New Issue of The American Archivist Available Online Now

The Spring/Summer 2012 American Archivist is now available online; the print edition should arrive in your mailbox shortly. This issue features “The Inquisitor as Archivist, or Surprise, Fear, and Ruthless Efficiency in the Archives” by Jessie Sherwood; “The Lives of Others: East German State Security Service’s Archival Legacy” by Karsten Jedlitschka; “Crippling the Archives: Negotiating Notions of Disability in Appraisal and Arrangement and Description” by Sara White; “Community Archives and the Limitations of Identity: Considering Discursive Impact on Material Needs” by Cristine N. Paschild; “Leveraging Encoded Archival Description for Access to Digital Content: A Cost and Usability Analysis” by Jody L. DeRidder, Amanda Axley Presnell, and Kevin W. Walker; and “Hidden Collections within Hidden Collections: Providing Access to Printed Ephemera” by Rebecca Altermatt and Adrien Hilton. Also included are Helen R. Tibbo’s 2012 presidential address and Lora J. Davis’s Theodore Calvin Pease Award–winning student paper. A perspective, case study, review essay, and six book reviews round out the issue.