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Review: Science In The Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, Cathy Miller

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Archival Evidence Of Exceptional Human Experiences, Blynne Olivieri

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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

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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 …

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My Soul Looks Back In Wonder: Remembering Black History In The Archives, Dorothy Berry

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This paper was first presented as a keynote at the Society of Georgia Archivists' Annual Meeting, November 11, 2020.

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Volume 37, Issue 1

How To Catch A Digital Speed Goat: A Web Archiving Case Study At The University Of Wyoming, Sara Davis, Rachel Gattermeyer

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In an effort to keep current with trends in how people connect with information, the University of Wyoming (UW), like many institutions and companies, has elected to become as paperless as possible. Whether electronic or analog, records are essential in documenting the history, culture, and governance of an organization, and records retention schedules in archives are commonly used to ensure vital records are kept and maintained according to best practices and state laws. Much like the speed goat—the fastest land animal in North America and found throughout Wyoming—websites are hard to capture before they disappear. The high possibility of vanishing …

Hiring Student Workers As Subject Experts In Archives: A Case Study, Laura Romans

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This article aims to share a successful experience of addressing a known knowledge gap within a special collections department by hiring and retaining a student worker with the needed content expertise. Outlined are the details of the lifecycle of the initial project for which the student was hired and reflections on the pros and cons of this mutually beneficial arrangement. By describing this experience in full, this case study can serve as a replicable model for managers within archives and special collections settings to intentionally hire student workers with advanced content knowledge.

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