Category: New Publication

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

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Volume 51 Issue 1, March 2025
(partial open access)

Editorial

Trends in academic and research libraries
Jayshree Mamtora and Bertil F. Dorch

Articles

Perceptions of the role of research librarian: A phenomenological study
Rahma Sugihartati, Dessy Harisanty, Anita Dewi, Bagong Suyanto, Arya Wijaya Pramodha Wardhana and Nadia Egalita

Australian academic libraries and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Roxanne Missingham

Fostering scientific integrity in Vietnam: The contribution of library and information services
Thuy Thanh Bui and Lan Thi Nguyen

Model proposal of libraries functions to implement open science: Analysis from Latin American librarianship
Juan Miguel Palma Peña

Scholar-led publishing and diamond open access: The professionalised role of libraries
Ursula Arning

Integrating evidence synthesis services in Zimbabwean state university libraries
Notice Pasipamire

Moldovan academic librarians’ perception on research data management
Viorica Lupu, Nelly Țurcan and Rodica Cujba

Influence of research collaboration on research excellence in Kenya
Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha

The impact of big data on university libraries in Bangladesh
Md. Habibur Rahman, Asmadi Mohammed Ghazali and Mohd Zool Hilmie Mohamed Sawal

Case Study

Co-creating open initiatives at De La Salle University Libraries: The Animo Repository experience
Luis Ezra Cruz, Mennie Ruth Viray and Roana Marie Flores

Exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence in systematic searching: A comparative case study of a human librarian, ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-4 Turbo
Xiayu Summer Chen and Yali Feng

Review Article

Research data management in university libraries: The need for data literacy and technological revamp
Magnus Osahon Igbinovia, Chidi Deborah Segun-Adeniran and Omorodion Okuonghae

New Issue: Museum Worlds

Museum Worlds, vol. 12 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial 
Conal Mccarthy and Alison K. Brown 

I. Articles 
Expanded Loans as Forms of Indigenous Access, Reconnection, and Sovereignty: Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan—Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour and Respect—Gifts from the Michi Saagiig Women to the Prince of Wales, 1860 
Laura Peers, Lori Beavis, and Christine Beavis 

Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts: Meanings of Zulu Beadwork 
Njabulo Chipangura and Motsane Getrude Seabela 

Digitization Is Not Decolonization: South Africa’s Amagugu Ethu Museum Project and Colonial Documentation in Digital Times 
Laura Gibson 

II. Special Section 
Introduction: Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide—Reimagining Human–Environment Relations in and through Museums 
Philipp Schorch and Nicholas Thomas 

The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections 
Jack Ashby 

Intertwining the Ethno-botanical Amazonian Collections of Spix and Martius and Beyond 
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder 

A Munduruku Headdress: Transforming the Relations between Natural History and Ethnography 
Anita Herle 

Curating the In-Between: A New Approach at BIOTOPIA–Naturkundemuseum Bayern 
Samara Rubinstein and Colleen M. Schmitz 

A Landscape of Well-Being: Bridging the “Nature–Culture Divide” at Trumpington Meadows Country Park, Cambridge 
Jody Joy 

III. Reports and Dispatches 
Connecting Collections: Transforming Access to Museum Collections at Scale for Knowledge Generation in Australia 
Jason M. Gibson, Gaye Sculthorpe, Alistair Paterson, and Andrea Witcomb 

Preserving Indigenous Knowledges and Practices as Moana Oceania Diaspora in Aotearoa: Views from Niue and Kiribati 
Lagi-Maama and Jackie Leota-Mua 

Enhancing the Usability of Stored Museum Items: Loans and Exchanges 
Lara Corona 

New Urban Peace in Delhi: The Partition Museum 
Neha Khetrapal  

Setting Agendas for Mass Media: The Case of the Beijing Palace Museum 
Zhitong Mu 

Report on CoMuseum 2023: Museums and Justice: 13th CoMuseum International Conference, 6–8 December 2023 
Sophia Handaka 

IV. Review Essays 
Our Colonial Inheritance; The Loud Archive: Love & Loss and the Critical Theory of Emotion and Affect; The Northwest Coast Hall Reimagined; The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do; Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums; The Weave of “Fashion Diplomacy”; Interpreting Africa in South Korea; Ecological Art Exhibitions in London 
Mary Caton Lingold, Camus Wyatt, Bryony Onciul, Andy Everson, Jaimie N. Luria, Olga Zabalueva, Matthew Raj Webb, Sumi Kim, and Sara Selwood 

V. Exhibition Reviews 
Radical Stitch; Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania; Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance; The Light of Day: Unearthing the Past; Polarity: Fire & Ice; Tibuta – Kinaakiia Ainen Kiribati: Tibuta – Identifies Kiribati Women; Cellphone: Unseen Connections; The Tora-san Memorial Museum 
Linda Grussani, Rachel E. Smith, Garance Nyssen, Luiza de Paula Souza Serber, Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup, Jessica Hope van Heerden, Maraya Takoniatis, Emelihter Kihleng, Amrita Ibrahim, and Yi Wang 

VI. Book Reviews 
Dóra Bobory, Anamaría Rojas Múnera, Dan Spock, Brian Yang, Conal Mccarthy, Anthony Alan Shelton, Anna Woodham, Kirsty Kernohan, Varda Nisar, Jorunn Jernsletten, Anne Malmendier, Arnar Árnason, Yi Zheng, and Lanzhou Luo 

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New Issue: ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives, Vol. 43 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial
Segomotso M Keakopa, Mehluli Masuku

Digital records management in the banking industry within the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives region
Nna Motlhasedi

