Read the latest issue of Archival Outlook! In the March/April 2022 issue, Sarah Polirer talks about the new SAA book Managing Business Archives, Kathryn Allamong Jacob reflects on special donor connections at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the SAA Dataverse invites submissions of datasets about archives. In addition, learn how the SNAC 2021 edit-a-thon expanded its Indigenous partnerships and reparative description efforts, and find 11 tips for successful remote outreach and donor engagement. Read on for more! Print edition to follow.
Table of Contents | Archival Outlook | March/April 2022
This issue is sponsored by the Atlas Systems, Digital Archive Group, Scene Savers, Lucidea, and the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
- “President’s Message: Community Is Not Neutral”
by Courtney Chartier
- “Daughters with Diaries: Reflections on Manuscripts and the People Who Donate Them”
by Kathryn Allamong Jacob
- “Reparative Description, Indigenous Partnerships, and the SNAC Edit-a-thon”
by Lydia Curliss, Irene Gates, Diana Marsh, and Katherine Satriano
- “Visible and Virtual: Tips for Successful Remote Outreach and Donor Engagement”
by Dorothy Leung, Cara McCormick, Amy Mondt, and Joy Novak
- “Creating Unique Paths for Providing Value: A Conversation with Sarah Polirer about Managing Business Archives"
by Teresa Brinati
- "'The Power of Through': United Methodists' History of Service in Pandemics and Epidemics"
by Mark Shenise
- "Uncovering the Fate of Twentieth-Century Benedictine Sisters: An Archival Detective Story"
by Elaine Nadeau
- “Share, Preserve, and Reuse: The SAA Dataverse Invites Data about Archives”
by Erin Passehl Stoddart, Emily Lapworth, Maggie Hughes, and Jane Fiegel
- “From the Archivist of the United States: Reparative Description at NARA”
by David Ferriero
- "Congratulations to the 38 New Digital Archives Specialists"
- Kudos
- In Memoriam
- "From the Executive Director: Got Archives? Advocating for Government Records, Counting Archivists, and Touring Archives"
by Jacqualine Price Osafo
