Archival IssuesPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11050
C. McEvilly
{"title":"Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations","authors":"C. McEvilly","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11050","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses challenges inherent in collaborative archival projects involving both large institutions and small historical societies. It identifies these unique problems and outlines potential solutions to overcome these issues. Examples are drawn from the Portal to American Jewish History project and contextualized within the professional literature on ethnic or community archives and archival collaboration. This project collected metadata from a wide range of Jewish history archives and aggregated the records in a single searchable website.","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130248126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11038
R. Krause
{"title":"Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies. Edited by Michael J. Shallcross and Christopher J. Prom. [Review]","authors":"R. Krause","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132160821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11034
Joy Kingsolver
{"title":"Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge. Oxford Series on History and Archives. By Sonja Luehrmann. [Review]","authors":"Joy Kingsolver","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129380684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11029
D. McCrea
{"title":"Creating a More Accessible Environment for Our Users with Disabilities: Responding to an Office for Civil Rights Complaint","authors":"D. McCrea","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11029","url":null,"abstract":"In 2012, a University of Montana student advocacy organization filed a complaint with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights stating that unequal access to the university’s electronic and information technologies (EIT) resulted in discrimination against students with disabilities. This article shares ways in which the University of Montana, including its archives and special collections, responded to the resulting mandate that “employees must create, obtain, and maintain all EIT in a manner that ensures it is accessible to individuals with disabilities.” The author argues that a professional and ethical commitment to diversity, access, and use compels archivists and colleagues in the cultural heritage community to increase their awareness of accessibility issues as they relate to electronic and information technologies, and to act to eliminate barriers experienced by their users with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124240489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11026
J. Mifflin
{"title":"Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. By Michelle Caswell. [Review]","authors":"J. Mifflin","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125825963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11028
E. M. Ryan
{"title":"Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections. Edited by Kate Theimer. [Review]","authors":"E. M. Ryan","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"760 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133085312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11025
Arel Lucas
{"title":"Rights in the Digital Era. Trends in Archives Practice Series. Edited by Menzi L. Behrnd- Klodt and Christopher J. Prom with an introduction by Peter B. Hirtle. [Review]","authors":"Arel Lucas","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124106942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11015
Joyellen Freeman
{"title":"Seen but Not Heard: A Case Study of K–12 Web Archiving and the Importance of Student Participation in the Archives","authors":"Joyellen Freeman","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11015","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the 1990s, student interaction with archives was limited. K–12 educators often struggled to access archival materials and primary sources, especially because most archivists failed to include K–12 audiences in outreach and programming efforts. Digitization and the emergence of the Internet during the late twentieth century changed the relationship between K–12 students and archives. Educators and students now have access to millions of digital archives online, and most statewide education standards require students to engage with primary sources regularly. As a result, the archival literature devotes more time and space to discussing the relationship between K–12 students and archives. This article uses the Archive-It K–12 Web Archiving Program, which began as a partnership between the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive’s Archive-It service, as a case study in participatory archiving. The research relies on interviews with educators involved in the program, published reviews of the program, and a survey of archival and pedagogical scholarly literature. The article concludes that participatory archiving has academic and sociocultural benefits for K–12 students. Participating in archival processes increases students’ digital literacy and critical thinking skills, transforms their understanding of history and personal identity, and gives them a means of expressing their culture. The research is significant because it shows that K–12 students have a voice in the historical record, and it challenges archivists to develop more opportunities to allow these voices to be heard.","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115557406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11014
Elizabeth Joffrion, Lexie J. Tom
{"title":"Broken Promises: A Case Study in Reconciliation","authors":"Elizabeth Joffrion, Lexie J. Tom","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11014","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a long-term collaboration between a nontribal and a tribal organization—Western Washington University and the Lummi Nation. The narrative describes efforts to share and understand the Native cultural resources acquired by the university in the years prior to the development of professional practices for the appropriate management and use of Native American archival materials and explores a series of moral and ethical challenges from both the Native and non-Native perspectives. The article offers strategies for sharing expertise, knowledge, and cultural resources that can assist in addressing historical injustices, misunderstandings, and mistrust founded in the misappropriation of Native heritage by non-Native institutions.","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125030504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archival IssuesPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.11023
H. Gatlin
{"title":"Records and Information Management. By Patricia C. Franks. [Review]","authors":"H. Gatlin","doi":"10.31274/archivalissues.11023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387390,"journal":{"name":"Archival Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131318513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}