Category: New Publication

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Wilkins, A. (2026). Archival decolonization and buffalo restoration as acts of Native American cultural reclamation. Journal of New Librarianship, 11(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.33011/newlibs/20/1

Seelakate, P., Novian, R.M. Freedom of information and records management in Southeast Asia: a comparative study of Thailand and Indonesia through the records continuum model. Int J Digit Libr 27, 9 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-026-00444-0

Chassanoff A (2026), “Ways of knowing: historians and the social construction of evidence”. Journal of Documentation, Vol. 82 No. 4 pp. 816–835, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2025-0135

Colavizza, Giovanni, and Lise Jaillant. 2026. “AI Ready: How to Prepare Archives for Artificial Intelligence, Improve Discoverability, and Enhance Access.” Archives and Records, June, 1–22. doi:10.1080/23257962.2026.2675937.

Stothert-Maurer, Molly (2026) “Archiving in Advance of Mission Completion,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 3. DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1193
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol17/iss1/3

Mahlatse Shekgola. “Security measures for digital archives curated through open-source software in South Africa.” South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science 92, no. 2 (2026).

Mpho Ngoepe. “All shook up”: The archival legacy of Terry Cook. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science 92, no. 2 (2026).

Wiles, Bradley J. “Remembering Now to Forget Later: Trauma, Archives, and the Tension of Commemoration.” Library Trends 74, no. 4 (2026): 775-790. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a992005.

Brown N, Roeschley A (2026), “Archival collections for the people? Using survey experiments to understand public opinions regarding archival services”. Reference Services Review, Vol. 54 No. 2 pp. 121–138, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-08-2025-0062

Domańska, Ewa. 2025. “Necroheritage”. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 11 (2): 145-57. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30820.

Books

Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability
Eirini Goudarouli, Anna-Maria Sichani, Jane Winters
University of London Press, 2026

How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America
Thomas Doherty
Columbia University Press, 2026

Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences
Elena Foulis
The Ohio State University press, 2026

Heritage and Human Rights: Laws, Institutions, Actions
Editors: Inês de Carvalho Costa, Maria Leonor Botelho, Rodrigo Christofoletti
SpringerCham, 2026

Contestation, Reinvention, and Regulation of Cultural Heritage Through Dissent
Editors: Valeria Morea, Anna Pirri Valentini, Felicia Caponigri
SpringerCham, 2026

Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Edward M. Corrado, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Teresa Soleau
Bloomsbury, 2026

Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives
Bergit Arends
Routledge, 2025

Artists’ Moving Image: Cinema as Archive
Sarah Smith
Bloomsbury, 2026

Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up
Jacqueline Jones Royster
University of Georgia Press, 2026

Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers
David John McKitterick
Brill, 2026

International Law and Displaced Archives in Arctic Countries
Volume Editors: Rachael Lorna Johnstone and James Lowry
Brill, 2026

The Future of the Past: When Cultural Heritage Meets Climate Change
Thijs Weststeijn, Translated by Liz Waters
Polity, 2026

Reports

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Processing Born-Digital Content
Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Exhibits & Outreach
Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Storage Problems and Policies
Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Reading Room Best Practices
Survey of Academic Library Special Collections Trends in Digitization
Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Security Measures
Primary Research Group, 2026

Case Studies

How can GenAI be used when authentic archival is lacking?
What is a Documentarian’s Duty of Care with Synthetic Representation?
Archival Producers Alliance

Thesis

Assembling Archives/Archiving Assemblages: Power, Politics, and Protest in the Queer Feminist Archive/s
http://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/680264

Bibliography

SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025

Novels

The Archivist of Forgotten Vows
Yamini Peethambaran

The Memory Museum
M Lin

New Issue: Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 60, no. 2 (2026)
(subscription)

Articles

THE ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIONS
Erin Lee

THEATRE ROYAL, NOTTINGHAM: HERITAGE MURAL COMMISSION WITH HANDMADE THEATRE
Georgina Donohue

CREATING TRANSFORMATION: CO-CURATING COLLECTIONS WITH ARTISTS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
Robyn Greenwood

THE MAURICE BOND LECTURE 2024. PLACING ARCHIVES: THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY AND ARCHIVAL LANDSCAPES
Adam Chapman

