New Issue: Archives and Records

Archives and Records, Volume 47, Issue 1 (2026)

Research Articles

Enhancing healthcare records management: a blockchain-based system for secure and efficient handling of electronic health records
Ahmed Aloui, Samir Bourekkache, Meftah Zouai, Oussama Mekhatria & Okba Kazar

AI-driven transformation of audio archives: from speech recognition to NLP-based summarization and metadata generation
Muslum Yildiz & Fatih Rukancı

Epistemic violence towards the mothers of colonial Métis children: evidence from Belgium’s ‘Africa archives’
John D. McInally, Nicki Hitchcott & Alice Urusaro U. Karekezi

A model of coordination and collaboration for the protection and recovery of archives affected by natural disasters
Jonas Ferrigolo Melo, Juliano Silva Balbon & Moisés Rockembach

Climate change impacts on the recordkeeping practices of community organizations in Bangladesh: toward an adaptive recordkeeping framework
Md Khalid Hossain, Viviane Frings-Hessami, Gillian Christina Oliver, Joy Bhowmik & Jemima Jahan Meem

Recovering women: a case study in academic-archive collaboration
Tom Furber & Patrick Wallis

Book Reviews

Futures of digital scholarly editing, edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price and Caterina Bernadini, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2025, 312 pp., 31 b&w illustrations, £20.13 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-5179-1668-8
Alex Healey

Pioneering women archivists in early 20th-century England
by Elizabeth Shepherd, Abingdon, Routledge, 2025, 197 pp., £34.39 (eBook), ISBN 9781003640479.
Arunima Baiju

The Methodist Archivists’ Handbook
by the Methodist Church, 2025, https://media.methodist.org.uk/media/documents/Methodist_Archivists_Handbook.pdf [accessed 11 October 2025]
Daniel Reed

Recent Issue: Comma

Comma, Volume 2023 Issue 2
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Preface
Forget Chaterera-Zambuko

Guest Editorial
Margaret Crockett

Tatuoca Magnetic Observatory Brazil: Records, Interdisciplinary Work, and AI in the Amazon for Archivists’ Education
Cristian Berrío-Zapata, Cristiano Mendel Martins, Jacquelin Teresa Camperos Reyes, Vinicius Augusto Carvalho de Abreu, Raissa Moraes Baldez, Ester Ferreira da Silva, and Keanu Frota Sales

Archivistas en los archivos: Normativa sobre reconocimiento técnico-profesional en la región latinoamericana
Carolina Katz

Archivos Comunitarios y Comunidades Patrimoniales: Experiencias y proyecciones educativas del Taller de Archivística Comunitaria para cantores y cantoras “a lo poeta” en la Región de O’Higgins (Chile)
Javiera Montecinos Díaz, Leonardo Cisternas Zamora, Héctor Sancho Reverté, Clemencia González Tugas, and Javier Peña Espinoza

Archives Curriculum in the Global South: A Caribbean Perspective
Stanley H. Griffin, Jeannette A. Bastian, and John A. Aarons

Reaching Equilibrium for Cutting-Edge Content in the Training of Archivists and Records Managers in a Comprehensive Open Distance E-Learning Environment: A “glonacol” Approach
Makutla Mojapelo, Mpho Ngoepe, and Lorette Jacobs

A Provenance Pedagogy Exchange Across North and South American Archival Education Programs
Sarah A. Buchanan, Natália Bolfarini Tognoli, and Clarissa Schmidt

The 21st Century Archival Practitioner
Patricia C. Franks

Archivistes tout-terrain: Les chantiers-école d’Archivistes sans Frontières
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier, Christine Martinez, and Marc Trille

Programa de Formación Archivística de la ALA: Contribuyendo al desarrollo profesional de nuestra comunidad
Anna Szlejcher and Marco Antonio Enríquez Ochoa

Self-Help, History, and Civic Pride: The Origins of Professional Archival Education in England
Margaret Procter

CFP: Symposium – Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives

The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission together with the Entangled Media Histories invite you to a two-day international symposium to be held at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on 19-20 November 2026.

The symposium focuses on paper archives and their uses in media historical research. The aim is to foreground these discussions as points of departure for showcasing the value of paper archives in media historiography and their indispensable contributions to appraising and valorising audiovisual archival records.

