Read the November/December 2025 Issue of Archival Outlook

In the November/December issue of Archival Outlook, Matt Meyer shares the work of his archives to collect alumni ephemera during Wabash College’s annual alumni reunion; Dana Anderson and Samantha Rowe discuss the pros and cons of using AI for video and audio transcription at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute; and Mattie L. Clear talks about her work engaging students in the archives acquisition process. Also in this issue, read the 2026 call for SAA leadership nominations and get ready for SAA’s awards competition. Read the digital issue here. Print issue to follow.

On the cover: A painting of Cherryvale, Kansas, at the turn of the twentieth century. The architectural firm Burns & McDonnell was contracted to design and supervise the construction of a waterworks utility there, and nearly 100 years later, their archivist worked to recover materials from that project.

Table of Contents | Archival Outlook | November/December 2025

• "President's Message: Upcoming Changes to SAA's Dues Structure"
  by Derek T. Mosley
• "The Art of Selection: How Students Helped Expand Washington and Lee's Qur'an Holdings"
  by Mattie L. Clear
• "From ABBA to ZZ Top: Making Archival LPs Discoverable"
  by Elizabeth Busch and Thi Lettner
• "Automated, Not Effortless: What 400 Hours of AI Transcription Taught the Wildenstein Plattner Institute"
  by Dana Anderson and Samantha Rowe
• "Restoring the Missing History of Burns & McDonnell"
  by Lance Warren
• "Mining Herstory at the US Mint: African American Women and the Political Currency of Heritage"
  by Rhonda D. Jones
• "The Adventures of Captain Wabash and the Alumni Reunion History Harvest"
  by Matt Meyer
• "Personal Archiving: The Creation of Artificial Collections of Notable Women in Early Children's Radio and Television"
  by James R. Stewart Jr.
• "Archiving Community Memory: African American Funeral Programs"
  by Jennifer L. Randall, Darius Brown, Brian Sheffey, and Whitney Day
• "Make Hope Visible: Call for SAA Leadership Volunteers"
  by Brenda Gunn
• ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2026: Call for Proposals
• In Search of Excellence: SAA Awards Competition
• Special Thanks to SAA's Sustaining Institutional Members