A South African perspective on data privacy in consumer Internet of Things
Mfanasibili Ngwenya, Mpho Ngoepe

Modernising records management in selected commercial banks in Uganda
challenges and strategies
Francis Ekwaro, David Luyombya

Perceptions of staff at the University of Dar es Salaam on establishing an archival repository
Iddy A Ndimbo , Evans F Wema

The ‘invisible hand’ of archives and records management in the Malawi 2063 vision
McDonald Mike Baluti

Government AI readiness in the ESARBICA community
findings from the Oxford Insights AI Readiness Index 2022
Liah Shonhe, Qingfei Min, Ritha Phuti

Artificial intelligence to support public digital archiving in South Africa
Mashilo Thomas Modiba, Ngoako Solomon Marutha

Management of cartographic archives in Namibia
Beauty Matongo, Wilson Yule

Trustworthiness of digital records in the public sector of Zimbabwe
Munyika Sibanda, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Legal and institutional issues for the management of electronic records at an archival institution in Zimbabwe
Godfrey Tsvuura, Patrick Ngulube

Implementation of records management provisions of archival legislation in the provincial departments of Limpopo province, South Africa
Ouma Malatji, Ngoako Solomon Marutha

Digital curation of records at the National Archives of Zambia
Abel M’kulama, Tuesday Bwalya

The state of records management at the University of Zimbabwe
Njabulo Bruce Khumalo, Samson Mutsagondo, Tafadzwa Zawi

nnovative provision of archival services at the National Archives of Zimbabwe during and post Covid-19 era
Peterson Dewah, Felizada Mudzaki, Kudakwashe Tonhodzai

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science 25, no. 1 (2025)

Breaking the boxes: archival praxes and dignity in messiness
Lingyu Wang

“Until dignity becomes customary” archiving the #28A strike in Colombia
Marta Lucía Giraldo, Sandra Arenas, Duan Ramirez

“Provenance informing restitution: the case of Isleta paintings”
Peter Botticelli

Permission to archive: curating and contesting Palestinian history
Anne Irfan, Jo Kelcey

Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives
Emily Maemura

Divergence and dialogue: analyzing the linguistic turn of the archive in digital humanities research
Jiaqing Long, Viviane Frings‑Hessami, Huiling Feng

Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections
Nicole Wood

Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field
Anna Sexton

An archival world turns: Armenian women’s archives in Southeast Michigan
Nazelie Doghramadjian, Patricia Garcia, Ricardo Punzalan

Seventy years of strenuous efforts: tracing the development of archival higher education in China (1952–2022)
Jiarui Sun

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Rebecca Carlson, Emily P. Jones, Christopher S. Wisniewski, Jennifer N. Wisniewski, Emma Barrett-Catton, Michael Wolcott, Fei Yu. “Librarians’ contributions to and impact on pharmacy scholarship: A bibliometric analysis using a systematic approach.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2025

Fleischhacker, D., Kern, R. & Göderle, W. “Enhancing OCR in historical documents with complex layouts through machine learning.” International Journal on Digital Libraries 26, 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00413-z

Books

Preservation in Perspective: International Strategies for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage
Edited by: Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (KEK)
De Gruyter, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
Edited By Isabel Galina Russell, Glen Layne-Worthey
Routledge, 2024

Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation
Edited By Tancredi Gusman
Routledge, 2024

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums: An Anthropology of Donations
By Paul van der Grijp
Routledge, 2024

Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum
Ayhan Aksu
Brill, 2025

Trends in Archive Archaeology: Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice
Jon Frey, Rubina Raja (eds)
Brepols, 2024

Sonic Pasts: Acoustical Heritage and Historical Soundscapes
By Mariana J López
Routledge, 2024

Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature
by Emma Bond
Northwestern University Press, 2024

Working with Conservation Data
By Athanasios Velios
Routledge, 2024

UNESCO, Religious Cultural Heritage and Political Contestation: Conflict of Values or Values in Conflict?
Clizia Franceschini
Springer Nature, 2024

Streaming Media and Cultural Memory in a Postdigital Society
By Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Johannes Heuman
Routledge, 2024

3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation
Marinos Ioannides, Drew Baker, Athos Agapiou, Petros Siegkas
Springer Nature, 2025

Visualizing Film History: Film Archives and Digital Scholarship
by Christian Gosvig Olesen
Indiana University Press, 2025

Collections, archives sonores et objets musicaux : un patrimoine à préserver
Europe-Amériques, XIX-XXIe siècles
Collections, sound archives and musical objects: a heritage to preserve
Europe-Americas, 19th-21st centuries
Rivalan Guégo Christine (dir.) , Borras Gérard (dir.) , Oleksiak Julie (preface)
Rennes University Press, 2025

Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences
Gabrielle Durepos, Amy Thurlow
Emerald Publishing, 2025

Amending Our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory
Edited by Nina Gjoci
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Conference Proceedings

Document et Archivage: Pratiques Formelles et Informelles dans les Organisations
Document and Archiving: Formal and Informal Practices in Organizations
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on digital documents (CiDE.23)
Laurence Balicco, Viviane Clavier and Aude Inaudi (under the direction)

Reports

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
by Luca Messarra; Chris Freeland; Juliya Ziskina
Internet Archive, 2024

Theses/Dissertations

Archiving Social Media: a Comparative Study of the Practices, Obstacles, and Opportunities Related to the Development of Social Media Archives
Beatrice Cannelli
Ph. D. Thesis (University of London)

Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability
Julien Antoine Raemy
Ph. D. Thesis (University of Basel)