Call for Posters: Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting

Northwest Archivists’ 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Spokane, Washington, from May 8-10. In 2024, the Spokane community will observe and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74, Spokane’s World’s Fair, the first such exposition to focus on the environment. Taking inspiration from the Fair, our theme is Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. This theme invites consideration of how issues related to the environment, sustainability and adaptation intersect with archives and allied professions. While we seek balance, we are frequently required to adapt and react to changing circumstances. We must also be responsive to the changing climate, to different resource allocations, to new staffing models, and much, much more. 

Call For Posters:

The Northwest Archivists 2024 Program Committee welcomes poster proposals in broad support of the Annual Meeting theme Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2024. Notification will be made the week of March 11. Submit your proposal using 2024 Poster Proposal Form.

CFP: CIMA Annual Conference

The 2024 hybrid Annual Conference for the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists will be held from May 29, 2024 to June 01, 2024 in Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

We are bringing it back to the basics and looking to the future for 2024 with a program focused on discussing core archival principles as well as innovative projects with an eye on the future! Session topics may include but certainly are not limited to workflows, processes, archival description, mentoring, outreach, relationship building, digitization, and beyond! 

For the full Call for Proposals and to submit, go to: cimarchivists.org/annual_conference

Proposals for the following are encouraged: Pre-conference workshops, Conference Sessions, Breakout rooms/roundtable discussions, and Posters.

Presenters can attend in person or present virtually. 

Submission deadline: February 16, 2024 (may be extended)

CFP: Southwest Oral History Association

The Southwest Oral History Association is a 40+-year-old organization celebrating oral history in and of the American Southwest. Our annual meeting will take place at the University of California, Riverside from May 31 to June 3, 2024. 

We invite independent oral historians, university-affiliated scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, community members, and others to submit a proposal.

Proposals from interdisciplinary fields (such as American studies, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, musicology and critical dance theory, media and cultural studies, and education) along with traditional fields (such as history, anthropology, and sociology) are welcomed and should include clear evidence of oral history research and/or offer innovative insights on methodologies and practices.

Please consider submitting an abstract that includes, but is not limited to:

  • Community-based methodologies
  • Oral histories as repair work/reparative archives
  • Intersectional justice frameworks
  • Cross-collaborative memory work
  • Storywork/storytelling
  • Digital humanities
  • Decolonization and collective healing

To review submissions requirements and submit a proposal, visit: https://forms.gle/rW6WZQjVxPbKGCHe9 

Contact Information

Southwest Oral History Association 
SOHA@unlv.edu 

Contact Email

SOHA@unlv.edu

URL

https://southwestoralhistory.org/

CFP: Library History Round Table

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals for its annual Research Forum, to be held in advance of the 2024 ALA Annual Meeting. 

To accommodate as many LHRT members as possible, the 2024 LHRT Research Forum will be held virtually in early to mid-June 2024.

The theme of the Forum is “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.” The Forum will examine libraries facing internal or external crises around the globe and across centuries.  Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, histories of: 

  • Censorship, book banning, book burning
  • Libraries during wars and wartime conditions
  • Institutional financial difficulties and funding issues
  • Natural disasters and their impact on libraries and services
  • Survival and loss of libraries and staff
  • Disinformation and the spread of disinformation 

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including library students, practitioners, faculty, independent researchers, and those retired from the field. LHRT especially encourages submissions from early-career researchers.  

Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita.  Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in-progress or completed. The LHRT Research Committee will select up to three authors to present their completed work at the Forum.

Deadline Extended! Proposals are due January 31, 2024; authors of successful proposals will be notified shortly thereafter. Completed papers are due May 31. Presentations are anticipated in early to mid-June.

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Alea Henle, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at henlear@miamioh.edu.
 
Research Committee Members: 
Alea Henle 
Jennifer Bartlett 
Catherine Minter 
Deborah Smith
Leah DiCiesare

Contact Information

Alea Henle, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair

Contact Email

henlear@miamioh.edu

CFP: MAC 2024 Pop-Up Session

The 2024 Program Committee invites pop-up session proposals on all aspects of archival practice and research, as well as from related fields. Touching on the conference theme, “Sowing Seeds of Change,” we encourage you to consider areas of growth, cultivation and restoration in our profession that have recently “popped-up.” Proposal submissions from students, new professionals, and first-time presenters are highly encouraged.  Note that membership in MAC is not required to present.

Resubmissions of proposals that were not accepted to the 2024 program are encouraged.

Proposals are due February 5, 2024. 

Call for Presenters: Collection Management and Description Sections webinar

The Collection Management & Description Sections will be hosting a webinar in April on the theme of “Getting Basic Descriptive Control over Collection Holdings” and we are actively seeking presenters!

Have you experienced a collection move and lived to tell the tale? Do you have helpful suggestions for people embarking on a backlog project or barcoding project? Are you a traditional archivist now responsible for getting basic descriptive control over “non-archival” materials, like books, periodicals, or museum-type artifacts? We welcome proposals around any of the following topics:

  • Collection moves
  • Barcoding projects
  • Backlog projects
  • Accessioning as processing
  • Descriptive control over non-archival materials, like books or periodicals

We are looking for speakers to share their experience in a 10-15 minute virtual presentation planned tentatively for a Monday in April, date TBD based on presenters’ availability. We would love to have diverse presenters and institutions represented: speakers from small institutions, HBCUs, and community archives are encouraged.  

