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

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

Article Discussion: Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives

Join the New England Archivists for a free reading group event on Thursday November 7th from 1:00-2:00pm ET. We will be joined by author Sophie Penniman to discuss the article “Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives” from the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of the article, where they can hear more from Penniman, pose questions to the group, and consider how the issues raised in the article reflect or inform their own work.

Register for the event here. The article can be downloaded for free at this link.

The article discusses how neurodivergent records creators and their recordkeeping behaviors often don’t fit within traditional archival paradigms which center verbal, written, and linear documents in specific organizational systems. The article brings together sources from disability studies, feminist and gender studies, library studies, literary analysis, and archival scholarship to imagine ways in which the principle of provenance could be expanded to fit the archives of neurodiverse creators (and archives that resist wholeness and completeness more broadly).

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

SAA Member Book Club

We are looking for more participation in the SAA Member Book Club on Fable. One of the other members of the book club is working to set up a virtual meeting to discuss our last two books “Decolonial Archival Futures” and “Archival Accessioning.” 

If you would like to add to the discussion please follow the Fable link below or add books to our TBR list on the Google Doc link. For those interested in joining our virtual chat please hop into Fable and add your availability to the Lettucemeet link here:

lettucemeet.com/l/ma3Rw

Fable Book Club

links.fable.co/mqfr35ctwLb

I have also set up a Google Sheet for members to add books they think would be useful or beneficial to read. It is fairly simple: Title, Authors, Publication Date, and a Link to Purchase.

SAA Professional Development Book Club Google Doc

THANK YOU!

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Melanie Gydesen
Victor NY

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

Article Discussion: Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources

The Teaching with Primary Sources Subcomittee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section would like to invite you to an informal article discussion on Friday, November 15 on Zoom. We will be discussing the article “Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources” by Jill E. Anderson and Kevin Fleming. This article is freely available online at creativelibrarypractice.org/2019/10/23/…

We look forward to seeing you there!

Zoom Information

When: Nov 15, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/… 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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