Category: New Publication

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)

New/Recent Issues: Information & Culture

Information & Culture has posted several new issues from 2023-2024.
(subscription)

The most recent issue is Volume 59 Issue 3 (Dec 2024)

“My Word Is My Bond”: A Primer for Information Scholars on Accountability and Misinformation
by William Aspray

The Construction of the Virtual Museum in the Forbidden City of China
by Du Dalong

Readerly Cartography: Finding Fictional Places and Actual Readers on Digital Maps
by Jennifer Burek Pierce

Identity for Sale: Authenticity, Commodification, and Agency in YouTube Influencers
by Aysha M. Vear and Judith E. Rosenbaum

The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion by Grant Bollmer (review)
Sakshi Chanana

Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and a New Politics of Recognition by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (review)
Bea Wohl

Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age by Heather Ford (review)
Steve Jankowski

Data and Democracy at Work: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class by Brishen Rogers (review)
Christine T. Wolf

The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance by Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert (review)
James J. Brown, Jr.

Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology by Aaron Trammell (review)
Lindsay Grace

New Issue: Archeota

Archeota 10, no. 2 (Winter 2025)

Description

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

A Tale of Two Film Archives: History and Impact of the British Film Institute and the Cinémathèque Française by Sarah Miller

Enhancing Archival Access with Sustainability: Insights from a Library Scholar Internship at Cal Poly Humboldt by Kaitlyn R. O’Dell

Farewell to Our Winter 2024 Graduate: Interviews with SAA Student Chapter Leaders

“Several archivists were injured, but none critically”: Dangerous Archives in Star Trek by Erica Leff

Digital Vandalism: A Case Study of the Internet Archive and the British Library by Peyton Walters

The Congregation Beth Am Archives: Creatively Using Tech to Process Born- Digital Records by Joshua Insel

Meet the 2025 Archeota AND SAASC Team! Q&A with SAASC Board Members and Archeota Editorial Board Members

SAASC Spring 2025 Executive Board

SAASC FALL & Winter 2024 Events and Upcoming Spring 2025 Events

Book Launch events: Preserving Disability: Disability & the Archival Profession

Preserving Disability: Disability & the Archival Profession

Events Registration & Information

Part 1: THIS MONDAY! February 10 at 11am-12:30pm EST

Details: Hear from some of the contributors of Preserving Disability in the first instalment of our group book launch! This event will feature the book’s co-editors, Dr. Lydia Tang & Dr. Gracen Brilmyer and some of our authors, who will discuss their contributions on the intersection of disabled archivists & archival work:

  • Michael Marlatt, author of “But Don’t Those Cause You Seizures!?”: Epilepsy Activism through Film Archiving
  • Jennifer McGillan, author of The Intersection of Personal and Professional Bodies: Disability, Mutual Aid, Covid-19, and the Archives
  • Hilary Stace, author of The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse and State-based care in Aotearoa New Zealand and the opportunity it provides to hear, research and archive stories of disability history
  • Alexandra Pucciarelli, author of Seeing Sickness: Archival and Embodied Encounters with the Medical Panopticon
  • Zakiya Collier, author of Rehousing Archivists: Attending to a Livable Future for A Black, Queer Disabled Memory Worker

Part 2: February 20 at 3pm-4:30pm EST

Details: Hear from more contributors of Preserving Disability in the second instalment of our group book launch with Library Juice Press! This event will feature the book’s co-editors, Dr. Lydia Tang & Dr. Gracen Brilmyer and some of our authors, who will discuss their contributions at the intersection of disability, job-seeking, and archivists’ identity:

  • Chris Tanguay, author of Are You the Gatekeeper?: Job Advertisements as Barriers to Employment for Disabled Archivists
  • Iris Afantchao, author of Exploratory Archives as Community Care: A Self-Reflection
  • Zachary Tumlin, author of “Ability to Lift” Your “Little Black Clouds”
  • Veronica Denison & Gracen Brilmyer, authors of “Once I show up… they’re not going to hire me”: Job searches, interviewing, and disclosure for disabled archivists 

About the Book: Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing critical perspectives and approaches to the archival profession. Contributed chapters span topics such as accessibility of archives and first-person experiences researching disability collections for disabled archives users; disclosure and accommodations and self-advocacy of disabled archivists; and processing and stewarding disability-related collections. Collectively, these works address the nuances of both disability and archives-critically drawing attention to the histories, present experiences, and future possibilities of the archival profession.

