New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 57 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

Records management for transparency and accountability on land allocation at the Nkambeni Tribal Authority in Mpumalanga province of South Africa
Innocentia Vidian Khoza, Jan Resenga Maluleka

Records management programme towards good governance and service delivery in Singida Local Authorities, Tanzania
Lameck Sospeter Kashaija, Prisca Julius Chacha, Cecylly Cornel Ngudungi , Seleman George Dutu

Records management practices to support administrative operations at the University of Venda in South Africa
Geven Singo, Lefose Makgahlela

Leveraging dark data for governance of Kenya Electricity Transmission Company
Gloria Regina Mukhongo, Evans Munge Mwangi , Elsebah Maseh

Records management for administration of Traditional Council at Ga-Mphahlele in Limpopo, South Africa
Kabelo Kgomoeswana, Lefose Makgahlela, Amogelang Molaudzi

Digital preservation of records at Wazalendo and Umoja Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Tanzania
Erasto Gerald Luvanda , John Jackson Iwata

Myths and realities of land registration in Zanzibar
Abdul-Nasser Hikmany

Transition from audio-visual archives to trusted digital repository at the National Archives of Zimbabwe
Amos Bishi, Mpho Ngoepe

Zyklus «Archivpraxis Schweiz» Modul 3 Künstliche Intelligenz im Archiv: Einblicke in die Praxis

Die Präsentationen des Zyklus «Archivpraxis Schweiz», Modul 3 / 2024 sind hier abrufbar.

English

The presentations of the cycle “Archive Practice Switzerland”, Module 3 / 2024 are available here.

New/Recent Publications

Books

Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
Charles G. Palm
Hoover Institution Press, 2024

Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa: Toward a Digitalized and Sustainable Society
Edited by Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise and Shumani Eric Madima
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

De l’écran à l’émotion: Quand le numérique devient patrimoine [From screen to emotion: When digital becomes heritage]
Emmanuelle Bermès
École nationale des chartes, 2024

Oral History at a Distance
Steven Sielaff, Stephen M. Sloan, Adrienne A. Cain Darough, Michelle Holland
Routledge, 2024

Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City
Ferda Kolatan
Routledge, 2024

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

Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
Edited By Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, Linda M. Morra
Routledge, 2024

Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Edited by: Eike Grossmann
De Gruyter, 2024

The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives
Melanie Micir
Princeton University Press, 2024

Articles

Salse-Rovira, M., Jornet-Benito, N., Guallar, J. et al. Universities, heritage, and non-museum institutions: a methodological proposal for sustainable documentation. Int J Digit Libr 25, 603–622 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00383-0

Charitidis, P., Moschos, S., Bakouras, C. et al. OAVA: the open audio-visual archives aggregator. Int J Digit Libr 25, 623–637 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00384-z

Late, E., Ruotsalainen, H. & Kumpulainen, S. Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research. Int J Digit Libr 25, 715–728 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00390-1

Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Thomas J. Brown, Pam Parry, Nathan Saunders, Dianne Bragg, Simon Vodrey, and Thomas C. Terry. “Roundtable: How Historians and Archivists Worked Through and Survived the Pandemic.” Historiography in Mass Communication 10, no. 1 (2024).

Ahmad, R., Rafiq, M., & Arif, M. (2024). Global trends in digital preservation: Outsourcing versus in-house practices. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 56(4), 1114-1125. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231173461.

Harper, Elizabeth (2024) “Listening to Ghosts in the Appalachian Mountains: The Western North Carolina Tomorrow’s Black Oral History Project as a Community Archive,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 7.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol11/iss1/7.

Force, Donald (2024) ““What the Heck Am I Looking At?”: A User-Based Examination of the Metadata Associated with Digital Archival Objects,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 8.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol11/iss1/8.

Oluwayemi IbukunOluwa Odularu. “Perceptions on the utilisation of archives in enhancing research in Higher Educational Institutions.” African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 34, no. 1 (2024).

Maimuna Janneh, Olugbade Oladokun, Tshepho Mosweu. “From crisis to continuity: Analysing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on public records and archives management in the Gambia.” African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 34, no. 1 (2024).

Podcasts

In the newest episode of SAA’s podcast, cohosts Camila Zorrilla Tessler and Conor Casey speak with historians Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey about Decolonial Archival Futures, their new book that challenges non-Indigenous practitioners to think consciously about the histories we tell. Listen for a discussion about rethinking structures of archival provenance and ownership, community relationship building, and decentering the settler perspective in archives.

