records management system in the public service of Namibia
Aune Iipumbu , Cathrine Nengomasha

New Issue: South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

Vol. 92 No. 1 (2026): Stewardship of Documentary Heritage in Lesotho: Reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference
(open access)

Editorial
Stewardship of documentary heritage in Lesotho: reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference

Research Articles
Preserving and indigenising chieftainship cultural heritage in Lesotho: the case of Royal Archives and Museum
Matseliso Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa

Safeguarding Basotho heritage: the role of Lesotho National Library Srvices in the digital preservation of national collection
Wole Michael Olatokun, Mamoeletsi Cecilia Monyane

Preserving the past, present and future: the case of Lesotho National Broadcasting Services
Ts’epo Joseph Rafoneke

Cloud computing as a disaster management tool for documentary heritage management: reflections by the National University of Lesotho
Tahleho Tseole, Olefhile Mosweu

Preservation management framework in library and archival institutions: a conceptual framework
Thatayaone Segaetsho

Preserving language through digital neologisms: a study of word-formation processes in the digital age
Beatrice Ekanjume, Maboleba Kolobe, Thuso Leoisa

Language and translation as tools for the archiving and preservation of Indigenous knowledge: the case of Lesotho
Mosisili Sebotsa

A case for black sartorial history: the role of orality, archives, museums, and libraries
Khaya Mchunu, Maneo Ralebitso, Kiara Gounder

Generating knowledge for archives, libraries and museums: oral history research methodology in the twenty first century
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Maneo Ralebitso

Orality as a mechanism of preserving SeMoshoeshoe Basotho History
Keneuoe Anacletta Motšoene

The complexities of shared digital curation: a case study relating to Lesotho material held in the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library
Sally Kent

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Ilona Pikkanen, Matti La Mela, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Jouni Tuominen. “A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 19, no. 4 (2025).

Eric C. Weig. “Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study.” Code{4}lib Journal Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

Corey Davis. “Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Web Archives: A Comparative Study of WARC-GPT and a Custom Pipeline.” Code{4}lib Journal Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

Seth Shaw. “What it Means to be a Repository: Real, Trustworthy, or Mature?” Code{4}lib Journal Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

Karen Long and Eric Yunes. “From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data.” Code{4}lib Journal Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

Osborne, Rebecca. 2025. “Lucky, Liz, and the General Hospital Archives: Archival Processes and Efforts in Soap Opera Fan Spaces”. The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 11 (1). Toronto, Canada:99–120. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i1.46627.

McCrea, Donna E.; Godfrey, Bruce; and Singh-Search, Elizabeth (2026) “Providing Access to Historic Aerial Photographs at the University of Montana’s Archives and Special Collections,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1201
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol17/iss1/2

Books

Object-Based Learning: Exploring museums and collections in education
Thomas Kador
University College London, 2025

Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History
Kristina Marie Darling (Anthology Editor)
Bloomsbury, 2025

Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives
Julija Šukys
West Virginia University Press, 2025

White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations
Mary Watkins
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Heritage Building Conservation: Sustainable and Digital Modelling
Edited By Mohamed Marzouk
Routledge, 2024

Worker Writers: Community Archiving in Action
Jessica Pauszek
National council of Teachers of English, 2025

Gathering Together, We Decide: Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Ndé Homelands
Editors: Margo Tamez, Cynthia Bejarano, Jeffrey P. Shepherd
The University of Arizona Press

Towards a Participatory Approach to Cultural Heritage Management: Insights from Chinese Practices
Ji Li
Springer Singapore, 2025

Living Indigenous Archives
Kirsten Thorpe
Routledge, 2025

The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State
Edited by Maximilian Mayer and Frederik Schmitz
Bristol University Press, 2025

Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Siân Echard
University of Pennsylvania Press

9.5mm Film and Participatory Media Before the Digital Age
Edited By Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Zoë Viney Burgess
Routledge, 2026

Les archives en performance, la performance en archive: Action, méthode, recherche
Archives as performance, performance as archives: Action, method, research
Anolga Rodionoff, Ross Louis
Hermann, 2025

Case Study

Case #32: How Did We Get Here? Using Archives to Study College Selection and Belonging in the First-Year Experience
Ben Gebre-Medhin and Abigail Glogower
TPS Collective

Report

Kosta, Mary Grace, Archivists of Religious Collections Section, 2024, “Society of American Archivists- Archivists of Religious Collections Section Survey of Religious Archives, 2024”, https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/SWMC59, UNC Dataverse, V2

Podcast

Archives in Context: cohosts Lauren Kata and Emily Mathay speak with Christina Zamon about her book Alone in the Stacks: Succeeding as a Solo Archivist, an updated edition that tackles the complexities of solo archiving in the 2020s.

Novels

La Dernière archive/The Last Archive
Camille Sirieix

The Archivist
Ti Mikkel

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

Collections- Volume: 22, Number: 1 (March 2026)

Introduction
Introductory Letter from the New Editor: A Tribute to the Editor Emeritus and a Gesture to the Future of Collections
Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Articles
Between the Shovel and the Showcase: Contextualizing the Categorization of Indus Valley Seals from Artifacts to Art
Swati Chandra and Koumudi Patil

Reimagining Zimbabwe’s Heritage in the Post-colonial Era: Navigating the Efforts and Challenges in Decolonizing the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Science (1980–2024)
Thubelihle Rejoyce Mnkandla, Tariro Zhou, Jonathan Nhunzvi, Shelvin Tapuwa Mapiti and Portia Mlambo

Handkerchiefs as Memorabilia at the Crystal Palace (1851): Addressing Gaps in Museum Object Descriptions
Sandi Stewart

Case Study
Visualizing the Sudan United Mission: Moving from Lists to Graphical Representations of Special Collections
Obinna Nwokike

Book Reviews
Book Review: Art as Asset: Preserving Your Investment
Dee Stubbs-Lee

Book Review: Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World: “Mentoring, Collaborations, and Interaction Knowledge Transfer in Times of Transformation”
Arunima Baiju

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

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