APPARITIONAL BLACKNESS: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE’S STUBBORN PHANTOMS
Tré Ventour-Griffiths

Review

David Crouch, ed., The Metham Family Cartulary: Reconstructed from Antiquarian Transcripts
Nicholas Vincent

New Issue: American Archivist

American Archivist 89, no. 1 (2026)
(partial open access)

From the Editor
What is the Problem?
Amy Cooper Cary

Presidential Address
Archival Chaos or Archival Community?: A Charge for Change, Equity, and Openness
Derek T. Mosley

Special Section on User Experience (UX) and Archives Introduction
Faith Charlton, Alison Clemens, Betts Coup, and Shaun Ellis

Building UX Capacity in Archives: A Practical Maturity Model
Hanna Sistrunk

“Why Can’t I See That?”: Evaluating the Impact of Access Restrictions on Archival Researchers
Veronica Denison, DiAnna Hemsath, Elizabeth Russell, Ashlyn Velte, and Katrina Windon

Beyond the Reading Room: Exploring the Motivations and Behaviors of Online Archival Users
Chela Scott Weber, Lesley A. Langa, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway

“For the Good of the User”: Harmful Content Mediation Insights from Princeton University Library’s Focus Group Study
Faith Charlton, Christa Ciadella, Shaun Ellis, and Amy C. Vo

Creating Space in ASpace for New Perspectives: Notes from a Year-Long UX Assessment of the ArchivesSpace PUI
Benn Joseph, Dana Lamparello, Kelsey O’Connell, and Frank Sweis

Stronger Together: A Heuristic Evaluation of Content Notices on Digital Collections Websites
Theresa Berger

Archival Motivations, Barriers, and Recommendations from Indigenous Community-based Researchers: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Survey
Diana E. Marsh, Danielle Davis, Joshua A. Bell, Ugoma Smoke, Dorene O’Hara, and Maria F. Vivar-Guzman

Articles

The Struggle of Institutional Recordkeeping: A Case Study Examining American Advisor Records from the Vietnam War
Eliot Wilczek

All the Freaks We’ve Saved: The Louisville Underground Music Archive in Retrospect and Comparison
Elizabeth E. Reilly, Caroline Daniels, and Heather Fox

International Perspectives

Perfecting Digital Archiving: A Comparative Study
Michal R. Rubin, Rinat Stapler, and Alexandra Wolloch-Grandelevskaya

Naming the Fragment: Documentary Forms of Newspaper Clippings
José Francisco Guelfi Campos

Reviews

From Historical Legacies to Future Frameworks: Recent Scholarship in Archives
Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke

Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice
Gab Alderete-Cruz

From Interrogation to Integration: Centering Social Justice in Special Collections, Archives, and Preservation
Kate Burns

Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies: An Introduction
Adam Stokes

Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research
Laila Hussein Moustafa

After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory
Lori Podolsky

Stories on Skin: A Librarian’s Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives
Courtney Marie Gillie

The Book Censor’s Library
Amanda Greenwood

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Stothert-Maurer, Molly (2026) “Archiving in Advance of Mission Completion,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 3.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1193

Drew VandeCreek, Jaime Schumacher, Stacey Jones, Danielle Taylor. “Taking Action Together: Professional Development and Digital Preservation in the Digital POWRR Project.” International Journal of Digital Curation 20, no. 1 (2026).

Micky Lindlar, Maria Benauer, Bertrand Caron. “Towards a Shared Understanding of What is Necessary for Long-Term Archiving: EOSC EDEN Core Preservation Processes.” International Journal of Digital Curation 20, no. 1 (2026).

Laura Rothfritz. “Preserving Under Pressure: The 2016/2017 Data Rescue Movement and the Limits of Emergency Curation.” International Journal of Digital Curation 20, no. 1 (2026).

Róza Eszter Vajda, Judit Gárdos, Timea Venczel. “Standardisation vs. Preservation? Supporting Interoperability by Enhancing Thematic Metadata in Social Science Archives.” International Journal of Digital Curation 20, no. 1 (2026).

Iduma, Emmanuel. 2026. “Digitality and the African Photographic Archive: Towards a Practice of Futurity” Arts 15, no. 3: 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15030048.

