Disaster Planning for Special Libraries By Guy Robertson. Cambridge, MA: Chandos Publishing, 2020. 320 pp. $78.95. eBook ISBN 9780081010501; Paperback ISBN 9780081009482. The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries By Mary Grace Flaherty. Chicago: American Library Association, 2021. 168 pp. $54.99; ALA members $49.49. Paperback ISBN 9780838937990. Reviewed by Katy Sternberger, CA, DAS; Archivist, Portsmouth Athenaeum … Continue reading Disaster Planning
Intergenerational Conversations 2024: SAA Presidential Addresses
By Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, Reviews Co-Editors [PDF Full Text] “Archives are, by their nature, intergenerational voices. They allow our ancestors to speak to us and for us to speak to our descendants. Given this reality, archivists should value the messages that our predecessor comrades bring forward. . . . This series provides archivists … Continue reading Intergenerational Conversations 2024: SAA Presidential Addresses
Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators
By Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019. 294 pp. Hardcover $65.00. ISBN 9781940965154. Reviewed by Courtney M. Gillie, Project Archivist, The State Historical Society of Missouri [PDF Full Text] Mooring a Field by Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa is a thoughtful look into the sidelining of career conservators and preservationists like Paul Noble Banks. Banks … Continue reading Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators
In Review: Year One of Intergenerational Conversations
This post is part of the Intergenerational Conversations series. By Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, Reviews Co-Editors [PDF Full Text] The Intergenerational Conversations series is intended to foster dialogue between the past and the present by allowing new voices to revisit, reevaluate, and respond to professional literature that shaped the archival field. In its inaugural year, we … Continue reading In Review: Year One of Intergenerational Conversations
Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America
Edited by Jidong Yang. Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022. 368 pp. Hardcover $60.00. ISBN 9780924304989. Reviewed by Hali Allen, State Historical Society of Missouri [PDF Full Text] I recently read Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America, edited by Jidong Yang. This book delves into the … Continue reading Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America
Records Surveys and a Healthy Collection Lifecycle
This post is part of the Intergenerational Conversations series. Review of John Fleckner, “Reaching Out: The Place of Records Surveys in Archival Practice,” The Midwestern Archivist 2, no. 1 (1977): 14–21. Reviewed by Jordan Jancosek, Archivist, Accessioning and Collection Management, Brown University [PDF Full Text] | [PDF Article + Full Text] John Fleckner’s 1977 article, “Reaching … Continue reading Records Surveys and a Healthy Collection Lifecycle
The Special Collections Handbook
Cullingford, Alison. Third Edition. London: Facet Publishing, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, Softcover, and EPUB. Hardcover ISBN 9781783305384; Softcover ISBN 9781783305377; EPUB ISBN 9781783305407. Reviewed by Jessie Knoles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [PDF Full Text] Alison Cullingford’s The Special Collections Handbook, third edition, provides an overview of special collections librarianship and introduces readers to key … Continue reading The Special Collections Handbook
The Black Teacher Archive
https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/black-teacher-archive Reviewed by Raymond Pun, Academic and Research Librarian, Alder Graduate School of Education [PDF Full Text] The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a newly developed digital resource from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Monroe C. Gutman Library Special Collections that offers access to serial publications and other materials from the Colored … Continue reading The Black Teacher Archive
Community-centric Collections: Reassessing John Fleckner’s Perspectives on the Commonalities Between Museums and Archives
This post is part of the Intergenerational Conversations series. Review of John A. Fleckner, “Archives and Museums,” The Midwestern Archivist 15, no. 2 (1990): 67–75. By Selena Ortega-Chiolero, Museum Specialist, Chickaloon Village Traditional Council (Palmer, Alaska) [PDF Full Text] | [PDF Article + Full Text] In the 1990 article, “Archives and Museums,” John A. Fleckner, … Continue reading Community-centric Collections: Reassessing John Fleckner’s Perspectives on the Commonalities Between Museums and Archives
Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market
Hildreth Chen, Amy. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 192 pp. Hardcover $90.00, Softcover $26.95. Hardcover ISBN 9781625344847, Softcover ISBN 9781625344854. Reviewed by Ashley Howdeshell, University Archivist, Northeastern Illinois University [PDF Full Text] Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market by Amy Hildreth Chen explores the competitive marketplace of literary archives, which document the … Continue reading Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market
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