Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13215
Brad Wiles
To refer to Laura Millar’s A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age as timely is both an understatement and inaccurate. It is an understatement because, as of this writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as not only the most disruptive event across the globe in generations, but has also been subject to the worst excesses of the epistemic crisis that Millar details throughout the book. Perhaps now more than ever, facts, evidence, and the truths they support are urgently needed—they are a matter of life and death—but yet they are constantly subjugated to selective incredulity, confirmation bias, and political expediency. The reference to A Matter of Facts as timely is also inaccurate, not through the fault of the author’s straightforward approach or concise handling of the subject matter, but because any single work cannot possibly account for the depth of the problem of misinformation or anticipate the rate at which it has evolved and embedded itself into our social fabric in such short order. Certainly, Millar is aware of the intractable yet fluid nature of the current situation, and the developments in just the year or so since the book was published could very well provide a tremendous amount of cautionary fodder for an expanded edition at a later date.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.13207
Jeremy Brett
Writing a formal review for this work seems oddly unnecessary; given the background and experience of the author, one would not even have to read this book to know its worth. Kathleen Roe has long been a powerful voice for promoting the vital importance of advocacy in the archival profession, not only in her own career (notably as director of archives and records management at the New York State Archives) but in her record of prominent professional service. Roe served as president of the Society of American Archivists in 2014-2015, where she made advocacy one of the centerpiece policies of her administration. As past president of the Council of State Archivists (as well as during her SAA service), she provided leadership not only in lower-level advocacy efforts but also as an active voice for archival advocacy at the federal legislative level. Few people in our profession are better poised than Roe to "write the book," as it were, on archival advocacy in all its aspects. Here she has provided us with an invaluable reference tool to help us pursue advocacy initiatives and programs regardless of our institutional limits.
奇怪的是，为这项工作写一篇正式的评论似乎没有必要;考虑到作者的背景和经历，人们甚至不需要读这本书就能知道它的价值。长期以来，凯瑟琳·罗(Kathleen Roe)不仅在她自己的职业生涯中(尤其是在纽约州档案馆担任档案和记录管理主任期间)，而且在她杰出的专业服务记录中，一直是倡导档案职业中至关重要的强有力的声音。2014年至2015年，罗伊担任美国档案工作者协会(Society of American Archivists)主席，在她任职期间，她将倡导作为其政府的核心政策之一。作为国家档案工作者委员会的前任主席(以及她在SAA任职期间)，她不仅在较低层次的倡导工作中发挥了领导作用，而且在联邦立法层面积极倡导档案。在我们这个行业中，几乎没有人比罗伊更有能力“写书”，从档案倡导的各个方面入手。在这里，她为我们提供了宝贵的参考工具，帮助我们在不受制度限制的情况下开展倡导活动和项目。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.11900
G. Reynolds
The second edition of Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians was created to address the expanding volume of digital content available to users in many forms and the increasing role that digital repositories within libraries and cultural heritage organizations play in storing, preserving, and making accessible that content. This expanding role for many types of traditional information repositories will help ensure their long-term success as digital content management becomes part of their identities.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11893
Brian D. Fors
Most extraordinary about this collection of essays documenting the life cycle of archives covering early modern scientific and medical thought, with the exception of one example of born-digital preservation, is that these archives survived at all. Essentially private archives until the papers contained in them had been obtained by institutions such as the Royal Society, the Ashmolean, and the Wellcome Library, the letters, studies, experiments, theories, speculations, and ephemera discussed in the essays underwent unpredictable transformational journeys. The history of these archives will cause archivists, librarians, scientists, and researchers reading the stories to gasp and to pine for lost items. The essays in Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives present eight examples of scientific and medical collections that had been assembled; were transformed through publication, disaster, and handling; and eventually ended up as organized archives that have been preserved and passed on to become an important body of thought informing the modern scientific world. The eight essays, three written individually by the editors, constitute volume 23 of the publisher’s Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions series. The volume is based on a 2015 conference sponsored by the Royal Society in England.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.11888
David R. Lewis
Some archives have been quick to respond to the crisis in audio preservation brought on by the combined forces of obsolescence and degradation inherent in legacy audio formats and their playback equipment. These archives have undertaken digitization projects for particular collections or, in a few cases, have digitized the bulk of their audio holdings for preservation. Based on an examination of the literature on audio preservation, however, the responses of some institutions—particularly small and midsized institutions—have been stymied by roadblocks related to cost and expertise. Given the limited time available for archives to migrate audio content, this uneven response threatens to leave an incomplete audio legacy, weighted toward grant-worthy collections with few copyright restrictions at larger, better-resourced institutions. After a review of relevant literature, this article suggests interventions institutions of all sizes can undertake to respond to the crisis in audio preservation including stringent selection and reappraisal projects, strategies for tiered audio digitization using a combination of in-house and vendor-based services, and suggestions for increasing access to high-quality digitization for worthy audio materials.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.11899
