Below is a list of all reviews of software and resources for managing and preserving digital archival materials, as well as reviews of media and digital projects that engage with archives and archivists.
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Journals + Monographs | Software + Tools | Digital Collections, Exhibits + Projects | Guidelines + Best Practices | Archives + Pop Culture Media | Microreviews | Case Studies
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Journals + Monographs
- Archives and Human Rights [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Cataloguing Outside the Box: A Practical Guide to Cataloguing Special Collections Materials [PDF Full Text]
- A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Disaster Planning for Special Libraries and The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Everyday Magicians: Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Presidential Archivist: A Memoir [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century Literature [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849–1893 [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Special Collections Handbook [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Oestreicher, Cheryl, ed. “Special Issue on Advocacy,” Provenance 31, no. 1 (2013) [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
Software + Tools
- Access to Memory [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Aeon [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Airtable [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Archive-It [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Archivematica [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- ArchivesSpace
- Asana [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- AVCC [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Bamboo Dirt [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Canva [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- dPlan™: The Online Disaster Planning Tool [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- DSpace [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- DuraCloud [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Evernote [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Genius Scan [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- HootSuite [Review] |[PDF Full Text]
- The Internet Archive Companion [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Microsoft Planner [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Omeka [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Preservica [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Serendip-o-matic [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Stacklife [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Technology Roundup: Free and Low-Cost Online Exhibit Platforms [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- TIND.io Institutional Repository [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Today’s Document [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Transkribus Lite [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Trello [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Viewshare [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Zotero [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
Digital Collections, Exhibits + Projects
- The Bauhaus [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Bexar Archives Online [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Black Plays Archive [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Black Teacher Archive [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Citizen Archivist [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Content, Context, Capacity [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Deep Focus: A Directory to Moving Image Resources
- The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Disability Archive UK [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- DIY History [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Explore Chicago Collections [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Founders Online [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Gallica: Digital Library and of the Bibliothèque nationale de France [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Grateful Dead Archive Online [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Histories of the National Mall [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- HistoryMakers Digital Archive [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- History Pin [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Homosaurus and Digital Transgender Archive [Review Essay] | [PDF Full Text]
- Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Jefferson Quotes and Family Letters [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Mapping our Anzacs [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Metadata Games: An Open Source Electronic Game for Archival Data Systems [PDF Full Text]
- Musical Passage [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- North Carolina Civil War Soldiers [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Open Library [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Oral Histories of the American South [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Persee [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Photogrammar [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Prague Spring Archive [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Richard Pryor’s Peoria [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Smithsonian Transcription Center [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- TeachArchives.org [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Two Plantations [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
Guidelines + Best Practices
- Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Community Archiving Workshop Handbook [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S. [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Dictionary of Archives Terminology [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Digital Preservation.gov [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Works [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- EADiva [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Memory Lab Network Resources [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Organizing Family and Religious Records: A Step-by-Step Guide [PDF Full Text]
- Our Digital World: Resources for Preservation Projects [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Spanning Our Field Boundaries: Mindfully Managing LAM Collaborations [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
Archives + Pop Culture Media
- An Archivist’s Exploration of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Archive 81 [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Arizal, Recordkeeping, and the World of Maktaba [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Magnus Archives [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Record of a Spaceborn Few [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Still So Much to Learn: Star Trek and the Archives [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- They’re Digging in the Wrong Place: The Influence of Indiana Jones on the Archives [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Watermelon Woman [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
Microreviews
- Archives and Human Rights [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Archives, Metadata, and Gaming: An Interesting Combination [PDF Full Text]
- ArchivesSpace [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Everyday Magicians: Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Magnus Archives [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections [PDF Full Text]
- Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849–1893 [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- The Special Collections Handbook [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
- Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism [Review] | [PDF Full Text]
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