New Issue: Archeota

Archeota, Spring/Summer 2025

Archeota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession. 

Contents: 

Happy 10th Birthday Archeota! Celebrating Archeota’s 10 Year Anniversary by Gwendolyn Smith 

Beyond Survival: The Fragility of Context in Digital Archives by Nicholas Haynes 

“Records Doulas” and the Case for Patient Records Advocacy: An Emerging Role for Archivists by Stacy L. Vandenput 

Preserving Play: Memory, Meaning, and the Soul of Games by Jesse Jacobs

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Tracing Transformations: (Digitized) World War II Correspondence Through the Lens of the Records Continuum Model,” written by Milan M. van Lange and Carlijn Keijzer.

Abdollahi, S., Nejdl, W. & Gottschalk, S. Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Event Collections from Web Archives and the Live Web. Int J Digit Libr 26, 12 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00419-7

Laukkoski, Helena. “Hybridisation in the Field of Museums: Case Study on the Collections Collaboration between the Finnish Music Museum Fame and the National Museum of Finland”, Ethnologia Europaea 55, 1 (2025): 50-72. https://doi.org/10.3167/ee.2025.550104

Leigh Rupinski, Katelyn Fletcher. “We Have Glue and a Dream: A Case Study on Just for Fun Outreach at the Lemmen Library and Archives.” The Journal of Creative Library Practice 2025.

Lauren Geiger, Kathryn C. New, Carolina M. Siniscalchi. “From the Research Cycle to the People Cycle: Humanizing Digital Curation.” International Journal of Digital Curation 19, no. 1 (2025).

Keren Barner. “The CopyrightChain in the Digital Curation Process: ‘Which Copyright’Project at the Nazarian Library, University of Haifa.” International Journal of Digital Curation 19, no. 1 (2025).

Schellnack-Kelly, I., & Modiba, M. (2024). Developing smart archives in society 5.0: Leveraging artificial intelligence for managing audiovisual archives in Africa. Information Development, 41(3), 626-641. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669241286224 (Original work published 2025)

Zhuoying Jiang. “From Books to Brushstrokes: The Role of Library Archives in Teaching Art History and Practice.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Junyan Wang, Junzhu Zhao. “Information Retrieval in Digital Sound Archives and Libraries: Preservation of the Documents of Xinjiang-Style Guzheng Music through Digital Library Curation.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Chengfang Chen, Heng Zou. “Shaping Creative Identity: The Impact of Digital Visual Archives and Library Resources in Cross-Cultural Learning.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Books

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground
Andrew Burn (Editor), John Potter (Editor), Kate Cowan (Editor), Julia Bishop (Editor)
University College London Press, 2025

Transitional Justice Archives: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Latin America
Edited By Anita Ferrara, Beatrice Canossi
Routledge, 2025

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society
Daisy Livingston
Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Towards an Integrated Approach
Edited By Laura Pineschi
Routledge, 2025

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations
Lise Jaillant (Editor), Claire Warwick (Editor), Paul Gooding (Editor), Katherine Aske (Editor), Glen Layne-Worthey (Editor), J. Stephen Downie (Editor)
University College London Press, 2025

Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Derek Kane O’Leary
University of Virginia Press, 2025

The Visitor Studies Guide: Theory and Practice for Heritage Contexts
Lee Davidson
Routledge, 2025

The Archival Impermanence Project
Ross Lipman
Sticking Place Books, 2025

The Black Curator: Activists for Representation, and Decolonization of Museums
Kemuel Benyehudah
Routledge, 2025

Podcasts

Archives in Context Discusses AI in Archives
In episode 3 of season 9 of Archives in Context, cohosts Lauren Kata and Emily Mathay chat with Ben and Sara Brumfield about the future of AI in archives. Sara and Ben discuss their ongoing work develping projects at the intersection of cultural heritage and emerging technologies. This episode also discusses the challenges of integrating AI into archives work. Listen to the episode here.

