New/Recent Publications

Articles

Itza A. Carbajal, Tara Saleh, Yubing Tian, Marika Cifor, & Ricardo Gomez. “A Labyrinth of Public Information: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ongoing Research and Advocacy Using Public Records Requests.” The Journal of Civic Information 6, no. 2 (September 2024).

Treasa Harkin. “Interactive Scores at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).” Fontes Artis Musicae Volume 71, Number 3 July–September 2024.

Emma C. Beck, Terri L. Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, and Randy Kuehn. “Customizing Open-Source Digital Collections: What We Need, What We Want, and What We Can Afford.” Code4Lib Issue 59, 2024-10-07.

Challen R. Wright & Rayla E. Tokarz. “Analyzing course descriptions and student learning outcomes for digital primary source collection development.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship vol. 36 (2024).

Books

Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice
Jae Jennifer Rossman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project
Ana Bonet Miró
Bloomsbury, 2024

Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry
Edited By Alia Yunis, Robert Parthesius, NiccolòAcram Cappelletto
Routledge, 2024

Heritage and Wellbeing: The Impact of Heritage Places on Visitors’ Wellbeing
Faye Sayer
Oxford University Press, 2024

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches
Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, Rebecca Uhl, Core
Facet Publishing, 2024

Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): L’archiviste inimitable (Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): The inimitable archivist)
Anne-Cécile Tizon-Germe, Édouard Vasseur
l’École nationale des chartes – PSL, 2024

Objects in the Archives: Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North
Edited By Kristján Mímisson, Davið Ólafsson
Routledge, 2024

Digitization, Copyright and the Law: Copyleft and the Future of Intellectual Property
Ettore M. Lombardi
Routledge, 2024

Recruiting and Managing Volunteers in Museums and Other Nonprofit Organizations: A Handbook for Volunteer Management, Second Edition
Kristy Van Hoven and Loni Wellman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion
Edited By Alberta Fabbricotti
Routledge, 2024

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy
Matthew White
Routledge, 2024

Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World
Hannah Goodwin
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice
Jennifer Carter
Routledge, 2024

Podcasts

Discover Library and Archives Canada, Porter Talk

Archives & Things, Phil Vassell & Donna McCurvin, Canada Black Music Archives

Reports

A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe
COMMUNIA Association

Recent Issue: Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volume 67 (May-June 2024)
partial open access

Capturing experts’ knowledge in heritage planning enhanced by AI: A case study of windcatchers in Yazd, Iran
Mahda Foroughi, Bruno Andrade, Ana Pereira Roders

Historical silks: a novel method to evaluate their condition with ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis
Ludovico Geminiani, Francesco Paolo Campione, Cristina Corti, Barbara Giussani, … Laura Rampazzi

Enhancing capillary action of acidified paper to achieve uniform deacidification and long-lasting aging resistance
Bei He, He Zhao, Weiying Li, Ling Meng, … Pujun Jin

Physical prospective of polyamide 6 for the consolidation of fragile vegetable tanned Leather artifacts
Gomaa Abdel-Maksoud, Ola A. Mohamed, Wael S. Mohamed, Khaled Elnagar, … Medhat A. Ibrahim

2-Mercaptobenzimidazole compounded with the conventional sealer B72 for the protection of rusted bronze
Zhifeng Han, Xia Huang, Jiachang Chen, Junying Chen

Blockchain technology applications in maintaining heritage buildings
Mohamed Marzouk, Nouran Labib, Mahmoud Metawie

An algorithm of line segmentation and reading order sorting based on adjacent character detection: A post-processing of OCR for digitization of Chinese historical texts
Aram Lee, HongYeon Yu, Gihyeon Min

Novel non-invasive method for extracting proteinaceous binders from panel paintings
Jin Dong, Zhanyun Zhu, Jianghao Du, Zhiyong Lu, … Menglian Ding

Probabilistic evaluation of cultural soil heritage hazards in China from extremely imbalanced site investigation data using SMOTE-Gaussian process classification
Chao Song, Hongzhen Peng, Ling Xu, Tengyuan Zhao, … Wenwu Chen

Research on the species identification and craftsmanship of the leather on boots (220AD∼420AD) using integrated approach
Hailiang Yang, Xin Sun, Xiaoying You, Yang Zhou

Digitizing traditional dances under extreme clothing: The case study of Eyo
Temi Ami-Williams, Christina-Georgia Serghides, Andreas Aristidou

Analysis of cracking behavior of murals in Mogao Grottoes under environmental humidity change
Huihui Zhang, Chun’an Tang, Qinglin Guo, Yanwu Wang, … Linyi Zhao

