By Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, Reviews Co-Editors [PDF Full Text]
“Archives are, by their nature, intergenerational voices. They allow our ancestors to speak to us and for us to speak to our descendants. Given this reality, archivists should value the messages that our predecessor comrades bring forward. . . . This series provides archivists with the opportunity to be in community with other archivists both through space and time.”
—Terry Baxter, 77th SAA president
In 2023,...
By Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019. 294 pp. Hardcover $65.00. ISBN 9781940965154.
Reviewed by Courtney M. Gillie, Project Archivist, The State Historical Society of Missouri [PDF Full Text]
Mooring a Field by Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa is a thoughtful look into the sidelining of career conservators and preservationists like Paul Noble Banks. Banks was a forerunner in the field of book conservation and created the first degree-granting program in library...
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By Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, Reviews Co-Editors [PDF Full Text]
The Intergenerational Conversations series is intended to foster dialogue between the past and the present by allowing new voices to revisit, reevaluate, and respond to professional literature that shaped the archival field. In its inaugural year, we felt there was no better focus than the work of Society of American Archivists (SAA) Fellow and past...
Edited by Jidong Yang. Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022. 368 pp. Hardcover $60.00. ISBN 9780924304989.
Reviewed by Hali Allen, State Historical Society of Missouri [PDF Full Text]
I recently read Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America, edited by Jidong Yang. This book delves into the histories and cultures of East Asia by examining and describing in detail the rare, and very few, archival collections of Chinese, Japanese...
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Review of John Fleckner, “Reaching Out: The Place of Records Surveys in Archival Practice,” The Midwestern Archivist 2, no. 1 (1977): 14–21.
Reviewed by Jordan Jancosek, Archivist, Accessioning and Collection Management, Brown University [PDF Full Text] | [PDF Article + Full Text]
John Fleckner’s 1977 article, “Reaching Out: The Place of Records Surveys in Archival Practice,” tackles an archival practice that is...
Cullingford, Alison. Third Edition. London: Facet Publishing, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, Softcover, and EPUB. Hardcover ISBN 9781783305384; Softcover ISBN 9781783305377; EPUB ISBN 9781783305407.
Reviewed by Jessie Knoles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [PDF Full Text]
Alison Cullingford’s The Special Collections Handbook, third edition, provides an overview of special collections librarianship and introduces readers to key practices and concepts in the field. Although I have not...
In this episode, cohosts Chris Burns and Camila Zorrilla Tessler speak to counterculture historian and archival music producer Pat Thomas about his new book Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. Join us for a discussion about Pat’s research process, favorite items from Ginsberg’s collection, and thoughts on Ginsberg’s legacy.
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Reviewed by Raymond Pun, Academic and Research Librarian, Alder Graduate School of Education [PDF Full Text]
The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a newly developed digital resource from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Monroe C. Gutman Library Special Collections that offers access to serial publications and other materials from the Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
In this episode, cohost Chris Burns speaks with dindria barrow, Marika Cifor, Sarah Nguyễn, and Anna Trammell about their work on The Community Archives Center Toolkit, which was collaboratively developed by the Tacoma Public Library and the University of Washington.
This free resource is now available for other libraries and archives to use in creating community-focused projects. Listen to learn more about the toolkit and how you might use it at your institution.
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Review of John A. Fleckner, “Archives and Museums,” The Midwestern Archivist 15, no. 2 (1990): 67–75.
By Selena Ortega-Chiolero, Museum Specialist, Chickaloon Village Traditional Council (Palmer, Alaska) [PDF Full Text] | [PDF Article + Full Text]
In the 1990 article, “Archives and Museums,” John A. Fleckner, archives scholar, past Society of American Archivists (SAA) president, and former senior archivist at the...