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Jesse Carliner, Tys Klumpenhouwer. “From Book Space to People Space: Using Oral History to Celebrate and Reflect on a Major Milestone Anniversary in an Academic Library.” College & Research Library News 85, no. 11 (2024).

Huw Jones, Yasmin Faghihi. “Manuscript Catalogues as Data for Research: From Provenance to Data Decolonisation.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2024).

Joseph Nockels, Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras. “The implications of handwritten text recognition for accessing the past at scale Open access.” Journal of Documentation 80, no. 7 (2024).

Marco Humbel, Julianne Nyhan, Nina Pearlman, Andreas Vlachidis, JD Hill, Andrew Flinn. “Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures.” Journal of Documentation 81, no. 1 (2024).

Segerberg, A. (2024). To save a cultural heritage: Lessons from a volunteer network’s support to Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions. Alexandria, 34(3), 118-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/09557490241230502

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee. “The “Collections as ML Data” checklist for machine learning and cultural heritage.” JASIST 76, no. 2 (February 2025).

Khoo, Christopher S.G., Eleanor A.L. Tan, Siam-Gek Ng, Chwee-Fong Chan, Michael Stanley-Baker, and Wei-Ning Cheng. 2024. “Knowledge Graph Visualization Interface for Digital Heritage Collections: Design Issues and Recommendations”. Information Technology and Libraries 43 (1).

Smith-Glaviana, D., Ng, W. N., Miller, C., & Spencer, J. (2024). Digitizing Metadata of a University Fashion Collection’s Holdings Using OCR and Costume Core. Journal of Library Metadata, 24(2), 57–86.

P., Arumugam, Thomas, Temin and R., Rega. “Development of Customized Project Management Methodology for the Implementation of Online Archives Exhibitions: Insights and Evaluation from a Research and Development Organization” Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 53, no. 4, 2024, pp. 215-229. 

Books

Mulready, Cyrus. Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Family and Justice in the Archives: Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law
edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore
Concordia University Press, 2024

Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism: The Value of Selection, Narration, and Expertise in New Media Cultures
Panos Kompatsiaris
Routledge, 2024

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Laura E. Helton
Columbia University Press, 2024

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory
Ian Milligan
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024

From History to Herstory: Culture, Gender and Religion in Archival Material in Southern Africa
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Curating Human Rights: Displaying, Combating and Obscuring Human Rights Violations in Museums
Robin Ostow
Routledge, 2024

Memory Institutions and Sámi Heritage: Decolonization, Restitution, and Rematriation in Sápmi
Edited by Trude Fonneland, Rossella Ragazzi
Routledge, 2024

Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession
Editors: Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang
Litwin Books, 2024

The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum
Walter Hood
Phaidon, 2024

Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Edited by: Markus Friedrich and Jörg B. Quenzer
DeGruyter, 2024

Forty Years of Access and Preservation: Historical Archives of the European Union
Historical Archives of the European Union, 2024

Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future
Ilaria Scaglia (Anthology Editor) , Valeria Vanesio (Anthology Editor)
Bloomsbury, 2024

The Conservator’s Cookbook: Solution Preparation for the Heritage Professional
Laura Chaillie
Routledge, 2024




New Issue: iJournal (University of Toronto)

iJournal (University of Toronto) 10, no. 1 (Fall 2024)
(open access)

Letter from the Editor
Morghen Jael

“Things Should Be Done the Way They Should Be Done”
Towards an Indigenous Collections Policy that Addresses Physical Preservation at U of T
Sophia Arts

Googling Girls Kissing
Information-Seeking Behaviour of Queer Youth Born Between 1994‒1995
Isobel Carnegie

Measuring Researcher Impact in the Environmental Science Field
A Comparison of Bibliometric Data in Overton, Scopus, and Google Scholar
Lindsay Adoranti, Melissa Cameron

Born from Lithium Minds
A Guide on Mapping Digital Kinship
Andrew Wiebe

Exploring Imbalances on Wikipedia Through Archival Creation Theories
Dominique Robb

Moving and Rehousing the Tanned Mammal Skin Collection at the Royal British Columbia Museum
Arden Hody

Towards an Understanding of Archival-Poiesis
Friederike Mayröcker’s Archive as a Case Study
Benjamin de Boer

Check the (Cassette) Tapes
An Exploration into the Role of Cassette Tapes and Individual Rebellion in Iran
Mona Makinejad

Description as an Act of Othering
Towards Decolonizing Canadian Photo Archives
Alison May-Kosiewski