Isolation and identification of fungal biodeteriogens from the wall of a cultural heritage church and potential applicability of antifungal proteins in protection
Kinga Dán, Sándor Kocsubé, Liliána Tóth, Attila Farkas, … László Galgóczy

Comprehensive characterization of modern industrial Argentinian paints for improved chronological painting attribution
Florencia Castellá, Marta Pérez-Estebanez, María Reinoso, Michael Schilling, … Fernando Marte

Sonocatalysis: Eco-design strategy for developing novel inorganic sonogels for the conservation of stone heritage
B. Sena da Fonseca, A.P. Ferreira Pinto, S. Piçarra, M. Rucha, M.F. Montemor

A novel identification method for collagen-based cultural heritage: Integrating thermokinetics and generalized master plots
Mingrui Zhang, Zonghui Zhang, Fang Wang, Jie Liu, … Keyong Tang

Usability of eye trackers as tools for designers of anastylosis
Marta Rusnak, Zofia Koszewicz, Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka

Non-destructive microwave techniques for the quantification and elimination of moisture in cultural heritage monuments
M.E. Rizou, R. Marcelli, G. Capoccia, E. Proietti

Extension study of the assessment of aqueous cleaning on nBA/MMA and EA/MMA acrylic paints
Irene Cardaba, Itxaso Maguregui

Analysis of the ruined murals from the Resurrection Church of the Derevyanitsky Monastery (Veliky Novgorod, Russia): Dating and attribution
O.S. Philippova, N.V. Lobacheva, A.Yu. Dmitriev, T.J. Tsarevskaya, … S.G. Lennik

Automatic analysis of pottery sherds based on structure from motion scanning: The case of the Phoenician carinated-shoulder amphorae from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon)
Luca Di Angelo, Aaron Schmitt, Michael Rummel, Paolo Di Stefano

Use of a hydrotalcite isopropanol dispersion for deacidification and preservation of cellulose cultural heritage objects – Preliminary study
Milan Králik, Svetozár Katuščák, Pavel Fellner, Katarína Vizárová, … Blažej Horváth

Impact of washing and aging process on the physical and mechanical properties of pre-Hispanic fabrics found in the Museum of Site and Archeological Sanctuary of Pachacamac, Perú
María José Alván, Sergio Candiotti, Elena Flores, Samuel Charca

Characterization of 17th century archaeological metallic statuettes using combined neutron tomography and neutron diffraction
Tushar Roy, Yogesh Kashyap, M.R. More, Anita Rane-Kothare, … P.S.R. Krishna

The potential of new eco-friendly formulations in enhancing the protection of ceramic artifacts
M.G. Mohamed, N.M. Ahmed, W.S. Mohamed, A.H. Ibrahim, H.M. Mohamed

Expressiveness in metronomic rolls for player piano: A new field of research?
P. Bontempi, P. Zappalà, S. Canazza

Identification of organic binding media in ancient architectural decoration by THM–Py–GC/MS
Yingchun Fu, Yazhen Huang, Shuxuan Shi, Shu Zong, … Shuya Wei

Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications
Benjamin D. Jones, Ben Collings, Mark E. Dickson, Murray Ford, … Emma Ryan

Practices of the Mont Saint-Michel scriptorium in the use of parchment for manuscripts in the 11th century
Laurianne Robinet, Sylvie Heu-Thao, Lucie Arberet, Anne Michelin, … Stéphane Lecouteux

A miniature world: Revealing warring states period shell paintings from zhongshan state by multiple-methods
Dian Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Wenrui Zhang, Xiaokun Wang, … Wugan Luo

Insight into natural ageing of historic baltic amber objects by untargeted metabolomics approach
Xingping LI, Weiwei SI, Qi Liu, Yi Zhou, Qinghui LI

Improving non-destructive testing methods for detecting cavity damage and internal defects in stone cultural relics: A focus on ultrasonic testing and acoustic tapping technology
Wei Qian, Xujun Zhu, Tao Zhang, Ning Li, Zhaoyang Zhu

Correlative microscopy and Micro-Raman spectroscopy for enhancing the evaluation of corrosion damage in archaeological objects
Martina Bernabale, Flavio Cognigni, Silvia Contessi, Serena Silvestri, … Marco Rossi

Preparation of a nano aluminum phosphate enhanced hydroxyapatite coating for marble conservation
Yaoqi Gu, Jianrui Zha, Feng Wang, Huarui Han, … Shuya Wei

Quantitative analysis on the impact factors of salt weathering for sandstone grottoes along Silk Road, China
Yunxia Shen, Chuxin Liang, Michael Steiger, Zhangzhe Cao, Manli Sun

Stability and durability assessment of alum-tawed skin by light transmission analysis
Fulvio Mercuri, Cristina Cicero, Letizia Dadi, Carola Gottscher, … Noemi Orazi

