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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)