Carli V. Lowe
The world of digital materials presents archivists with many opportunities to access, present, and engage with materials in more flexible ways. Of course, this also presents challenges, including feeling like we do not know the “right” way to proceed, or knowing that we lack the resources to proceed the way we believe is best. In The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, Trevor Owens offers a set of frameworks and concepts related to digital preservation with the expectation that an understanding of a few basic principles will provide an informational foundation, allowing archivists to respond with professional expertise and creativity to the ever-evolving digital landscape.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11896
B. Gallo
Archivists and librarians are at a unique point in history, as the record of current human existence is exponentially born digital. But what is “born-digital content,” exactly? In The No-Nonsense Guide to Born-Digital Content, Heather Ryan and Walker Sampson define it as “content that is being created, distributed and used solely in digital form” (p. 2). Ryan and Sampson both work at the University of Colorado Boulder where Ryan was teaching on the subject when she identified a need for a comprehensive resource covering the essential aspects of preserving born-digital content. Together with Sampson, she penned this timely and useful guide for ensuring proper stewardship of born-digital content.
档案管理员和图书管理员正处于历史上一个独特的时刻，因为当前人类存在的记录是以指数形式诞生的数字化。但究竟什么是“原生数字内容”?在《原生数字内容的严肃指南》中，Heather Ryan和Walker Sampson将其定义为“仅以数字形式创建、分发和使用的内容”(第2页)。Ryan和Sampson都在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校(University of Colorado Boulder)工作，Ryan在那里教授这门学科，当时她发现需要一个涵盖保存原生数字内容基本方面的综合资源。她与桑普森一起撰写了这本及时而有用的指南，以确保对原生数字内容进行适当的管理。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11901
Susan Swiatosz
As our institutional archives mature and we gain more insight into what materials our researchers use, we become more discerning in what we collect and preserve. Real estate in any archives or special collections is valuable, and overcrowding is a common lament. In time, we become laser focused as to what collections within our holdings resonate with users. Equally, we all have collections that for whatever well-intentioned reason were accessioned, processed, and maintained, but that are inappropriate for our institutions. In her book Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections, Laura Uglean Jackson has compiled 13 case studies describing various archival situations that focus on using reappraisal and deaccessioning as collection development tools to help build robust collections (p. ix). Rather than viewing it as a negative process, the archivists in Jackson’s book advocate for thorough reappraisal and targeted deaccessioning to address holdings in their repositories that are outside their collection scope or institutional mission. Jackson’s introduction includes concise abstracts of each chapter that provide a succinct description of each of the case studies summarized.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11891
Alexandra deGraffenreid
Modern informational professionals face ethical considerations in every aspect of their work, from the way they design information systems to the choices they make about information accessibility, its description, and its organization. In the past several years, these issues have been at the center of public discourse with major controversies surrounding social media site algorithms, recurrent hacking of consumer data, and information trustworthiness. In this environment, an introductory text that outlines the issues facing the information profession is essential.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11889
Elizabeth Shepard
For the past two decades, the wider archives community has embraced the growing trend of using primary sources in both informal and formal educational outreach activities to both engage audiences and teach students critical thinking skills. The author conducted a study using a survey consisting of 36 questions and follow-up interviews to investigate how medical archivists and special collections librarians in medical archives are embracing this trend of using primary sources in educational outreach. The results indicate that medical archivists/librarians are using primary sources in a variety of traditional educational outreach activities such as exhibits, archives tours, and archival orientation sessions to educate and engage audiences on a variety of subjects, including the history of medicine and health sciences, science, art, and literature. However, only a few medical archivists/librarians reported that they are engaged as co-teachers or solo teachers of credited courses. There are many challenges to providing opportunities for medical archivists/librarians to participate in formal educational outreach, including integrating the archives in the parent organization’s educational curriculum, lack of human resources, and lack of visibility of the archives. Despite these hurdles, medical archivists and special collections librarians need to think more creatively about how their collections can be used to educate audiences and other ways they can participate more fully in this important educational opportunity.
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