Systematization proposal for the analysis of columns from point clouds
Agustí Costa-Jover, Amparo Núñez Andrés, Felipe Buill Pozuelo, David Moreno Garcia, Sergio Coll-Pla

Recent Issue: RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Vol 25, No 1 (2024)
open access

Articles

Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
Jacquelyn Sundberg, Kristen Howard

Narrowing the Lens: Preservation Assessment for Digital Manuscripts
Hafsah Hujaleh, Jess Whyte

“But I Believe Survival Is Based upon the Many and Not the Few:” Connecting Librarians and Artists to Build Special Connections
Courtney Becks, Sarah Carter

Describing Games for Special Collections Libraries
Elizabeth Hobart

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Practical Book History: Making an MLIS Practicum Work for Me
Anna Opryszko

Overnight College Historian: Historical Whiplash and the Flexibility of New Archivists
Louise LoBello

Archiving Against Professionalism
Lia Warner

Feeling What We Teach: Mitigating the Emotional Labor Slide in Affect-Based Instruction
Anastasia Armendariz

Artists’ Books and Critical Literacy Pedagogy: Kara Walker’s Freedom: a Fable
Sam Regal

The Necessity of Embracing Collection Gaps: Moving Towards Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Collecting
Ruth Kramer

RBMS Notes

Chair’s Note
Sarah M. Horowitz

RBMS 2024 Conference Preview
Alison Fraser, Rachel Makarowski

Reviews

Eliasof, Jane Mitchell. Rebranding: A Guide for Historic Houses, Museums, Sites, and Organizations. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield/AASLH, 2022.
Mindy Price

Fox, Adam. The Press and the People: Cheap Print & Society in Scotland, 1500–1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. (electronic book)
Marian Toledo Candelaria

Recent Issue: Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

Volume 45 Issue 1
subscription

Technical Note

Viscosity of Wheat Starch Paste Used in Traditional Chinese Conservation Techniques
Rong Yu, Zhewei Shen, Qianru Ye, Peng Liu

Original Works

Preparation of a Novel Adhesive from Highly Fibrillated Kozo Fibre for Paper Conservation
Keiko Kida, Masaki Handa, Takayuki Okayama, Ryota Kose, Noriyoshi Nishida, Manato Fujimoto, Yuko Kaseya, Mao Tonoyama, Masamitsu Inaba

Managing Dust in Academic Libraries
Ejiwoye Oluwole Rasaki, Thomas A. Ogunmodede, Akeem Adedayo Adedimeji

On the Reversibility of Spray Adhesives in Paper Conservation
Salvador Muñoz-Viñas, María Sobrino-Estalrich

Recent Issue: Records Management Journal

Volume 34 Issue 1
subscription

Let the people know, and the country will be safe: FOI models in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Makutla Mojapelo

Soup du jour – existing and emerging trends in archives and records management standardization
Shadrack Katuu

The mindset of recordkeeping: the intersection of records management and organizational psychology
Hannah N. Pryor

Preserving evidence integrity: the key to efficient anti-corruption investigations
Aliyu Abubakar Lawan, Pekka Henttonen

New Issue: Archives & Manuscripts

Vol 51 No 2 (2024)
open access

Editorial
Angela Schilling, Jessie Lymn

Articles

Temporalities and Values in an Epistemic Culture: Citizen Humanities, Local Knowledge, and AI-supported Transcription of Archives
Dick Kasperowski, Karl-Magnus Johansson, Olof Karsvall

The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records
Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, Jane Simpson

Anti-Racist Archival Description
Angela Schilling

Reflection Articles

Harnessing Social Media to Advocate for the University Archive
Laura Sizer

The Influence of Feminist Archival Theory on State Archival Exhibitions
Catherine Banks

School Archives and the Visibility of Heritage via #throwbackthursday
Julie Daly

Journal of Religious History: Special Issue: The Past and Present of Religious Archives

Volume 48, Issue 3 (September 2024)
partial open access

Introduction

Past and Present, Religious and Secular in Religious Archives
John Wolffe

Articles

Eighteenth Century Religious Archives and “Lived Religion”
W.M. Jacob

Citizenship, Immigration and Race Relations in Lambeth Palace Library Archives
Hannah Elias

Forum

Lambeth Palace Library: Historic Archives in a New Building
Rachel Cosgrave

“Places of Memory”: Working with Roman Catholic Archives
Nicholas Schofield

The New Testament Church of God Heritage Centre: A Site of Remembering: Sharing our Stories and their Impact on our Institutional Memory*
Phyllis Thompson

Jewish Archives in the UK
Tony Kushner, Karen Robson

A Migrant Archive: Chronicling Religious and Spiritual Experiences during the Pandemic 2020–23*
Marie Gillespie

