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New Issue: Museum Worlds

Museum Worlds, vol. 12 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial 
Conal Mccarthy and Alison K. Brown 

I. Articles 
Expanded Loans as Forms of Indigenous Access, Reconnection, and Sovereignty: Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan—Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour and Respect—Gifts from the Michi Saagiig Women to the Prince of Wales, 1860 
Laura Peers, Lori Beavis, and Christine Beavis 

Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts: Meanings of Zulu Beadwork 
Njabulo Chipangura and Motsane Getrude Seabela 

Digitization Is Not Decolonization: South Africa’s Amagugu Ethu Museum Project and Colonial Documentation in Digital Times 
Laura Gibson 

II. Special Section 
Introduction: Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide—Reimagining Human–Environment Relations in and through Museums 
Philipp Schorch and Nicholas Thomas 

The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections 
Jack Ashby 

Intertwining the Ethno-botanical Amazonian Collections of Spix and Martius and Beyond 
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder 

A Munduruku Headdress: Transforming the Relations between Natural History and Ethnography 
Anita Herle 

Curating the In-Between: A New Approach at BIOTOPIA–Naturkundemuseum Bayern 
Samara Rubinstein and Colleen M. Schmitz 

A Landscape of Well-Being: Bridging the “Nature–Culture Divide” at Trumpington Meadows Country Park, Cambridge 
Jody Joy 

III. Reports and Dispatches 
Connecting Collections: Transforming Access to Museum Collections at Scale for Knowledge Generation in Australia 
Jason M. Gibson, Gaye Sculthorpe, Alistair Paterson, and Andrea Witcomb 

Preserving Indigenous Knowledges and Practices as Moana Oceania Diaspora in Aotearoa: Views from Niue and Kiribati 
Lagi-Maama and Jackie Leota-Mua 

Enhancing the Usability of Stored Museum Items: Loans and Exchanges 
Lara Corona 

New Urban Peace in Delhi: The Partition Museum 
Neha Khetrapal  

Setting Agendas for Mass Media: The Case of the Beijing Palace Museum 
Zhitong Mu 

Report on CoMuseum 2023: Museums and Justice: 13th CoMuseum International Conference, 6–8 December 2023 
Sophia Handaka 

IV. Review Essays 
Our Colonial Inheritance; The Loud Archive: Love & Loss and the Critical Theory of Emotion and Affect; The Northwest Coast Hall Reimagined; The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do; Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums; The Weave of “Fashion Diplomacy”; Interpreting Africa in South Korea; Ecological Art Exhibitions in London 
Mary Caton Lingold, Camus Wyatt, Bryony Onciul, Andy Everson, Jaimie N. Luria, Olga Zabalueva, Matthew Raj Webb, Sumi Kim, and Sara Selwood 

V. Exhibition Reviews 
Radical Stitch; Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania; Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance; The Light of Day: Unearthing the Past; Polarity: Fire & Ice; Tibuta – Kinaakiia Ainen Kiribati: Tibuta – Identifies Kiribati Women; Cellphone: Unseen Connections; The Tora-san Memorial Museum 
Linda Grussani, Rachel E. Smith, Garance Nyssen, Luiza de Paula Souza Serber, Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup, Jessica Hope van Heerden, Maraya Takoniatis, Emelihter Kihleng, Amrita Ibrahim, and Yi Wang 

VI. Book Reviews 
Dóra Bobory, Anamaría Rojas Múnera, Dan Spock, Brian Yang, Conal Mccarthy, Anthony Alan Shelton, Anna Woodham, Kirsty Kernohan, Varda Nisar, Jorunn Jernsletten, Anne Malmendier, Arnar Árnason, Yi Zheng, and Lanzhou Luo 

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New Issue: Archeota

Archeota 10, no. 2 (Winter 2025)

Description

Archeota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession.

Contents

A Tale of Two Film Archives: History and Impact of the British Film Institute and the Cinémathèque Française by Sarah Miller

Enhancing Archival Access with Sustainability: Insights from a Library Scholar Internship at Cal Poly Humboldt by Kaitlyn R. O’Dell

Farewell to Our Winter 2024 Graduate: Interviews with SAA Student Chapter Leaders

“Several archivists were injured, but none critically”: Dangerous Archives in Star Trek by Erica Leff

Digital Vandalism: A Case Study of the Internet Archive and the British Library by Peyton Walters

The Congregation Beth Am Archives: Creatively Using Tech to Process Born- Digital Records by Joshua Insel

Meet the 2025 Archeota AND SAASC Team! Q&A with SAASC Board Members and Archeota Editorial Board Members

SAASC Spring 2025 Executive Board

SAASC FALL & Winter 2024 Events and Upcoming Spring 2025 Events

New Issue: iJournal (University of Toronto)

iJournal (University of Toronto) 10, no. 1 (Fall 2024)
(open access)

Letter from the Editor
Morghen Jael

“Things Should Be Done the Way They Should Be Done”
Towards an Indigenous Collections Policy that Addresses Physical Preservation at U of T
Sophia Arts

Googling Girls Kissing
Information-Seeking Behaviour of Queer Youth Born Between 1994‒1995
Isobel Carnegie