Lee, Jaehyun. 2026. “Archiving Ambiguity: Yeosung Gukgeuk, Affect, and Gendered Performance”. The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 11 (2). Toronto, Canada:91–99. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i2.47518.

Kim, Jae. 2026. “Glitches, Leaks, and Traces: Wikipedia’s Accidental Queer Archive”. The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 11 (2). Toronto, Canada:23–35. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i2.47513.

Corry, Frances. “Can AI Provenance Inform Archival Provenance?” Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society 2 (2026): e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/cfc.2026.10025.

Wu, Siwei, Jian Liu, Heng Zou, Ting Yu, and Zhuoying Jiang. 2026. “Visual Storytelling in Digital Libraries: Design Strategies for Preserving and Accessing Intangible Cultural Heritage”. African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 35 (2):85-97. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajlais/article/view/328293.

Guo, Jing, Qiqiong Huang, and Haomin Ye. 2026. “UTAUT Framework Analysis of Transcultural Heritage Education in Digital Libraries: Artificial Intelligence in Action”. African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 35 (2):179-93. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajlais/article/view/328363.

Books

Open Access Book – Unlocking Television Archives in the Digital Era: 16th Media Mutations International Conference
http://publishing.mediamutations.org/mediamutations/catalog/book/6

Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces
Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Michelle F. Eble
Routledge, 2026

Cultural Heritage through the Lens of Human Rights Bodies: Meaning, Rights, and Obligations
Laura Hofmann
Springer Wiesbaden, 2026

Executive Privilege: The Use and Abuse of Presidential Secrecy from Washington to Trump, Fifth Edition
Mark Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger
University Press of Kansas, 2026

Archival Pedagogies
Editors: Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak, James Lowry, Pimphot Seelakate, and Tshepho Mosweu
Litwin Books, 2026

Heritage and Human Rights: Laws, Institutions, Actions
Editors: Inês de Carvalho Costa, Maria Leonor Botelho, Rodrigo Christofoletti
Springer Cham, 2026

Data Privacy and Data Governance: Concepts and Techniques
Xiaofeng Meng
Springer Singapore, 2026

Africa, museums, restitutions
Saskia Cousin ; Alexandra Galitzine ; Didier Houenoude ; Anne Doquet
La Documentation française, 2026

Restitution and the Moving Image: Global Film Heritage Between Return, Access and Archival Reparation
Edited By Nikolaus Perneczky, Cecilia Valenti
Routledge, 2026

Radical Visions: New Perspectives on Special Collections Curatorship
Edited by Jillian Cuellar and Agnieszka Czeblakow
Society of American Archivists, 2026

Absence in the Archives
Ciara Breathnach
Cambridge University Press, 2026

Paper Performance: Suspicion and Asian American Archives
Ju Yon Kim
Stanford University Press

Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections
By Tyne Daile Sumner, Nat Cutter, Rachel Fensham
Routledge, 2026

Herbaria: Preservation and Conservation
Magdalena Grenda-Kurmanow
SpringerCham, 2026

Reports

Society of American Archivists – Archivists of Religious Collections Section Survey of Religious Archives, 2024
http://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/SWMC59

EURODOC publishes Ethical Roadmap for use of Archive in Doc

From Archives to Assets: Unlocking the Financial Potential of Audiovisual Heritage
A Summary Report by Gabriele di Majo

Survey of Academic Library Special Collections: Use of Finding Aids
Primary Research Group, 2026

Thesis

McManus, Ramsey, “Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: A Content Analysis” (2026). Honors Theses. 1095.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/1095

Glossary

Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland – Glossary of Terminology Commonly Used across the Archives and Museum sectors in the UK & Ireland
http://archivespublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/d59e9-arasectionforarchivesandmuseumsglossary-january2026.pdf

New Issue: Museum International

Volume 78, 2026

Editorial

Reframing Provenance and Reclaiming Histories in Museums
Yunci Cai, Njabulo Chipangura & Sophie Delepierre

Reframing Provenance

Provenance Research and the Ethics of Ownership: Case Studies from the Archaeological Collections of the Allard Pierson (University of Amsterdam)
Rogier A. A. Kalkers, Daphne D. Martin & Stijn van Rossem

