CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Archival Organization

The Journal of Archival Organizations (JAO), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis is looking to share information about special projects and initiatives relating to the value of Religious Archives for a special issue being planned for late 2018/early 2019. Here is more information regarding the publication and focus . . .

The Journal of Archival Organization is an international journal encompassing all aspects of the arrangement, description, and provision of access to all forms of archival materials.

Articles on processing techniques and procedures, preparation of finding aids, and cataloging of archival and manuscript collections in accordance with MARC, AACR2, and other rules, standards, and cataloging conventions are only part of what is featured in this publication.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Management and staffing issues relating to archival organizational functions; specifically, arrangement and description of historical records collections

  • Innovative approaches to methods of intellectual and physical access
  • Retrieval of historical records in information systems
  • Reviews of projects and procedures, standards, and issues in organizing archival collections for storage and onsite use and availability through the Internet
  • Innovations in Reading Rooms or reference practices that interact with the tools created through arrangement and description

For more information about this special issue please contact Alan Delozier at <Alan.Delozier@shu.edu>

Requests for Survey Participation

I haven’t done this for a while, but see below for students conducting research for school projects. Because these are emerging scholars, please help support them!

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My name is Brianna LoSardo and I am a graduate student in the Museum Professions program at Seton Hall University. My master’s thesis is about records management and information security in museums. I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a short survey relating to records management practices in your institution. It should take about 5 minutes. Also feel free to pass this on to any other colleagues who may be interested. All survey responses will be kept anonymous and will only be used for the purpose of my research.

To access the survey, please use this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSEQtlbBxt0AbCnR_vCFfh7fDM9GFBjL6QGk2X6iwCuWmLeQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thank you in advance for your help and participation. If there are any questions or technical difficulties with the survey, please contact me at Brianna.losardo@gmail.com.

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Hello archivists working in outreach, digital humanities, online tools, and/or user engagement!

I am a student in the MSLS program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducting research about online crowdsourcing projects and the ways that cultural heritage institutions assess their success.

If you’ve helped manage a project that uses volunteers to describe, transcribe, annotate, or curate materials online, I’d love to hear from you via an online survey. The survey will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Participation is voluntary and the survey is anonymous and no individual subject or personal identifying information will be shared.

The survey is available here: unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTOtKJPtquFKpEN Please (please!) feel free to share this survey link with others who have experience with these types of projects.

Thank you!
Emma Parker

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My name is Finley Trent and I am a graduate student in University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Master of Library and Information Studies program. I am conducting a research study about instruction in Special Collections & Archives, under the guidance of my faculty adviser, Dr. Anthony Chow. I am emailing to invite you to participate in this brief and anonymous electronic survey if you currently work in Special Collections & Archives or have in the past. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes or less. If you have any questions concerning this survey or study, please email me at fstrent@uncg.edu.
Click the link below to participate:
Thank you for your time,
Finley Trent

New/Recent Publications: Other

“On the Interplay Between Search Behavior and Collections in Digital Libraries and Archives,” CHIIR ’18 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
New Brunswick, NJ, USA — March 11 – 15, 2018
Tessel Bogaard

“Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving”
OCLC Research Report

“Archives Preppers: It’s Not the End of the World As We Know It! How to Survive an Anniversary through Digital Projects”
Daardi Sizemore, Heidi J. Southworth, Anne Stenzel
Conference presentation, 2018 Library Technology Conference

“Librarian/Faculty partnerships in using library special collections to teach information literacy”
Paul C. Campbell, Miriam Intrator, Jennifer Fredette
(Presentation, Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, 2018)

“LGBT-Activism in Audiovisual Archives: Curating Access and Reclaiming Visibility”
Dagmar Brunow
(Presentation, Outing the Past 2018)

“The Dräger Company Archives – Collecting, Preserving and Researching Remarkable Dräger Items, Photos and Documents to Save Them for Later Generations”
Thomas Peyn, Stefan Linke
(Abstracts from the 9th International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia, 2017)

New/Recent Publications: Books

Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community
Edited by:Robin Kear and Kate Joranson
(Chandos Publishing, 2018)

Organization, Representation and Description through the Digital Age Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums
Ed. by Angel, Christine M. / Fuchs, Caroline
(De Gruyter, 2018)

Repositories for Print: Strategies for Access, Preservation and Democracy
Ed. by Vattulainen, Pentti / O’Connor, Steve
(De Gruyter, 2018)

Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping
Ed. by Bausi, Alessandro / Brockmann, Christian / Friedrich, Michael / Kienitz, Sabine
(De Gruyter, 2018) (open access)

Preserving Digital Materials
Ross Harvey and Jaye Weatherburn
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada
Edited by Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014)

