Category: New Publication

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Table Of Contents: Volume 26 Issue 2

Trusting records: is Blockchain technology the answer?
Victoria Louise Lemieux

Adopting total quality management to enhance service delivery in medical records: Exploring the case of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana
Emmanuel Adjei, Monica Mensah

Archives as a trusted third party in maintaining and preserving digital records in the cloud environment
Wei Guo, Yun Fang, Weimei Pan, Dekun Li

Reasons for the poor provision of information by the government: public opinion
Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir

What lessons can be learned from the US archivist’s digital mandate for 2019 and is there potential for applying them in lower resource countries?
Jason R. Baron, Anne Thurston

Assessing the functionality of the enterprise content management maturity model
Shadrack Katuu

 

Recent Issue: IASA Journal

IASA Journal No 46, May 2016
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Download articles (IASA members only)
  1. Editorial and President’s Letter
  2. IASA’s Travel Award Program
    Bertram Lyons, IASA Editor, USA
  3. Legacy Collections, their Value and their Accessibility
    Grace Koch, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  4. Unearthing the Underground, Databasing the Avant-Garde, and Mapping the Independent Media Community
    Lindsay Kistler Mattock, The University of Iowa, USA
    Kara Wentworth, The University of Iowa, USA
  5. Too Good to be Forgotten: The Copyright Dichotomy and the Public-Sector Audiovisual Archive
    Claudy Op den Kamp, Swinburne Law School, Australia
  6. Securing Audio Transfer
    Sebastian Gabler, NOA Audio Solutions, Austria
  7. Quality Management for Preservation of Analogue and Digital Video Tape
    Sebastian Gabler, NOA GmbH, Austria
  8. Ghosts on the Wire
    Leslie McCartney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
  9. Journey of Big Bertha Webster
    JA Pryse, Oklahoma Historical Society, USA
  10. IASA Research Grant Report: A Study on the Changing Prices of Audiovisual Digitization, 2006–2015
    Rebecca Chandler, AVPreserve, USA

New Issue: American Archivist

reposted from A&A:

The Spring/Summer issue of The American Archivist is here! Features include a special section on digitizing archives with unique collaborators as well as Kathleen D. Roe’s 2015 presidential address, “Why Archives?” Should we be documenting smell as an essential characteristic? What is the personal and social impact of community archives? How do we process and digitize a scrapbook? What makes a description “honest”? Explore these questions and more in the digital edition: http://americanarchivist.org/toc/aarc/79/1.

New Issue: Archival Issues

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MAC members and subscribers to Archival Issues: Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference will soon have 100 pages of new summer reading delivered to their postal mail boxes. (For those who can’t wait, the new issue is available online at the MAC website).

Four articles in AI 37:2 cover a wide range of professional topics including ethics, education, university records management, and opportunities for archival outreach in the digital era.

Elizabeth Joffrion (Western Washington University) and Lexie Tom (Northwest Indian College) analyze two decades of collaboration between the University Library’s special collections and the Lummi Nation.

JoyEllen Freeman (Kennesaw State University) reports on the Archive-It K–12 Web Archiving Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive’s Archive-It.

Cliff Hight and James W. Smith (both Kansas State University) used a pilot records survey project in the Office of the Provost to reinvigorate records and information management efforts in their University Archives.

Jacquelyn Slater Reese, University of Oklahoma Libraries, draws technical and managerial lessons from a grant funded crowdsourcing transcription project.

Ten book reviews round out AI 37:2.

Archival Issues welcomes submissions at all times.  Send manuscripts and inquiries to editorial board chair Alexandra A. Orchard: alexandra@wayne.edu

New Issue: Practical Technology for Archives

We are pleased to announce the publication of Issue no.6 of Practical Technology for Archives.

http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org

In this issue we have three excellent articles, one on dealing with born-digital material on disposable media, one about incorporating a file-renaming program into a digitization workflow to make the files easier to repurpose, and another on a program for searching an institutions server to locate files that should either be deleted or archived.

If you have an idea or proposal for Issue no.7, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

All the Best,
Randall Miles,
Managing Editor

New Article: Journal of Western Archives

The Journal of Western Archives is pleased to announce the availability of a new archival by Cyndi Shein and Emily Lapworth entitled “Say Yes to Digital Surrogates: Strengthening the Archival Record in the Postcustodial Era.” It is well worth reading. You can check it out at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol7/iss1/9/.

