New Issue of Journal Due Out in January

THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST

Vol. 79, No. 2 | Fall/Winter 2016

Scientific field notes are a valuable historical resource. However, their nonstandard format and presentation can make them difficult to search with automated tools. Such is the case with M. Moynihan, an evolutionary biologist who frequently drew in his notebooks, a page of which is featured on the cover of the forthcoming issue of The American Archivist. Lesley Parilla and Meghan Ferriter discuss a creative solution to this problem in their article, “Social Media and Crowdsourced Transcription of Historical Materials at the Smithsonian Institution: Methods for Strengthening Community Engagement and its Tie to Transcription Output.” Look for their article and eight other intriguing research articles along with a half-dozen book reviews in the next American Archivist, due out in mid January 2017. In the meantime, check out the table of contents . . .

FROM THE EDITOR

The Archival Profession: Looking Backward and Looking Forward | 227
Gregory S. Hunter 

ARTICLES

As Vast as the Sea: An Overview of Archives and the Archival Profession in Russia from the Time of Ivan the Terrible to World War I | 230
Aleksandr Gelfand

“Filling the Gaps”: Oral Histories and Underdocumented Populations in The American Archivist, 1938–2011 | 254
Jessica Wagner Webster

How Soon is Now? Writings on Digital Archiving in Canada from the 1980s to 2011 | 281
Greg Bak

Cultural Heritage and Preservation: Lessons from World War II and the Contemporary Conflict in the Middle East | 318
Laila Hussein Moustafa

Perceptions and Understandings of Archives in the Digital Age | 337
Caitlin Patterson

Teaching Data Creators How to Develop an OAIS-Compliant Digital Curation System: Co-learning and Breakdowns in Support of Requirements Analysis | 369
Lorraine L. Richards

From (Archival) Page to (Virtual) Stage: The Virtual Vaudeville Prototype | 390
Tonia Sutherland

Linking Special Collections to Classrooms: A Curriculum-to-Collection Crosswalk | 415
Sonia Yaco, Caroline Brown, and Lee Konrad

Social Media and Crowdsourced Transcription of Historical Materials at the Smithsonian Institution: Methods for Strengthening Community Engagement and Its Tie to Transcription Output | 436
Lesley Parilla and Meghan Ferriter

REVIEWS

Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research
Edited by Bruce Joshua Miller
Reviewed by Caryn Radick | 459

The Evolving Scholarly Record
Brian Lavoie et al.
Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record: From the Invisible Hand to Conscious Coordination
Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas
Both reviewed by Jordon Steele | 462

Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
Edited by Anthony Downey
Reviewed by Christopher M. Laico | 466

Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together
Jeannette A. Bastian, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, and Donna Webber
Reviewed by William J. Maher | 470

Archives Alive: Expanding Engagement with Public Library Archives and Special Collections
Diantha Dow Schull
Reviewed by Mary K. Mannix | 474

Rights in the Digital Era
Edited by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt and Chrisstopher J. Prom
Reviewed by Jean Dryden |477

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