Category: New Publication

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

Vol 19, No 1 (2018)
(open access)

Editor’s Note (read it this time, please)
Richard Saunders

Articles

Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Karen Attar

References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Kris Bronstad

Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Anna Dysert, Sharon Rankin, Darren N. Wagner

Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Courtney Jacobs, Marcia McIntosh, Kevin M. O’Sullivan

Book Reviews

Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures.
Kathy Marquis

Alison Cullingford. The Special Collections Handbook, Second Edition.
Keith Phelan Gorman

Freda Matassa. Valuing Your Collection.
Colleen Barrett

David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson. The Silence of the Archive.
Tamara E. Livingston

New Issue: Practical Technology for Archives

Issue no.9, May 2018

Articles
Archives and Airtable: Using Cloud-based Tools for Archival Survey and Workflow Management
Katherine Dirk, Jessica Maddox
The Special Collections and University Archives Department at the University of Nevada, Reno began a physical survey of all department holdings in June 2017. As a first step, the department needed to identify a viable, customizable tool to use to conduct the survey. After looking at options, the surveyors decided to use a cloud-based database tool called Airtable. Airtable fit all anticipated needs for the physical survey and proved to be adaptable to a number of projects and workflows outside of the survey. This article explores the steps taken to identify an appropriate tool, its use in the physical survey, how the department adapted it for use beyond the initial survey of holdings, and future uses of Airtable by the Special Collections and University Archives Department.

What Are We Doing with the Website: Transition, Templates, and User Experience in One Special Collections Library
Rachael Dreyer
This case study explores the issues surrounding web design in the special collections and university archives environment, focusing on the process from the perspective of an archives professional without web development expertise. The author shares how the Eberly Family Special Collections Library made the “design-by-committee” process more effective through collaborative committee work and user experience testing. The case study includes a discussion of the challenges encountered and the strategies employed to enhance the special collections’ website, when working with many library stakeholders and a regimented website template.

New/Recent Publications: Various

“HathiTrust Research Center User Requirements Study White Paper.”
Dickson, Eleanor; Green, Harriett; Nay, Leanne; Courtney, Angela; McDonald, Robert.

SPEC Kit 358: Accessibility and Universal Design (Association of Research Libraries)
Spina, Carli; Cohen, Margaret

“The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana: A Community Organizing Success Story,” Frank Perez, in Queering Education in the Deep South, Edited by: Kamden K. Strunk Ph.D., Auburn University

“Now Hear This! Observations on Building Local Music Collections” (Minnesota Underground Music Archives), paper at Music Library Association Conference
Kathryn Hujda

Facing Change: Insights from AAM’s DEAI Working Group

A Guide to the Syuba (Kagate) Language Documentation Corpus

Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections, White paper #1: Transforming special collections metadata into linked open data: mappings, entity reconciliation, workflows implemented & lessons learned
Han, Myung-Ja; Kinnaman, Alex; Cole, Timothy; Foster, Ann; Szylowicz, Caroline

New/Recent Publications: Books

Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Lorraine Daston, ed.
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives
Melissa Morrone, ed.
(Library Juice Press, 2018)

Music Preservation and Archiving Today
edited by Norie Guthrie and Scott Carlson
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community
Edited by: Robin Kear and Kate Joranson

Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents (From the Broadview Sources Series)
Edited by: Harvey Amani Whitfield

The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive
Edited by Marina Kostalevsky; Translated by Stephen Pearl; Adapted from the Russian Edition, Compiled, and Edited by Polina E. Vaidman

Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies
Matthew Feldman

 

New/Recent Publications: Articles

“Managing Copyright in Digital Collections: A Focus on Creative Commons Licences,” Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2018
Caroline Korbel

“Arrangement and Description of Architectural Material: My Co-op Experience at Western Archives,” Emerging Library and Information Perspectives, 2018
Richard Gale

“Library and Information (LIS) Research Topics in Indonesia from 2006 to 2017,” Library Philosophy and Practice, 2018
EF Mannan, DP Srirahayu, F Mutia – 2018

“‘Flesh and Blood Archives’: Embodying the Oral History Transcript,” The Oral History Review, 2018
Nien Yuan Cheng

“From the Bottom Up: Convergence, Professional Identities, and LAM Training,” The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the Faculty of Information, 2018
Sarah Kelly

“Setting up a ‘Special Relationship’: Students as Co-Creators of a Research-based Curriculum,” The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 2018
Raphael Hallett, Charlotte Tomlinson, Tim Procter

New Issue: Archives and Records

Volume 39, 2018
(subscription)

