Bridwell Library is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars and Ministers Fellowships program. This year we are offering five fellowships with a $2,000 stipend. The stipend is meant to help defray research, living, and travel expenses during the tenure of the award and preference is given to applicants residing at least 100 miles from the Southern Methodist University campus. The program is open to all active scholars from Ph.D. students to retired professors, and to religious leaders of all faiths. If you know of persons who might benefit from this program please encourage them to go to our website where full information on the program may be found: http://www.smu.edu/Bridwell/About/ResearchStudy/BridwellFellowships. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2018.
Call for Reviews: Multimedia & Technology Reviews
Multimedia & Technology Reviews still needs you! We are seeking reviewers for the following resources:
Umbra Search
https://www.umbrasearch.org
A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816)
Epoiesen
https://epoiesen.library.carleton.ca
https://epoiesen.library.carleton.ca
ArchNet
Library Stack
Please see below for reviewer guidelines and full details on the above resources.
Please fill out the reviewer interest form (https://goo.gl/forms/Y2T9HPNinHznHFeK2) by Monday, January 29.
Thank you!
Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
Melanie Emerson
Gabriella Karl-Johnson
Alexandra Provo
New Publications: Books
The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and managing the historical records of business
Edited by Alison Turton
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives
Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen, Ella Raidel
Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership
Editors: Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Thomas S. Mullaney
Visual Literacy for Libraries: A practical, standards-based guide
Nicole E. Brown, Kaila Bussert, Denise Hattwig, and Ann Medaille
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
Nancy Moses
Forging the Future of Special Collections
Arnold Hirshon, Robert H. Jackson, Melissa A. Hubbard
America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress
John Y. Cole
The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving
edited by Brianna H Marshall
CFP: Shhhh…Murder!
Okay, this is not scholarly but too fun not to pass along. Though stated for librarians, I’m sure archivists can also submit.
Scheduled for release in late spring of next year and timed for summer reading, this anthology will feature cozy to cozy-noir stories featuring libraries and librarians. Extra points will be shamelessly awarded to writers with personal ties to libraries.
The submission period for this anthology runs from November 1st to February 28th, upon the last stroke of midnight, Pacific Standard Time.
We are looking for stories from 2500 to 5000 words, but will consider stories outside that range, at our discretion. Contributors will share equally fifty percent of the royalties received. We expect between fifteen and twenty stories to be accepted and are aiming at a volume length of around eighty-five thousand words, and around two-hundred and thirty pages—all dependent, obviously, upon the length of the material chosen.
We will accept work previously published, provided it was not published after May of 2017, and that you hold the rights. Simultaneous submissions are fine, with the usual proviso that we should be notified should the work be accepted elsewhere, so that we may withdraw it from consideration.
Submissions and questions may be sent to submissions@darkhousebooks.com.
Call for Nominations: Boydston Essay Prize
The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2018 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2017, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award carries a cash honorarium of $300. Eligible essays may have been published in digital and print journals, monographs, and collections. Please submit nominations and citations in the body of an e-mail, and attach essays or reviews to be considered as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the address below. Self-nominations are welcome. The prize will be awarded in June 2018 at the ADE annual meeting in Olympia, Washington.
Nominations are due by January 31, 2018.
Submit nominations to:
Tony Curtis
Assistant Editor
Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
tony.curtis@ky.gov
Call for Chapter Proposals: Social Justice and Activism in Libraries, Moving Beyond Diversity to Action
Social Justice and Activism in Libraries, Moving Beyond Diversity to
Action
Book Publisher: McFarland
Su Epstein, Ph.D., co-editor. Director, Saxton B. Little Free Library,
Columbia, Connecticut
Carol Smallwood, co-editor. Public Library Systems, Special, School Librarian,
Michigan
Vera Gubnitskaia, co-editor. Reference Librarian, Valencia College, Winter
Park, Florida
One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school,
special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing how to take the concept of diversity
to the next level. The role librarians can play in social justice and social
change, activities supporting tolerance in libraries. Topics could be
inclusivity, tolerance, civic engagement, civic education, human rights,
social responsibility; in the areas of collection development, programming,
professional development, partnerships and outreach—just to name a few.
One author or two or three authors per chapter. Compensation: one
complimentary copy per 3,000-5,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many
co-authors or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.
Contributors are expected to sign a release form in order to be published.
Public, school and special librarians, LIS instructors are especially
encouraged to submit.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters each described in a few sentences by
February 28, 2018, brief bio on each author; place TOL, LAST NAME on subject
line to: epsteinsc@gmail.com
Call for Chapter Proposals: Deaccessioning in Special Collections and Archives
Archivists and archival institutions are now deaccessioning more than ever before. As deaccessioning has become increasingly accepted as a useful collections management tool, some still perceive it as an ethical dilemma fraught with a high risk of controversy or angering donors and researchers alike. In archives deaccessioning, archivists grapple with ethical concerns, donor relations, appraisal questions, and disposition options. Deaccessioning in Special Collections and Archives, edited by Laura Uglean Jackson and published by Rowman & Littlefield, is the first book dedicated entirely to the topic of deaccessioning in special collections and archives. It will bring together case studies, perspectives, and in-depth discussions focused solely on topics and issues related to deaccessioning in all types of archival repositories.
