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Relationships Matter: Unpacking Personal And Professional Grief In Archival Labor, Caroline Kinsley, Molly Stothert-Maurer Nov 2024

Relationships Matter: Unpacking Personal And Professional Grief In Archival Labor, Caroline Kinsley, Molly Stothert-Maurer

Journal of Western Archives

Archival donations are often triggered by critical transitions in donors' lives, like the end of a career, the selling of a family home, or the death of a loved one. Because donors approach archives during these transitions, archivists often find themselves in the middle of emotionally charged relationships with donors working through feelings of grief and loss. However, archivists are often unprepared and untrained for this emotionally demanding labor. A literature review reveals that while this is a common experience among archivists, there is very little guidance on how to approach this aspect of donor relations. Other fields that provide …


Activist Archivists: Centering Marginalized Campus Voices And Rebuilding Institutional Knowledge Through Oral History, Kai H. Uchida Nov 2024

Activist Archivists: Centering Marginalized Campus Voices And Rebuilding Institutional Knowledge Through Oral History, Kai H. Uchida

Faculty Publications

The rapidly changing face of the UNH system, retirements spurred by COVID, and a challenging financial environment motivated SCA to restructure the ways that they collect and preserve institutional history. Through a two-year pilot program utilizing a new technology called TheirStory -- which hosts, records, transcribes, and stores interviews -- they began plans to record histories from University leadership, faculty, staff, alumni, and students. This poster recounts how the University Archivist shaped the UNH Oral History Project to fill in the institutional gaps of its past, considers how this project forms a microcosm of his curatorial and collection vision as …


Archives Day 2024: Divers Working On The Flagler Overseas Railroad, Kelley Flannery Rowan Oct 2024

Archives Day 2024: Divers Working On The Flagler Overseas Railroad, Kelley Flannery Rowan

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation is a five-minute lightning talk given for Archives Day, 2024. The talk spotlights a 1910 photo showing divers working on building Flagler's overseas railroad from the Mile Markers Collection. Divers in the early 20th century used a standard diving suit often called "heavy gear" and relied on air pumps above the water to provide the necessary air. The talk discussed the safety of these suits and other environmental hazards workers faced at the time. And, most importantly, addressed the question of who the workers were and where they came from to help build "one of the wonders …


Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 06, October 28, 2024, Grand Valley State University Oct 2024

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 06, October 28, 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.


Factors Associated With The Implementation Of The Protocols For Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study, Kimberly D. Anderson (Kliewer) Oct 2024

Factors Associated With The Implementation Of The Protocols For Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study, Kimberly D. Anderson (Kliewer)

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This study examines motivations for adopting the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (PNAAM), the factors that might impact implementation of PNAAM in practice, and an exploration of how and why new ethical standards are accepted or rejected. The researcher conducted a survey in 2023 of archivists and/or memory workers working at non-Tribal institutions that have some materials about Indigenous people. The study was designed around the respondent’s perceptions of authority, skills, knowledge, relationships, and resources both as individuals and within their repositories. The study also incorporated Albert Bandura’s framework for moral disengagement hypothetically as a mechanism for assessing ethical …


Beyond The Grant: Cultivating Sustainable Next Steps, Virginia A. Dressler, Michelle Sweetser, Nicholas Pavlik, Michael C. Hawkins, Kaysie Harrington Oct 2024

Beyond The Grant: Cultivating Sustainable Next Steps, Virginia A. Dressler, Michelle Sweetser, Nicholas Pavlik, Michael C. Hawkins, Kaysie Harrington

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

The paper will highlight ongoing work at three cultural heritage institutions in northern Ohio (Bowling Green State University, Kent State University, and the Lakeside Heritage Society) to extend the work begun during grant-funded digital projects beyond the term of a grant. Sustaining related work after the grant funding period has expired is a concern for many practitioners and to date, is a topic that has not been discussed in-depth in the literature. While each institution has its own unique staffing and operational demands, the article will outline a number of sustainable approaches that can be tailored to different scenarios for …


Bringing Servicewomen Into Focus: Exploring Methods For Indexing Second World War Archival Photographs At Library And Archives Canada, Rebecca Murray Oct 2024

Bringing Servicewomen Into Focus: Exploring Methods For Indexing Second World War Archival Photographs At Library And Archives Canada, Rebecca Murray

Canadian Military History

The Second World War saw women officially serving in the Canadian military in capacities other than nursing, breaking into roles historically held by men. The service of over fifty thousand Canadian women is documented in photographs held at Library and Archives Canada; photographs that allow historians to widen the lens on the traditional narrative, but only if they can find them. This article presents two methods for indexing archival photographs and highlights the particular challenges of identifying servicewomen in the archival record and bringing our aunties and grandmas into focus.


