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New Issue: Collections, Focus Issue: Natural History Collections Come in from the Cold

Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2023
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Introduction to the Focus Issue: Natural History Collections Come in from the Cold
Consuelo Sendino, Svetlana Nikolaeva

Fragments of Frankliniana: The Conservation of Arctic Exploration-Related Paper
Amanda Gould

Collections of Arctic Plants, Lichens, and Fungi in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
Charlotte Sletten Bjorå, Mika Bendiksby, Bjørn Petter Løfall, Lars Erik Johannesen, Einar Timdal

Digitization of the Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium as a Unique Research Infrastructure to Study Arctic Climate Change and Inform Nature Management
Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand

The GEUS Palynology, Nannofossil, and Microfossil Arctic Slide Collection
Henrik Nøhr-Hansen, Stefan Piasecki, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Sofie Lindström, Emma Sheldon, Karen Dybkjær, Annette Ryge, Charlotte Olsen, Peter Alsen, John Boserup

A Taxonomic Baseline to Monitor Retreating Arctic Biota: The Marine Invertebrate Collection of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History (IINH)
Gudmundur Gudmundsson

Mollusks from Arctic Region at the National Museum of Natural Sciences Collections (MNCN-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Mª Dolores Bragado Álvarez, Javier de Andrés Cobeta

Arctic Specimens in the Zoological Collections at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (NHMO)
Lars Erik Johannessen, Arild Johnsen, Thore Koppetsch, Jan Terje Lifjeld, Michael Matschiner, Geir E. E. Søli, Kjetil Lysne Voje

A Short Research Guide on Arctic Historical Bryozoan Collections and a Few Associated Biocoenosis at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Valentina I. Gontar

Fossils From the Arctic in the Collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway
Hans Arne Nakrem, Franz-Josef Lindemann, Jørn Harald Hurum, Øyvind Hammer

The Arctic Paleontological Collections in the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum (Moscow, Russia)
Iraida Alexandrovna Starodubtseva, Irina Leonidovna Soroka

Subfossil Insect Collections From the Arctic of Northeast Asia and Northwest North America
Svetlana Kuzmina

Arctic Quaternary Mammal Collections in the Museums of Yakutsk (Yakutia, East Siberia, Russia)
Gennady Boeskorov, Marina Shchelchkova

Paleontological Aspects of Austrian Arctic Endeavors
Mathias Harzhauser, Anna E. Weinmann, Martin Krenn, Oleg Mandic

CFP: Feminist Media Histories – Special Issue on Gender, Media, and DevelopmentalismCFP:

Guest Editors: Dalila Missero & Masha Salazkina 

With this special issue of Feminist Media Histories we invite contributions that explore the historical role of gender within media production explicitly engaged in developmentalist projects. As an ideological and political framework, developmentalism became especially prominent between the 1950s and the 1990s to conceptualize, discuss, and tackle global inequality. Based on the certainty that economic growth inevitably leads to social progress and modernization, it has been a dominant paradigm driving state and inter-governmental support for various institutional media projects, especially in the context of Asia, Africa, and Latin America on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In a more latent way, developmentalist discourses and representational regimes—as well as their critiques—have also been central to much film and media production in these regions, from radical, grassroots, or independent media collectives to commercial filmmaking. With the inauguration of the United Nations Decade of Women (1975-1985), the issue of gender inequality became increasingly central in developmentalist debates and policies, in tandem with and in response to the agenda of the international women’s movement. Media representations and infrastructures have played a key role in shaping these intersecting processes in a way that remains to be fully explored in media history.  

Analysis of developmentalist media, especially with regards to questions of gender, are also in continuity with post-colonial and intersectional inquiry across and beyond film and media studies. The rejection of the basic tenets of developmentalism embedded in the colonial matrix of power (key among them universalism and the belief in economic indicators as a measure of progress) form the core of the decolonial critique, which emerged around the same period. The status of indigeneity as a distinct epistemological  position, political project, and a way of life likewise stands in sharp conflict with developmentalist projects promoted by states and international institutions intended to  overcome “underdevelopment.” Bringing these perspectives together, decolonial feminism’s attention to patriarchal, misogynistic, and homophobic tensions at work in anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggles has foregrounded intersectional forms of oppression and shifted the locus of knowledge production to the concrete experiences of women’s struggles across the Global South, with indigenous women often offering the most compelling alternatives to the dominant epistemological paradigms.  