From Archives to the Classroom: Using Religious Archives to Promote Religious Literacy and Toleration amongst European Young People
John Maiden

Looking for the Secular in Religious Archives — a Cross-Channel Perspective
Geraldine Vaughan

New Issue: Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C)

Volume 53 Issue 3 (2024)
open access

Going Beyond Digital Preservation
Bogdan Trifunović

Historical Depictions, Archaeological Practices, and the Construct of Cultural Heritage in Commercial Video Games: The Role of These Games in Raising Awareness
Boaventura DaCosta

Digital is Not the Alternative: Dilemma and Preserving Films in India
Ankit Vaishnav, Mahesh Kumar Meena, Neha Nandani, Annapurna Sharma

Cultural Preservation Through Immersive Technology: The Metaverse as a Pathway to the Past
Bolaji David Oladokun, Yusuf Ayodeji Ajani, Bernadette C. N. Ukaegbu, Emmanuel Adeniyi Oloniruha

The Function of Digital Technology in Minority Language Preservation: The Case of the Gyalrong Tibetan Language
Yunhuan Tan, Welyne J. Jehom

What Needs to be Learned by U.S. Cultural Heritage Professionals? Results from the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network
Kirk Robert Mudle, Anthony Cocciolo

New Issue: Oral History, The Life Story in Practice

A new special online issue of the the leading journal Oral History, entitled ‘The Life Story in Practice’, presents for the first time a comprehensive volume of articles interrogating the life story methodology with numerous embedded links to audio files. This edition is an open-access (free to all). The life story in-depth biographical interview is central to the work of the British Library Oral History team encompassing National Life Stories (NLS www.bl.uk/nls); the oral history fieldwork charity established in 1987. NLS has supported this edition of the journal which stems from the papers and discussions at the NLS International Symposium on the Life Story, held at the British Library in summer 2023. .

We are confident it will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners, whether you are just setting out in oral history or have decades of experience. Download the pdf at https://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-history-online/

The special issue addresses the topic of the life story from many angles, including:

-An exploration of the process of life story recording and how this contrasts with other oral history techniques

-The value of life story collections to to wider policy debates

-The specific challenges we face in archiving and providing public access to life story interviews

-Reviews of the life story in the context of oral history scholarship

The edition was edited by Mary Stewart (NLS Director) and Rob Perks (NLS Trustee and former Director), and the publication features contributions from many members of the National Life Stories team in conjunction with internationally acclaimed oral historians including Alex Freund, Indira Chowdhury, Doug Boyd, Don Ritchie and Alistair Thomson . 

Read, listen, enjoy and feel free to contact the NLS and British Library oral history team with further questions and queries. For those interested in NLS’ ongoing projects our latest NLS Annual Review is available digitally at the British Library Research Repository [https://doi.org/10.23636/96rq-z652].  

**If you’ll be attending the OHA Annual Meeting in Cincinnati this autumn then please join Doug Boyd, Rob Perks, Don Ritchie and Mary Stewart for a roundtable discursive session exploring themes from the special issue (currently programmed for 10am on Friday 1 November – but check the final programme when it’s live). **

Thanks to the journal article authors, the editors, designers and proof reader of Oral History, the Symposium attendees, the NLS team and Trustees and – of course – to all past and current interviewees.

Contact Information

Mary Stewart, Lead Curator Oral History & Director National Life Stories at the British Library
Contact Email: mary.stewart@bl.uk
URL: https://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-history-online/

New/Recent Publications

Books

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper and Gene Melton II
Rutgers University Press, 2024

Journalism History and Digital Archives
Bødker, Henrik (Ed.)
Routledge, 2023

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling
Edited By Emily N. Savage
Routledge, 2024

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health
Francesca Lanz
Routledge, 2024

Articles

Jatowt, A., Sato, M., Draxl, S., Duan, Y.,  Campos, R., & Yoshikawa, M.  (2024). Is this news article still relevant? Ranking by contemporary relevance in archival search. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 25, 197–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00377-y

Zhao, Y., Wu, X., & Li, S. (2024). Perceived values to personal digital archives and their relationship to archiving behaviours: An exploratory research based on grounded theory. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science56(3), 677-697. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231161327

Pierce, Rachel. “Sustainability and Swedish Women’s History: Digitizing Photographs from the KvinnSam Archives.” Digital Humanities Quarterly
Volume 18 Number 3, 2024.

Sony Prosper, Alexandria Rayburn, Yvette Ramirez, Ricardo L. Punzalan. “Indigenous Digital Projects: An Assessment Framework.” Information & Culture Volume 59, Number 1, 2024.