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Managing Sustainability And Scalability With Successful Archival Projects: Two Lone Arranger, Dual-Role Archivist Case Studies, Autumn M. Johnson, Ann E. Merryman
Managing Sustainability And Scalability With Successful Archival Projects: Two Lone Arranger, Dual-Role Archivist Case Studies, Autumn M. Johnson, Ann E. Merryman
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Two lone arranger, dual-role archivists are faced with highly successful, yet outsized, collaborative projects that have placed unexpected demands on time and resources. The archivists describe their successful projects which similarly engage students with primary source archival materials in innovative ways, from expanding the use of the institutional content management system (CMS) for student creators to providing career-relevant training to German language students. While these projects provide opportunities for institutional and community recognition and engagement with the archives, they require the archivist to consider ways to manage sustainability, scalability, and assessment of their collections along with their overwhelming workload. Lone …
Archival Enterprise Across Early Modern Europe: A Review Essay, Kristen J. Nyitray
Archival Enterprise Across Early Modern Europe: A Review Essay, Kristen J. Nyitray
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In the early modern era, archives were a conduit for information transfer across Europe. Historians have increasingly centered archives and archivists as actors in scholarship of Early Modern European (c. 1450-1800) historical concerns. In particular, two linked areas of inquiry have been emphasized: the impact of archives on forming European identities, and the influence of European archivists on shaping archives. Studies of archives are rich sources that tease out ideological shifts in early modern times. This essay discusses recent literature and seminal writings contributing to understandings of emergent archives and archival practices across Early Modern Europe. Exploring the concept of …
Review: Engagement In The Digital Era, Charlie Gibbons
Review: Engagement In The Digital Era, Charlie Gibbons
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Engagement in the Digital Era. Edited by Nicole J. Milano and Christopher J. Prom (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020. ix +175 pp.). Reviewed by Charlie Gibbons.
Review: Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts In Transition, Donnie S. Summerlin
Review: Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts In Transition, Donnie S. Summerlin
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book review of Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition. Edited by Andrew Hoskins (New York: Routledge, 2018. 313 pp.). Review by Donnie Summerlin.
Review: Libraries, Archives And Museums: An Introduction To Cultural Heritage Institutions Through The Ages, Reagan Grimsley
Review: Libraries, Archives And Museums: An Introduction To Cultural Heritage Institutions Through The Ages, Reagan Grimsley
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review of Libraries, Archives and Museums: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions Through the Ages. Edited by Suzanne Stauffer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 273 pp.). Review by Reagan L. Grimsley.
Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, And Archives, Greg Mcnamara
Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, And Archives, Greg Mcnamara
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, and Archives. By Geof Huth (New York: AC Books, 2020. 145 pp.). Reviewed by Greg McNamara.
Review: Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean
Review: Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives. 3rd edition. By Gregory S. Hunter (Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020. xvi +302 pp.). Reviewed by Pam Hackbart-Dean.
Review: Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century, Jessamyn Swan
Review: Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century, Jessamyn Swan
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jeanette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020. 322 pp.). Reviewed by Jessamyn Swan.
Fadgi On A Budget: Improving Digital Images For Library Staff And Faculty, Matthew J. Martin
Fadgi On A Budget: Improving Digital Images For Library Staff And Faculty, Matthew J. Martin
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
This case study describes the photography equipment and setup of San Francisco State University’s Digital Scholarship Center, and the testing and manipulation of these elements to reach the 4-star tier of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) technical guidelines. It describes how, with a few tools like a color target and image analysis software, cultural heritage digitization units with limited photography skills can markedly increase the quality of their digital images with experimentation, creativity, and the photography equipment they already have.