Investigating media projects that resulted from the inevitably contradictory intersection of global developmentalist politics (which have increasingly focused on women and indigenous communities) and on-the-ground women’s movements in Asia, Africa, and  Latin America therefore presents a particularly productive area of transnational decolonial feminist media scholarship. Such gendered understandings and narratives of developmentalism, diverse venues of media production, circulation and reception  advancing these notions, and local and transnational responses to them, however, have certainly not been limited to the recent decades. Research on the broader history of  intersections of gender, media, and developmentalism is yet to be integrated within feminist media historiographies. 

To this end, this special issue seeks to foster new knowledge and develop shared theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring this topic. We welcome scholarship on different types of media (film, television, radio, digital media, etc), situated within a wide historical period, and from a variety of geographic and geopolitical positions. Contributions may focus on specific case studies as well as on broader methodological and theoretical questions. Possible topics include: 

  • Representations of gender, indigeneity, coloniality, and global inequality in developmentalist media 
  • Feminist (mediated) responses to developmentalism 
  • Queer and trans activism and developmentalist media 
  • Developmentalist media and social, political, and anti-colonial movements
  • Differences and similarities in gender politics of developmentalism across the Cold War divides and their corresponding media forms and ideologies 
  • Archives, counter-archives, technologies, and infrastructures of developmentalist media  
  • Developmentalism and mediated representations of the future 
  • Institutions and agencies (United Nations, UNESCO, the World Bank) as well as governments and NGOs as production sites of media content on gender and  development  
  • Developmentalism in the context of contemporary sustainability and environmental programs (i.e., SDG 2030 agenda), and its intersections with today’s ecofeminist movements and digital media practices 
  • Comparative and/or transnational studies of developmentalism and media

Interested contributors should contact guest editors Dalila Missero and Masha Salazkina directly, sending a 500-word proposal and a short bio no later than February  1, 2024 to d.missero@lancaster.ac.uk and salazkina.masha@gmail.com; contributors will be notified by March 1, 2024; article drafts will be due by October 1, 2024 and will then be sent out for peer review.

Contact Information
Yumo Yan, Managing Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal

Contact Email
yy2887@uw.edu

URL: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/cfp

CFP: 2024 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference

Call for Presentations

Deadline  1 April 2024

Oral history can be powerful in so many ways. Interviews generate potent emotions. Recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence. Multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past.

Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties.

Yet those possibilities come with risk as well as reward. Recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict, in families, communities and nations.

Our conference welcomes participants who use oral history in their work across the many fields and disciplines that contribute to community, professional and academic histories. We welcome presenters from Victoria and around Australia, from across the Tasman and throughout the oral history world, from First Nations and culturally diverse backgrounds. We invite proposals for individual presentations, workshops, performances and thematic panels that speak to The Power of Oral History– Risks, Rewards and Possibilities.

Join us in Melbourne in November 2024 for a celebration of the power of oral history. Our conference venue is the state-of-the-art Trinity College Gateway Centre on the campus of the University of Melbourne, in inner city Parkville, close to cafes, restaurants, parks, public transport and accommodation. The venue is accessible with a dedicated lift.

On Thursday 21 November oral history training workshops will be followed by the conference welcome reception in the evening. The main conference will be on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 of November, and on Sunday 24 participants may enjoy a variety of history tours in Melbourne and Victoria.

Conference sub-themes

Conference sub-themes may include, but are not limited to:

  • Indigenous oral histories and oral traditions
  • Oral history, culture and language
  • Interpreting memory in oral history
  • Transgressing boundaries with oral history
  • Documenting diverse voices with oral history
  • Histories of protest, activism and rights
  • Contested memories and histories
  • Oral histories of working lives and social class
  • Migrant and refugee history
  • Gender and oral history
  • LGBTIQA+ oral histories
  • Ethical issues in oral history
  • Technology and oral history
  • Archiving and oral history
  • Giving voice to history through music
  • Oral histories of family, community or place
  • Creative uses of oral history recordings
  • Oral history in galleries, libraries and museums

Requirements

All proposals to present at the conference must be submitted using the conference EasyChair submission portal (see below) no later than 1 April 2024.

We welcome proposals for presentations in a variety of formats and media, including standard paper presentations (typically 20 minutes); short ‘lightning’ accounts of work in progress (typically 5 minutes); participatory workshops; performances; or thematic panels comprising several presenters. Presentations should involve oral history. Contact the Chair of the Conference Program Committee, Professor Alistair Thomson, (alistair.thomson@monash.edu) if you would like to discuss the format or focus of your presentation before you submit it.

