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Full-Text Articles in Archival Science
No Time For Adolescence: Growing Up In War-Torn London, Daphne Freeman, Dale Freeman
No Time For Adolescence: Growing Up In War-Torn London, Daphne Freeman, Dale Freeman
Dale H. Freeman
Memoir of UMB Archivist Dale Freeman's mother, Daphne G. Freeman (1925- ) about her growing up in London during the Blitz and first hand account of World War II.
Special Collections At The United States International University Library In Kenya: Strategies For Development And Implementation, Michele Gibney
Special Collections At The United States International University Library In Kenya: Strategies For Development And Implementation, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
Due to the completion of a brand-new library building at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, opportunities for collection development at the library have appeared. This paper outlines three strategies for taking advantage of the special collections holdings and developing them over time. The authors provide research on creating an Africana collection, a United Nations (U.N.) Depository, and a UNESCO Memory of the World Program digital archive. These efforts are aimed at increasing indigenous knowledge and raising the profile of the university internationally. The global implications of this project dovetail with the university’s stated mission of expanding …
Framing Photographs, Denying Archives: The Difficulty Of Focusing On Archival Photographs, Tim Schlak
Framing Photographs, Denying Archives: The Difficulty Of Focusing On Archival Photographs, Tim Schlak
Tim Schlak
This article pursues the varying understandings of the photograph in archival literature. An in-depth review of the scholarship uncovers several possible reasons why archivists and those writing about photographic archives apparently continue to struggle with the photograph, including: the sheer difficulty that photographs as an elusive medium present; past debates about photography in art history, history, and archival literature; and the challenges that the photograph as an evasive document presents to the contradictory nature of archives themselves and to conceptions of archival science. Having evolved from an understanding of photographs that conflated content with meaning to postmodernist notions of contingent …
Catalogue Of Arabic Manuscripts Of Shiekh Ahmad Arabi Jos Collections, Musa Salih Muhammad
Catalogue Of Arabic Manuscripts Of Shiekh Ahmad Arabi Jos Collections, Musa Salih Muhammad
Musa Salih Muhammad
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An Ancient Rejection Letter, Mattias K. Polborn
An Ancient Rejection Letter, Mattias K. Polborn
Mattias K Polborn
I provide a translation of an ancient letter found in my crawlspace that shows how little scientific publishing has changed over two millenia