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New Special Issue: MUSICultures: The Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La revue de la Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales

MUSICultures: The Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La revue de la Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales. Volume 52, 2025.
(open access)

From the Editor / Mot du Rédacteur en Chef
Gordon E. Smith

Articles: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology / Archives, Accès et Ethnomusicologie

Introduction: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology
Laura Risk et Janice Esther Tulk

Dirna arrun “We Hold It”: Rematriating Junba with Archival Collections and Living Knowledge in the Kimberley, Northwest Australia
Pete Myadooma O’Connor, John Nyunjuma Divilli, Rona Goonginda Charles et Sally Treloyn

Heterophonic Mayhem in the Archive: The Poetics, Surprises, and Disruptions of Animating the Arab Musical Diaspora
Anne K. Rasmussen, Jared Holton, Anne Elise Thomas et Albert Agha

Digital Ethnomusicological Research Data and the Institutional Repository
Farzaneh Hemmasi et Hannah M. Brown

Archival Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge, and Challenges in Collection Management: An Australian Case Study
Peter Toner

Epistemologies of Access: Hugh Tracey’s Organizing Principles at the International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Nicole Madeleine Pooley

Cultures of Sound Network: The Genesis of an International Alliance
Marcia Ostashewski, Harris M. Berger, Darrell Bernard Sr., Logan E. Clark, Michael Frishkopf, Judith Klassen, Maureen Loughran et Graham Marshall

Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival
Rachel Horner

Articles: Voices / Voix

Canadian Music Studies and/under the Second Trump Presidency
Robin Elliott

Articles: Open Topics / Hors Thème

Twerking, Alcohol, Ordination: Rethinking Sacred and Secular with Rot Hae’s Mobile and Participatory Performances in Thailand
Nattapol Wisuttipat

Developing a Community-Engaged Research-Creation Methodology through the Resonance Project
Ellen Waterman et Gale Franklin

Navigating Power and Positionality in Ethnographic Spaces
Tracey Mia Stewart

Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus de Livres

Stock, Jonathan P. J., with Chou Chiener. 2021. Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
Tangmuyang Zhang

Martin, Denis-Constant. 2020. Plus que de la musique… Musiques, sociétés et politique, Caraïbes, États-Unis, Afrique du Sud
Marie-Christine Parent

Stanbridge, Alan. 2023. Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse
Robbie MacKay

Donaghy, Joseph Keola. 2024. Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea
Kati Szego

Pilzer, Joshua. 2023. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima”
Benjamin Tausig

Jacobsen, Kristina. 2024. Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Felicia K. Youngblood

Exhibition Reviews / Comptes Rendus d’Expositions

Yamaima Hilwa: As sung by Salim Doumani with Takht Naim Karakand
Daoud Husni, Muhammad Younis Al-Kady, Anne K. Rasmussen et Anne Elise Thomas

Il-Ḥilwa Dī (“This Beautiful Girl”)
Badi‘ Khayri, Sayyid Darwish et Jared Holton

Yā Ghazālan (“Oh Gazelle”): موشّح (muwashshaḥ)
Jared Holton

New Issue: Cinergie: Il Cinema e le altre Arti

Cinergie, no. 28, 2025 (Special Issue: Tele-Archives: Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions across Europe)
(open access)

Introduction: Tele-Archives. Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions Across Europe
Giulia Crisanti, Myriam Mereu, Emiliano Rossi, Paola Zeni

Broadcasting Knowledge: The Role of the Television Archive in the Pedagogical Legacy of OU’s A305 History of Architecture and Design (1890-1939)
Marco Manfra, Grazia Quercia

Studio Azzurro and Rai: Retrieving Neglected Histories from Artist Archives
Chiara Borgonovo, Laura Marcolini

Adapting Manchester: Granada Studios, Brideshead Revisited (1981) and the “Performance” of Place
Victoria Lowe

Reconstructing Histories: Mapping Artists’ Film and Video on Channel 4 (1982–1992) through the Archives of LUX, British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, and REWIND Artists’ Video Archive
Nicole Atkinson

Mus-Mus-Musica! Videomusic’s Archive at Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Gabriele Angelo Perrone

The Transition Period to Multi-Channel Television Broadcasting in Turkey and the Analysis of Television Programme Guides
Pınar Aslan, Hakan Koluman, Sena Özşirin