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

Vol 26, No 1 (2025) Spring

Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note: Work Is Work
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

“Some Days, My Work Is Unbearable”: The Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability on Recruitment and Retention for Workers in American Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Melanie Griffin

“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
Ruth Xing, Yuzhou Bai

Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS
Rebecca Bramlett, Eric Friede, Sophia Dahab, Michael Seminara

Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
Gemma Steele, Hayley Webster

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Sustainably Critical Cataloging: Maximizing the Impact of Term Funding with the Black Bibliography Project
Mara Caelin

Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Lyric Grimes

New Issue: Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information

Volume 25, Issue 3 September 2025

Fires and floods: records, archives management and destruction in Zimbabwe since the colonial period
George Bishi

Persona creation methods as a step toward user-oriented archival curriculum: a case study of a Polish archival course
Monika CołbeckaAnna Pieczka-Węgorkiewicz

Toward effective digital records management in Oman: key enablers, barriers and policy implications from government institution experiences
Hamad Humoud Hamad Al-HinaiAhmed Maher Khafaga ShehataAbderrazak Mkadmi

Diplomatics and paleography: a study of judges’ signatures in the Mamluk period
Mohamed Hussien Mohamed

Displaced, but not destroyed: archives in the Thirty Years’ War
Natalie Krentz

Development of the trauma-informed archival practices scale
Cheryl Regehr, Wendy Duff, Christa Sato & Jessica Ho

Exploring archival absence: silences, imagined records and materiality in nineteenth-century Europe
Emma Hagström Molin

Authenticity as a travelling concept: from heritage conservation to archives
Heather MacNeil

Parchments on the move. Removed archives and documentary culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italy
Maria Pia Donato

Missing persons document management as disaster response: the case of handling missing persons in Timor Leste
FebriyantoIke Iswary LawandaRahmi

Discoverability, usability, and readability: a framework for assessing accessibility for disabled users of online archives
Elizabeth A. Pineo

Adaptive learning models for efficient and standardized archival processes
J. A. Pryse

Archives and imperial power: archival destruction in the Roman context
Anna Dolganov

Privileged access to archives and the interest of research illustrated by the examples of German and French archival systems
Mikuláš Čtvrtník

Displaced, hence, not lost: the afterlife of private archives from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Mario C. D. Paganini

Palestine as provenance: archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon (Jabal Amil)
J. J. Ghaddar

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Kersting-Lark, Dulce (2025) “Teaching Archival Intelligence through an Immersive Class Experience,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 12, Article 1.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/1

Pasquetto, I. V., Abdu, A. A., & Chtena, N. (2025). Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID-19 Open Science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(4), 703–717. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24965

Baldivia, Stef; Hollis, Tanya M.; Jarosz, Ellen E.; Sorvetti, Laura; Steele Gajewski, Heather M.; and Wakimoto, Diana (2025) “Assessing the State of Archives and Archives Workers in the California State University,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1187
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol16/iss1/2

Manus, Jolene D. (2025) “Ethics of Care: Applying Cultural Protocols to Indigenous Sound Recordings,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1189
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol16/iss1/1

Mbinge, U., Stanley, C., Kandjabanga, I. et al. Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repository. Int J Digit Libr 26, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8

Wright, C.R. and Rogova, I. (2025), “Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 81 No. 2, pp. 456-468. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0188

Mbinge, U., Stanley, C., Kandjabanga, I. et al. Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repository. Int J Digit Libr 26, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8

Beshirov, A., Dobreva, M., Dimitrov, D. et al. Post-ocr text correction for Bulgarian historical documents. Int J Digit Libr 26, 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00415-x

Han, Y. (2025), “People first, preservation later: critical community engagement to activate dialogue-based archives”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 81 No. 3, pp. 767-787. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2024-0210

Kosciejew, M. (2023). Facing Threats to Libraries and Cultural Heritage in the Russia-Ukraine War: A Case Study and Comparative Review of the Library and Information Community’s’ Responses to the Conflict. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science57(1), 191-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231208026

Books

Rozas-Krause, Valentina; M. Shanken, Andrew, eds.. Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space. Fordham University Press, 2024.

Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
John Goldfinch, Takako Kato, and Satoko Tokunaga, editors
Brill, 2025

Travels in Time: Essays on Collective Memory in Motion
Astrid Erll
Oxford University Press, 2025

Photo Archives and the Place of Photography
Edited By Geraldine A. Johnson, Deborah Schultz
Routledge, 2025

Report

Jessica Bushey, Marina De Souza, Kailey Fukushima, David Iglésias, Marta Riess, Eng
Sengsavang, Hrvoje Stancic, Zeljko Trbusic, Report on the Survey “Digitization and Artificial Intelligence for Archives and Documentary Heritage Materials,” InterPARES Trust AI, May 2025,
https://interparestrustai.org/assets/public/dissemination/RA03-InterPARESAI-Survey_Report_FI
NAL.pdf

Conference Proceedings

Advances in Digital Forensics XX
20th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference, New Delhi, India, January 4–5, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

Case Study

Case 30 in the Teaching with Primary Sources (TWPS) case study series—sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section of SAA—is now available. Written by Bree’ya N. Brown and Rachel E. Winston, Las Archivistas Enseñando Afro-Latinidad: Teaching History and Culture with Primary Sources highlights a partnership between archivists at Huston-Tillotson University (HT) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT). Archivists at both institutions worked together to develop a workshop series for students centered on Afro-Latin American perspectives in primary source instruction.

Podcast

Archives in Context
Season 9, Episode 2: Chris Pandza

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science volume 25 issue 2, 2025
(partial open access)

Accessibility of archives for people with disabilities in Oman: current state and challenges
Abderrazak Mkadmi, Faten Hamad, Sallam Al-Yaarabi

AI-powered visual classification in archives: a computer vision approach to facial recognition in historical archives
Muslum Yıldız, Fatih Rukancı

An archive in numbers: the pulse of the Dutch Ministry of Colonies, 1813–1900
Nico Vriend

Overcoming data siloes in cultural heritage crime research: a consolidated OSINT-derived dataset on art, antiquities, and the trade in cultural goods
Madison Leeson, Riccardo Giovanelli, Sara Ferro, Michela De Bernardin, Arianna Traviglia

A Saharan archive and its afterlives
Fiona Mc Laughlin

An ecologically just future for personal digital heritage: three guiding statements
Marije Miedema, Susan Aasman, Anne Beaulieu, Sabrina Sauer

Addressing the free-rider problem in collectively built online archives
Jinfang Niu

Inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and inappropriateness: examining the representation of Chinese students in university archives with radical empathy
Ruohua Han, Yingying Han

The provenance of trans/gender: on the subject’s willful disappearance from the record
L. Wynholds

CFP: Records Management Journal

Volume 35, Issue 2, 2025
(subscription)

Artificial intelligence and records management in contemporary organizations: what cultural aspects are required? Insights from the information culture framework (ICF)
Siham Alaoui

Competencies, skills, and personal attributes in job advertisements for archivists and records managers in Finland Open access
Saara Packalén, Lauri Partanen

The Norwegian ministries’ records centers in the public sphere
Ida-Therese Kleve

The impact of artificial intelligence on data privacy: a risk management perspective
Norman Mooradian, Patricia C. Franks, Amitabh Srivastav

Development of a Web-based records management system: an ERMS initiative for the Office of Senior Citizen Affairs in the Philippines
Monira Libadia, Khavee Agustus Botangen, Pauline Joy Lucero, Jolene Tecson

Recordkeeping needs and capabilities of small migrant community organisations run by volunteers
Viviane Frings-Hessami, Zoe Henderson

A comprehensive assessment of the government of Tanzania health operation management information system using participatory action research
Cesilia Mambile, Augustino Mwogosi

New Issue: Collections

Volume 21 Issue 2, June 2025
Focus Issue: American Food Culture: Collecting, Curating, and Sharing Its Complexity
(subscription)

The Long Life and History of the Ebony Test Kitchens
Joanne Hyppolite

Edible Education: Recentering 100 Years of Collecting, Preserving, and Interpreting Food
Debra A. Reid, Shannon Murphy, Kayla Wendt

