Call for Presenters: RAO Marketplace of Ideas

The RAO Section will once again host its Marketplace of Ideas during the Section’s annual meeting on Monday, May 4 at 12pm EST. The meeting will be held virtually and is free to attend.  

For those unfamiliar with the Marketplace of Ideas, this is a fun and interactive way for archivists to discuss and exchange innovative ideas and practical approaches to many of the challenges faced in reference, access, and outreach. Multiple small breakout rooms are created, and, at 15-minute intervals, attendees can virtually travel from one breakout room to another to engage in conversation with colleagues. In this virtual marketplace, the connections extend beyond walls and geography, creating an open, inclusive forum where ideas are exchanged, refined, and shared with the entire community. 

We are looking for people who are interested in serving as presenters in the Marketplace! As a presenter, you will be the host of your own breakout room. You will provide attendees with a short (3-5 minute) presentation or overview of the topic or theme of your choice and facilitate a conversation with attendees. You might present a particularly challenging situation you’re facing and ask for suggestions and feedback. You might present a case study about an innovative assignment you’ve created and facilitate a Q&A with attendees who want to learn more about your work.   

Presentation topics focused on any aspect of archival reference, access, instruction, advocacy, and outreach are encouraged. We are particularly interested in proposals that align with the work of RAO’s Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) and Exhibits and Events (E2) Subcommittees. In past years, the Marketplace has included topics such as: 

  • The Future of the Archives & Special Collections Reference Desk & Reading Room: Open for Walk-Ins, By Appointment Only, or Other? 
  • Engaging MFA Theatre Students in Archival Studies and Memory Work 
  • Break Out! Gamify your Collections 
  • Navigating Minimal Processing and Public Services 
  • Lending Archival Materials 

You can submit your presentation proposal here: 

2026 RAO Marketplace of Ideas proposal submission – Fill out form 

Please submit by Friday, April 17, 2026. We will notify successful applicants no later than Friday, April 24, 2026.  

If you have questions, please reach out to Erin Lawrimore, RAO Chair, or any member of the RAO Steering Committee. 

Call for Chapters: The Community College Library: Outreach and Engagement

Call for Proposals

We are soliciting chapter proposals for our forthcoming ACRL book, The Community College Library: Outreach and Engagement with an anticipated publication date of Spring 2027. This book is part of the book series, The Community College Library.  With 1,167 public and independent community colleges across the United States, community colleges are educating nearly half of the undergraduates in the nation.  Community colleges serve a unique student population including high school students, first-generation students, parents, veterans, homeless students, returning students, those looking to transfer to a four-year university, those seeking technical vocational skills, and many more.This series aims to highlight the work, dedication, challenges, and innovation occurring in community college libraries across the country. 

Focus of the Book:

This edited volume will present chapters written by community college librarians leading outreach programs across the United States. In order to create equity in access, inclusivity, promote social justice, and support the whole student, community college librarians must actively reach out and engage all students. Outreach is that attempt to promote and provide services to students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved. It can also be an opportunity to engage the broader community to support student learning. This book will compile examples of innovative, engaging, and effective outreach programs in community college libraries. Each chapter will provide details on such programs including program purpose or mission, required resources and labor, outcomes, challenges and opportunities, sustainability of programs, and other processes or collaborations needed to make the program successful. 

Possible topics:

  • Book clubs
  • Finals activities
  • Exhibits
  • Cultural events
  • Library participation in campus events
  • Unlikely partnerships
  • Social media
  • Creative marketing campaigns
  • Collaborations across campus (student services, students organizations, faculty)
  • External collaborations
  • Community partnerships
  • Student advisory boards

Don’t see an outreach topic here that you would like to write about?   That’s okay!  We want you to submit your proposal! If you have any questions, contact the editors at thecclibrary@gmail.com to discuss how your idea may fit within this book’s scope.

Proposal Guidelines:

Interested authors are invited to submit a proposal and fill out the short online proposal form. The form will require: 

  • Author names, job titles, and institutional affiliations
  • A working chapter title
  • An abstract up to 500 words
  • A current CV

Proposals are due by April 20, 2026 and must be submitted via online form.

Acceptance

  • Contributors will be notified of their status (acceptance or rejection) within 3-4 weeks of the due date of proposals.
  • Completed chapters will be approximately 2,500 – 4,000 words in length excluding endnotes and bibliography.