Thesis

Archival Workers as Climate Advocates
Amy Wickner
University of Maryland, 2024

Fiction

National Archive Hunters 1: Capitol Chase
Matthew Landis
Holiday House, 2024

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal Volume 34, Issue 2/3
partial open access

Editorial: The carrot and the stick: the impact of legislation and regulation on records management best practice, change and innovation
Elizabeth Jane Lomas

Searching for a smoking gun: access to information and release of the John F. Kennedy assassination records
Amy Howard

Presidential prerogative, congressional inaction, and the problem of presidential libraries
Abigail Guay

The Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011: creating a culture that values public records
Hugh Patrick Hagan

Local regulations for the use of artificial intelligence in the management of public records – a literature review
Proscovia Svärd, Esteban Guerrero, Tolulope Balogun, Nampombe Saurombe, Lorette Jacobs, Pekka Henttonen

Strategy for auditing investigation records and information: a case study of records and information management in the Royal Malaysian Police
Widura Abd Kadir, Umi Asma’ Mokhtar, Zawiyah M. Yusof

Enhancing transparency and accountability in public procurement: exploring blockchain technology to mitigate records fraud
Danielle Alves Batista

Participatory and proactive: real-time rights-based recordkeeping governance for the alternative care of children
Joanne Evans, Moira Paterson, Melissa Castan, Jade Purtell, Mya Ballin

Accountability as a mechanism and a virtue in Irish public sector recordkeeping
Mark Farrell

Hidden stakeholder views in Finnish archival act law drafting: a recordkeeping perspective
Tuija Kautto, Virpi Hotti

The historical development and implementation effect of Chinese village-level archival legislation
Xinxin Xu

New Special Issue: Humanities Research

Humanities Research: Volume XX, Number 1, 2024
(open access)

I. Articles

Public humanities of the future: Museums, archives, universities and beyond (PDF, 130 KB) – Kylie Message, Frank Bongiorno and Robert Wellington
Flipping the narrative: Historical collections as sites of cultural diplomacy (PDF, 905 KB) – Jilda A. Andrews
Towards relational ethics: Foundational concepts for the shifting ground of GLAM (PDF, 187 KB) – Mike Jones
The post-normal museum: Cultivating responsibility, empathy and creativity (PDF, 157 KB) – Alex Burchmore
Art, archive and public imaginary: Reflexive curatorial practice and exhibiting Australian filmmaking (PDF, 4.8 MB) – Jennifer Coombes and Penelope Grist
Selective rememberings? Access to ‘private’ documents at the National Archives of Australia (PDF, 178 KB) – Daniel Casey and Joshua Black
Reflections on new historical interpretations at the National Stadium, Santiago, Chile (PDF, 140 KB) – Marivic Wyndham and Peter Read
Being in and of local communities: An Australian regional gallery’s response to climate disasters (PDF, 162 KB) – Anna Lawrenson and Chiara O’Reilly
‘¿Para qué un museo?’: A reflection from Latin America upon the fragility and necessity of museums (PDF, 193 KB) – Manuel Burón, Irina Podgorny and Nathalie Richard d
Tactical storytelling and paradoxical failure: Writing, knowledge-making and the public humanities (PDF, 177 KB) – Ariella Van Luyn and Beck Wise
Interdisciplinarity as solidarity: Perspectives from archaeology (PDF, 167 KB) – James L. Flexner and Catherine J. Frieman d
Collaboration, flexibility, skill-sharing: The future of museum and cultural heritage work in the age of digital transformation in Australia (PDF, 1 MB) – Katrina Grant and Sean Minney
Discovering art online: Digitising university art museum collections (PDF, 871 KB) – Stephen Valambras Graham
Poppies, partnerships and pragmatism: Learning from embedded research in a cultural heritage organisation (PDF, 568 KB) – Megan Gooch and Eleanor O’Keeffe
The violence of contesting non-binary, trans and diverse gender identities: Emergent cultural formations, adversities and ethics (PDF, 185 KB) – Rob Cover

II. Research in other forms: Reports, reflections, reviews, interviews, etc.

Universities from an epistemological point of view (PDF, 93 KB) – Daniel Stoljar
Oh, for an arts degree! (PDF, 84 KB) – Julia Horne
Teaching the Holocaust at UNSW Sydney (PDF, 113 KB) – Jan Láníček
Rebuilding cultures of community on a post-COVID-19 university campus (PDF, 133 KB) – Kylie Message
Yarning: A Vietnamese/Australian/Indigenous way to speak/share/belong (PDF, 123 KB) – Kim Huynh
Totems, turtles and climate impacts on people and culture in the Torres Strait (PDF, 404 KB) – Jade Croft
An interview with secretary of the Smithsonian, Dr Lonnie Bunch (PDF, 119 KB) – Eleanor Foster
Reflections on the Ballet des Porcelaines: Between intention and impact (PDF, 3.8 MB) – Meredith Martin and Elisa Cazzato

New Issue: Collections

Collections, 20 no. 4, December 2024
(subcription)