Hamburgers for Breakfast: A Student Exhibit on Food and Community at Eastern Michigan University
Nancy E. Villa Bryk

Traditions, Connections, Journeys: Conversations About Families’ Foodways Treasures
Abigail Ayers, Teresa Safranek, Rebecca Murphy, Mariam Ktiri, Nancy E. Villa Bryk

Nourishing Love: Documenting the Cookery and Foodways Collections at the Michigan State University Libraries
Leslie Van Veen McRoberts

Food as Folklife: Public Folklore Practice in the Museum and Archive
Virginia Siegel

New Issue: Archives and Records, Volume 45, Issue 3 (2024)

Archives and Records, Volume 45, Issue 3 (2024)

Articles

Children as archive producers, participants, and agents: introduction to the special issue on children and archives
Anna Sparrman, Victoria Hoyle & Johanna Sjöberg

Imagining tiny archives: exploring young children’s collecting of nature things
Alex Orrmalm & Marek Tesar

From passive subjects to active agents: enabling child-centred recordkeeping in social care contexts
Sharon Vincent, Martine Hawkes, Justine Ogle, Joanne Evans & Barbara Reed

Researching colonial childhoods: accessing the voices of children in the Gold Coast (Ghana) 1900 –1957
Afua Twum-Danso Imoh

‘Politics are the way our country is run’: the social value of school archives for tracing children’s civic engagement
Emily Murphy & Helen King

Everyday records or living archives? An analysis of record-keeping in residential children’s homes in Scotland
Ruth Emond, Andrew Burns, Hugh Hagan & Karl Magee

Ethics in research practice: young people, pictures, and archives
Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk & Anna Sparrman

Book Reviews

Disputed archival heritage
edited by James Lowry, London, Routledge, 2022, 356 pp.
Helena Clarkson

A soldiers’ chronicle of the Hundred Years War. College of Arms manuscript M9
edited by Anne Curry and Rémy Ambühl, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2022, 480 pp.
Anthony Smith

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

Collections- Volume: 21, Number: 1 (March 2025)
Focus Issue: Hazardous Heritage
(partial open access)

Introduction
Introduction to the Focus Issue: Hazardous Heritage
Henna Sinisalo and Doris Blancquaert

Hazardous Heritage
Journey into a Toxic Past: Pest Control in Museums at the End of the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century in Germany and Beyond
Helene Tello

Museum Professionals’ Perceptions of Chemical and Biological Hazards and Risks in Museum Work Environments in Finland
Henna Sinisalo

Hearing Victims’ Voices: The Asbestos Story in the Archive
Arthur McIvor

Asbestos as Difficult Heritage: The Need for a Multi-Voiced Heritage Policy
Doris Blancquaert and Hélène Verreyke

Tracing Toxic Agency—Exploring the Open-Air Museums and Their Contaminated Vernacular Buildings
Anne-Sofie Hjemdahl and Terje Planke

Disappearing Façades: The Challenges Behind Asbestos-Containing Façade Materials Heritage Value and Significance from a Curator’s Viewpoint
Liisa Katariina Ruuska-Jauhijärvi

Addressing the Presence of Arsenical Bindings in the British Library’s Collections
Amy Baldwin, Paul Garside and Nicole Monjeau

All Bottled Up: Hazard Assessment of an Historic Pharmaceutical Collection
Anna Fowler, Kerith Koss Schrager and Nancie Ravenel

From Poison Books to “Bibliotoxicology”: Highlighting Hazards in Paper-Based Library Collections
Rosie Grayburn and Melissa Tedone

Hazardous Heritage Within the War Heritage Institute
Saskia Van de Voorde and Zoë-Joy Vangansewinkel

Congress Review: Hazardous Heritage: Working With and Around Dangerous Materials in Cultural Heritage, 23 to 24.10.2023, Antwerp, Belgium
Liisa Katariina Ruuska-Jauhijärvi, Marleena Vihakara and Doris Blancquaert