Timeline

  • The first draft of chapters will be due August 28, 2026, and final draft on November 20, 2026.
  • Projected publication date: Spring 2027

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Kaela Casey, Librarian, Ventura College

Janet Pinkley, Head of Access Services, CSU Channel Islands, and Adjunct Librarian, Ventura College

Contact us at: thecclibrary@gmail.com

https://sites.google.com/view/thecclibrary/home/outreach-and-engagement

New Issue: Cinergie: Il Cinema e le altre Arti

Cinergie, no. 28, 2025 (Special Issue: Tele-Archives: Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions across Europe)
(open access)

Introduction: Tele-Archives. Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions Across Europe
Giulia Crisanti, Myriam Mereu, Emiliano Rossi, Paola Zeni

Broadcasting Knowledge: The Role of the Television Archive in the Pedagogical Legacy of OU’s A305 History of Architecture and Design (1890-1939)
Marco Manfra, Grazia Quercia

Studio Azzurro and Rai: Retrieving Neglected Histories from Artist Archives
Chiara Borgonovo, Laura Marcolini

Adapting Manchester: Granada Studios, Brideshead Revisited (1981) and the “Performance” of Place
Victoria Lowe

Reconstructing Histories: Mapping Artists’ Film and Video on Channel 4 (1982–1992) through the Archives of LUX, British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, and REWIND Artists’ Video Archive
Nicole Atkinson

Mus-Mus-Musica! Videomusic’s Archive at Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Gabriele Angelo Perrone

The Transition Period to Multi-Channel Television Broadcasting in Turkey and the Analysis of Television Programme Guides
Pınar Aslan, Hakan Koluman, Sena Özşirin

Tele-Archives and OTT Platforms between National Recollection and Algorithmic Memory. A Comparison of Three European Models: RaiPlay, RTVE Play, and INA Madelen
Alessia Francesca Casiraghi

“A Public Service Through a Private TV”: Tracing Multidimensional Approaches to Researching Italian Local Television Through the History of TeleRoma56
Giulia Crisanti

Broadcasting the Island: Sardegna 1 and the Archival Reconstruction of a Local Media Story
Myriam Mereu

All Passionately On Stage: Antenna 3’s Creative Journey between Entertainment and Advertising
Luca Barra, Emiliano Rossi

Aliens in Emilia-Romagna: TeleSanterno from Local Roots to National Entertainment
Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello

Our Studio Is the City. Local Broadcasting and Political Information in the Archives of Videogruppo Piemonte
Riccardo Fassone, Paola Zeni

Miscellanea

“It’s Some Revisionist Horseshit From a Fading Director”. Transgender Meanings and Popular Culture: The Case of The Matrix
Claudio Bisoni

New Frontiers for Historical Dissemination: Alessandro Barbero Between Fandom and Performativity
Lucia Di Girolamo, Mariangela Palmieri

Constructing a Stratified Representative Sample of Italian TV Series (2000–2023): A Methodological Framework for Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Greta Iapalucci, Guglielmo Pescatore

Songs from Sanremo, from CD to Streaming: Analysis of Lengths and Introductions
Dino Mignogna

Call for Papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history, cultural sociology, or legal history. Issues are published semi-annually and exclusively online in Diamond Open Access. Research articles and research reports, to be submitted in English or German, are subject to a double-blind peer-review. All submissions undergo an internal evaluation by the editors supported by the advisory board and receive professional copy-editing before publication. The journal is based at the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law at the University of Bonn and at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. transfer receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Webhosting is provided by our partner institution Heidelberg University Library via arthistoricum.net.

Website: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

Editors: Felicity Bodenstein, Ulrike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag

Managing Editor: Florian Schönfuß

Advisory Board: Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., dbv-Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung, Didier Houénoudé, Larissa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, Antoinette Maget-Dominicé, Barbara K. Murovec, Gesa Vietzen

Open Call for Submissions

transfer is an interdisciplinary, cross-epoch and international journal. It primarily addresses a scholarly audience. Besides experienced researchers, transfer equally aims at early career researchers, including PhD students, offering broad impact and high accessibility for the publication of recent research. Abstaining from any author charges or other publication fees, transfer provides a Diamond Open Access platform assuring research quality as well as transparency, fostering research interconnection and the crossing of disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:

– Provenance research on individual objects or object groups

– Collections, History of collection

– Translocation of art and cultural assets 

– Art and cultural property law

– Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory

– Art trade, Art market studies

– Art policy, Sociology of art, Cultural sociology

– Restitution, Return, Repatriation

In conjunction with the articles in transfer, corresponding research data sets can be published via the Open Research Data platform heiData. For further information on this and regarding submissions, text categories, peer-review as well as our Style Sheet, please see the journal-website or contact us under redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de.

The editorial deadline for issue 5 (2026), no. 2, is July 15, 2026.

