Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16293
J. Ballard, Cara S. Bertram
Appraisal of student records is an essential part of building a complete narrative of a university’s history. Within this process, it is important to capture the experiences of underrepresented student groups. A rich source of documentation of both student life and campus diversity comes from the records produced by university cultural student clubs, cultural houses, and sororities and fraternities with historically BIPOC membership. The formation, activities, and dissolution of cultural student organizations can help to shape an understanding of a university’s demographic, social, and political history. Working with and building relationships with organization advisors and student members is important for forming good appraisal decisions about the records they produce. This article examines two case studies of appraisal projects involving the Ethnic Student Center at Western Washington University and the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It also includes an analysis of the appraisal of records of cultural student organizations and discusses the importance of working with stakeholders and understanding ownership of records.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16296
Thomas J. Cleary
The Digital Archives Handbook, edited by Aaron D. Purcell, PhD, professor and director of Special Collections at Virginia Tech, is a collection of essays aimed at archivists responsible for establishing and maintaining policies and procedures to address digital materials. The book provides guidance on the place and scope of digital materials within the current archives and special collections landscape. Students training for archival careers will also find the book a useful overview of the impact of digital technologies on the archives profession and will learn some of the common terminology archivists use and issues that arise in the context of digital archives management.
《数字档案手册》由弗吉尼亚理工大学教授兼特别收藏主任Aaron D. Purcell博士编辑，是一本针对负责建立和维护处理数字材料的政策和程序的档案工作者的文集。这本书提供了指导的地方和范围内的数字材料在当前的档案和特殊收藏景观。档案职业培训的学生也会发现这本书对数字技术对档案职业的影响进行了有用的概述，并将学习档案工作者使用的一些常用术语和数字档案管理背景下出现的问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16297
Katie J. Graber
Readers approaching Future-Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History expecting a practical how-to manual for news media archivists will be disappointed. Instead of a guide to preservation strategies, as the title might suggest, this work presents a compelling narrative of major news forms in the United States and functions as a clarion call from authors Kathleen Hansen and Nora Paul to rescue “the first draft of history” from disaster, deterioration, and indifference.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16295
Haley E. Aaron
Accessioning is an essential component of collections management, establishing a baseline of legal, physical, and intellectual control over each collection held by an archival repository. However, the theory and practice of archival accessioning remains largely overlooked in professional literature. Archival Accessioning seeks to address this gap through a robust introduction to the history and principles of accessioning and a collection of thoughtful case studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16299
Ashley Howdeshell
Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies by Geoffrey Yeo explores the beginnings of human recording practices. This volume also seeks to update Ernst Posner’s Archives in the Ancient World (1972), which Yeo feels was a landmark text in its time but is now outdated. Yeo clearly defines the scope of the book as looking at early record making and record keeping in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Aegean, and the Americas. He acknowledges that this volume does not comment on the contributions of Indigenous cultures in North America or the Indus Valley civilizations, as their 4,000-year-old script is still undeciphered. The vast records created by the Roman and Chinese ruling bodies are also not discussed, as Yeo focuses attention on the earliest developments of record making and record keeping. Even with this tightly defined scope, this book does cover a significant geographical and historical span.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16292
A. Tummino, Victoria Fernandez
Representing a shift in archival methods, oral history is increasingly used alongside more traditional methods of documentation to capture institutional and community histories. In this article, the authors demonstrate how the Student Help Lived Experience Project at the Queens College Library’s Special Collections and Archives (SCA) provided a vital supplement to more traditional methods of archival documentation. SCA was able to leverage resources provided by a partnering organization and a newly established graduate fellowship to bolster its relationship with other entities on campus and to engage alumni in a participatory, collaborative effort that centered their knowledge and interests. This article highlights models and lessons from the project and explores how oral histories collected for the project amplify existing collections in the archives. The authors found that revisiting collections through oral histories introduced nuance and complexity not available in the physical collections. The oral histories collected for the project enriched the historical narrative, bringing into vivid relief an important chapter in civil rights and Queens College history by uncovering personal motivations, details, and life lessons of interest to a wide audience of archives users.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16294
L. K. Mattock, Aiden M. Bettine
Community archives is a widely used concept in both archival scholarship and the archival profession, yet, to date the concept lacks a clear and consistent definition. In attempts to increase inclusivity in the community archives paradigm, scholars have refused to offer a strict definition for the term, resulting in the conflation of community archives and community-based archival practices occurring in institutional repositories. This article reviews the definitions offered in the growing body of community archives literature and offers a reframing of the umbrella concept of community archives through the lens of community engagement. In applying the principles of Arstein’s Ladder, a framework that describes the level of citizen engagement in public planning projects, the authors offer the Continuum of Community-Engaged Archival Praxis that articulates the distinction between community archives and other archival practices that fall on a spectrum of community-based archival projects. Returning to earlier definitions of community archives that center on the autonomy of the community, they ground community archives in the concept of the archival impulse as a means for identifying the impetus of a community-engaged archival project and the directionality of the control over the archives. The continuum and impulse provide a means for disambiguating the myriad concepts that fall under the moniker of “community” and for more clearly defining the relationship between institutional repositories and the communities that they seek to engage.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16298
R. Howard
I encountered Max Eckard’s Making Your Tools Work for You: Building and Maintaining an Integrated Technical Ecosystem for Digital Archives and Libraries at the tail end of a drawn-out migration to an open-source system, with time, patience, and resources running short. Rather than (merely) serving as a distraction to the many tasks at hand, the book provided useful conceptual language to communicate goals and rationales for this migration, as well as ideas for next steps to integrate the new system with other library and archival tools. While we could have used the knowledge it imparts earlier in the process, it will continue to serve as a resource at my place of work, and I would recommend it to archivists attempting to use technology more effectively and technologists seeking to better serve archivists.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16301
Jennifer Ulrich
With the advent of digital technologies, long-term preservation of library holdings has challenged information professionals for the better part of three decades, if not longer. Much has been written on the topic of digital preservation, and this book reflects the perspectives of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs). While not specifically a “how-to” manual on digital preservation, those seeking a useful overview will find a balanced selection of writings exploring the topic as practiced primarily in the United States, other English-speaking countries, and Europe since the 1990s. Organized into six sections containing a total of 18 chapters, the writings naturally build upon each other in discussing key developments in best practices, workflows, and institutional programs.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.16300
M. Huggard
Elusive Archives is the first volume in a series published by the University of Delaware Press called Material Culture Perspectives. It includes essays by several individuals who have been involved with the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Editors Brückner and Isenstadt, who also serve as the series editors, were formerly the codirectors of the Center for Material Culture Studies and are now affiliated faculty with the center. Brückner is director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, while Isenstadt is professor and chair of the Art History Department at Delaware.
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