If you’re interested in presenting, please send a brief proposal to Sarah Jones (sarah.jones1@unlv.edu) by January 31st. Please feel free to email with any questions!

Call for Submissions to 2024 ALA LHRT Research Forum: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble 

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals for its annual Research Forum, to be held in advance of the 2024 ALA Annual Meeting. 

To accommodate as many LHRT members as possible, the 2024 LHRT Research Forum will be held virtually on a date to be determined in early-to-mid June 2024.

 The theme of the Forum is “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.” The Forum will examine libraries facing internal or external crises around the globe and across centuries. Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, histories of: 

  • Censorship, book banning, book burning
  • Libraries during wars and wartime conditions
  • Institutional financial difficulties and funding issues
  • Natural disasters and their impact on libraries and services
  • Survival and loss of libraries and staff
  • Disinformation and the spread of disinformation 

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including library students, practitioners, faculty, independent researchers, and those retired from the field. LHRT especially encourages submissions from early-career researchers.  

Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita. Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in-progress or completed. 

The LHRT Research Committee will select up to three authors to present their completed work at the Forum. Proposals are due January 31; successful proposals will be notified shortly thereafter. Completed papers are due May 31. 

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Alea Henle, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at henlear@miamioh.edu. 

Research Committee Members: 

Alea Henle 
Jennifer Bartlett 
Catherine Minter 
Deborah Smith
Leah DiCiesare

Reading Discussion: Eira Tansey’s “A Green New Deal For Archives”

Please join SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey’s A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

Tansey’s important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

  • Gaps inarchival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
  • Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
  • Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

We look forward to seeing you there!  Please reach out with any questions or concerns.  

Issues and Advocacy Section Steering Committee 

Elizabeth Call is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: I&A Hive Mind

Time: Jan 25, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

rit.zoom.us/j/91575968470

Meeting ID: 915 7596 8470

Find your local number: rit.zoom.us/u/amko9M5Sv

New/Recent Publications

Books

Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, Candida Rifkind. The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada. Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature.
Routledge, 2023

Paulina L. Alberto, George Reid Andrews, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, eds. Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870–1960. Afro-Latin America.
Cambridge University Press, 2022

Matthew Dennis. American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory. Public History in Historical Perspective.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2023

Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives
Rubina Raja (ed)
Brepols Publishers, 2023

Claiming Back Their Heritage: Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage
Geneviève Susemihl
Springer, 2023

Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre-by-Genre Analysis
Enrico Bonadio (Anthology Editor), Chen Wei Zhu (Anthology Editor)
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Archives: utilité publique, exigence démocratique
[Archives: public utility, democratic requirement]
Barbara Roth-Lochner, Alain Dubois
L’Esprit de la Lettre Editions, 2023

Michael Moss on Archives: Beyond the Four Corners of the Page
Edited By Julie Mcleod, Andrew Prescott, Susan Stuart, David Thomas
Routledge, 2023

Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State
Christopher Perreira
University of Minnesota Press, 2023

The Archives of Critical Theory
Isabelle Aubert, Marcos Nobre
Springer, 2023

Exploring New Temporal Horizons: A Conversation between Memories and Futures
Carmen Leccardi, Paolo Jedlowski and Alessandro Cavalli
Bristol University Press, 2023

Caring for Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom
Charlotte Woodhead
Cambridge University Press, 2023

Archives et droits humains
[Archives and human rights]
Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana
Institut Francophone pour la Justice et la Démocratie, 2023

Articles

Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu. “Reconstruction of cultural memory through digital storytelling: A case study of Shanghai Memory project.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Liina Repo and others. “In search of founding era registers: automatic modeling of registers from the corpus of Founding Era American English.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Tong Wei, Yuqi Chen. “A methodology for building domain ontology of cultural heritage Get access Arrow.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Grimes, Lorraine, Dr.; Cassidy, Kathryn Dr; Dias, Murilo; Lanigan, Clare; O’Carroll, Aileen Dr; and Singhvi, Preetam (2023) “Archiving “sensitive” social media data: ‘In Her Shoes’, a case study,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 10, Article 19

Podcasts

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 183: Andres Guadamuz on the Battle Over Copyright and Generative AI

Archives and Things Podcast: Elaine Young and Cody Groat, Canadian Commission for UNESCO

New Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Journal of Digital Media Management
Volume 12 / Number 1 / Autumn/Fall 2023
(subscription)

Case Study

The Curricular Asset Warehouse at the University of Illinois: Case study of a digital archive’s sustainability
Jones, Karin Hodgin; Bianconi, Robyn; Jones, Jimi; Moran, Liam

Digitising images from the first tests of HDTV in Europe: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games
Sánchez, Isabel; Marchand, Etienne

Collection insight and interconnectivity through artificial intelligence image analysis: A collaboration with the National Archives of Estonia
Storch, Hannah

Practice Paper

Diversity, equity and inclusion principles for custom taxonomies
Mizota, Sharon

Case Study

The 6K restoration of Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight
Dawson, Michael; Fritz, Scott; Beckel, John; Leonard Rubin, E.; Matusek, Michael

Magnifying Gwendolyn Brooks: Creating a digital collection at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
Rodríguez, Ana D.; Vasquez-Braun, Kate M.; Waarala, Angela M.; Johns, Rachael; Luke, Stephanie M.; Mowry, Ruthann E.

Making African Academic Resources Accessible at the University of Ghana: A sustainable collaborative project
Opoku-Boateng, Judith