Contact Information

Dr. Florian Schönfuß

transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / 

Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Forschungsstelle Provenienzforschung, 

Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht

Kunsthistorisches Institut

Rabinstraße 1

53111 Bonn (Germany)

florian.schoenfuss@uni-bonn.de

Contact Email

redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de

URL

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, March 1, 2026
(partial open access)

Editorial
Introduction: Stewarding Indigenous knowledge through ethics, law and the archive

Essay
(Re)connecting with Indigenous cultural expression(s): Emerging frameworks for empowering Indigenous voices, agency, and authority
Nancy E Weiss

Articles
Protecting traditional cultural expressions: Law, Indigenous protocols, library practices
Ulia Gosart, Valmaine Toki and Susan Townzen

The silences and absences in Botswana’s archives: Cross-examining colonial legacy
Tshepho Mosweu

Influence of Indigenous data governance principles on Indigenous knowledge management: Lessons from the Southern African Intangible Cultural Heritage Project
Josiline Chigwada, Jacob Mapara, Patrick Ngulube and Tavhiringwa Chabvutagondo

Stewarding Indigenous language data: Case studies in CARE
Sandra Littletree, Nestor Guerrero and Miranda Belarde-Lewis

Exploring control of access to the Japadhola indigenous information
Gilbert Okello, Joyce Bukirwa and Elisam Magara

Sowing the future: The vision of community libraries at Amawtay Wasi University, Ecuador1
Adriana Guandinango

Affective encounters with digital knowledge collections: Towards supporting Indigenous wellbeing
Ailsa Lipscombe and Chern Li Liew

Beyond acknowledgement: Indigenous-centered projects on reclamation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bethany G Anderson, Krystiana L Krupa, Elizabeth A Sutton and Oliver G Tapaha

Bibliometric analysis of Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change adaptation literature, 1993–2023
Reniko Gondo

Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation among Tanzanian smallholder farmers: A systematic review
Martinus E Sospeter, Wulystan Pius Mtega and Andrew Malekani

Call for Presenters: Spring Triple A Talk

The Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section of SAA is looking for speakers for our next “Triple A Talk.” The virtual panel will focus on funding freezes and collecting pauses. Is your institution changing how they think about collecting due to budgetary concerns? What thoughtful solutions are you employing to ensure collections are stewarded with care? We’d love to have you on our panel to share your perspective, experience, and concerns. Contact me at sludewig@loc.gov for more details if you’re interested in serving as a panelist.

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections,” by Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford of University at Buffalo Librarieshttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/4/

“An Archival Responsibility: A Scoping Review of Literature Regarding the Documentary Burdens of Refugees,” by Ana Roeschley, Kinza Alizai, Crystal Tharayil, Amy Lanier, Merrion D. Frederick, and Homero R. Cuevas of UNT Libraries: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/5/

“Accepting and implementing virtual reality in archives: Archivists’ perspective,” by Farzaneh Talebhaghighi of U of A College of Information Science: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/6/

“Archives and Children’s Knowledge,” by Elliott Kuecker of UNC-Chapel Hill Library and Ashley Rockenbach of City Tech CUNY: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/7/

Reviews

“Review of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History,” by Kai H. Uchida of UNH Libraryhttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/1/

“Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education,” by Anna Z. Szapiro of Yale University Library: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/2/

“Review of Ethics in Linked Data,” by Rebecca Fried of Schaffer Library at Union College: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/3/

Call for Lightning Talks at STHC Annual Section Meeting

The Science, Technology, and Health Care Section is seeking members to present brief lightning talks during their Annual Section Meeting, May 26th from 2-3.30p EST. Lightening talks are brief, 5-10 minute presentations designed to share ideas, projects, initiatives, successes, and opportunities with the larger section membership.

Talks may also include calls for participation in research, surveys, partnerships, or introductions to tools or concepts you have found compelling in your work and feel inspired to share.

All Section Meetings are conducted virtually. Presenters are welcome – but not required – to create a brief deck of slides (less than 5) to accompany their talk. Presenters and attendees are not required to register for SAA to attend.

If you are interested, contact STHC Section Co-chair Allison Fischbach (afischbach@jhu.edu) by April 6.

New Issue: Journal of the South African Society of Archivists

Journal of the South African Society of Archivists Vol. 58 (2025)

Editorial Overview
Ngoako Marutha

The impact of archives and records management legislation on administrative transparency and accountability in Sierra Leone Public Archives
Umaru Bangura

Utilisation of Internet of Things technology for managing archives of public universities in South Africa
Zolile Myeko, Edward Dakora

Digital preservation of archival materials at selected university archives in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lufuno Kgamedi, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Privatisation and displacement of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Sindiso Bhebhe

Record-keeping on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare in Ruvuma region, Tanzania
Donata Kemirembe , Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Maliwaza Mbwana

End-to-end digitisation workflows with intelligent document processing for university theses and historical newspapers
Niklas Zimmer

Maintaining compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act in Tshwane Healthcare Centres, South Africa
Isaac Mpho Mothiba

Archives and records management Fourth Industrial Revolution skills and competency requirements on the job adverts in Botswana
Olefhile Mosweu, Donald Rakemane

Enhancing recordkeeping in Tanzanian public universities through robust records disaster preparedness
George Firmin Kavishe, Francis Garaba

Managing the electronic records management system at the Workers’ Compensation Fund in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Bertha Maturo

Implementation of a records classification system for proper recordkeeping in the Northwest Provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, South Africa
Refilwe Mpho Malatji, Makutla Mojapelo

Application of the system development life cycle for the implementation of an electronic document and records management system in the public service of Namibia
Aune Iipumbu , Cathrine Nengomasha

CFP: Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era

“Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era: An International Interdisciplinary Conference” on 29 June–3 July 2026 at Eden Grove Complex, Rhodes University

Proposal Deadline (Second Call): 15 April 2026 

In an age of distortion and falsification, can the archive claim any mandate to speak the truth? 