Articles

How to Curate and Digitize Bryozoa: Experiences at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Daniel L. Geiger, Vanessa Delnavaz, Alexandria N. Gour, and Van Henderson

Where to Start: Creating a Roadmap for Collection Storage Planning Through a Collaborative Values-Based Approach: A National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections project at The New York Public Library
Rebecca Fifield

Why Digital Preservation Should Be Treated as Public Policy
Wellington da Silva

The Nazi’s Mummy: The Afterlife of a Woman from Taltal
Avigail Rotbain

Can We Accept Today That the Museum Continues to Convey Colonial Ideology? An Analysis of Two Fundamental European Instruments to Decolonize Museums
Alice Duarte

Preserving Library Collections in South Asia: Techniques, Policies, and Capacity Building Programs in University Libraries
Tajamul Ahmad Bhat, Zahid Ashraf Wani, Umer Yousuf Parray, Shahid Rashid, Shahid Maqbool Mir, and Aamirul Haq

Case Studies

Ver en Español: A Pilot Project to Investigate Translation Methods for Archival Exhibits and Finding Aids
Julie Judkins, Jaimi K. Parker, and Maia Gibbons

A Tiny Box, Big Dreams: The Lamasco Microgallery as a Nontraditional Venue for Art & Community Engagement
Tory Schendel-Vyvoda

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science 24, no. 4, December 2024
Special Issue: Provenance
Issue Editors: Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley H. Griffin, James Lowry
(partial open access)

Dedication and introduction to the provenance special issue
Jeannette A. BastianStanley H. GriffinJames Lowry

The archive as home: ruminations on domestic notions of provenance
Ciaran B. Trace

Provenance and theatre archives
Francesca Marini

Misplaced archives, statehood and provenance out of place: the case of two personal records from the peripheries
Ana Grondona, Juan Ignacio Trovero, Celeste Viedma

Provenance through storytelling: application of Indigenous relationality toward arrangement and description
Vina Begay, Kelley M. Klor

Touches across time: queer as provenance
Elliot Freeman

Custody, provenance and meaning in the context of state intelligence records: the case of las carpetas in Puerto Rico
Joel A. Blanco-Rivera

“Nothing much was lost”: exploring feminist process as records creation
Jessica M. Lapp

The voices of images: photographs and collective provenance
Iyra S. Buenrostro-Cabbab

Whose provenance? Plurality of provenance and the redistribution of archival authority
Jesse Boiteau

Transformative provenance: memory work in the Palestinian diaspora
Tamara N. Rayan

Kindred contexts: archives, archaeology, and the concept of provenance
Bethany G. Anderson

A recontextualization of provenance: Records in Contexts and the principle of provenance
Anouk Stephano

Archival context, provenance, and a tool to capture archival context*
Qing ZouEun G. Park

The power of provenance in the records continuum
Chris Hurley, Sue McKemmish, Narissa Timbery

Digital provenance
Greg Bak

“Somebody has to be crazy about that kid”: Speculating on the transformative recordkeeping potential of the caring corporate parent
Mya Ballin

Locating yourself in the historical record: challenges of provenance and metadata schemas in the library of congress’s digital materials
Kathryn Manis, Patricia Wilde

Documenting Territorialidad: an intercultural approach to the provenance of Mapuche land records
María Montenegro

New Special Issue: Open Library of Humanities Journal

Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
(open access)

Guest Editor: Angela Dressen

Implementing Linked Art in a Multi-Modal Database for Cross-Collection Discovery
Robert Sanderson

Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts with SPARQL
Toby Burrows

Photo Archives and Linked Open Data. The Added Value
Marilena Daquino

The Dragoman Renaissance Research Project in Library/DH Linked Data Partnerships
Natalie Rothman and Kirsta Stapelfeldt

Seminar Recording Available: The importance of archives in decolonisation processes in the North and the role of international law

A public seminar was held on Sovereignty, History and Archives at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 2nd May 2024. Recording of the seminar is now available.

Leading experts in the fields of international law and archival science discussed the importance of archives to both past and ongoing decolonisation efforts.

Raymond Frogner, Head of Archives/Senior Director of Research, National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Canada, was the keynote speaker. He was joined by Lisa Mullins, Archivist, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada; Njörður Sigurðsson, Assistant Director, National Archives of Iceland; and Bjarni Már Magnússon, Professor of Law, Bifröst University Iceland. Rachael Lorna Johnstone, University of Akureyri, gave a short introduction. Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Senior Research, DIIS, moderated the session and James Lowry, Associate Professor, City University of New York, chaired the roundtable discussion.

To view the recording, visit https://www.uarctic.org/news/2024/6/seminar-the-importance-of-archives-in-decolonisation-processes-in-the-north-and-the-role-of-international-law-recording-available/

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

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