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Review Of Family And Justice In The Archives: Historical Perspectives On Intimacy And The Law, Ashley Achee

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Family and Justice in the Archives: Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law.

Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives, Alison Reynolds

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives. Edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas (New York: Routledge, 2021), 257 pp. Reviewed by Alison Reynolds.

Review: Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy, Penny Cliff

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy. Edited by Rachel Chatalbash, Susan Hernandez, and Megan Schwenke. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists. 2022), 192 pp. Reviewed by Penny Cliff.

Building Resilience: Three Decades Of Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparedness And Response In Georgia, Tina Mason Seetoo, Christine S. Wiseman

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Georgia is a geographically diverse state with a growing population. Its vast and varied natural, cultural, and historic (NCH) resources contribute significantly to the state’s economy, yet they are at risk of damage from disasters. The awareness of the need for emergency planning for NCH collections has grown over the past three decades. Federal funding has always played an important part in this effort even if the focus of training has evolved over the years. This need can only be met with support from State and Federal agencies, networking, and outreach beyond the urban centers in Georgia. Through research, interviews, …

Review: Decolonial Archival Futures, Michelle Schabowski

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: Decolonial Archival Futures. By Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists and American Library Association), 2023. 86 pp. Reviewed by Michelle Schabowski.

Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, And Digital Archives, Blynne Olivieri Parker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives. Edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023), 338 pp. Reviewed by Blynne Olivieri Parker.

Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, And Discovery At The Dawn Of Ai, Autumn M. Johnson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI. By Fei-Fei Li. (New York: Flatiron Books, 2023), 336 pp. Reviewed by Autumn M. Johnson.

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 03, September 16, 2024, Grand Valley State University

Volume 59, August 5, 2024 – current

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Ephemera As A Versatile Primary Resource: A Case Study Of The Nancy Tucker Postcard Collection, Dylan J. Mcdonald, Jennifer Olguin, Monika Glowacka-Musial

Journal of Western Archives

Ephemera are rich primary sources too often overlooked within archival materials and at collecting institutions. This case study argues that archivists and librarians should recognize ephemera, specifically postcards, as powerful historical documents worthy of scholarly investigation. By analyzing a sample set of digitized postcards held at the New Mexico State University Library, we show how scholars can use postcards to develop evidence-based arguments. Through the images, printed texts, and hand-written inscriptions found on these early 20th century postcards, we demonstrate how researchers can examine the pro-development messages found in southern New Mexico postcards.

Paraclete Press. Season Of Beauty: A Lent And Easter Treasury Of Readings, Poems And Prayers. Brewster, Ma: Paraclete Press, 2024, Cynthia Hammell

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Fry, John. A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life Of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2024., Randi K.J. Baltzer

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 02, August 26, 2024, Grand Valley State University

Volume 59, August 5, 2024 – current

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 01, August 5, 2024, Grand Valley State University

Volume 59, August 5, 2024 – current

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Review Of War On Record: The Archive And The Afterlife Of The Civil War, Rose Buchanan

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War, historian Yael A. Sternhell explores the creation, compilation, and publication of official records of the American Civil War and how archival processes shaped what we understand Civil War history to be today. This book is a logical outgrowth of Sternhell’s previous examinations of Confederate records and Civil War historiography and reflects the “archival turn” that she and other humanities and social sciences scholars have embraced in recent decades. Written in a clear, narrative style and punctuated by a wealth of interesting anecdotes uncovered in the records, …

Ethical Access Practices: Interviews With Practitioners​, Virginia A. Dressler, Kelley F. Rowan

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation was given at the Digital Library Federation in 2024. It shares interviews conducted with various institutions and their practitioners who manage digital collections. The authors are exploring the use of access, access restrictions, privacy, and policies that are in place to help practitioners manage complex ethical issues in determining privacy and access. The presentation is part of a 2025 publication by the authors titled, The Ethical Digital Repository: A Compassionate Approach to Managing Sensitive Content and Decolonial Archives.

Memetic Memory As Vital Conduits Of Troublemakers In Digital Culture, Alexander O. Smith, Jordan Loewen-Colón

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

Recent fears of data capitalism and colonialism often argue using implicit assumptions about cybernetic technology’s ability to automate data about culture. As such, the level of data granularity made possible by cybernetic engineering can be used to dominate society and culture. Here we unpack these implicit assumptions about the datafication of culture through memes, which both act as cultural data and cultural memory. Using Alexander Galloway’s critical method of protocological analysis and descriptions of media tactics, we respond to fears of cybernetic domination. Protocols – the source by which cybernetic technologies enable automated datafication – enables us to respond to …

Ucf Libraries 2024 Faculty Research Showcase, Michael Furlong, David Benjamin, Renee Cole Montgomery, Chereeka Garner, Andy Todd, Peggy L. Nuhn, Jeanne Piascik, Tina H. Buck, Sara Duff, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries’ Faculty Research Showcase has been a tradition of the library to highlight the publications, research projects, and scholarly accomplishments of library faculty members. The 2024 Showcase features seven presentations: "Alas, Babylon Afterword, Centipede Press (1959/2024)", "Throwback to Throwback Thinking: Integrating Archives into Student Engagement Activities", "Recent Research Activity: A Tale of Two Studies", "I Think I Can… I Think I Can…: Lessons in Persistence and Relationships from The Little Engine that Could", "A Hybrid Approach to Library Deaccessioning: A Case Study from the University of Central Florida", "KBART Automation vs Manual …

The Symbiosis Of Volunteerism: A Story Of One Academic Library Welcoming Volunteers, Shan Martinez

The Christian Librarian

Although public and school libraries, as well as many non-profit organizations regularly utilize volunteers, academic libraries are less likely to welcome them. This article describes the variety of volunteers received at Brown Library of Abilene Christian University and the tasks that they perform. It also presents a discussion of the motivation to accept volunteers, perhaps a faith practice.

