Read the Spring/Summer 2024 Issue of American Archivist

In issue 87.1 of American Archivist, Terry Baxter offers insights into the state of the profession in his Presidential Address from the 2023 Joint Annual Meeting; Natalie Bond interrogates the value and narratives around congressional paper collections; and Stephanie Bredbenner, Alison Fulmer, Rose Oliveira-Abbey, and Meghan R. Rinn examine the prevalence of contingent employment in archives through analysis of the 2021 New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study.

Other articles include Sony Prosper's 2023 Pease Award-winning essay, "Conceptualizing Records: Community Archives Describing Themselves," as well as articles on promotion and tenure for academic archivists, archival engagement and value measurement, and the uneven development of oral history release forms. Also in this issue, read seven excellent reviews on recent archives publications.

On the Cover: A red heart, pierced by and containing three arrows, sits in a black circle. This piece of digital art is by Shaun Slifer, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. About his art, Slifer writes, "I sketched out the first version of this icon one day after the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in my home city of Pittsburgh, where I've worked to run the Justseeds office for years. This is a pictographic effort combining complex feelings of anti-fascist rage with my deep belief in the need to work from a position of love. It is a combination of the Three Arrows/Drei Pfeile symbol—historically associated with the paramilitary Iron Front/Eiserne Front and carried into modern times as a continued symbol of militant anti-fascism—with a common heart outline." Artwork courtesy of Shaun Slifer.

American Archivist 87.1 (Spring/Summer 2024)
Table of Contents

(Review access here)

From the Editor

• On Steven King, and the "What" and "Why" of American Archivist
  Amy Cooper Cary

Presidential Address

• Lovers in a Dangerous Time: Archives, Archivists, and Community
  Terry Baxter

Theodore Calvin Pease Award Essay

• Conceptualizing Records: Community Archives Describing Themselves
  Sony Prosper

Articles

• Excavating Myth and Memory in Congressional Papers
  Natalie Bond
• Forms, Formations, and Reforms
  David Amel Olson
• Redefining Archival Reference: Relationship-based Reference
  Wendy Duff, Jessica Ho, Christa Sato, Henria Aton, Peter Deziak, and Cheryl Regehr
• "The Career Does Not Love You Back": Impacts of Contingent Employment on Workers, Cultural Heritage Institutions, and the Archival Profession
  Stephanie Bredbenner, Alison Fulmer, Rose Oliveira-Abbey, and Meghan R. Rinn
• (Re)Appraising Our Archival Identity: Demystifying the Process and Changing the Dialogue about Promotion and Tenure for Academic Archivists
  Elizabeth M. Scott, Heidi Abbey Moyer, Rebecca Hankins, and Rachel Walton

Perspectives

• "Taking Our Own Measure": Archival Engagement and Storytelling
  Jennifer Meehan

Reviews

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archives
  Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke
• Exceções legais ao direito de acesso à informação: dimensões contextuais das categorias de informação pessoal nos documentos arquivísticos
  Welder Antônio Silva
  Reviewed by Shirley Franco
• Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence
  Brahim El Guabli
  Reviewed by Laila Hussein Moustafa
• War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War
  Yael A. Sternhell
  Reviewed by Eric C. Stoykovich
• In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s
  Margaret Galvan
  Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Engel
• The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context
  Edited by Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell
  Reviewed by Craig S. Simpson
• The Remaking of Archival Values
  Victoria Hoyle
  Reviewed by Anna Holland
• Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community, and the Making of Records and Memory
  Jeannette A. Bastian
  Reviewed by Lily Hunter

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