Proposals for presentations / papers / panels / posters should be no more than 200 words (single space, 12 point font in Times New Roman) and must include at the top of the page, your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), postal address, phone number and email address, the title for your presentation/panel, the sub-theme/s your work best connects to, and the presentation format (standard 20 minute paper; 5 minute ‘lightning’ account of work in progress; thematic panel; performance; or participatory workshop).

Presenters will be encouraged to submit papers to the refereed, online Oral History Australia journal, Studies in Oral History.

Submission

New proposals should be uploaded to EasyChair via this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oha2024.

To use this online conference management system, you will need to create an author account (a simple process that we have used in previous conferences) and then submit your proposal by uploading it as a PDF document (with full details as listed above).

If you are unfamiliar with EasyChair, please follow the instructions available via a downloadable PDF available at: https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/OHA_conference_2024_EasyChair-instructions.pdf.

If you are unable to use this system, please email your proposal as a PDF attachment to ohavictoria2024@gmail.com.

Further information

In launching this website we are also inviting submissions for Presentations. Go to our Call for Presentations to find out more about the conference theme and the guidelines for submitting a proposal.

For conference information or to join the conference mailing list, email our Oral History Victoria hosts at: ohavictoria2024@gmail.com.

CFP: Studies in Oral History

Studies in Oral History, Issue No. 46, 2024

Joint Editors: Skye Krichauff and Carla Pascoe Leahy

Working Lives & Workplaces

Peer-reviewed articles

Contributions are invited from Australia and overseas for the peer-reviewed articles section of the 2024 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA).

This special issue will explore oral histories of working lives, workplaces and work, all broadly defined to incorporate histories of volunteering, military service and other types of service. Papers that employ or interrogate oral history methodologies and illuminate aspects of working life, workplaces, and workplace culture are invited.

Contributions are invited across the following themes (though are not limited to these):

  • How the experience of work is mediated by gender, ethnicity, class, and generation
  • How technological innovation changed the nature of work
  • How workers have sought to protect their employment rights and conditions
  • Migrants’ experience of the workplace
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Multi-generations of families working at the same workplace
  • Unfree work
  • Work and the environment
  • Workplace closures, redundancies and lay-offs.

As all articles are subject to anonymous peer review, pleasure ensure your submission contains no identifying material. Articles submitted to the Oral History Australia Editorial Board for peer review will first be assessed for suitability by the Editorial Board. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors and Journal Style Guide for further information.

Word limits and deadlines

To be considered for peer review, articles should be no more than 8000 words, including references. Publication of the issue is anticipated in late 2024.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 1 December 2023.

Submission

Send submissions to: Dr Alexandra Dellios, Chair, Oral History Australia Editorial Board, email editorialboard.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au.

Reports

Submissions are also invited for the reports section of the 2024 issue of Studies in Oral History. Reports may describe oral history projects conducted by academic researchers, museum curators, heritage professionals, consulting historians, community historians and more. Projects may have resulted in public outcomes such as websites, exhibitions, podcasts, theses, articles or books. Please note the reports section is not peer-reviewed; notes from the field, updates on exciting new work, or reflections on the process and/or outcomes of oral history projects are encouraged. Reports which relate to the issue theme of ‘Working Lives and Workplaces’ are welcome but not mandatory.

Word limit: 1,500 words.

Deadline for report submissions: Monday 30 April 2023.

Please send reports to Alexandra Mountain, Reports Editor of Studies in Oral History, reports.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au

Please note that while the reports are not peer-reviewed, we cannot accept all reports for publication and accepted reports will need to be edited for length, clarity and adherence to the Style Guide. Reports will be selected on the basis of quality of writing, the diversity of oral history perspectives showcased across the reports section and relevance to the special issue theme. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors and Style Guide for further information.

New Issue: Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 44 issue 3
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Some Practical Aspects of Nanocellulose Film: Characterization, Expansion and Shrinking Tests, and Techniques to Create Remoistenable Nanocellulose
Robin Canham, Alison Murray, Rosaleen Hill

Hidden Players: Small Paper Nails—Manufacture and Application of Paper Nails in Chinese Double-Leaved Books
Rong Yu, Zhewei Shen, Peng Liu

Barriers to Preservation for Digital Information Resources in University Libraries of Pakistan
Rafiq Ahmad, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Arif

Intelligent Repair Method for Archival Videos Based on the Super-SloMo Technology
Hui Li

CfP (Special Issue): Culturally-Specific Museums and Archives: Between Diasporic Culture and Australian Heritage