Tele-Archives and OTT Platforms between National Recollection and Algorithmic Memory. A Comparison of Three European Models: RaiPlay, RTVE Play, and INA Madelen
Alessia Francesca Casiraghi

“A Public Service Through a Private TV”: Tracing Multidimensional Approaches to Researching Italian Local Television Through the History of TeleRoma56
Giulia Crisanti

Broadcasting the Island: Sardegna 1 and the Archival Reconstruction of a Local Media Story
Myriam Mereu

All Passionately On Stage: Antenna 3’s Creative Journey between Entertainment and Advertising
Luca Barra, Emiliano Rossi

Aliens in Emilia-Romagna: TeleSanterno from Local Roots to National Entertainment
Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello

Our Studio Is the City. Local Broadcasting and Political Information in the Archives of Videogruppo Piemonte
Riccardo Fassone, Paola Zeni

Miscellanea

“It’s Some Revisionist Horseshit From a Fading Director”. Transgender Meanings and Popular Culture: The Case of The Matrix
Claudio Bisoni

New Frontiers for Historical Dissemination: Alessandro Barbero Between Fandom and Performativity
Lucia Di Girolamo, Mariangela Palmieri

Constructing a Stratified Representative Sample of Italian TV Series (2000–2023): A Methodological Framework for Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Greta Iapalucci, Guglielmo Pescatore

Songs from Sanremo, from CD to Streaming: Analysis of Lengths and Introductions
Dino Mignogna

Call for Papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history, cultural sociology, or legal history. Issues are published semi-annually and exclusively online in Diamond Open Access. Research articles and research reports, to be submitted in English or German, are subject to a double-blind peer-review. All submissions undergo an internal evaluation by the editors supported by the advisory board and receive professional copy-editing before publication. The journal is based at the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law at the University of Bonn and at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. transfer receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Webhosting is provided by our partner institution Heidelberg University Library via arthistoricum.net.

Website: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

Editors: Felicity Bodenstein, Ulrike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag

Managing Editor: Florian Schönfuß

Advisory Board: Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., dbv-Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung, Didier Houénoudé, Larissa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, Antoinette Maget-Dominicé, Barbara K. Murovec, Gesa Vietzen

Open Call for Submissions

transfer is an interdisciplinary, cross-epoch and international journal. It primarily addresses a scholarly audience. Besides experienced researchers, transfer equally aims at early career researchers, including PhD students, offering broad impact and high accessibility for the publication of recent research. Abstaining from any author charges or other publication fees, transfer provides a Diamond Open Access platform assuring research quality as well as transparency, fostering research interconnection and the crossing of disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:

– Provenance research on individual objects or object groups

– Collections, History of collection

– Translocation of art and cultural assets 

– Art and cultural property law

– Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory

– Art trade, Art market studies

– Art policy, Sociology of art, Cultural sociology

– Restitution, Return, Repatriation

In conjunction with the articles in transfer, corresponding research data sets can be published via the Open Research Data platform heiData. For further information on this and regarding submissions, text categories, peer-review as well as our Style Sheet, please see the journal-website or contact us under redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de.

The editorial deadline for issue 5 (2026), no. 2, is July 15, 2026.

Contact Information

Dr. Florian Schönfuß

transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / 

Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Forschungsstelle Provenienzforschung, 

Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht

Kunsthistorisches Institut

Rabinstraße 1

53111 Bonn (Germany)

florian.schoenfuss@uni-bonn.de

Contact Email

redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de

URL

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, March 1, 2026
(partial open access)

Editorial
Introduction: Stewarding Indigenous knowledge through ethics, law and the archive

Essay
(Re)connecting with Indigenous cultural expression(s): Emerging frameworks for empowering Indigenous voices, agency, and authority
Nancy E Weiss

Articles
Protecting traditional cultural expressions: Law, Indigenous protocols, library practices
Ulia Gosart, Valmaine Toki and Susan Townzen

The silences and absences in Botswana’s archives: Cross-examining colonial legacy
Tshepho Mosweu

Influence of Indigenous data governance principles on Indigenous knowledge management: Lessons from the Southern African Intangible Cultural Heritage Project
Josiline Chigwada, Jacob Mapara, Patrick Ngulube and Tavhiringwa Chabvutagondo

Stewarding Indigenous language data: Case studies in CARE
Sandra Littletree, Nestor Guerrero and Miranda Belarde-Lewis