Please Don’T Break: Best Practices For Digitizing And Archiving Glass Plate Photographs, Ariel Hammond, Noelle Zocco, Alejandra Tomeo, Diego Jimenez

Journal of Western Archives

Glass plate photographs, taken primarily between 1860-1930, were meant to document and preserve imagery, however, these photographs developed directly on glass are increasingly prone to destruction. With recent advances in imaging techniques, metadata, and collections care, the preservation of glass photography has evolved. This paper is a snapshot of the current best practices for preserving, digitizing, and storing glass plate and lantern slide photographs. It also features a case study from the San Diego Natural History Museum Library & Archives, which digitized a collection of 2,000+ glass photographs depicting the earliest images of flora and fauna in San Diego County, …

University Of Kentucky Libraries' Libqual+ Report 2024, Julene L. Jones

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Report of University of Kentucky's 2024 LibQUAL+ results

News From Hope College, Volume 56.1: Summer 2024, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Archeota Spring/ Summer 2024, Emily Mizokami, Ali Phelps, Celina Lozano, Araceli Argueta, Chelsey Abbott, Danielle Bonsignore, Sarah Lewis

Archeota

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:

Reslience and Pride at the LLACE by Emily Mizokami

Black Americana at the Museum of Ventura County by Ali Phelps

Interview with Archivist Maria Carillo Colato by Celina Lozano

Gabriel Vidal's Central American Music Archive by Araceli Argueta

Preserving Peanuts by Danielle Bonsignore

Interference Archives by Chelsey Abbott

Preservation Workshop …

Measuring Uk Libraries User Satisfaction: Ukl Libqual+ 2024 Results, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

Presentation based on the University of Kentucky's 2024 LibQUAL+ implementation

Variegated Order: Making Space For Neurodiverse Perspectives In Archives, Sophie Penniman

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article aims to envision how archives could better reflect and represent neurodivergent records creators—people whose brains function in ways that diverge significantly from dominant societal standards of “normal". It discusses how neurodivergent records creators and their recordkeeping behaviors often do not fit within traditional archival paradigms which center verbal, written, and linear documents in specific organizational systems. The article then brings together sources from disability studies, feminist and gender studies, library studies, literary analysis, and archival scholarship to imagine ways in which the principle of provenance could be expanded to fit the archives of neurodiverse creators (and archives that …

How Accessible Are European Public Archives? An Assessment Of The Compliance With The Council Of Europe Recommendation R(2000)13 On A European Policy On Access To Archives, Michael Friedewald, Ivan Szekely, Murat Karaboga

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This paper takes as its starting point the lessons learned from the second pan-European study on access to archives conducted 20 years after the first one – with the understanding that these results may also provide global lessons. The principal aim of the study was to assess the European archives' compliance with the Council of Europe Recommendation No. R(2000)13 on a European policy on access to archives, which was adopted in July 2000 and was the first international norm in this field. Although the overall access situation in Europe has significantly improved over the past 20 years, several practices still …

Speculative Telephone: Oral Historians And Digital Librarians On How Libraries Could Be, Kae Kratcha

Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

In the summer of 2023, librarian and oral historian Kae Bara Kratcha interviewed three oral historians about their relationships to libraries and their dreams for what digital libraries could be. Then they played portions of each oral historian interview for a digital librarian and asked the librarian to speculate about what their jobs and lives would be like if they implemented the oral historians' ideas about digital libraries. “Speculative Telephone: Oral Historians and Digital Librarians on How Libraries Could Be” is eleven edited audio tracks of wide-ranging conversation on topics like public space, online communities, library anxiety, relationships with library …

Let Us Fail: Speculative Futures And Digital Librarianship, Natalia Estrada, Kristina Bush, Stacy Snyder

Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

Let Us Fail explores what digital librarianship work might look like if digital library workers were not tied to the technology, infrastructure, or work culture of academia that we currently experience. We explore what work could look like if we were given the agency to play and be creative, support to learn from failure, and freedom from traditional assessment metrics. This podcast dreams about a future in which digital library workers are self-directed, autonomous workers with the capacity to explore, experiment, and iterate.

To stream each episode of this podcast, navigate to JCDL volume 0, issue 2 and click on …

Desire Paths In The Information Landscape, Victoria Van Hyning, Mason A. Jones, Travis Wagner

Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

Libraries and archives serve so many different users who come to information institutions with various perspectives, needs, experiences, and desires around accessing physical or digital collections. While our users may find what they are looking for immediately, many have to beat their own paths through complex systems and metadata that doesn’t align with their needs. Their search strategies may leave digital “desire paths”–alternative routes through the information landscape that can show us how to better meet their needs. This article covers three scenarios where users’ desire paths can be seen or where gaps around user experience can be better addressed. …

Editors' Introduction, Leah Powell Duncan, Janina Mueller, Rachel Starry, Sl Ziegler, Emily M. Zinger

Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

Editors' Introduction. Special Issue, "Turning it Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship"

This Be The Beloved Curse: Learning To Love Ever-Evolving Born-Digital Description, Ruth E. Bryan, Megan M. Mummey, Andrew Mcdonnell

Library Presentations

The title of the presentation, “This be the beloved curse” is taken from Philip Larkin’s poem “This be the curse.” In it, Larkin describes the cycle of life where children are messed up by their parents, who, with the best intentions, “...fill you with the faults they had/and add some extra, just for you.” He goes on to explain, though, that our parents, in their turn, were equally messed up “...by fools in old-style hats and coats…”, handing on what Larkin terms “misery” from one generation to another.

As archivists, and especially as archivists working with digital formats, our “beloved …