Contributions from authors with experience in or knowledge of special collections and archives deaccessioning are welcome. I hope to include chapters on the following topics:
- Case studies from various institution types (e.g. small repositories, lone arrangers, community archives)
- Perspectives and opinion pieces about reappraisal and deaccessioning
- Reappraisal and deaccessioning outside of the United States (particularly United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
- Consequences of deaccessioning, including benefits and negative effects
- Working with donors and donor relations
- Sale of materials and use of proceeds
- Deaccessioning compared to weeding
- Ethical dilemmas of deaccessioning
- Transparency/publicizing of deaccessioning, including collections and process
- Reappraisal and deaccessioning of digital materials
- Standards related to reappraisal and deaccessioning
- Reappraisal challenges
- Disposition of deaccessioned materials including transfer, return to donor, and destruction
If you have an idea for a chapter not listed, please contact me to discuss.
Proposals of no more than 500 words should be submitted to me by February 12, 2018. Please include a biographical statement. Decisions regarding the submissions will be made by early March. First drafts will be due in May with an expected completion date in November 2018. Proposals and questions can be sent to: laura.ugleanjackson@unco.edu.
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Laura Uglean Jackson
Archives and Special Collections Librarian
University of Northern Colorado
laura.ugleanjackson@unco.edu
Call for Chapter Proposals: Creativity for Success and Personal Growth for Librarians
Creativity for Success and Personal Growth for Librarians
Book Publisher: McFarland
Vera Gubnitskaia, co-editor, Library Partnerships with Writers and Poets
(McFarland, 2017); public, academic librarian, indexer.
Carol Smallwood, co-editor, Gender Studies in the Library (McFarland, 2017);
public library administrator, special, school librarian.
One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school,
special librarians, LIS faculty, library administrators, and board members.
Successful proposals will address creative, practical, how-to chapters and
case studies depicting a variety of aspects and angles of the library
profession as a creative endeavor, within the library walls and beyond such as
being an artist, writer, photographer, editor. Ideas needed that can serve as
a foundation, incorporate into an MLIS course; a Human Resources’ or an
organizational plan, as well kick-start personal career goals planning. The
focus is on library staff professional and personal growth and development,
NOT creative programming and services for patrons. Request a helpful tentative
Table of Contents.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three
authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one
complimentary copy per 3,000-5,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many
co-authors or if one or two chapters; author discount. Contributors are
expected to sign a release form in order to be published.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapter(s) with a concise clear summary by
February 28, 2018, with brief bio on each author; place CRE, Your Name, on
subject line to gubnitv11@gmail.com
Call for chapter proposals: Deaccessioning in Special Collections and Archives
Archivists and archival institutions are now deaccessioning more than ever before. As deaccessioning has become increasingly accepted as a useful collections management tool, some still perceive it as an ethical dilemma fraught with a high risk of controversy or angering donors and researchers alike. In archives deaccessioning, archivists grapple with ethical concerns, donor relations, appraisal questions, and disposition options. Deaccessioning in Special Collections and Archives, edited by Laura Uglean Jackson and published by Rowman & Littlefield, is the first book dedicated entirely to the topic of deaccessioning in special collections and archives. It will bring together case studies, perspectives, and in-depth discussions focused solely on topics and issues related to deaccessioning in all types of archival repositories.
Contributions from authors with experience in or knowledge of special collections and archives deaccessioning are welcome. I hope to include chapters on the following topics:
- Case studies from various institution types (e.g. small repositories, lone arrangers, community archives)
- Perspectives and opinion pieces about reappraisal and deaccessioning
- Reappraisal and deaccessioning outside of the United States (particularly United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
- Consequences of deaccessioning, including benefits and negative effects
- Working with donors and donor relations
- Sale of materials and use of proceeds
- Deaccessioning compared to weeding
- Ethical dilemmas of deaccessioning
- Transparency/publicizing of deaccessioning, including collections and process
- Reappraisal and deaccessioning of digital materials
- Standards related to reappraisal and deaccessioning
- Reappraisal challenges
- Disposition of deaccessioned materials including transfer, return to donor, and destruction
If you have an idea for a chapter not listed, please contact me to discuss. Proposals of no more than 500 words should be submitted to me by February 12, 2018. Please include a biographical statement. Decisions regarding the submissions will be made by early March. First drafts will be due in May with an expected completion date in November 2018. Proposals and questions can be sent to: laura.ugleanjackson@unco.edu.
Call for Chapter: Male Sex Work & Society
(reposted from the SAA Diverse Sexuality and Gender Discussion List)
Archival Research & Male Sex Work
Harrington Park Press is seeking a potential commissioned chapter author who might be interested in archival research in male sex work histories, culture, and lives.
This is for an upcoming Volume 2 companion volume to the 2014 work, Male Sex Work & Society.
Interested persons may send their CV and letter of interest to: <bcohen@harringtonparkpress>
William Cohen
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Harrington Park Press, LLC
New York NY
Publishing in the Archives Profession 