Call for Papers

Culturally-Specific Museums and Archives: Between Diasporic Culture and Australian Heritage

To migrant communities in Australia and their descendants, dedicated archives and museums documenting culturally-specific material and experiences have been significant spaces for activism, integration, reflexion and community identity. These archives and museums first emerged in the 1950s and 60s, possibly fulfilling similar roles to community associations. Some may have been inspired by a growing interest in local Australian history at this time when many historical societies in regional areas were established; others adopted a more explicitly activist role, viewing their diaspora and its cultural maintenance as a form of opposition to homeland political developments. These early museums and archives include the Estonian Archives in Australia (Sydney, 1952), Lobethal Archives and Historical Museum (Loebethal, 1956), Lithuanian Museum (Adelaide, 1961), Jindera Pioneer Museum and Historical Society (Jindera, 1968), Latvian Museum, (Adelaide, 1970), Ukrainian Museum (Adelaide, 1979), and the Jewish Museum of Australia (Melbourne, 1982).

After the introduction of multicultural policies from the 1970s onwards—in response to grassroots activism emanating from the migrant rights movement and ethnic welfare societies—local and state governments have also funded culturally specific museums as a part of tourism initiatives, particularly in culturally specific precincts, including the Museum of Chinese Australian History (Melbourne, 1984) and the Museo Italiano (Melbourne, 2010), which grew from Co.As.It. Italian Historical Society. At other times, policies around social cohesion in the wake of major events like September 11, 2001 led to the funding of culturally specific museums by Federal and State governments, such as the Islamic Museum of Australia (Melbourne, 2014).

A great deal has been written on the question of community engagement and cultural diversity in museums, as well as diasporic heritage and memory in the Australian context (Szekeres 2011; Darian-Smith and Hamilton 2019; Dellios and Henrich 2021; Kornfeld 1997; Witcomb 2013). The special edition of Humanities Research edited by Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi in 2009, for example, was instrumental in thinking critically about the tensions between multiculturalism, pluralism, and the dictates of national cohesiveness in Australian museums. It was in this context of inquiry that further attention started to be paid to culturally-specific museums and archives, with seminal contributions documenting their history in Australia and the specific place they hold in the museum landscape (Viv Szekeres 2011; Light 2016). Conversations about migrant heritage, however, has remained primarily focused on state-funded museums, often overlooking how these dynamics unfold within community-operated, culturally-specific museums and archives.

We are seeking contributions about culturally-specific museums and archives in Australia, the social roles they have played for migrant and diasporic communities in Australia and beyond, the multilayered identities they promote, their relationship to multiculturalism (as a prescriptive policy framework and as a descriptor of the social milieu), as well as the opportunities and the challenges they represent for the communities that operate them. We are also interested in contributions that examine their relations to local government, state and national museums, libraries and archives dedicated to social history in Australia, exploring differences and similarities in terms of curatorial practices (collecting, preserving and exhibiting), community engagement and institutional features.

Questions underlying this special edition include:

  • How and why did culturally-specific museums and archives emerge in Australia?
  • What do museums or archives have to offer to migrant/diaspora communities in Australia that other means of representations do not?
  • How can culturally-specific museums and archives act as both cultural repositories and dynamic spaces to continue national, transnational, and cross-cultural imagining?
  • To what extent do culturally-specific museums and archives share in a common discourse of interculturality, or alternatively, respond to localised debates and frames of reference?
  • How specific is museum and archival practice in a culturally-specific/community-operated museum?
  • What engagement have culturally-specific museums and archives make with First Nations’ heritage and experiences?
  • How have culturally-specific museums and archives handled relationships with the governments of their places of origin, which can include being involved with Australia’s diplomatic relations with those governments?

Interested participants, please submit your abstract by 20 December to Dr. Virginie Rey at virginie.rey@deakin.edu.au; cc Dr Alexandra Dellios alexandra.dellios@anu.edu.au and Dr Karen Schamberger at kschamberger@nla.gov.au

Contact Information

Contact Email: alexandra.dellios@anu.edu.au

Call for Proposals: ARL IDEAL 2024—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives Conference

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is now accepting proposals for the 2024 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives (IDEAL) Conference, to be held July 15–17, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The conference theme is Sustainable Resistance and Restoration in Global Communities.

To be considered, proposals should include:

  • Title of session
  • Abstract (up to 1,500 characters)
  • Learning outcomes
  • Outline
  • Keywords

Proposals should consider how the content of the session connects to the larger landscape of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice (DEIA/J) and how the session reasonably engages adult learners.