The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary
Edited by Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger
(Oxford University Press, 2018)

James Joyce’s Silences
Chapter 10. ‘Secrets, silent . . . sit’ in the Archives of Our Publishers: Untold Episodes from Joyce’s Italian Odyssey
Sara Sullam
Editor(s): Jolanta Wawrzycka, Serenella Zanotti
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

The No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content
Heather Ryan and Walker Sampson
(Facet Publishing, 2018)

Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access
Joachim Schöpfel,‎ Ulrich Herb

New Recent Publications: Articles

“What Is Learned in College History Classes?”
Sam Wineburg Mark Smith Joel Breakstone
Journal of American History, Volume 104, Issue 4, 1 March 2018

“Towards Knowledge Discovery from the Vatican Secret Archives. In Codice Ratio – Episode 1: Machine Transcription of the Manuscripts.”
Donatella Firmani, Paolo Merialdo, Marco Maiorino, Elena Nieddu

“Finding parallel passages in cultural heritage archives,”
Harris, Martyn and Levene, Mark and Zhang, Dell
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 11 (2018)

“From Corpus to Bio-Text; Peter Carey’s Archives as Literary Networks”
Keyvan Allahyari
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, No. 2 (2017)

“Documenting Local History: Using the Library of Congress Site, Primary Sources, and Community Resources for Teaching Social Studies”
Mary Ann Hanlin, Chris Herridge, Katie Janovetz, Cindy Alcaraz, David McMullen, Dean Cantu, Sherrie Pardieck
The Councilor, Vol 78, No 2 (2017)

“The Site of Memory: Reading Surveillance, Alterity, and South Australia’s Indigenous Archives in Natalie Harkin”
Matthew Hall
Contemporary Women’s Writing, 23 March 2018

“The national project Digital Library and Digital Archives: Mass digitisation of printed cultural heritage materials in Slovakia”
Ján Kováčik
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 2018

“Digitizing sound archives at Royal Library of Belgium. Challenges and difficulties encountered during a major digitization project”
Frédéric Lemmers
(Preprints der Zeitschrift BIBLIOTHEK – Forschung und Praxis, 2018)

“If These Crawls Could Talk: Studying and Documenting Web Archives Provenance”
Emily Maemura, Nicholas Worby, Ian Milligan, Christoph Becker

“Manuscripts in the Archives of Academician M.V. Keldysh Memorial Museum-Study”
Afendikova N.G.
KIAM Preprint № 24, Moscow, 2018

New Issue: IASA Journal

IASA journal No 48, February 2018
(membership)

  • Editorial and President’s Letter
  • ‘It’s Your Story, Don’t Lose It’ – Using Sound And Image Heritage to Bridge Cultures
    Judith Opoku-Boateng, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
  • Interview with Robyn Holmes 2016 ASRA Award Recipient: Sound is My Passion
    Melinda Barrie, University of Melbourne Archives, Australia
  • Archiving the Digital RAI Collection of Traditional Folk Culture
    Ettore Pacetti, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy; Daniela Floris, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy
  • From International Shortwave to Digital Rebroadcast: Transforming Music Time in Africa for a New Worldwide Audience
    Paul Conway, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, USA; Kelly Askew, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA
  • IASA Research Grant Report: Pilot Project in Re-Study and Repatriation (Digital Return) of the International Library of African Music’s Hugh Tracey Field Recordings
    Diane Thram, International Library of African Music, South Africa
  • Innovation and Human Failure in Small-Scale Audiovisual Archives – What Do We Need to Learn from Each Other?
    Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Putra University, Malaysia (UPM), Faculty of Human Ecology, Music Department, Malaysia; Thongbang Homsombat, National Library of Laos, Archives of Traditional Music in Laos; Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Gisa Jähnichen, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China; Xiao Mei, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
  • Broadcaster’s Dilemma with Archive Asset Management: Torn Between Long Term and Production Requirements
    Silvester Stöger, NOA, Austria; Jean-Christophe Kummer, NOA, Austria
  • Compressed Video Quality
    Iain Richardson, Vcodex Ltd., UK
  • Ka Mua, Ka Muri—Looking Back to Look Forward: Digital Preservation and Oral History Workflows at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
    Valerie Love, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
  • The Importance of Memories in the Transmedia Era
    Ariane Cristina Gervásio da Silva, Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Archives, Brazil

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal, Volume 28 Issue 1, 2018
(subscription)

“Public Information Directive (PSI) implementation in two Swedish municipalities”
Proscovia Svärd

“Voices in the cloud: social media and trust in Canadian and US local governments”
Lois Evans, Patricia Franks, Hsuanwei Michelle Chen

“Managing university records in the world of governance”
Mathews J. Phiri, Alistair George Tough

“A review of digital curation professional competencies: theory and current practices”
Yuanyuan Feng, Lorraine Richards

“The missing link in information and records management: personal knowledge registration”
Ragna Kemp Haraldsdottir, Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir

“Recordkeeping in an outsourcing public agency”
Ann-Sofie Klareld

“Post-records survey inspections in Zimbabwe: Reflections on compliance and non-compliance with records survey recommendations”
Samson Mutsagondo

Call for 2018-19 Research Fellows, Sequoyah National Research Center

Research Fellowships 2018-2019

The Sequoyah National Research Center (SNRC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock invites proposals for its 2018-2019 Research Fellowship Program, which fosters research involving forms of Native expression in a wide range of disciplines.