Exploring control of access to the Japadhola indigenous information
Gilbert Okello, Joyce Bukirwa and Elisam Magara

Sowing the future: The vision of community libraries at Amawtay Wasi University, Ecuador1
Adriana Guandinango

Affective encounters with digital knowledge collections: Towards supporting Indigenous wellbeing
Ailsa Lipscombe and Chern Li Liew

Beyond acknowledgement: Indigenous-centered projects on reclamation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bethany G Anderson, Krystiana L Krupa, Elizabeth A Sutton and Oliver G Tapaha

Bibliometric analysis of Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change adaptation literature, 1993–2023
Reniko Gondo

Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation among Tanzanian smallholder farmers: A systematic review
Martinus E Sospeter, Wulystan Pius Mtega and Andrew Malekani

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections,” by Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford of University at Buffalo Librarieshttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/4/

“An Archival Responsibility: A Scoping Review of Literature Regarding the Documentary Burdens of Refugees,” by Ana Roeschley, Kinza Alizai, Crystal Tharayil, Amy Lanier, Merrion D. Frederick, and Homero R. Cuevas of UNT Libraries: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/5/

“Accepting and implementing virtual reality in archives: Archivists’ perspective,” by Farzaneh Talebhaghighi of U of A College of Information Science: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/6/

“Archives and Children’s Knowledge,” by Elliott Kuecker of UNC-Chapel Hill Library and Ashley Rockenbach of City Tech CUNY: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/7/

Reviews

“Review of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History,” by Kai H. Uchida of UNH Libraryhttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/1/

“Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education,” by Anna Z. Szapiro of Yale University Library: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/2/

“Review of Ethics in Linked Data,” by Rebecca Fried of Schaffer Library at Union College: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/3/

New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 58 (2025)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

The impact of archives and records management legislation on administrative transparency and accountability in Sierra Leone Public Archives
Umaru Bangura

Utilisation of Internet of Things technology for managing archives of public universities in South Africa
Zolile Myeko, Edward Dakora

Digital preservation of archival materials at selected university archives in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lufuno Kgamedi, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Privatisation and displacement of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Sindiso Bhebhe

Record-keeping on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare in Ruvuma region, Tanzania
Donata Kemirembe , Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Maliwaza Mbwana

End-to-end digitisation workflows with intelligent document processing for university theses and historical newspapers
Niklas Zimmer

Maintaining compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act in Tshwane Healthcare Centres, South Africa
Isaac Mpho Mothiba

Archives and records management Fourth Industrial Revolution skills and competency requirements on the job adverts in Botswana
Olefhile Mosweu, Donald Rakemane

Enhancing recordkeeping in Tanzanian public universities through robust records disaster preparedness
George Firmin Kavishe, Francis Garaba

Managing the electronic records management system at the Workers’ Compensation Fund in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Bertha Maturo

Implementation of a records classification system for proper recordkeeping in the Northwest Provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, South Africa
Refilwe Mpho Malatji, Makutla Mojapelo

Application of the system development life cycle for the implementation of an electronic document and records management system in the public service of Namibia
Aune Iipumbu , Cathrine Nengomasha

New Issue: South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

Vol. 92 No. 1 (2026): Stewardship of Documentary Heritage in Lesotho: Reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference
(open access)

Editorial
Stewardship of documentary heritage in Lesotho: reflections from the Basotho Bicentennial Conference

Research Articles
Preserving and indigenising chieftainship cultural heritage in Lesotho: the case of Royal Archives and Museum
Matseliso Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa

Safeguarding Basotho heritage: the role of Lesotho National Library Srvices in the digital preservation of national collection
Wole Michael Olatokun, Mamoeletsi Cecilia Monyane

Preserving the past, present and future: the case of Lesotho National Broadcasting Services
Ts’epo Joseph Rafoneke

Cloud computing as a disaster management tool for documentary heritage management: reflections by the National University of Lesotho
Tahleho Tseole, Olefhile Mosweu

Preservation management framework in library and archival institutions: a conceptual framework
Thatayaone Segaetsho

Preserving language through digital neologisms: a study of word-formation processes in the digital age
Beatrice Ekanjume, Maboleba Kolobe, Thuso Leoisa

Language and translation as tools for the archiving and preservation of Indigenous knowledge: the case of Lesotho
Mosisili Sebotsa

