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Review Of Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies In Practice, Louis Knecht
Review Of Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies In Practice, Louis Knecht
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice.
Beyond Efficiency: An Impact Assessment Of The Uc Guidelines For Efficient Processing, Laurel Mcphee, Kate Dundon, Courtney Dean, Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Audra Eagle Yun
Beyond Efficiency: An Impact Assessment Of The Uc Guidelines For Efficient Processing, Laurel Mcphee, Kate Dundon, Courtney Dean, Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Audra Eagle Yun
Journal of Western Archives
The Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries established shared principles and recommendations for increased processing efficiency in archives and special collections in the UC system. Since its publication in 2012, the Guidelines has become an influential resource for archival workflows nationwide. In this paper, the authors evaluate the Guidelines' impact over time on backlogs, collection management policy, and day-to-day archival practices across the UC libraries by assessing collections, processing practices, and staffing levels.
Review Of Decolonial Archival Futures, Rachel A. Ernst
Review Of Decolonial Archival Futures, Rachel A. Ernst
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Decolonial Archival Futures by Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey.
Making Hay While The Sun Shines: Answering The Urgency In Audiovisual Preservation, Benjamin Harry
Making Hay While The Sun Shines: Answering The Urgency In Audiovisual Preservation, Benjamin Harry
Journal of Western Archives
Many twentieth-century audiovisual formats are becoming obsolete and/or the physical carriers are deteriorating, warranting the need to digitize this content as soon as possible. Balancing efficiency and urgency with digitization and digital storage resources is a challenging endeavor. This article documents the efforts of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections (LTPSC) at Brigham Young University to begin a systematic effort to digitize audiovisual content found in manuscript collections.
Review Of Managing Business Archives, Erin M. Louthen
Review Of Managing Business Archives, Erin M. Louthen
Journal of Western Archives
Business archivists need to be flexible, adaptable, and creative so that they can easily pivots to meet their companies' changing priorities and needs. With insightful examples and practical discussions, Managing Business Archives provides direction for archivists making decisions in a dynamic business climate, as well as archivists in all fields.
Candles Burning At Both Ends: Experiences Of Dual-Role Archivist/Librarians, Robert Perret
Candles Burning At Both Ends: Experiences Of Dual-Role Archivist/Librarians, Robert Perret
Journal of Western Archives
Workers with both archivist and librarian responsibilities were surveyed to examine their experience of this dual role. Their self-identity, training, responsibilities, and place of work are explored, as well as their feeling of being prepared for a dual role. This study finds that while the preponderance of respondents feel prepared, more than half regularly engage in more than 40 job activities spanning both archives and libraries. The diversity of responsibilities, combined with the tension between two distinct professions, places significant strain on those in a dual role. At the same time, respondents felt isolated and underappreciated, and expressed feelings of …
Review Of Making Your Tools Work For You: Building And Maintaining An Integrated Technical Ecosystem For Digital Archives And Libraries, Lindsey Memory
Review Of Making Your Tools Work For You: Building And Maintaining An Integrated Technical Ecosystem For Digital Archives And Libraries, Lindsey Memory
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Making Your Tools Work for You: Building and Maintaining an Integrated Technical Ecosystem for Digital Archives and Libraries.
"To Keep The Church Record And History": The Evolution Of The Church Historian's Office, Cory L. Nimer
"To Keep The Church Record And History": The Evolution Of The Church Historian's Office, Cory L. Nimer
Journal of Western Archives
Authors looking at the development of the field of Mormon history have often evaluated it in terms of historiography—as its progression from the domain of amateurs to the output of academics. However, studies of the composition and development of the larger history profession have focused on the discipline's fragmentation and the formation of an "archival divide" between those that write history and those collecting and preserving its sources. This latter approach provides a useful framework for understanding the evolution of the Church Historian's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from its origins in 1831 to its …
Review Of Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, And The Just Archives, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Review Of Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, And The Just Archives, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives by Scott Cline.
Review Of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy Of Terry Cook, Grant G. Mandarino
Review Of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy Of Terry Cook, Grant G. Mandarino
Journal of Western Archives
Review of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook.
Review Of Metadata, Greg Reeve
Review Of Metadata, Greg Reeve
Journal of Western Archives
Review of the third edition of Marcia Lei Zeng’s and Jain Qin’s monograph Metadata. Metadata is the definitive guide to the metadata landscape for information professionals in the Information Age.
Review Of Compact Copyright: Quick Answers To Common Questions, Amanda D. Howard
Review Of Compact Copyright: Quick Answers To Common Questions, Amanda D. Howard
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions by Sara R. Benson.
The Los Seis De Boulder Sculpture Project: A Case Study Of Socially Engaged Archivist/Artist Collaboration At The University Of Colorado Boulder, Megan K. Friedel, Jasmine Baetz
The Los Seis De Boulder Sculpture Project: A Case Study Of Socially Engaged Archivist/Artist Collaboration At The University Of Colorado Boulder, Megan K. Friedel, Jasmine Baetz
Journal of Western Archives
As academic institutions and archivists around the nation grapple with the question of how to address existing monuments to racist histories at their institutions, how can archivists support the creation of new monuments on college and university campuses that reflect suppressed or oppressed histories of people of color? This case study explores the Los Seis de Boulder Sculpture Project, a socially engaged art project at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), in which archivists in the CU Boulder Libraries' Archives supported and collaborated with a student artist and community members to create a public monument commemorating the deaths of …
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive, Genevieve Preston
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive, Genevieve Preston
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Verne Harris' Ghosts of Archive.
Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels
Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Producing the Archival Body by Jamie Lee.
The Veins That Lighten Dearth: Documenting Hidden Collections In Rural California, Jillian M. Ewalt
The Veins That Lighten Dearth: Documenting Hidden Collections In Rural California, Jillian M. Ewalt
Journal of Western Archives
This case study discusses an archival consulting project to document and preserve hidden collections in rural northern California. The paper provides an overview of the collecting institution (the Mother Lode Land Trust), the collections and their historical context, and the consulting process. The author highlights processing strategies to improve preservation and description while developing a post-custodial approach to managing collections in a rural, community-based archives setting.
Introduction To Western Archivists Meeting Special Issue, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Introduction To Western Archivists Meeting Special Issue, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Journal of Western Archives
Introduction to the special issue related to the Western Archivists Meeting.
Community Of Practice At The California State University Special Collections And University Archives, Berlin Loa, Pamela Nett Kruger
Community Of Practice At The California State University Special Collections And University Archives, Berlin Loa, Pamela Nett Kruger
Journal of Western Archives
The California State University Archives and Archivists’ Roundtable is a Community of Practice consisting of archivists that meet regularly online, and annually in person. Communities grow from shared interests, resources, concerns, or endeavors. Communities of practice can grow out of a need for connecting with other people who share the same issues, learning environment, or passions. In this article we describe how the CSUAAR group was founded, how it has evolved, and offers a potential model for other archivists to identify, create, and maintain a community of practice through common needs or interest.
Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante
Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (third edition).
Review Of Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century: Essays In Honor Of Richard J. Cox, Dylan Mcdonald
Review Of Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century: Essays In Honor Of Richard J. Cox, Dylan Mcdonald
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox.
Review Of Arranging And Describing Archives And Manuscripts, Cory L. Nimer
Review Of Arranging And Describing Archives And Manuscripts, Cory L. Nimer
Journal of Western Archives
A review of Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, by Dennis Meissner.
Review Of Reappraisal And Deaccessioning In Archives And Special Collections, Alexis Adkins
Review Of Reappraisal And Deaccessioning In Archives And Special Collections, Alexis Adkins
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections edited by Laura Uglean Jackson.
Review Of Archival Values: Essays In Honor Of Mark A. Greene, Theresa Berger, Scott Lawan
Review Of Archival Values: Essays In Honor Of Mark A. Greene, Theresa Berger, Scott Lawan
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark A. Greene.
Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson
Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscript Program.
Review Of Advocacy And Awareness For Archivists, Erin Hurley
Review Of Advocacy And Awareness For Archivists, Erin Hurley
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Kathleen Roe's book Advocacy and Awareness for Archivists.
Teaching An Introduction To Archives Course To Undergraduates: A New Experience For The Archivist And The Students, Julia Stringfellow
Teaching An Introduction To Archives Course To Undergraduates: A New Experience For The Archivist And The Students, Julia Stringfellow
Journal of Western Archives
This article explores a new Introduction to Archives class taught to undergraduates through a Library and Information Science Minor Program offered by the James E. Brooks Library at Central Washington University (CWU). The course is taught by the University Archivist. The challenges of recruiting students, promotion of the course, and teaching an upper level course to undergraduates from different disciplines is described, as well as the benefits of offering this type of course at the undergraduate level. A review of the literature on the benefits of educating undergraduates on archives and archival research is also included.
Review Of Digital Preservation In Libraries: Preparing For A Sustainable Future, Lara Michels
Review Of Digital Preservation In Libraries: Preparing For A Sustainable Future, Lara Michels
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future, edited by Jeremy Myntti and Jessalyn Zoom.
The Archival Challenges And Choices Of A Small Non-Profit Organization Attempting To Preserve Its Unique Past, Mattias Olshausen
The Archival Challenges And Choices Of A Small Non-Profit Organization Attempting To Preserve Its Unique Past, Mattias Olshausen
Journal of Western Archives
Holden, located in Washington’s Cascade Mountains above the West side of Lake Chelan, originated as a copper-mining company town in 1937. In 1960, three years after the operation shut down, it was transformed into a non-profit Lutheran retreat center, now known as Holden Village. Both the mining and Lutheran communities have generated substantial archival collections, the three largest of which are currently housed at the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, and Holden itself. Making use of finding aids, reports and summaries written by past and present Holden archivists, and the personal recollections of former residents, this paper traces the …
Review Of Records And Information Management, 2nd Edition, Joshua J. Zimmerman
Review Of Records And Information Management, 2nd Edition, Joshua J. Zimmerman
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Records and Information Management, 2nd Edition.
Building Community, Fostering Collaboration, And Engaging Bridge Program Students With A College’S Historical Archives, Russell Michalak, Monica D. T. Rysavy, Gregory C. Thompson
Building Community, Fostering Collaboration, And Engaging Bridge Program Students With A College’S Historical Archives, Russell Michalak, Monica D. T. Rysavy, Gregory C. Thompson
Journal of Western Archives
Similar to smaller archives, this college’s archives have not been traditionally accessible online. Two instructors sought to teach summer bridge program (Boot Camp) students basic archival practices and quantitatively measure their information literacy skills through using the Information Literacy Skills (ILA) and Students’ Perceptions of their Information Skills-Questionnaire (SPIL-Q) instruments (cite). Boot Camp students’ average perceived confidence with IL skills as assessed by the SPIL-Q instrument increased from 4.00 to 4.77 (+19.2%) on the post-training SPIL-Q. By adding the ILA and SPIL-Q instruments to the course curriculum, combined with end of course reflection questions, the instructors were able to quantitatively …