By Bryan Sinche. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2024. Softcover, hardcover, and E-book. Hardcover: $99.00. Softcover: 34.95. Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7413-1. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7412-4. Reviewed by Lily Hunter, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Lincoln University [PDF Full Text] Some of the most well-known Black authors today are Frederick Douglass, Henry Bibb, Harriet Jacobs, and … Continue reading Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

By Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, Reviews Co-Editors Are you looking for a topic for your next lunch-and-learn? How about articles to share with your archives' colleagues? Look no further than American Archivist's Special Section on Accessioning! This section, which is free to access, features five articles exploring "creative approaches to a fundamental archival practice":[1] … Continue reading Discussion Group Guide: American Archivist Special Section on Accessioning

By Hilary J. Bernstein. Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 9789004426467 (hardback); ISBN 9789004426474 (e-book). Reviewed by Alexandra Zukas [PDF Full Text] How have archival sources been scrutinized, consciously constructed, and deployed to intentionally build narrative in the past? To what degree is archival content shaped by civic, personal, or even national pressures? Of course, all archivists … Continue reading Historical Communities: Cities, Erudition, and National Identity in Early Modern France

Mochocki, Michal, ed. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 127 pp. ISBN 9781032411118; eBook ISBN 9781003356318. Reviewed by Cheryl Oestreicher, Professor/Head, Special Collections and Archives, Boise State University [PDF Full Text] When opportunities arise, I incorporate board games into class and patron visits. I especially like to show games to … Continue reading Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games

By Verne Harris. New York: Routledge, 2021. 166 pp. Softcover ISBN 9780367681142, Hardcover ISBN 9780367361075, eBook ISBN 9780429343827. Reviewed by Jenifer Monger, Institute Archivist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [PDF Full Text] As someone who has read Verne Harris’s numerous publications and watched him professionally from the sidelines (always in awe), I jumped at the opportunity to … Continue reading Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis

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