A case for black sartorial history: the role of orality, archives, museums, and libraries
Khaya Mchunu, Maneo Ralebitso, Kiara Gounder

Generating knowledge for archives, libraries and museums: oral history research methodology in the twenty first century
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Maneo Ralebitso

Orality as a mechanism of preserving SeMoshoeshoe Basotho History
Keneuoe Anacletta Motšoene

The complexities of shared digital curation: a case study relating to Lesotho material held in the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library
Sally Kent

New Issue: Provenance, Mini-Issue

From the Editor:

The Archivist in me acknowledges that this is being published on January 19, 2026. The Reviews Editor in me will stand by dating the issue as 12/31/2025 as a nod to the tremendous efforts this past year from the Review Contributors, whose reviews are included within. However, the Archivist in me also must note that a lot has happened in our world between 2025 and today, further highlighting the tension of timeliness for me. While my heart regrets that a full issue was not published in 2025 given a variety of challenges, there is another part of me that recognizes that with a new year often comes fresh starts to personal and professional commitments, granting a different sense of timeliness. What will you be reading in 2026? What topics might you explore more deeply? What voices are you interested in reviewing yourself for a future issue? My hope is that you feel invited to explore a variety of perspectives and options as part of your professional development reading, inspired by these reviews. Please stay tuned for a separate articles-based issue in the near future. Thank you and happy (intentional) reading in 2026 and beyond.

Brittany “Britt” Parris, Reviews Editor (2024-2026)

Reviews

Review: Photo Archives and the Place of Photography
Alex Brinson

Review: Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives
Penny Cliff

Review: Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration
Lauren Goodley

Review: Archives 101
Autumn M. Johnson

Review: The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance
Cathy Miller

Review: The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
shady Radical PhD

Review: Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners
Michelle Schabowski


Review: Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Jessica Wylie

New Issue: ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

Editorial
Segomotso Keakopa , Mehluli Masuku

Repatriation of the World Council of Churches’ 1948-1960 archives from Switzerland to South Africa
Sidney Nkholedzeni Netshakhuma

Engaging the public through archives: a systematic review of participatory approaches in public programming
Mthokozisi Masumbika Ncube, Patrick Ngulube

Leveraging artificial intelligence for ethical archiving and democratising access to sensitive historical narratives
Prince Kudakwashe Madziwa, Takunda Michael Ralph Chingonzo

The custody questionownership and control of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Elizabeth Kyazike, Peterson Dewah

Digital transformation for leveraging police case records management to support justice for all in South Africa
Ngoako Marutha

International diplomacy versus Zimbabwean archival heritage: challenges and prospects of repatriating migrated archives in Zimbabwe
Adock Dube, Trevor Gumbo, Masithokoze Hlabangana

An assessment of the storage systems for medical records in public healthcare facilities in Malawi
Austin Phiri, Antonio Rodrigues

Expanding the archival boundary through a “community archives” project in Zimbabwe
Samuel Chabikwa, Patrick Ngulube

Unlocking digital records enhancing accessibility for effective records management at Zomba District Council in Malawi
Clement Mweso

The impact of artificial intelligence on modern records and archives management practices
Andrew Asasiira

Artificial intelligence in records management in Africa: opportunities and threats
Ndakasharwa Muchaonyerwa, Sharon Ndlovu

New Journal: Humanities Methods in Librarianship

Humanities Methods in Librarianship is a no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research with an emphasis on articles that push the boundaries — both thematically and formally — of what has been traditionally viewed as scholarship within the discipline. The journal aims to broaden the conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient questions related to libraries, librarians, and librarianship. Humanistic methodological approaches may be used to address a wide range of topics within librarianship, so we encourage creative approaches and a diversity of submissions.

Submission types may include but are not limited to:

  • Conceptual, philosophical, or theoretical discussions
  • Literary, critical, or textual analyses of major (or minor) works within the literature
  • Historical analyses and histories of the profession
  • Personal narratives and autoethnography
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Interviews or oral histories

We aim to publish original work, but the journal will consider papers that have been presented at conferences. We won’t review or accept work that is currently under consideration elsewhere.

Authors are welcome to reach out to the editors to share a synopsis or an abstract in advance of submission to determine if their topic is within scope. We hope to have our first call for papers in early 2026.