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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 June 21, 2022.

• Archives 101 (Hamill; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Archives in the digital age: preservation and the right to be forgotten (Wiley)
• Archives and human rights (Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group)
• Beyond the book: unique and rare primary sources for East Asian studies collected in North America (Yang; Columbia University Press)
• Borders and belonging (Ndumu; Litwin/LJP)
• A cultural arsenal for democracy: the World War II work of US museums (Ceglio; University of Massachusetts Press)
• Disaster planning for special libraries (Chandos; Elsevier)
• Elusive archives (Bruckner & Isenstadt; University of Delaware Press)
• Ghosts of archive: deconstructive intersectionality and praxis (Taylor & Francis)
• The handbook of archival practice (Franks; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Historical communities: cities, erudition, and national identity in Early Modern France (Brill)
• Information studies and other provocations (Furner; Litwin/LJP)
• Law librarianship in the age of AI (Kroski; American Library Association)
• Libraries, archives, and museums (Stauffer; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Managing information risks (Saffady; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Minds alive: libraries and archives now (DeGruyter; University of Toronto Press)
• Modern artifacts (Esopus Books)
• Mooring a field (Cunning-Kruppa; Legacy Press)
• Narrative expansions: interpreting decolonisation in academic libraries (Crilly and Everitt; Facet Publishing)
• Photogenic Montreal: activism and archives in a post-industrial city (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Placing papers: the American literary archives market (Chen; University of Massachusetts Press)
• Presidential archivist (Alsobrook; Mercer University Press)
• Reams in the desert (Saunders; Legacy Press)
• Saving new sounds (Morris and Hoyt; University of Michigan Press)
• The special collections handbook (Cullingford; Facet Publishing)
• Teaching through the archives: text, collaboration, and activism (Graban and Hayden; Southern Illinois University Press)
• Sustainable enterprise strategies for optimizing digital stewardship (Fritz; Rowman & Littlefield)
• Techniques for electronic resource management (Emery, Stone, and McCracken; American Library Association)
• (W)ARCHIVES: archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art (MIT Press)

Software + Tools

• Aeon
• ArchiveReady
• AtoM
• Autopsy
• Bagger
• BagIt
• BitCurator
• Digital Mappaemundi (DM)
• ePADD
• Exactly
• Faculty Files
• File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester
• File Identification for Digital Objects (fido)
• File Information Toolset (FITS)
• Forensic Toolkit (FTK) Imager
• History Factory Archival Management System
• Islandora
• Mukurtu
• Muse
• Open Context
• Permanent.org
• Scalar
• Social Feed Manager
• TAGS
• twarc
• Voyant
• Webrecorder

Digital Collections, Exhibits + Projects

• Archigram Archival Project
• Archives Portal Europe
• Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
• Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
• Black Women’s Suffrage
• Borderlands Archives Cartography
• Chicana Por Mi Raza
• Citizen Archivist
• City Readers
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
• The Disability Archive
• 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
• In Her Own Right:  A Century of Women’s Activism, 1820-1920
• NYPL Map Warper
• Oral Histories of the American South
• Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”
• Persepolis Fortification Archive
• 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)
• Stanford Literary Lab
• Transcribing Women’s History at the Archives of American Art
• Umbra Search
• United Nations Digital Library
• Walt Whitman Archive
• University of Louisville’s The Louisville Leader Newspaper Transcription Project
• What’s on the Menu?
• Women Writers Project
• Zooniverse

Guidelines + Best Practices

• The Black Family: United by History, Restored by Storytelling
• Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
• Creative Commons
• DACS
• Dictionary of Archives Terminology
• Documenting the Now
• Engaging Descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery
• The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook
• Linked Open Data in Libraries and Museums
• PREMIS Data Dictionary v. 3.0
• Preservation Self-Assessment Program
• The Programming Historian
• RDF: Background Information on Resource Description Framework

Other Resources

• SAA Case Studies (series or individual studies)