The internal review process is masked; no personal identifiable information (such as names, institutions, social identities) should be included in the proposal. These pieces of information will be collected separately.

The deadline to submit proposals is September 15, 2023, 11:59 p.m. Hawaii–Aleutian time zone (UTC-10:00).

PLEASE USE THE IDEAL 2024 PROPOSALS SUBMISSION SITE

We look forward to reviewing your proposal and creating a well-rounded conference for our attendees!

Please reference the Presenter FAQ or contact learning+dei@arl.org with questions or any accommodation requests.

About the Association of Research Libraries

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.

New Issue: IASA Journal

Issue 53 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
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Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Tre Berney

Indigenous Voices and the Archive; Recirculating J. H. Hutton’s Cylinder Recordings in Nagaland
Christian Poske

Identification and Assessment of Film Appraisal Mechanisms Aimed at the Improvement of Archiving and Presentation Processes
Bohuš Získal

Listening With/in Context: Towards Multiplicity, Diversity, and Collaboration in Digital Sound Archives
Emily Collins

Ethics of Sound Quality in Online Teaching, Learning and Conferencing: Perspectives Gained During the Covid Pandemic
Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, Gisa Jähnichen, Xiao Mei

CFP: IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2024

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Consortium’s formation, we are excited to announce that the call for proposals for the 2024 Web Archiving Conference is now open. On July 24th, 2003, eleven national libraries and the Internet Archive signed the first Consortium Agreement, recognizing the significance of international collaboration in preserving internet content for future generations. The agreement was signed at the National Library of France (BnF), the host of the 2024 General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference which will be held on April 24-26, 2024.

The annual IIPC conference brings together the world’s experts in web archiving. While it usually attracts the international community of web archiving practitioners, it is intended for an even wider audience including archivists, curators, software developers, researchers interested in working with digital content, and digital preservationists.

This year’s conference title is “Web Archives in Context.” The WAC 2024 Program Committee invites proposals related to five broad themes: Digital Preservation, Curation, Tools and Workflows, Research and Access, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. More details about the suggested topics and submission guidelines are available on the conference website: https://netpreserve.org/ga2024/cfp/. 

We would like to thank our program committee for their efforts in organizing the CfP, as well as the delegates of the 2023 conference for their valuable feedback. Their input has been taken into consideration while determining this year’s topics for proposals.

The deadline for submitting proposals is by the end of the day on September 24th (AoE/UTC-12) 2023.

For updates, please follow the conference website (netpreserve.org/ga2024/) and Twitter (@netpreserve, #iipcGA24, #iipcWAC24, #iipc20Years). 

If you have any questions about the 2024 WAC, you can email us at events@netpreserve.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Paris in April!

The WAC 2024 Organizing Committee

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IIPC General Assembly (#iipcGA24) & Web Archiving Conference (#iipcWAC24), Wednesday 24 – Friday 26 April 2024 

Organized by the IIPC and the National Library of France

netpreserve.org/ga2024

New Issue: Comma

Comma, Vol. 2021, No. 2, July 2023
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Introduction
Amy Tector, Jörg Ludwig and Frans Smit

气象档案在气象发展史中的角色转变及发展趋势
于 晨

Sunspot observations and glacier images. Archival research
partnerships focusing on modern climate research
Michael Gasser, Nicole Graf and Christian John Huber

Redrawing historical weather data and participatory archives for the
future
Gordon Burr, Lori Podolsky and Yves A. Lapointe

The challenge of archiving the global modern wind energy sector
Kolya Abramsky, Stefan Gsänger and Elizabeth Bartram

The training of archivists and access to information about the
environment and the Amazon in Brazil*
Mônica Tenaglia, Georgete Medleg Rodrigues, Iane Maria da Silva
Batista and Gilberto Gomes Cândido

No man is an island entire of itself:* Legal frameworks and the
relocation of a nation’s archive due to rising sea levels
Anna Woodham and Matthew Gordon-Clark

Assess increased flooding on the archiving system of the South African
National Parks, South Africa
Sidney Netshakhuma and Itumeleng Khadambi

Cambio Climático y Archivos de Derechos Humanos en Brasil y Chile:
recomendaciones y propuestas desde América Latina
Claudio Ogass Bilbao and Francisco González Villanueva

Climate change, copyright, and archives
Jean Dryde

Coûts écologiques de nos pratiques archivistiques
Aurèle Nicolet and Basma Makhlouf Shabou