Call for Papers

The symposium is open to media historians, archivists, artists and media professionals doing archive-based work. We invite papers that shine a light on the use of paper archives in the writing of media histories. Papers that showcase the theoretical and methodological versatility of paper archives in media historical research are particularly welcome. We are interested in contributions that deal with archived paper (paper preserved as historical records) as well as archival paper (catalogues, index cards, maps, etc.). The following topics can serve as a point of inspiration, however proposals do not need to be limited to these:

  • paper archives as signifiers of archiving politics;
  • (re)orientations towards politics of digitisation, preservation and archival
    access;
  • practices of appraising historical records and their archival value;
  • intermediality in archive-based media histories;
  • archival precarity;
  • the gendering of paper archives;
  • paper archives and women’s media histories;
  • paper and (gendered) archival labour;
  • embodied approaches to archives;
  • archival paper (catalogues, inventories, memos, etc.) and its digital afterlives;
  • materiality of paper records;
  • silences in the archives as orientations towards re-sounding and re-visioning the archives;
  • polyvocality in the archives and imaginative processes of historical meaning-making;
  • paper archives as grounds for self-reflexivity in institutional media archives.

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to msc@fiatifta.org by May 31st, 2026.

Queries can be sent to Alec Badenoch (Utrecht University) or Dana Mustata (University of Groningen).

CFP: Playing with History

PLAYING WITH HISTORY, 15 – 16 JULY

The Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton welcomes submissions for our interdisciplinary and panhistorical conference Playing with History. This event brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in examining how play—across its many forms—shapes, reflects, and reimagines the past. Play is often framed as leisure or diversion, yet it has long been central to cultural expression, technological innovation, learning, and socialization. From ancient board games to contemporary digital worlds, from childhood toys to serious games in education, play offers a rich archive for historical inquiry and creative engagement.

We welcome papers that address (but are not limited to) the following themes:

1. Histories of Games, Toys, and Play

  • Archaeologies and material cultures of play
  • Play and identity (gender, class, race, age)
  • Collecting, preserving, and curating play artefacts
  • Performance as play (acting, dressing up, theatre)

2. History and Gaming

  • Historical representation in tabletop, board, and role-playing games
  • Video games as sites of historical storytelling and memory
  • Game mechanics as historiographical tools
  • Histories of gaming technologies and industries

3. Pedagogy and Play

  • Game-based learning in history education
  • Role-playing and experiential learning in the classroom
  • Designing educational games and playful curricula
  • Critical perspectives on gamification
  • Play as a method of engaging with difficult or contested pasts

We encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, anthropology, education, media studies, game studies, museum studies, theatre studies and more. If you have something to say about play, you are welcome!

We welcome 200-word abstracts for traditional 20-minute papers, but also welcome submissions for more creative formats, such as game demonstrations, poster presentations and workshops. We warmly welcome abstracts from practitioners outside higher education and postgraduate students. 

Please email Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk and Tim.Reinke-Williams@northampton.ac.uk your abstract and contact details by Monday 11 May.

Contact Information

Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk and Tim.Reinke-Williams@northampton.ac.uk 

CFP: 2026 OHA Biennial Conference

Proposals are now being accepted to present at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Tardanya/Adelaide, South Australia, on the lands of the Kaurna people, from 3-6 December. The deadline for submission is 11 May 2026.

The conference is being presented jointly by Oral History Australia (OHA) and Oral History Australia SA/NT. The theme is the very timely ‘Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity’ and features world-leading oral history and technology expert Doug Boyd as keynote speaker.

Professor Doug Boyd PhD is the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd  envisioned, designed and implemented the open source and free OHMS system, which synchronizes text with audio and video online.  In 2019 Boyd received a Fulbright Scholars Research Grant to collaborate with the National Library of Australia on innovative access to online oral history. He is the author of Oral History: A Very Short Introduction  published by Oxford University Press in 2025. 

For further information go to:

Please note that concession rates will be available for members of Oral History Australia state associations and the National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) who wish to attend the conference.

Contact Information

Conference organisers

Contact Email

conference@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au

URL

https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-conference-2026/cfp/

New Bibliography: Digital Library Federation Committee for Equity and Inclusion (DLF CEI) Zotero Resource Library

The Digital Library Federation Committee for Equity and Inclusion (DLF CEI) has published a Zotero resource library supporting greater inclusion and equity in GLAM spaces, as well as individual professional and personal growth. Explore the CEI Zotero Resource Library here.

As equity and inclusion efforts are hindered, if not erased, in the contemporary moment, this library was compiled and updated to offer materials that help sustain this work.  Thank you to the members of the DLF CEI Resources Subgroup and our extended community who contributed and helped make the Library publication-ready!

If you would like to suggest new resources, please complete our Resource Suggestion Form.

Call for Posters: OHA 2026 Annual Meeting

Deadline May 31, 2026

While the Call for Proposals is now closed, there’s still time to submit a poster for the 2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting!

