The American Archivist article “‘Be Damned Pushy at Times’: The Committee on the Status of Women and Feminism in the Archival Profession, 1972–1998” by Alex Poole received the 2019 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research from the American Library Association’s Library Research Round Table. Read the article. Congrats, Alex!
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New Issue: The American Archivist
The American Archivist, Vol. 81 no 2 (Fall/Winter 2018)
FROM THE EDITOR
The People Part of Archives
Christopher A. Lee
ARTICLES
Working as an Embedded Archivist in an Undergraduate Course: Transforming Students into Scholars through an Archival Workshop Series
Christy Fic
Civics in the Archives: Engaging Undergraduate and Graduate Students with Congressional Papers
Danielle Emerling
Rights Review for Sound Recordings: Strategies Using Risk and Fair Use Assessments
Jeremy Evans and Melissa Hernández Durán
“First there is the creative decision, then there is the dollar decision”: Information-Seeking Behaviors of Filmmakers Using Moving Image Archives
Laura Treat and Julie Judkins
“Be Damned Pushy at Times”: The Committee on the Status of Women and Feminism in the Archival Profession, 1972–1998
Alex H. Poole
“Let Me Tell You What I Learned”: Primary Source Literacy and Student Employment in Archives and Special Collections
Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Cultural Competency: A Framework for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Archival Profession in the United States
Ellen Engseth
Inquiry-based Archival Instruction: An Exploratory Study of Affective Impact
Chris Marino
REVIEWS
The Scholarship of Reviews
Bethany Anderson
Review Essay: DIY Music Archiving
Adriana P. Cuervo
Agents of Empire: How E. L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia
Ricardo L. Punzalan
Keepers of Our Digital Future: An Assessment of the National Digital Stewardship Residencies, 2013–2016
Edith Halvarsson
Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership
Stacie Williams
Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners: Implementing PREMIS
Carly Dearborn
Environmental Information: Research, Access and Environmental Decisionmaking
Eira Tansey
Displaced Archives
Christopher M. Laico
Engaging with Records and Archives: Histories and Theories
Amy Cooper Cary
Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
Andy Uhrich
Future-Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History
Julie Rogers
Well, What Came Next? Selections from ArchivesNext, 2007–2017
Marcella Huggard
The Silence of the Archive
Charlotte S. Kostelic
SAA Author Wins Award
Alex Poole Receives Award for Article in American Archivist
Alex Poole, assistant professor at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, received the 2018 Bob Williams History Fund Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology for his article, “Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century,” which appeared in American Archivist Vol. 80.2. Of the article, the jury said, “Poole’s fascinating and well-researched account of the role of African Americans in the development of archives in the United States addresses a much-neglected topic of diverse contributions to archival theory and practice.” Read the award-winning article here
New Issue: The American Archivist
Volume 81, Issue 1
(subscription, membership)
From the Editor
The Literature of a Profession
Christopher A. Lee
Presidential Address
Archives, History, and Technology: Prologue and Possibilities for SAA and the Archival Community
Nancy Y. McGovern
Theodore Calvin Pease Award
Truth and Reconciliation: Archivists as Reparations Activists
Anna Robinson-Sweet
Articles
#MPLP Part 2: Replacing Item-Level Metadata with User-Generated Social Tags
Edward Benoit III
An Exploration into Archival Descriptions of LGBTQ Materials
Erin Baucom
New Perspectives on Congressional Collections: A Study of Survey and Assessment
Maurita Baldock and J. Wendel Cox
The Right to Be Forgotten: An Archival Perspective
Ashley Nicole Vavra
Ethical Challenges and Current Practices in Activist Social Media Archives
Ashlyn Velte
Historians’ Experiences Using Digitized Archival Photographs as Evidence
Alexandra M. Chassanoff
Special Section: Archives and Education
Milestone, Not Millstone: Archivists Teaching First-Year Seminars
Leslie Waggener
Teaching the Teacher: Primary Source Instruction in American and Canadian Archives Graduate Programs
Lindsay Anderberg, Robin M. Katz, Shaun Hayes, Alison Stankrauff, Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts, Josué Hurtado, Abigail Nye and Ashley Todd-Diaz
Imagined Spaces, Preserved Places: A Case Study of Historic Preservation through Applied Learning Environments and Service-Learning
Christopher B. Livingston
Reviews
Reviews in Perspective
Bethany Anderson
The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Dorothy Waugh
Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood
Anne-Flore Laloë
Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Diversity, Dialogue and Sharing: Online Resources for a More Resourceful World
J. J. Ghaddar
Research in the Archival Multiverse
Geoffrey Yeo
North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
Eden Orelove
Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies
Adrien Hilton
Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Pamela Pierce
Participatory Heritage
Rory Grennan
Managing Local Government Archives
Dennis Roman Riley
The Data Librarian’s Handbook
Kayla Siddell
New Issue: The American Archivist
The American Archivist Volume 80 Issue 2 Fall/Winter 2017
(member, subscription)
FROM THE EDITOR
A Quick Six Years
Gregory S. Hunter
ARTICLES
Surveying Archivists and Their Work toward Advocacy and Management, or “Enterprise Archiving”
Sarah Buchanan, Jane Gruning, Ayse Gursoy and Lecia Barker
Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century
Alex H. Poole
The Archive of Place and Land Art as Archive: A Case Study of Spiral Jetty
Elizabeth England
Exhibits as Scholarship: Strategies for Acceptance, Documentation, and Evaluation in Academic Libraries
Elizabeth A. Novara and Vincent J. Novara
Sweeping out the Capitol: The State Archives and the Politics of Administration in Georgia, 1921–1923
Ciaran B. Trace
#MPLP Part 1: Comparing Domain Expert and Novice Social Tags in a Minimally Processed Digital Archives
Edward Benoit III
Sex in the Archives: The Politics of Processing and Preserving Pornography in the Digital Age
GVGK Tang
ARTICLES
Pedagogies of the Image: Photo-archives, Cultural Histories, and Postfoundational Inquiry
Katrina Windon
Office of the Secretary: Evaluation of Email Records Management and Cybersecurity Requirements, ESP-16-03
David Bearman
Teaching with Primary Sources
Rachel M. Grove Rohrbaugh
Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
Creighton Barrett
Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
Kira A. Dietz
Digital Preservation Essentials
Daniel W. Noonan
City of Remembering: A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
Tanya Zanish-Belcher
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Jeremy Brett
Module 8: Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository
Sibyl Schaefer
Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Elena S. Danielson
Cal Lee Named New Editor of The American Archivist
The Society of American Archivists is pleased to introduce Christopher A. “Cal” Lee as the next Editor of The American Archivist. Lee, a tenured professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Information and Library Science, will serve a three-year term beginning January 2018. The American Archivist, established in 1938 and published semi-annually, is the premier professional journal in the archives field.
Read more: https://www2.archivists.org/news/2017/unc-professor-cal-lee-is-next-editor-of-the-american-archivist
New Issue: The American Archivist
The Archival Profession: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Gregory S. Hunter
ARTICLES
“As Vast as the Sea”: An Overview of Archives and the Archival Profession in Russia from the Time of Ivan the Terrible to World War I
Aleksandr Gelfand
“Filling the Gaps”: Oral Histories and Underdocumented Populations in The American Archivist, 1938–2011
Jessica Wagner Webster
How Soon Is Now? Writings on Digital Archiving in Canada from the 1980s to 2011
Greg Bak
Cultural Heritage and Preservation: Lessons from World War II and the Contemporary Conflict in the Middle East
Laila Hussein Moustafa
Perceptions and Understandings of Archives in the Digital Age
Caitlin Patterson
Teaching Data Creators How to Develop an OAIS-Compliant Digital Curation System: Colearning and Breakdowns in Support of Requirements Analysis
Lorraine L. Richards
From (Archival) Page to (Virtual) Stage: The Virtual Vaudeville Prototype
Tonia Sutherland
Linking Special Collections to Classrooms: A Curriculum-to-Collection Crosswalk
Sonia Yaco, Caroline Brown and Lee Konrad
Social Media and Crowdsourced Transcription of Historical Materials at the Smithsonian Institution: Methods for Strengthening Community Engagement and Its Tie to Transcription Output
Lesley Parilla and Meghan Ferriter
REVIEWS
Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research
Caryn Radick
Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
Christopher M. Laico
Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together
William J. Maher
Archives Alive: Expanding Engagement with Public Library Archives and Special Collections
Mary K. Mannix
Rights in the Digital Era
Jean Dryden
The American Archivist Editorial Policy
Free copies of The American Archivist
Interested in free copies of past issues of The American Archivist for you or your SAA student chapter? Contact Abigail Christian at achristian@archivists.org with a mailing address and number of students within your chapter—we’ll send a surprise assortment of issues published in the last decade, courtesy of SAA. Peruse timeless articles, discover new ones, and enjoy having a good resource in hand.