When Catalogers And Archivists Come Together: The Creation Of The Metadata Justice In Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium, Shay Beezley, Heather Scheele-Clark Oct 2024

When Catalogers And Archivists Come Together: The Creation Of The Metadata Justice In Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium, Shay Beezley, Heather Scheele-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

The Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium is an event focused on improving metadata and description for historically overlooked communities in library and archival collections. This event is a result of collaboration between people working in libraries and archives in an environment that has traditionally kept library and archives work separate. Two members of the 2023 Planning Team discuss the symposium’s inception, event logistics, successes, opportunities for growth, and the impact that this symposium has on the Oklahoma library and archives community.


Upending Tradition Through Strategic Change: The Evolution Of Archival Processing At The Byu Library, J. Gordon Daines Iii, Karen Glenn, Cory L. Nimer, Rebecca Wiederhold Oct 2024

Upending Tradition Through Strategic Change: The Evolution Of Archival Processing At The Byu Library, J. Gordon Daines Iii, Karen Glenn, Cory L. Nimer, Rebecca Wiederhold

Collaborative Librarianship

Organizational change is challenging. At the heart of this challenge is an attachment to the status quo. Both employees and managers tend to prefer the status quo because it is known and, unless shown otherwise, enables them to successfully accomplish their responsibilities. They often use tradition as a way to maintain the status quo. This case study provides an example of organizational change in the Brigham Young University (BYU) Library and discusses how tradition was used to both promote and resist change.


“Forget The Rest ...”: Notes On Magnetic Tape And Other Antiquated Media As Archives Of Afro-Atlantic Liturgy, David Font-Navarrete Oct 2024

“Forget The Rest ...”: Notes On Magnetic Tape And Other Antiquated Media As Archives Of Afro-Atlantic Liturgy, David Font-Navarrete

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The virtuosic complexity of Afro-Cuban orisha music has led scholars and artists to enshrine it as a “classical” tradition, and it has become one of most iconic and closely-studied sacred music traditions of the historical Afro-Atlantic. This essay traces the legacies of several analog-era multimedia technologies in orisha music traditions: reel-to-reel and cassette tapes; limited edition and out-of-print books and phonograph discs; ephemeral texts such as album liner notes; and photographic negatives, prints, and slides. The tapes and photos — along with a vast body of informal, unpublished, and out-of-print documents of Afro-Cuban orisha liturgy — are seldom archived by …


Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 05, October 7, 2024, Grand Valley State University Oct 2024

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 05, October 7, 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.


Academic Commons Annual Report (2023-2024), Elizabeth D'Angel Oct 2024

Academic Commons Annual Report (2023-2024), Elizabeth D'Angel

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

Contents

  • Recap of the Year
  • Jefferson Libraries
  • Archives & Collections
  • Educational Technologies & Instructional Design
  • Professional Communication
  • Media Services: Audio Visual, Graphics, Photography & Video
  • Staff Highlights

Check out the Adobe Express website for the Annual Report 2023-2024.


From The Vault - Fall 2024 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections Oct 2024

From The Vault - Fall 2024 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Review Of Family And Justice In The Archives: Historical Perspectives On Intimacy And The Law, Ashley Achee Sep 2024

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.


Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 04, September 30, 2024, Grand Valley State University Sep 2024

Lanthorn, Vol. 59, No. 04, September 30, 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: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives, Alison Reynolds Sep 2024

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 Sep 2024

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.


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

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.


Building Resilience: Three Decades Of Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparedness And Response In Georgia, Tina Mason Seetoo, Christine S. Wiseman Sep 2024

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 Sep 2024

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 Sep 2024

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 Sep 2024

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.


Ephemera As A Versatile Primary Resource: A Case Study Of The Nancy Tucker Postcard Collection, Dylan J. Mcdonald, Jennifer Olguin, Monika Glowacka-Musial Aug 2024

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.


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

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.


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

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.


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

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 Aug 2024

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 Jul 2024

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 Jul 2024

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 Jul 2024

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 …