Category: New Publication

New Issue: Archives and Records

Archives and Records, Volume 46, Issue 1 (2025)
(partial open access)

Articles

Introduction to digital preservation articles from iPRES 2023 meeting
Christopher Prom & Tracy Seneca

Advancing digital archival practices in Oman: challenges, opportunities, and prospects for the future
Ahmed Maher Khafaga Shehata & Abderrazak Mkadmi

2013 – 2023: a review of ten years of email archiving in France
Marion Ville

Trustworthiness of digital records through NDSA levels of digital preservation
Özhan Sağlık

Digitized archives and research on the musical heritage of the Yellow River basin
Jingheng Geng

Looking for the direction of thought and practice in Polish archival studies: futurology or forecasting?
Monika Cołbecka

Book Reviews

The archival afterlives of Philippine cinema
by Bliss Cua Lim, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2024
Josephine Botting

The materiality of the archive: creative practice in context
edited by Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2024
Charlotte Berry

Collecting in the twenty-first century: from museums to the web
edited by Johannes Endres and Christoph Zeller, Rochester, Camden House, 2022
Thomas Poole

New Issue: American Archivist

In issue 88.1 of American Archivist, Helen Wong Smith urges the profession to increase collaboration in her Presidential Address from the 2024 Annual Meeting; Megan K. Friedel offers pathways for archivists to apply reparative description practices to disability histories; and Alexandra Chassanoff, Eliscia Kinder, and Elliott Kuecker share experiences teaching MLIS students to use regional primary sources to construct digital history exhibits. Also in this issue, discover six excellent reviews on recent archives publications.

This issue also features a Special Section on Accessioning edited by Rosemary K. J. Davis, Audra Eagle Yun, and Rachel Searcy. The section contains five articles on a diverse range of topics, including a case study confronting the challenges of accessioning in a repository with limited resources, a case study detailing the process of starting a born-digital archival accessioning program and designing workflows scalable for a small institution, excerpts from the National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group’s Archival Accessioning Best Practices, and an introduction from the co-editors of this special section.

On the Cover: Accessioning-themed embroidery art created by guest editor Rachel Searcy. Based on the iconic “Mom Heart” tattoo motif from the American traditional tattoo style, the banner reads “Accession.” Leaves and flowers around the heart symbolize the growth of accessioning practice in recent years, and the bird represents its flight to new heights. Created by hand with needle and thread, this piece demonstrates the craft of accessioning and highlights the labor required to do accessioning work. Read this issue’s Special Section on Accessioning starting on page 10. Photo courtesy of Rachel Searcy.

American Archivist 88.1 (Spring/Summer 2025)
Table of Contents

(Review access here)

From the Editor

Presidential Address

From the Special Section Co-Editors

Special Section: Accessioning

Articles 

Reviews

New Issue: Comma

Volume 2023, Issue 1
(subscription)

Preface
Forget Chaterera-Zambuko

Guest Editorial
Margaret Crockett

Education and Training/Éducation et Formation
Tatuoca Magnetic Observatory Brazil: Records, Interdisciplinary Work, and AI in the Amazon for Archivists’ Education
Cristian Berrío-Zapata, Cristiano Mendel Martins, Jacquelin Teresa Camperos Reyes, Vinicius Augusto Carvalho de Abreu, Raissa Moraes Baldez, …

Archivistas en los archivos: Normativa sobre reconocimiento técnico-profesional en la región latinoamericana
Carolina Katz

Archivos Comunitarios y Comunidades Patrimoniales: Experiencias y proyecciones educativas del Taller de Archivística Comunitaria para cantores y cantoras “a lo poeta” en la Región de O’Higgins (Chile)
Javiera Montecinos Díaz, Leonardo Cisternas Zamora, Héctor Sancho Reverté, Clemencia González Tugas, and Javier Peña Espinoza

Archives Curriculum in the Global South: A Caribbean Perspective
Stanley H. Griffin, Jeannette A. Bastian, and John A. Aarons

Reaching Equilibrium for Cutting-Edge Content in the Training of Archivists and Records Managers in a Comprehensive Open Distance E-Learning Environment: A “glonacol” Approach
Makutla Mojapelo, Mpho Ngoepe, and Lorette Jacobs

A Provenance Pedagogy Exchange Across North and South American Archival Education Programs
Sarah A. Buchanan, Natália Bolfarini Tognoli, and Clarissa Schmidt

The 21st Century Archival Practitioner
Patricia C. Franks

Archivistes tout-terrain: Les chantiers-école d’Archivistes sans Frontières
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier, Christine Martinez, and Marc Trille

Programa de Formación Archivística de la ALA: Contribuyendo al desarrollo profesional de nuestra comunidad
Anna Szlejcher and Marco Antonio Enríquez Ochoa

Self-Help, History, and Civic Pride: The Origins of Professional Archival Education in England
Margaret Procter

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

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
Volume 21 Issue 3, September 2025
(partial open access)

Articles

Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Museums: A Case Study Within the Context of Its Applicability to Collections Management of Documentation
Melissa LaFortune, Eileen Johnson

The Importance of Diversity in Cultural Heritage Conservation Staff: Perspectives on Current Museum Epistemology and the Understanding of Cultural History
Jennifer Hain Teper

Archives in University Science Museums: Proposals for Their Museological Transformation
Camila Belén Plaza Salgado, Luz María Narbona Medina

Access to Oral History Content in South Africa: Metadata Skills Matter
Matlala Rachel Mahlatji, Mpho Ngoepe

Reclaiming Lost Memory: Reflections on the Restitution of Cultural Material Within the Local Context, with Specific Reference to Zimbabwe
Bright Mutyandaedza

Case Study

Collaborative Strategies for Enhancing Public Awareness of Tanzania’s Cultural Heritage: Insights from National Museum of Tanzania Professionals
Gwakisa A. Kamatula, N. B. Lwoga, N. Saurombe

Review

Best Practices for Textile Collections About Documentation and Digital Data Curation
Ester Alba, Mar Gaitán, Arabella León, Jorge Sebastián

Book Reviews

Book Review: Understanding Use: Objects in Museums of Science and Technology
Dee Stubbs-Lee

Book Review: Review of Nazi-era Provenance of Museum Collections: A Research Guide by Jacques Schuhmacher
Susan A. Barrett

New Issue: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal

Issue 55 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
(open access)

How the German National Library Migrated 770,000 Compact Discs and Digitized 50,000 Audiocassettes
Ruprecht Langer

The Digitisation of Audiovisual Assets Salvaged from the Jagger Library Fire: A Practical Overview
Andrea Walker, Susan Mvungi

Building Audio Preservation Capacities for Georgian Ethnographic Recordings at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire
David M. Walker, Crystal Sanchez

“To Prove to You I Haven’t Forgotten My Norwegian”: The Audio Letters of Owen Veum
Karl Peder Mork

Unveiling Southeast Asian Musical Data in Europe with the Pratinada Platform: Functions, Origins, and Cultural Perspectives
Joséphine Simonnot, Dana Rappoport

Uncovering Aspects of Azerbaijani Traditional Music within Early Caucasian Music Discography
Sanubar Baghirova

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 Science, 57(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