Scaling Up Video Digitization At The University Of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study, Elizabeth M. Caringola, Pamela A. Mcclanahan, Robin C. Pike
Scaling Up Video Digitization At The University Of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study, Elizabeth M. Caringola, Pamela A. Mcclanahan, Robin C. Pike
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In 2015, a team at the University of Maryland Libraries collaborated on a pilot project to digitize 100 VHS tapes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange collection and, in doing so, established organizational workflows for video digitization and access. After completing the pilot phase of the project, staff who worked on the project published a case study in this journal that articulated a question echoed throughout that process: “Is this enough?” Enough descriptive metadata? Enough technical metadata? Enough storage space? This article will reflect on the pilot project, detail how the digitization specifications and workflows established during the pilot project …
The Pandemic At Home: Learning From Community-Engaged Covid-19 Documentation Efforts In The Southeastern Us, Colin Post, Kassidy Hof-Mahoney
The Pandemic At Home: Learning From Community-Engaged Covid-19 Documentation Efforts In The Southeastern Us, Colin Post, Kassidy Hof-Mahoney
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Cultural heritage institutions of all kinds around the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by launching community-engaged collecting efforts that solicited the submission of documents capturing the daily experience of an historically significant phenomenon. While the pandemic is global in scale, these collecting efforts document the impact of Covid-19 at local or regional levels. This article reports on research to better understand how cultural heritage institutions in the Southeastern United States have developed community-engaged collecting projects. Analyzing data collected from the public websites of 30 institutions, as well as semi-structured interviews with 10 cultural heritage professionals active in the Covid-19 …
What Do You Meme? Preserving Emojis, Memes, And Gifs As Archival Folklore Objects, Elizabeth Meads
What Do You Meme? Preserving Emojis, Memes, And Gifs As Archival Folklore Objects, Elizabeth Meads
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Digital objects, such as emojis, memes, and reaction GIFs, have become common tools of communication between people, clever advertising for companies, and iconic means of identification and association for political figures. The evolution of their appearance and increasing use of these digital objects demonstrates the need to preserve these items as a means to document critical communication methods in the 21st century.
Review: Science In The Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, Cathy Miller
Review: Science In The Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, Cathy Miller
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures. Edited by Lorraine Daston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 392pp.). Reviewed by Cathy Miller.
Review: Delivering Impact With Digital Resources: Planning Strategy In The Attention Economy, Laura Starratt
Review: Delivering Impact With Digital Resources: Planning Strategy In The Attention Economy, Laura Starratt
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Review of Delivering Impact with Digital Resources: Planning Strategy in the Attention Economy. By Simon Tanner (London: Facet Publishing, 2020. xxxiv, 244pp.). Review by Laura Starratt
Review: Archives And Human Rights, Jonathan Lawler
Review: Archives And Human Rights, Jonathan Lawler
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Review of Archives and Human Rights. Edited by Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, and Antonio González Quintana. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. xxi + 330 pp.). Review by Jonathan Lawler
Losing It: Strategies For Reducing Archival Collection Backlogs, Sarah R. Jones, Cyndi Shein
Losing It: Strategies For Reducing Archival Collection Backlogs, Sarah R. Jones, Cyndi Shein
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Archival backlogs have been discussed at length in professional literature and been the focus of many specially funded projects over the years. However, little is written about the successes and failures of these “elimination” projects, leaving institutions with minimal guidance for reducing their own un- or under-processed collection backlogs. This article will share details of a three-year archival backlog elimination project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and provide strategies for institutions planning to begin their own project. The authors will discuss project staffing models and accounting for turnover, establishing and re-evaluating project priorities, creating workflow and documentation strategies, …
The Invisible Histories Project: Documenting The Queer South, James L. Baggett, Joshua Burford, Maigen Sullivan, Catherine Oseas Champion
The Invisible Histories Project: Documenting The Queer South, James L. Baggett, Joshua Burford, Maigen Sullivan, Catherine Oseas Champion
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
The Invisible Histories Project works with archives and Queer communities in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi to identify and collect material documenting the history of the Queer South.
Archival Evidence Of Exceptional Human Experiences, Blynne Olivieri
Archival Evidence Of Exceptional Human Experiences, Blynne Olivieri
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Archival collections hold tangible documentation of the range of human experience. Diaries, letters, photographs, audio recordings, reports, and other paper and film-based materials tell the stories of people’s lives. Using examples from the vast parapsychology archives and rare book collections at the University of West Georgia, this paper will share people’s first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents or of their supernatural abilities, from the profound to the disappointing, and from the unexpected to the purposefully sought, including near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, and psychedelic drug use.
Context Is (Almost) Everything: Academic Historians And Digital Archival Collections, Donald Force, Bradley Wiles
Context Is (Almost) Everything: Academic Historians And Digital Archival Collections, Donald Force, Bradley Wiles
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Access to online archival materials has become vital for many academic historians and other researchers. The COVID-19 global pandemic has aimed the spotlight on the digital archival collections hosted by archives institutions and available through the web. In light of this increased role of digital archival collections, it is imperative for archivists to gain a better understanding of academic historians’ perceptions of these materials. The study reported in this article builds on previous work in the archives, history, and library and information studies disciplines to assess current perceptions that academic historians have toward digital archival collections. The article concludes that …
My Soul Looks Back In Wonder: Remembering Black History In The Archives, Dorothy Berry
My Soul Looks Back In Wonder: Remembering Black History In The Archives, Dorothy Berry
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
This paper was first presented as a keynote at the Society of Georgia Archivists' Annual Meeting, November 11, 2020.
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Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
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Volume 37, Issue 1