ABIGAIL CHRISTIAN
Editorial & Production Coordinator
Society of American Archivists
17 N. State Street Suite 1425
Chicago, Illinois 60602
achristian@archivists.org
American Archivist Seeks Editor
Are you an avid reader of the professional literature? Are you a published author? Do you have experience as an editor? Do you get excited about nurturing new and veteran voices? Are you brimming with ideas for expanding this journal’s readership?
Established in 1938, The American Archivist is the leading publication in the archives field. Published semi-annually by the Society of American Archivists, this refereed journal is available online and in print. The journal features research articles, case studies, perspectives, and international scene pieces as well as reviews of professional literature, archival technologies, and resources.
SAA seeks a dynamic individual with excellent communication skills who will enhance the visibility of The American Archivist in the archives and allied professional communities, and grow the number of high-quality submissions. The Editor is responsible for the solicitation, selection, peer review, and final approval of articles, and features. She or he will use PeerTrack (an author- and reviewer-friendly manuscript submission and peer review system) to work with authors and prospective authors on necessary revisions. In addition, the Editor and works closely with the reviews editor, a copyeditor, an indexer, and the SAA staff (who handle journal production and business matters). The Editor also coordinates the activities of The American Archivist Editorial Board, serves ex officio on the Publications Board, and reports to the SAA Council. The position carries with it an annual honorarium.
Candidates should possess the following qualifications:
- Demonstrated leadership skills that allow her or him to present a vision of the journal that places it at the center of the profession’s intellectual dialog.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture relationships with authors, both established and newly emerging, to encourage them to explore interesting questions and submit material to the journal.
- Ability to nurture intriguing but not completely satisfactory submissions to successful publication.
- Ability and willingness to pay special attention to the need to develop ideas in emerging areas of the profession, support the thoughtful reexamination of past professional insights, and address issues of particular relevance to historically underrepresented populations.
- Excellent personal communication and writing skills, including the ability to edit scholarly material, the ability to communicate successfully with those who make submissions, and the ability to report to those in SAA with oversight responsibility for the journal.
- Sufficient financial and time-management skills to complete tasks in an acceptable manner and, most importantly, to publish the journal at appropriate and regular intervals as established within the annual budget work plan.
The term of the current Editor, Greg Hunter, expires on December 31, 2017. His successor, who will serve a three-year term, will begin work no later than January 1, 2018.
Interviews of finalists will be conducted in May 2017. Submit letter of interest and curriculum vitae by April 14, 2017, to saahq@archivists.org and in subject line state “Application for Editor of The American Archivist.”
Questions should be directed to SAA Executive Director Nancy Beaumont at nbeaumont@archivists.org or 312-606-0722.
Call for Volunteer: AA Reviews Portal
from the SAA website:
WANTED: Coordinator of The American Archivist Reviews Portal
Do you have more than a passing familiarity with the latest archives and information management technology? The Society of American Archivists invites applications for the position of Coordinator of The American Archivist Reviews Portal. The portal includes information about professional products and services, and the reviews complement and expand on content published in the reviews section of The American Archivist. This is a volunteer position and works directly under the supervision of the Reviews Editor. For more information and to apply, click here. Deadline: July 1.
Publishing in the Archives Profession 