Measuring Researcher Impact in the Environmental Science Field
A Comparison of Bibliometric Data in Overton, Scopus, and Google Scholar
Lindsay Adoranti, Melissa Cameron

Born from Lithium Minds
A Guide on Mapping Digital Kinship
Andrew Wiebe

Exploring Imbalances on Wikipedia Through Archival Creation Theories
Dominique Robb

Moving and Rehousing the Tanned Mammal Skin Collection at the Royal British Columbia Museum
Arden Hody

Towards an Understanding of Archival-Poiesis
Friederike Mayröcker’s Archive as a Case Study
Benjamin de Boer

Check the (Cassette) Tapes
An Exploration into the Role of Cassette Tapes and Individual Rebellion in Iran
Mona Makinejad

Description as an Act of Othering
Towards Decolonizing Canadian Photo Archives
Alison May-Kosiewski

Recent Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

RBM, Vol. 25 no. 2 (2024)
(open access)

Editor’s Note
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

An Analysis of RBMS News Blog Job Advertisements, 2013–2021
Ikumi Crocoll, Kelli Hansen

Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books
Jessica Pace, Lou Di Gennaro, Josephine Jenks, Catherine E. Stephens

From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
Remy Jackson

Reviews

Georgios Boudalis. On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. Hardcover, xii, 334p. $80 (ISBN 9781953421111).
Diane E. Bockrath

Jessica Brantley. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Hardcover, 346 p. $65. (ISBN: 9780812253849).
Joshua Hutchinson

New Issue: Studies in Oral History

Studies in Oral History, Issue no. 46, 2024
theme ‘Oral History and Working Lives’
Oral History Australia
open access

Editors
Skye Krichauff and Carolyn Collins

Guest editors
Nicholas Herriot and Paul Sendziuk

Contents

To access a specific article click on the linked title. It will take you to a PDF that you can view and/or download.

Editorial and contents

Peer-reviewed articles

Reports

Reviews

Obituaries

New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 57 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

Records management for transparency and accountability on land allocation at the Nkambeni Tribal Authority in Mpumalanga province of South Africa
Innocentia Vidian Khoza, Jan Resenga Maluleka

Records management programme towards good governance and service delivery in Singida Local Authorities, Tanzania
Lameck Sospeter Kashaija, Prisca Julius Chacha, Cecylly Cornel Ngudungi , Seleman George Dutu

Records management practices to support administrative operations at the University of Venda in South Africa
Geven Singo, Lefose Makgahlela

Leveraging dark data for governance of Kenya Electricity Transmission Company
Gloria Regina Mukhongo, Evans Munge Mwangi , Elsebah Maseh

Records management for administration of Traditional Council at Ga-Mphahlele in Limpopo, South Africa
Kabelo Kgomoeswana, Lefose Makgahlela, Amogelang Molaudzi

Digital preservation of records at Wazalendo and Umoja Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Tanzania
Erasto Gerald Luvanda , John Jackson Iwata

Myths and realities of land registration in Zanzibar
Abdul-Nasser Hikmany

Transition from audio-visual archives to trusted digital repository at the National Archives of Zimbabwe
Amos Bishi, Mpho Ngoepe

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal Volume 34, Issue 2/3
partial open access

Editorial: The carrot and the stick: the impact of legislation and regulation on records management best practice, change and innovation
Elizabeth Jane Lomas

Searching for a smoking gun: access to information and release of the John F. Kennedy assassination records
Amy Howard

Presidential prerogative, congressional inaction, and the problem of presidential libraries
Abigail Guay

The Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011: creating a culture that values public records
Hugh Patrick Hagan

Local regulations for the use of artificial intelligence in the management of public records – a literature review
Proscovia Svärd, Esteban Guerrero, Tolulope Balogun, Nampombe Saurombe, Lorette Jacobs, Pekka Henttonen

Strategy for auditing investigation records and information: a case study of records and information management in the Royal Malaysian Police
Widura Abd Kadir, Umi Asma’ Mokhtar, Zawiyah M. Yusof

Enhancing transparency and accountability in public procurement: exploring blockchain technology to mitigate records fraud
Danielle Alves Batista

Participatory and proactive: real-time rights-based recordkeeping governance for the alternative care of children
Joanne Evans, Moira Paterson, Melissa Castan, Jade Purtell, Mya Ballin

Accountability as a mechanism and a virtue in Irish public sector recordkeeping
Mark Farrell

Hidden stakeholder views in Finnish archival act law drafting: a recordkeeping perspective
Tuija Kautto, Virpi Hotti

The historical development and implementation effect of Chinese village-level archival legislation
Xinxin Xu

New Special Issue: Humanities Research

Humanities Research: Volume XX, Number 1, 2024
(open access)

I. Articles

II. Research in other forms: Reports, reflections, reviews, interviews, etc.

New Special Issue: Open Library of Humanities Journal

Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
(open access)

Guest Editor: Angela Dressen

Implementing Linked Art in a Multi-Modal Database for Cross-Collection Discovery
Robert Sanderson

Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts with SPARQL
Toby Burrows

Photo Archives and Linked Open Data. The Added Value
Marilena Daquino

The Dragoman Renaissance Research Project in Library/DH Linked Data Partnerships
Natalie Rothman and Kirsta Stapelfeldt

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