Integrating Life Histories into Provenance Research: Case Studies from the Yale Babylonian Collection
Sophia Slotwiner-Nie

Rethinking Provenance: Archival and Decolonial Perspectives on Object Biographies
Marie Hoffmann

Reimagining Provenance: Queer Possibilities in Provenance Research
Milana Stewart

Provenance Studies in the Realm of Natural and Human Sciences Museums: Singular Collections, Myriad Questions
Amandine Péquignot & Arnaud Hurel

The Changing Role of Provenance Researchers in Museums: Three Curators in Interview
Liza Weber

Interview

Conducting Provenance Research at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum: A Curator’s Perspective
Maxence Garde, Sophie Delepierre & Yunci Cai

Reclaiming Histories

Beyond Restitution: Provenance Research as an Evolving (and Involving) Process
Célia Charkaoui, Madelon Dewitte & Sofie Dierickx

Uncovering Colonial Legacies: Collaborative Provenance Research on Malagan Carvings from New Ireland
Adam Hunt Kaminiel, Anthony Lupai & Katharina Nowak

Looking Beyond Knives, Buttons and Beaded Aprons: Indigenous and Maroon Agency in Colonial Collecting Practices and the Provenance of Ten Surinamese Objects in The Netherlands
Inez de Ruiter & Caroline Fernandes Caromano

Revisiting Colonial Legacies: Unprovenanced Ethnological Collections at the Livingstone and Moto Moto Museums in Zambia
Mary Mbewe & Constance Mulenga

Southeast Asian Artefacts at the National Taiwan Museum: Tracing Provenance and Engaging Migrant Communities Through Interpretation
Chia-Ying Lin

Arctic Indigenous Fashion: Honouring Women’s Roles and Sustainable Practices
Elisa Palomino

Book Review

Book Review Artistic Provenance Research
Matseliso Motsoane

New Issue: Archivaria

Archivaria 101 (Spring 2026)

Articles

The Right to Our Past
Community Approaches to Access and Repair of Chinese Immigration Records in Canada’s National Archives
June Chow

Canadian Archival Institutions and Trauma-Informed Practice
Wendy Duff, Cheryl Regehr, Christa Sato, Jessica Ho, Connor White, Ashley Lanni

The Dominant Archival Tradition in Colombia
Institutionality, Practices, and Professional Community
María Cristina Betancur Roldán

Solicitor-Client Privilege
Policies and Practices of Canadian Archives
Jean Dryden

Web Archiving by Activist-Archives
Benefits and Barriers
Bethany Aylward, Andrew Cox, Sara Vannini

Gordon Dodds Prize

Beyond Community and Representation
Intergenerational Dialogue as Feminist Archival Praxis
Noa Sanders

Studies in Documents

“This Story I Tell You Be True”
Sylvia D. Hamilton’s Tender Re-Narration of the Black Atlantic Archive
Sidney Robichaud

Exhibition Reviews

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, HOTLINE: Posters from the Trellis HIV & Community Care Collection
Rodney G.S. Carter

Libby Leshgold Gallery, En Route: Mobile Forms of Art and Education
Stephanie Weber

Book Reviews

Corinne Rogers and Alexandra Wieland, eds. Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice
Geoffrey Yeo

Anton Wagner, The Spiritualist Prime Minister, Vol. I, Mackenzie King and the New Revelation, and Vol. II, Mackenzie King and His Mediums
Brian Hubner

Bliss Cua Lim, The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema
Cindy N. Custodio

New Issue: Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy

Volume 12 Issue 1, June 2026
(open access)

Special Issue: Cultural Diplomacy Dialogue, Values and Discourses

Editorial Conversation

Cultural diplomacy in dialogue: A conversation with Ian Thomas on cultural relations, soft power, and evidence
Biyun Zhu
Jonathan Paquette

Original Research Articles

Diplomacy by proxy: Satellite museums as cultural–political infrastructures
Alejandra Linares-Figueruelo

Cultural diplomacy in a post imperial context: Europeanization and the Macau handover in Portuguese foreign diplomacy
Carlos Vargas
Cristina Montalvão Sarmento
Patricia Oliveira

