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Books | Software + Tools | Digital Collections, Exhibits + Projects | Guidelines + Best Practices | Other Resources

Books

Titles are listed alphabetically and are followed by the author(s) or editor(s) and the publisher. This list was last updated on November 26, 2025.

• Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States (O’Leary; University of Virginia Press)
• Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (Gerbner; Duke University Press)
• Archival Materialities in a Digital Age (Goudarouli & Prescott; Oxford)
• Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice (Rogers & Wieland; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Archives in a Changing Climate – Part I & Part II (Frings-Hessami & Foscarini; Springer)
• The Birth Certificate: An American History (Pearson; University of North Carolina Press)
• Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress; University of North Carolina Press)
• The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish (Land; Palgrave Macmillan Cham)
• Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power (Barclay & Hunt-Kennedy; University of Illinois Press)
• The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England (Taylor; De Gruyter Oldenbourg)
• Elusive Archives (Bruckner & Isenstadt; University of Delaware Press)
• Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement–Selections from the Secret Police Archives (Viatrovych & Luciuk; McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive (Jones & Jancovic; University of Illinois Press)
• Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing (Cohen, Price, & Bernardini; University of Minnesota Press)
• Handbook of Black Librarianship, 3rd ed. (Jackson, DeLoach, & Fenton; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production (Campbell & Forman; Intellect Books)
• Hollywood Behind the Lens: Treasures from the Bison Archives (Wanamaker & Bingen; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (Billey, Nelson, & Uhl; ALA)
• Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (Miron; University of Minnesota Press)
• Information Studies and Other Provocations (Furner; Litwin/LJP)
• Introduction to Documentation Studies (Lund; Facet Publishing)
• Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (Dambrogio & Starza Smith; MIT Press)
• The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (Snelson; University of Minnesota Press)
• Metadata for Digital Collections, Second Edition (Miller; ALA)
• The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States (Banner; Oxford University Press)
• Narratives of (Dis)engagement: Exploring Black and African American Students’ Experiences in Libraries (Overbey & Folk; ALA)
• Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations (Jaillant et al.; UCL Press)
• Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives (Harnetty; University of North Carolina Press)
• The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving (Bak & Rostgaard; Routledge)
• The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition (Sommer & Quinlan; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Photogenic Montreal: Activism and Archives in a Post-industrial City (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives (Arends; Taylor & Francis)
• Providing Access to Privacy-Protected Records at Public Institutions (Friedel, Velte, & Wagner; SAA)
• Remotely Useful: Practical Lessons for Northern Community Archiving (Mills & Turner; CLIR)
• Six Steps to a Long-Range Preservation Plan: A Guide for Cultural Heritage Collections (Ogden; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship (Fritz; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains (Emil Her Many Horses; Giles, National Museum of the American Indian)
• (Un)sighted Archives of Migration: Spaces of Encounter and Resistance (Bublatzky, Siegenthaler; Routledge)
• (W)ARCHIVES: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art (MIT Press)
• What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845 (Konkle; University of North Carolina Press)

Software + Tools

• APTrust
• ArchiveReady
• Autopsy
• Bagger
• BagIt
• BitCurator
• DART (Digital Archivist’s Resource Tool)
• Dropbox
• ePADD
• Faculty Files
• Fedora
• File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester
• File Identification for Digital Objects (fido)
• Forensic Toolkit (FTK) Imager
• Hestia
• History Factory Archival Management System
• Islandora
• LOCKSS
• MediaWiki
• Mention
• Mukurtu
• Open Context
• OxygenXML
• Permanent.org
• Post Planner
• Samvera
• Scripto
• Social Feed Manager
• TAGS
• twarc
• Voyant
• Webrecorder

Digital Collections, Exhibits + Projects

• Archives Portal Europe
• Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
• Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
• Borderlands Archives Cartography
• Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive
• Chicana Por Mi Raza
• City Readers
• Civil Rights Digital Library
• Civil War Governors of Kentucky
• Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi
• Commemorative Landscapes
• CUNY Digital History Archive
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
• Digital Library on American Slavery
• Emblematica
• Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space
• Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Database
• Franco American Digital Archives/Portail franco-américain
• Freedom on the Move
• Images of Rome: The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive
• Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
• Muslims in Canada Archives
• Opioid Industry Documents
• Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”
• Persepolis Fortification Archive
• Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal
• Reframing the Color Line: Race and the Visual Culture of the Atlantic World
• Sampler Archive: Information and Images of Historic American Girlhood Embroideries
• South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
• Transcribing Women’s History at the Archives of American Art
• United Nations Digital Library
• The Virtual Vietnam Archive
• Visualizing the Red Summer
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Women Writers Project
• Zooniverse

Guidelines + Best Practices

• Best Practices for Queer Metadata
• Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
• Creating Access to HBCU Library Alliance Archives: Needs, Capacity, and Technical Training
• Creative Commons
• Documenting the Now
• Engaging Descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery
• Linked Open Data in Libraries and Museums
• Preservation Self-Assessment Program
• The Programming Historian
• RDF: Background Information on Resource Description Framework
• Southern Trans Collections Guide

Other Resources

• SAA Case Studies (series or individual studies)