Editorial – Archives and museums
Charlotte Berry

Articles

From catalogues to contextual networks: reconfiguring collection documentation in museums
Michael Jones

Coalition and co-creation: the genesis of Archive Service Accreditation
Melinda Haunton, Katrina Thomson & Janice Tullock

From museum to archives: managing the Panama Canal Museum Collection
John R. Nemmers, Steve Duckworth, Jessica Belcoure Marcetti & Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler

Curatorial and archival approaches to the National Gallery archives
Alan Crookham & Richard Wragg

Of mind and matter: the archive as object
Peter Lester

Book Reviews

Valuing your collection: a practical guide for museums, libraries and archives
Judy Burg

Birmingham wills and inventories 1512–1603
Mark Dorrington

The International Business Archives Handbook: understanding and managing the historical records of business
Karyn Williamson

Digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums
Ellen O’Flaherty

Copyright and e-learning: a guide for practitioners
Victoria Stobo

The silence of the archive
Jenny Moran

The history thieves: secrets, lies and the shaping of a modern nation
Susan Healy

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Volume 5, 2018

Articles
Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P. T. Barnum Digital Collection
Meghan R. Rinn

Exploring the American Archivist: Corpus analysis tools and the professional literature
J. Gordon Daines III, Cory L. Nimer, and Jacob R. Lee

Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices
Lae’l Hughes-Watkins

Book Reviews
Review of Queer Library Alliance: Global Reflections and Imaginings
Matthew P. Messbarger

Review of Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums
Danielle Castronovo

Case Study
Adapting an Analog Records Management System for the Ingest and Accession of Permanent Electronic Records
Brandy Tunmire, Amy Dinkins, Mary K. Coker, Shelly J. Croteau, and John Korasick

Work in Progress
Researcher Access to Born-Digital Collections: an Exploratory Study
Julia Y. Kim

New Issue: Information & Culture

Volume 53, Number 2 (April/May 2018)
(subscription)

“Crises” in Scholarly Communications?: Maturity and Transfer of the Journal of Library History to the University of Texas, 1968–1976
by Maria Gonzalez and Patricia Galloway

“Save the Cross Campus”: Library Planning and Protests at Yale, 1968–1969
by Geoffrey Robert Little

Media Prophylaxis: Night Modes and the Politics of Preventing Harm
by Dylan Mulvin

Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research, and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory
by Christopher Loughnane, and William Aspray

Book Reviews, Summer 2018

Read our latest book review of: The Intellectual Properties of Learning, by John Willinsky, reviewed by Jesse Erickson.

New Issue: Journal of Documentation

Volume 74 Issue 4, 2018
(subscription)

What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core
Deborah Maron, Melanie Feinberg

The relationship between students’ subject preferences and their information behaviour
Andrew D. Madden, Sheila Webber, Nigel Ford, Mary Crowder

Air pollution online: everyday environmental information on the social media site Sina Weibo
Carin Graminius, Jutta Haider

Social media as a vehicle for user engagement with local history: A case study in the North East of Scotland
Caroline Hood, Peter Reid

Data rescue archive weather (DRAW): Preserving the complexity of historical climate data
Eun G. Park, Gordon Burr, Victoria Slonosky, Renee Sieber, Lori Podolsky

Developing a model to explore the information seeking behaviour of farmers
M.G.P.P. Mahindarathne, Qingfei Min

“Natural allies”: Librarians, archivists, and big data in international digital humanities project work
Alex H. Poole, Deborah A. Garwood

Transitions in workplace information practices and culture: The influence of newcomers on information use in healthcare
Anita Nordsteien, Katriina Byström

Long-term community development within a researcher network: A social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre
Hazel Hall, Peter Cruickshank, Bruce Ryan

“Systemic Managerial Constraints”: How universities influence the information behaviour of HSS early career academics
Rebekah Willson

Lifeworld as “unit of analysis”
Tim Gorichanaz, Kiersten F. Latham, Elizabeth Wood

User conceptualizations of derivative relationships in the bibliographic universe
Kim Tallerås, Jørn Helge B. Dahl, Nils Pharo

New Issue: Information & Culture

New Issue: Volume 53, Number 2 (April/May 2018)
(subscription)

“Crises” in Scholarly Communications?: Maturity and Transfer of the Journal of Library History to the University of Texas, 1968–1976
Maria Gonzalez and Patricia Galloway

“Save the Cross Campus”: Library Planning and Protests at Yale, 1968-1969
Geoffrey Robert Little

Media Prophylaxis: Night Modes and the Politics of Preventing Harm
Dylan Mulvin

Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research, and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory
Christopher Loughnane, William Aspray