The program encourages scholars to conduct research in the Center’s collections to support significant studies in a wide range of fields and subjects such as Indian removal from the Southeast, Native journalism and journalists, late 20th century and early 21st century tribal societies and economics, literary artists, entertainment, and others.  Fellowships are intended to defray travel expenses and living expenses while recipients are conducting research in the SNRC.

Recipients of research fellowships are expected to spend at least a work week conducting research at the Center.  The Center requests that, following their research, research fellows send the Center a copy of the results of their research in published form whenever it appears or in unpublished form if the research is not conducted for publication.  The Center also requests notice of the presentation of the research in a public forum.  Recipients will be expected to conduct their research between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

Two research fellowships of $1,500 each will be offered in the 2018-2019 academic year.  The most significant criteria considered in awarding a fellowship are the research project’s potential contribution to Native American studies and the extent to which the SNRC’s collections support scholarship in a research subject.  Consideration will also be given to the applicant’s background and academic accomplishments if the applicant works in an academic setting.  Academic affiliation, however, is not a requisite for receiving a fellowship.

An applicant should send a cover letter and a statement of the objectives of his or her project, the significance of the project, and relation of the proposed project to the applicant’s background, previous work, and future plans.  Research fellowship applicants should attach a curriculum vita.  Applications should be sent to SNRC Director Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. atdflittlefiel@ualr.edu.

Applications will be considered between March 15, 2018 and May 1, 2018.  Awards will be made by May 15, 2018.

CFP: “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule” – Theme issue of Progressive Librarian

Call for Papers
Theme issue of Progressive Librarian
“Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule”

The publication Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship invites Palestinian information providers to submit papers for a special issue, “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule.” Papers accepted for this special issue may also be republished later in a book on this topic.

Submitters and Topics
We are seeking papers from Palestinian information providers, including: librarians, archivists, library staff, publishers, researchers, book dealers, and book store owners and employees. We are especially interested in papers in the following three areas:

Historical or analytical studies of how the occupation or a particular Israeli policy has made it difficult to provide information. For example, a paper might discuss the history of the confiscation of Palestinian archives, the history of the destruction of Palestinian libraries, restrictions on the import of books from “enemy states”, restrictions on the import of books dealing with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, internet restrictions, restrictions on access by Palestinians to materials in Israeli libraries and archives, the effect of curfews and travel restrictions on access to information, or limitations on professional collaboration due to travel restrictions.

Papers describing the experiences of the author or authors in confronting these problems. For example, papers might describe difficulties experienced by an information provider or providers, or explain how an information provider or providers creatively dealt with some of these challenges. We encourage the submission of even very short papers of this type.

Papers describing current efforts to create libraries and archives. Papers in this topic could describe different case studies of library and archive projects that document the experiences and histories of Palestinian life, culture and history.

Submission Details
Papers may be submitted in either English or Arabic. Papers submitted in Arabic will be translated into English. To submit a paper for consideration, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to the guest editors of this special issue of Progressive Librarian (Walid Habbas, Jessa Lingel andTom Twiss) at  progressive.librarian@protonmail.com by May 30. Notifications of acceptance will go out on June 30. Papers can be shorter (between 500 and 2000 words) or full-length research papers (of 5,000 to 8,000 words). Final versions of short papers will be due September 30, and longer papers will be due December 31. Please do not hesitate to reach out to editors with questions or inquiries.

About the Journal
Progressive Librarian is an American journal published by the Progressive Librarians Guild. It provides a forum for critical perspectives in Library and Information Science (LIS), featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues.

Call for Nominations: Lyman H. Butterfield Award

The Lyman H. Butterfield Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award in 2018. This award is presented annually by the Association for Documentary Editing to an individual, editorial project, or institution for notable contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, or service.
Nominations should be made by email. Supporting letters from members of the Association are encouraged. All materials should reach the committee chair by 20 April 2018, sent by e-mail to:
Charlene Bickford
Thank you,
Charlene Bickford, chair
Tim Connelly
Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins
Rachel Love Monroy
Barbara Oberg