Spring/Summer 2021 Issue of American Archivist Is Online

In this first digital-only issue of American Archivist 84.1, Kimberly Anderson and Jessica Maddox present a case study on how the University of Nevada, Reno, adopted the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials; Donald Force and Randy Smith consider the relationship among digital surrogates, their physical counterparts, and their metadata; and Patricia Galloway examines issues of access to mental health archives—and more. In addition, contributors review ten archival books both old and new and Meredith Evans shares her 2020 SAA presidential address.

This issue's cover features producer and performance artist Elizabeth Wurst—of the experimental beatbox project loopmami—who performs from her home in Lima, Peru, in March, 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Wurst is one of the producers featured in the Bit Rosie digital media archives at the New York University Fales Library. Adele Fournet offers the Bit Rosie archives as a case study in transforming web-based multimedia research initiatives into digital institutional archives. Photo by Adele Fournet, courtesy of Bit Rosie media.

American Archivist 84.1 (Spring/Summer 2021)
Table of Contents

(Review access here.)

From the Editor

• "Something New"
  Amy Cooper Cary

Presidential Address

• "WE Are SAA"
  Meredith Evans

Theodore Calvin Pease Award (forthcoming!)

• “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Documenting Disability History in Western Pennsylvania
  Bridget Malley

Articles

• "Surveying as Unsettlement: The Protocols Alignment Survey at the University of Nevada, Reno"
  Kimberly Anderson and Jessica Maddox
• "How to Wrangle Multiple Discrete Collections from One Donor: A Case Study of the Subject-based Physical and Digital Consolidation of the Wade Hall Collections"
  Laura M. Gentry, Erin Ryan, Jessica Rayman, and Martha Bace
• "Context Lost: Digital Surrogates, Their Physical Counterparts, and the Metadata that Is Keeping Them Apart"
  Donald C. Force and Randy Smith
• "Bit Rosie: A Case Study in Transforming Web-Based Multimedia Research into Digital Archives"
  Adele Fournet
• "Dusting Off that Old Projector: Preservation through Projection"
  Marsha Gordon and Dino Everett
• "Providing Restricted Access to Mental Health Archives within Government Archives: The Subject Stakeholder"
  Patricia Galloway

Reviews

• "Reviewing the Past"
  Bethany Anderson, Reviews Editor
• Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times
  Rebecka Taves Sheffield
  Reviewed by K.J. Rawson
• Transparência e opacidade do estado no Brasil: Usos e desusos da informação governamental
  José Maria Jardim
  Reviewed by Shirley Franco
• Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond
  Edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
  Reviewed by Diana E. Marsh
• Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation
  Edited by Mary Kandiuk
  Reviewed by Carli V. Lowe
• “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook
  Edited by Tom Nesmith, Greg Bak, and Joan M. Schwartz
  Reviewed by Francis X. Blouin Jr.
• Zwölf Wege ins Archiv. Umrisse einer offenen und praktischen Archivwissenschaft
  Christian Keitel
  Reviewed by Katharina Hering
• A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
  Lynn Meskell
  Reviewed by Lauren Van Zandt
• Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change
  Ted Underwood
  Reviewed by Harriett Green
• Producing the Archival Body
  Jamie A. Lee
  Reviewed by Brian M. Watson
• Reference and Access for Archives and Manuscripts
  Cheryl Oestreicher
  Reviewed by Kayla Scott

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