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American Archivist
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.488  Citation Impact (citeScore): 1 Number of Followers: 158  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 0360-9081 Published by Society of American Archivists  [1 journal]
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- Mirror, Mirror
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Pages: 5 - 6
Abstract: For eighty-six years, this journal has held a mirror to the world of archives and archivists, its authors writing the ongoing analysis of our professional ethics, theories, and craft. The stated purpose of the journal is “to reflect thinking about theoretical and practical developments in the archival profession, particularly in North America; about the relationships between archivists and the creators and users of archives; and about cultural, social, legal, and technological developments that affect the nature of recorded information and the need to create and maintain it.”11 Over the years, we have, as a profession, formed our theory, honed our practice, explored our ethics, and discussed our purpose. The archival literature is, in many ways, as organic as Terry Eastwood has described the characteristics of archival records themselves.22 The literature is natural and interrelated; it is cumulative, and each piece speaks to and through the writings of others. As professionals, we are informed and shaped by our literature. Eastwood notes that “theory becomes more than contemplation of the nature of archives when it presents ideas about the role or purpose archival documents play in social relations.”33 We have explored this purpose in numerous articles and books since Eastwood wrote this in 1994, especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s. And now, we are once again at a point in our professional analysis where we are turning our collective gaze inward and asking ourselves who we are as a group and how we are contributing to the preservation of the historic record, social memory, and cultural heritage. What are our responsibilities, and what barriers are we facing' It is exactly this element of reflection that comes to mind when I think about this issue of the journal.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.5
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- “Show' To Who'” 1
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Pages: 7 - 12
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.7
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Building a Baseline of Archival Data with A*CENSUS II
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Pages: 13 - 17
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DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.13
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- A*CENSUS II: All Archivists Survey Report
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Pages: 18 - 78
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.18
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- “Sometimes I feel like they hate us”: The Society of American
Archivists and Graduate Archival Education in the Twenty-first Century-
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Pages: 79 - 116
Abstract: ABSTRACTThe Society of American Archivists (SAA) has long involved itself with graduate-level archival education. It has sponsored committees and subcommittees, guidelines, roundtables/sections, student chapters, and pre-conferences. But limited empirical evidence exists regarding faculty members' view of SAA's involvement with graduate archival education. This exploratory qualitative case study employs semistructured interviews with full-time, tenure-track archival faculty. We address the ways in which SAA contributes to faculty members' teaching, faculty members' encouragement of students to join SAA, SAA student chapters and faculty advising, and how SAA might promote better communication, coordination, and collaboration between graduate archival education programs and practitioners. We contend that despite decades of effort on both sides, the relationship between graduate archival education programs and the Society of American Archivists remains disjointed, ultimately limiting the field's development. We offer recommendations and suggestions for future research to strengthen this relationship in the interest of improving student experience and the health of the profession.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.79
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- The Academic Enclosure of American Archivist
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Pages: 117 - 140
Abstract: ABSTRACTAmerican Archivist is the oldest journal of the US archival profession. In its first several decades of publication, a wide variety existed among the institutional affiliations of American Archivist contributors. Since the 1990s, articles authored by archivists within higher education have almost completely eclipsed articles authored by archivists from other sectors, particularly government archivists. This “academic enclosure” of American Archivist has significant ramifications for the quality and richness of our professional discourse. This is the first article to track institutional affiliations of American Archivist research article authors across nearly the entirety of the journal's publication history. The author examined the institutional affiliation of a data set of 1,799 articles printed in American Archivist from the journal's inception in 1938 through 2019. This article contextualizes the trends in institutional affiliations by reviewing the editorial policies of the journal over its eighty-year run.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.117
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- College and University Archivists: Doing It All for Less
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Pages: 141 - 206
Abstract: ABSTRACTThe Society of American Archivists (SAA) and its members have conducted numerous surveys of the archival profession—both of archivists as individuals and of archival institutions—through the years. In 1949, the College and University Archives Committee of SAA conducted the first survey specifically of college and university archives. Building off previous surveys, in 2021 the College and University Archives Landscape Survey was undertaken by the College and University Archives Section to gather data about the management and organization of college and university archives within the United States, as well as about the backgrounds, skills, responsibilities, and tasks in which college and university archivists are engaged. While the initial results were released to the membership, this article represents further analysis and contextualization with other professional literature. It identifies trends, similarities, and differences between surveys and eras, and it provides suggestions for future surveys and research.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.141
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing
during a Pandemic-
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Pages: 207 - 218
Abstract: ABSTRACTFor decades, team processing has been an effective method of tackling extensive collections that would consume a single processor's time. The effectiveness of team processing was challenged in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the archival profession to reexamine long-standing methods of shared work. While some aspects of processing and descriptive work easily shift to remote work, other aspects of processing remain steadfastly physical. This article examines a team processing project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections and Archives to process a major collection previously held by the university's Film Department that began in summer of 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors share their experience adapting physical processes to ever-changing health and safety guidelines and discuss what changes are worth retaining and which processes presented the biggest challenges to pandemic protocols.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.207
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Archives in Conversation
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Pages: 219 - 221
Abstract: In a recent meeting with American Archivist editor Amy Cooper Cary, the three of us were reflecting on the decisions that led us into archives. For Amy, who went to library school later in life and was transfixed by a class in the history of books and printing, the decision was to pursue archives as a second career. For Stephanie, who wrote a paper that centered on a manuscript collection for a graduate English course, the decision was to apply to an MLIS program soon after. And for Rose, who discovered archives as an undergraduate, the decision was to leave a late-night job in food service for a day shift in her university's special collections and archives. These decisions, at the time, seemed relatively inconsequential, but they set each of us on a path to this profession, which has profoundly changed all our lives.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.219
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom
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Pages: 222 - 225
Abstract: By Hoyer Jen,, Holt Kaitlin H.,, Pelaez Julia with Brooklyn Public Library. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2022. 170 pp. Softcover. $50.00. ISBN 978-1-4408-7855-8.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.222
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research
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Pages: 226 - 229
Abstract: Edited by Xu Lijuan.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 152 pp. Softcover, hardcover, and EPUB. $49.00. Softcover. ISBN 9781-5381-3892-2.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.226
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience
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Pages: 230 - 234
Abstract: By Lester Peter.Routledge Studies in Archives. New York: Routledge, 2022, 242 pp. Hardcover. $160.00. ISBN 9780367746254.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.230
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
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Pages: 235 - 239
Abstract: By Cifor Marika.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 308 pp. Softcover. $27.00. ISBN 978-1-5179-0936-9.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.235
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
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Pages: 240 - 243
Abstract: By Henle Alea.Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 259 pp. EPUB, Cloth, and Paperback. $22.99, $90.00, $28.95. EPUB ISBN 978-1-61376-745-0; Cloth ISBN 978-1-62534-498-4; Paperback ISBN 978-1-62534-499-1.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.240
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries
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Pages: 244 - 246
Abstract: Edited by Crilly Jess, Everitt Regina.London: Facet Publishing, 2022. 263 pp. Softcover. £55.00 UK. ISBN 978-1-78330-497-4.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.244
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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- Cultural Humility
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Pages: 247 - 251
Abstract: By Hurley David A.,, Kostelecky Sarah R.,, Townsend Lori.Chicago: ALA Editions, 2022. 48 pp. Softcover. ISBN 9780838949887.
PubDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.17723/2327-9702-86.1.247
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2023)
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