Our memories are closely tied to the landscapes we inhabit, both real and imagined, and these connections are being reshaped by environmental change, political instability, and ongoing crises. As people become disconnected from familiar places and ways of living, oral history helps capture how individuals and communities make sense of identity and belonging.

The 2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon invites contributions from across fields and communities to explore how people shape and are shaped by the places they inhabit, move through, or leave behind. With the Pacific Northwest as a meaningful setting, the conference will highlight themes such as environmental change, migration, memory, and resilience. We welcome a wide range of perspectives and formats that engage with these ideas and demonstrate the role of oral history in documenting relationships between people and place.

Don’t miss your chance to contribute to this important conversation! Submit your poster today.

Attend Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts Book Discussion

Join SAA Publications for an online conversation about Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts, Volume 6 in SAA’s Archival Fundamentals Series III, on May 4 at 12:00 p.m. CT. The book’s authors and contributors will talk about policy development, ethics and strategies for collecting repositories, appraisal and acquisition in institutional settings, and more, followed by a short Q&A. Register here.

Research Participant Request – Credentialism in Higher Education: A Study of Archival Careers

I am an Ed.D student at the University of North Georgia, and I am writing to invite you to participate in my research study:

Title of the Study: Credentialism in Higher Education: A Study of Archival Careers
Study Number: 2026-031
Principal Investigator: Allison Galloup, Higher Education Leadership and Practice
Faculty Advisor: Michael Lanford, michael.lanford@ung.edu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the social and cultural implications of the increase in number of archivists who enter the field through library and information science programs. Participants considered for this study are archivists currently employed at a higher education institution who hold a terminal degree (MLS/MLIS or MA, or a combination of these degrees).

The research will be conducted in two parts:

  1.  Brief responses (no more than 500 words) to two questions related to your archival education and career as an academic archivist.
  2. A 60-75 minute interview during which you will be asked about your training and preparation for becoming an archivist, your experiences as an archivist, and your relationships with other archivists and librarians.

For the interview, I will ask for your permission to record and transcribe the conversation for the purposes of data analysis. Your initial written responses will also be included in data analysis.

Confidentiality will be maintained throughout the process. The interviews, transcripts, and written responses will be de-identified. During the data analysis process, you will be given the opportunity to review, edit, and offer clarification of the transcripts of your interview.

Participation in this study is voluntary. You may request to leave the study and have any data relating to your participation deleted at any time. The risks involved are no greater than those you would encounter in daily activities. There is no compensation for participating in the study. However, you may find contributing to the larger conversation around graduate archival education fulfilling.

If you are interested in participating, please visit Credentialism in Higher Education: A Case Study of Archival Careers.

For questions about this study, you can call or email the principal investigator, Allison Galloup, at 678-717-3656 or allison.galloup@ung.edu or the faculty advisor, Michael Lanford, at michael.lanford@ung.edu. 

For questions about being a research participant, please contact the chair of the Institutional Review Board (irbchair@ung.edu) or the Research Integrity Officer (research-integrity@ung.edu).

Call for papers: Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) invites submissions for the Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award, named in honor of ALA’s first president, the distinguished nineteenth-century librarian, historian, and bibliographer. This award is given annually and recognizes the best essay written in English on library history. The winner will receive a certificate, a $500 cash award, and an invitation to have their essay considered for publication in Libraries: Culture, History, and Society.

Criteria

Manuscripts submitted should not be previously published, previously submitted for publication, or under consideration for publication or another award. To be considered, essays should 

  • embody original historical research on a significant topic in library history 
  • be based on primary sources whenever possible 
  • use good English composition and superior style. 

The Library History Round Table is particularly interested in works that place the subject within its broader historical, social, cultural, and political context and make interdisciplinary connections.

Applicants are encouraged to follow the submission guidelines for Libraries: Culture, History, and Society when formatting their manuscripts. Submissions should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, using the author-date system, and should not exceed thirty typewritten, double-spaced pages. 

Submissions and Selection

Applicants must submit their manuscripts electronically. Applications must be received by Thursday April 30th. The application deadline is firm; submissions received after the deadline will not be forwarded to the committee. 

Please upload your manuscripts electronically via the web form: LHRT Justin Winsor Award Submission Form.

Interested applicants can direct inquiries to Rachel Trnka, Justin Winsor Award Committee Chair, rachel.trnka@ucf.edu; please include “LHRT Winsor Award” in the subject line.

Contact Information

Rachel Trnka

Instruction & Engagement Librarian

UCF Libraries

Contact Email

rachel.trnka@ucf.edu