Read the Fall/Winter 2021 Issue of American Archivist

The digital-only issue of American Archivist 84.2 features a special section on design records guest edited by Karen Trivette (Fashion Institute of Technology–State University of New York). In this issue, Jessica Quagliaroli and Pamela Casey discuss pedagogical models for teaching with architectural records; Tammi Kim and Karla Irwin adapt existing workflows for born-digital materials to process and describe born-digital architecture and design records; Caitlin Biggers presents a case study on mitigating design cataloging challenges through copyright outreach, and more. Other articles in issue 84.2 focus on the archives community more broadly, considering gender, stress, work culture, impostor syndrome, social justice, and archivists’ impact on the archival record. In addition, contributors review seven books related to archival work and one recent exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

This issue's cover features a female figure sporting a lady's riding crop and habit—to be worn during equestrian activities—in the pages of La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, which was published from 1806 to 1832. The outfit was designed by a “Mrs. Bell of No. 26 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury” for the October 1815 issue. The image of the woman is a favorite of the archivists at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and has become the special collections' mascot, affectionately nicknamed “Violet.” Fashion illustrations are just one example of the many types of design records that archivists may encounter in their collections. Artwork courtesy of the Gladys Marcus Library's Special Collections and College Archives at the Fashion Institute of Technology‐SUNY.

American Archivist 84.2 (Fall/Winter 2021)
Table of Contents

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From the Editors

• "Writing as an Act of Community"
  Amy Cooper Cary
• "The Broad Scope of Design Records"
  Karen Trivette 
• "Working Toward Best Practices for Design Records"
  Jessica Quagliaroli and Alison Anderson

Special Section: Design Records 

• “Design and Social Change: An Architectural History of the University of California, Santa Barbara"
  Julia Diane Larson 
• “Laying a Foundation for Digital Collections at the Property Information Resource Center"
  Alison Anderson, Kristin Bjork, Kyle DeCicco-Carey, and Sylvia Welsh
• “Of Grasshoppers and Rhinos: A Visual Literacy Approach to Born-Digital Design Records"
  Aliza Leventhal, Julie Collins, and Tessa Walsh
• “Design Records and Appraisal Tools"
  Aliza Leventhal, Jody Thompson, Alison Anderson, Sarah Schubert, and Andi Altenbach
• “Learning from Las Vegas: Adapting Workflows for Managing Born-Digital Records"
  Tammi Kim and Karla Irwin
• “Teaching with Drawings: Primary Source Instruction with Architecture Archives"
  Jessica Quagliaroli and Pamela Casey
• "Archivists and Architects: A Case Study on Mitigating Design Cataloging Challenges through Copyright Outreach"
  Caitlin Biggers
  

Articles

• "Counterweight: Helen Samuels, Archival Decolonilization, and Social License"
  Greg Bak
• "Archivists at Work: Stress and Mood Effects in a Gendered Profession"
  Kristen Chinery and Rita J. Casey
• "Archival Engagements with Wicked Problems"
  Eliot Wilczek
• "Our Comeback Story: Impostor Syndrome in the Archival Profession"
  April K. Anderson-Zorn, Michael Andrew Davis, Danielle Nowak, and Alison Stankrauff

Reviews

• "Reviews in Reflection"
  Bethany Anderson, Reviews Editor
• Off the Record
  Curated by Ashley James
  Reviewed by James Lowry
• Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
  Edited by David A. Wallace, Wendy M. Duff, Renée Saucier, and Andrew Flinn

  Reviewed by Lara Wilson

• Recordkeeping Cultures
  Gillian Oliver and Fiorella Foscarini
  Reviewed by Siham Alaoui
• Advancing Preservation for Archives and Manuscripts
  Elizabeth Joffrion and Michèle V. Cloonan
  Reviewed by Jeanne Drewes
• Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies
  Geoffrey Yeo
  Reviewed by Jasmine Smith
• The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most
  Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell
  Reviewed by Trevor Owens
• The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
  Craig Roberts
  Reviewed by Cheryl Oestreicher
• Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
  Richard Ovenden
  Reviewed by Barry Houlihan

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