Cultural diplomacy from below: Cabo Verdean diaspora agency and international cultural relations in the United Kingdom
Miriam Cruz

Case Studies

Curatorial diplomacy and audience development in film-based cultural policy: German Films and the Kino Program Türkiye
İclal Can Gürbüz

Digital museum diplomacy in Greece: The case of the Virtual Museum Alexander the Great
Sofia Boutsiouki
Maria Damou

Reports

Cultural diplomacy: A space for exploring multiple collaborations
Julie Bérubé
Mélanie Girard
Lucile Berthelot
Ane Hejlskov Larsen
Vinnie Nørskov

Agonistic museum diplomacy: Advancing a conflict-oriented approach to global engagement
Joachim Baur
Friederike Landau-Donnelly
Sascha Priewe
Sarah E.K. Smith

Migrating heritage in diaspora diplomacy: Korean independence archives under contestation
Hyojung Cho
Hyunhee Lee

Essays

Framing science, performing neutrality: The British Council and scientific-cultural diplomacy
Alice Naisbitt

The European cemetery of Saint-Eugène in Algiers: A possible heritage listing for a complex cultural asset?
Christophe Alcantara

Mobility in EU cultural diplomacy and cultural relations: Ambiguities and the value of partnerships in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
Fanny Bouquerel
Christiane Dabdoub Nasser
Matina Magkou

Formalising asymmetry: Cultural diplomacy and the UK–China film co-production agreement
Giulia D’Aquila

On cultural diplomacy: Marc Fumaroli, French cultural policy, and the humanities
Jonathan Paquette
Biyun Zhu
Benjamin Boutin

Cultural diplomacy as an emergent and uneven process: The cultural olympiad in the veneto dolomites ahead of Milano cortina 2026
Antonella Peli
Stefania Tonin

Editors Picks

Book review
Jonathan Paquette
Biyun Zhu

Recent issue: Arbido : revue professionnelle pour archivistes, bibliothécaires et documentalistes

Arbido : revue professionnelle pour archivistes, bibliothécaires et documentalistes
Arbido : professional journal for archivists, librarians, and information specialists

Editorial

Rölli Daniela
Zwischen Outsourcing und selbst machen: Web- und Social-Media-Archivierung im Stadtarchiv Bern

Smirnova Tatiana
The memory of the Fête des Vignerons and the challenges of its archiving in the age of digital platforms

Cannelli Beatrice
Navigating legal concerns in social media archiving

Marquet Andreas
Werkstattbericht zum Stand der Social Media-Archivierung im Archiv der sozialen Democracy

Forget Camille
Collecting social media data in Luxembourg: a collaborative approach

Signori Barbara
The Swiss Web Archive

New Issue: VRA Bulletin

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2026): Spring/Summer
(open access)

Association News

State of the Association
Xiaoli Ma

Fiscal Year 2025 Visual Resources Association Treasurer’s Report
Will Fenton

2025 VRA Awards Recipients & Recognition
Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon
Ann McShane, April Martin

Perspectives

Remaining Resilient
Reflections on the Visual Resources Community
Allan T. Kohl, Lael J. Ensor-Bennett, Sara Schumacher

Feature Articles

Imagining Impossible Virtual Worlds
Final Fantasy XI Private Servers as Imagined Living Community Archives
Lucas McGill

Digitizing and Enhancing Dry Plate Glass Negatives
A Guide for Under-Resourced Archives
John Macdonald, Paige Harris

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

Vol 27, No 1 (2026)
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note: Organization
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Algae in Special Collections: Making Room for STEM
Lucy Perrin

The Ordinary Numinosity of the Book: A Framework for Understanding Affective Encounters in Book Exhibition Contexts
Susana Sanchez-Gonzalez

Widening the Poison Books Scope: Addressing Bibliotoxicology at a Medium- Sized Public University Library
Judith L Silva, Zachary Voras

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Cataloging a Life’s Work: Notes from the George Bixby James Baldwin Collection
Indica Mattson

Book Reviews

What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom
Laura French

Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing
Chelcie Juliet Rowell

From the Editorial Board

On Crafting a Policy: Reflections on Membership and Community
Sarah Allison, Anne Bahde, Jeremy Brett, Juli McLoone with Diane Dias De Fazio