With present-day global socio-political and technological developments, we are living in a time where expertise is undermined and the always-tenuous boundaries between “truth” and “fiction” are increasingly blurred. More than ever before, the archive has emerged as both a site of authority and a field of dispute. 

The “post-truth” era – characterised by the rise of misinformation, historical denialism, and digital echo chambers reinforced by social media algorithms – demands a fundamental rethinking of how archives are imagined, constructed, accessed, and interpreted. This conference invites historians, archivists, anthropologists, musicologists, artists, environmental scientists, natural scientists, information systems professionals, scholars and practitioners from a wide range of other disciplines, activists, and publishers, media practitioners and content creators to explore the evolving role of the archive in shaping collective memory, public trust, and historical knowledge in the post-truth era. What does it mean to “reimagine the archive” when truth itself is increasingly contested and under siege? How can archives resist manipulation, amplify marginalized voices, and act as tools for critical engagement in an age of epistemic crisis? Do they have a responsibility to extend their reach, actively sharing information rather than serving as ivory-tower repositories of research? We welcome papers and panels that engage with topics including but not limited to: 

  • The politicization and weaponization of historical records 
  • Archives and other repositories in the age of misinformation and conspiracy theories 
  • Forgery, authenticity, and the ethics of archival evidence
  •  Archives and genealogical fictions
  • The rise of “counter-archives” 
  • Digitization, AI, and the reconfiguration of archival authority 
  • Disinformation, deepfakes, and the future of historical and scientific truth 
  • Post-Colonial, decolonial and anticolonial archival methodologies 
  • Silences, absences, and erasures in traditional archives 
  • Archival justice and truth-telling in transitional societies 
  • Creative, speculative, and performative archival practices
  • The role of curation in archive building
  • Content management strategies for building spaces of truth
  • Policy design and legislative frameworks 
  • The role of archives in repatriation and social justice
  • Epistemologies, ontologies and taxonomies
  • The role of print media in the post-truth era
  • Rights, responsibilities and the ethical use of information in the era of big data
  • Self-curation, social media and algorithm generated archives.

We are especially interested in submissions that critically engage with interdisciplinary approaches, including digital humanities, media studies, cultural memory, fine and performing arts, public history, environmental and natural sciences, ecological challenges, and archival management and practice (including scientific archives and repositories such as herbaria).

Alternative presentation formats such as performative works, film screenings and/or the display of artefacts may be considered depending on the technical requirements and our ability to accommodate them within the programme and venue. 

It is envisaged that a selection of papers will be peer reviewed and submitted to an accredited peer reviewed journal for publication. Other peer reviewed publication possibilities are currently under consideration. 

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a 300-word abstract and a brief biography (100 to 150 words) by 15 April 2026 to archiveconference@ru.ac.za. Panel proposals (3 to 5 presenters) are welcome and should include a panel title, a short overview (250 to 300 words), and individual paper abstracts. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 30 April 2026. For any queries, please contact the organiser, Prof Alan Kirkaldy, at  archiveconference@ru.ac.za. Updates and additional information will be available at the conference website once it is up and running. 

Costs

  • Professionals (for example, Full-time Academics in employment and Representatives of Organisations) R5000.00
  • Postgraduate/Postdoc Students and Unemployed R3500.00
  • Single Day Professionals R1000
  • Single Day Postgraduate/Postdoc Students and Unemployed R500.00
  • On-Campus Accommodation: 4 Nights Bed and Breakfast Accommodation @R700 per night R2100.00
  • Off-Campus Accommodation: Information will follow once the website is up and running. 
  • Transport – Shuttle from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) to Makhanda (Grahamstown) Single: R500.00 Return R1000.

Workshops

The first day of the conference will be devoted to a workshop dealing with the whole process of building a digital archive presented by Africa Media Online. Participation in this highly informative and useful workshop is included in the cost of registration for the conference.

National Festival of the Arts

The conference coincides with this annual Festival. Negotiations are currently in progress to secure cooperative agreements, including discounted or complementary tickets to selected productions. Further details will follow. 

Contact Information

Prof Emeritus Alan Kirkaldy, Rhodes University

Contact Email

a.kirkaldy@ru.ac.za