Gordon Daines

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J. Gordon Daines III
Editor, Journal of Western Archives
Supervisor of Reference Services
Department Chair
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-5821
gordon_daines@byu.edu

New Issue: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science

abstracts available:

Vol 26, No 1 (2016)

Table of Contents

Articles

Novel and Fundamental Advances in Digital Technologies for Managing Information and Knowledge
Stephen Mutula

Visibility of University of Zululand and Moi University Researchers in Web of Science and Scopus from 2003 to 2013
Dennis N. Ocholla, Janneke Mostert, Daniel C. Rotich

Research Support and Open Access: Notes from Nigeria
Noah Oluwafemi Samuel

Integrated Library System Implementation: The Bowen University Library Experience with Koha Software
Ayoku A. Ojedokun, Grace O.O. Olla, Samuel A. AdigunComputer Anxiety and Computer

Self-Efficacy in Computer-Based Tests in Selected Universities in South-West Nigeria
Williams Nwagwu, Olukunle Adebayo

An Evaluation of a Donor Funded Information and Communication Technology Centre in a South Africa Indigenous Community: Reflections on the Bhamshela Telecentre
Ken Chisa, Ruth Hoskins

User Perceptions about Archives at the Lutheran Theological Institute Library, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Francis Garaba

A Comparative Analysis of Library and Information Science Master’s Degree Programmes in Uganda and USA
Dianah Twinoburyo Kacunguzi

New Article: JCAS

(from Facebook post)

We are pleased to announce publication of a new article: “The Wild West No More: Preserving 40 Years of Electronic Records at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center,” by Tyler G. Cline.

In the summer of 2014, the American Heritage Center undertook a project to migrate all born-digital records to a secure server, thereby creating the means to provide access to the material. The author explores the project which largely eliminating the backlog of born-digital collection material and making those records available for use to all.

New Issue: Comma

[note: articles available through membership or subscription. abstracts of articles are available.]

Comma Volume: 2015, Number: 1 (May 2016) is now available online.

Comma, International Journal on Archives is the chief serial publication of the International Council on Archives. Comma strives to be of value to a broader readership beyond the ICA membership and the archival profession at large. You can keep up to date with the journal by clicking here to sign up to new issue alerts, and can learn more about the title at its website page here.

Contents

Introduction

La maltraitance archivistique : élément du dysfonctionnement de l’administration et de l’État. Le cas du Bénin
Alphonse Labitan

Le service éducatif des Archives nationales du Bénin au service de l’enseignant et de l’apprenant
Léontine Hounnou Aballo

De l’expérience de collecte d’archives privées au Burkina Faso
Hamidou Diallo

La situation des archives au Burundi, des origines à nos jours
Nicodème Nyandwi

L’environnement des archives au Cameroun
Michael Ngwanyi

Exhumer les vestiges de la colonisation. Les archives coloniales belges et leur histoire
Bérengère Piret

Les Archives de l’Afrique Équatoriale Française
Brice Isinove Owabira

État Civil et archives en Côte d’Ivoire
Venance Bahi Gouro

Les archives publiques au Gabon de la fin de la période coloniale à nos jours
Jérôme Angoune Nzoghe

L’évolution de la fonction Archives au Niger
Habou Boukari

De « l’Exception sénégalaise » à la « Mémoire partagée »
Fatoumata Cissé Diarra

Les Archives nationales du Sénégal d’hier à aujourd’hui : problématique de la conservation
Ndéye Marème Diallo

L’expérience des services régionaux d’archives au Sénégal après trente ans d’existence
Mohamed Lamine Kane

Un autre regard sur les archives en Afrique
Jean-Pierre Delva

Abstracts

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New Issue: Archivaria

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I’m very pleased to announce that Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016) is now available online to ACA members and subscribers. The print issue is in production and will be mailed shortly. In accordance with our rolling access window, Archivaria 73 (Spring 2012) is now available to all readers in the Main Collection.

Thank you to the Archivaria Editorial Team and the ACA Office for all their hard work on this issue.

Kind regards,
Jennifer Douglas, General Editor, Archivaria

Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016)
Articles
An Accidental Archive of the Old Durham Road: Reclaiming a Black Pioneer Settlement
Naomi Norquay
From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives
Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor
Romance Writers’ Use of Archives
Caryn Radick
Digitizing Archival Records: Benefits and Challenges for a Large Professional Accounting Association
Monica Kenely, Brad Potter, Brian West, Phillip Cobbin
and Steven Chang
Archiving Paul: Manuscripts, Religion, and the Editorial Shaping of Ancient Letter Collections
Gregory Fewster

Gordon Dodds Prize
Community Archives, Community Clouds: Enabling Digital Preservation for Small Archives
Grant Hurley

Book Reviews
TIM DEAN, STEVEN RUSZCZYCKY, and DAVID SQUIRES, eds., Porn Archives
Marcel Barriault
RICHARD RINEHART and JON IPPOLITO, Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
Amy Marshall Furness
CHERYL BEREDO, Import of the Archive: U.S. Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History
Aaron Gordon
JEAN DRYDEN, Demystifying Copyright: A Researcher’s Guide to Copyright in Canadian Libraries and Archives, 2nd ed.
Heather Martin
ALANA KUMBIER, Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archives
Rebecka Sheffield

Exhibition Review
No Little Plans: Alternative Building and Transportation Visions for Toronto. CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES
Simon Patrick Rogers