New Issue: Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material 47, no. 3 (2026)
(open access)

Original Works

Inks and Pigments in Greek Codices of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Period: Material Analysis and Insights into Scribal and Artistic Practices
Vassiliki Kokla, Agamemnon Tselikas

Detection of Gypsum and Syngenite in Gelatine-Alum Sized Papers by ATR-IR and Raman Measurements
Enrico Pigorsch, Tina Grette Poulsson

Letters to the Editors

Information on Handling Potentially Harmful Colourants in Historical Library Collections (in this Case: Arsenic-Containing Pigments)
Torsten Arndt, Almuth Corbach, Michael Vogel, Roland Suchenwirth, Stephanie Preuss

Review

A Review of Emerging Contaminants in Library Indoor Spaces: Sources, Exposure, and Health Risks
Xiaofen Zhao, Jinxiu Zhang, Yun Zhao, Xiaofang Zhao, Ruijuan Zhu, Yan Zhang

New Issue: Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 61, no. 1-2 (2026)
(subscription)

FOREWORD
Sir Geoffrey Vos

INTRODUCTION: THE 1922 LAW AND PROPERTY ACT, AND MANORIAL DOCUMENTS
Mark Bailey

Research Articles

KEYNOTE: A LIFE IN MANORIAL RECORDS – FROM PHD TO MDR
P.D.A. Harvey

ACCOUNTING FOR ABSENCE: EXHIBITING THE MANORIAL RECORDS OF RAVENSER ODD
Kathryn Maude and Emily Robinson

LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE PERSON: MANORIAL AMERCEMENTS FOR BLOODSHED IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY YORKSHIRE
Stephanie Emma Brown

TENURES, TITHES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF A SMALL ECCLESIASTICAL MANOR: KINGSTON (SUFFOLK) IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Mark Bailey

THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND LEGAL IMPORTANCE OF LATE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANORIAL LORDSHIP: THE BLOUNT FAMILY OF THE WEST MIDLANDS
Elizabeth Norton

MANOR FROM HEAVEN: MANORIAL RECORDS AT LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY
Rachel Freeman

THE EVERYDAY LIFE IN A NORTHUMBRIAN MANOR PROJECT
Bethany Elliott

THE WELSH MANORIAL DOCUMENTS DATABASE PROJECT, 1993–6: AUTOMATING THE MANORIAL DOCUMENTS REGISTER (MDR)
Helen Watt

Tribute

P.D.A. HARVEY (1930–2025) and the British Records Association
David Robinson

Obituary

P.D.A. Harvey (1930–2025): A life in records
Angus J.L. Winchester

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“A Historian and a Sociologist Walk into a Bar: A Data Archive for Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Hosted at a National Archives Institution” by Benjamin Peuch, Oliver Lenaerts, Rolande Depoortere, Johan Van der Eycken, and Youssef Ouahalou of Archives de l’État en Belgiquehttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/19/

“Curating the Liberal Arts: High-Impact Approaches to Teaching Medical Humanities in the Archives” by Alyssa Culp and Liz Bloodworth of Illinois Wesleyan University: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/20/

“Assessing the Ability of a Large Language Model to Perform Recall Searches of Archival Finding Aids” by Will J. Gregg of Washington State University Libraries Pullman and Perry Gowdy: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/21/

CFP: IPRES 2027

Get ready for the next installment of iPRES! iPRES 2027 will be happening in Quebec City, Canada, October 4-8, 2027.  We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Proposals<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027>.

Our themes for this conference are Accountability, Authenticity and Adaptability<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027/pages/c1507c8f-9a8b-4d29-8d00-133f5e820202>.

Deadline for peer-reviewed submissions: 12 March 2027
Deadline for Non-Peer Reviewed Submissions: 14 April 2027
More information to come on Digital Preservation ‘Bake Off’

For more details on how to prepare your proposals, please refer to our website<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027> for more information.

We look forward to seeing everyone next year!

iPRES 2027 General Committee

info@ipres2027.ca

About iPRES

Held since 2004, iPRES<https://ipres-conference.org/> brings together colleagues from all over the world to share, learn, and foster relationships on the topic of digital preservation.

CFP: RBM Spring 2027 Issue

RBM: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is accepting proposals for its Spring (May) 2027 issue! We welcome articles related to special collections librarianship, archives, or museum practice.

Articles should be written in a formal style and range between 3,000 and 5,000 words. The submission deadline is December 20th. If interested in submitting, get in touch with the Editor, Diane Dias De Fazio (diane.diasdefazio@gmail.com). Guidelines for authors can be found here.

New Issue: Digital Library Perspectives

Digital Library Perspectives 42, no. 3 (September 2026)
Special Issue: Cultivating human-centered digital libraries through transdisciplinary collaboration, Guest Editors: Anna Maria Tammaro, Emanuele Bellini and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti
(partial open access)

Guest editorial: Cultivating human-centered digital libraries through transdisciplinary collaboration Free
Anna Maria Tammaro

Large language models in cyber humanities: companionship, stewardship and repeatability Available to Purchase
Ernesto Damiani

Assessing the impact of cultural misinformation deepfakes through AI-based user engagement analysis Available to Purchase
Salvatore Venticinque; Alba Amato; Gennaro Junior Pezzullo; Beniamino Di Martino

EHLD: a general data framework for harmful language detection and evaluation Available to Purchase
Fatemeh Mohammadi; Paolo Ceravolo; Samira Maghool; Marta Annamaria Tamborini; Maria Elisa D’Amico

From prompts to programmes: natural language programming as a metacognitive scaffold for GenAI-assisted problem solving Available to Purchase
Giovanni E. Adorni; Daniele Grosso

Rare books as socio-technical research infrastructure in hybrid digital libraries Open Access
Irene Guidotti

Participatory practices in AI design for cultural heritage: a scoping review on methods, inclusion, and epistemic justice Open Access
Elena María Gómez-Rico; Núria Ferran-Ferrer; Miquel Centelles

Transdisciplinary strategies and challenges for digital librarians: early Italian findings from a Delphi study Available to Purchase
Chiara Cauzzi; Elena Corradini; Fabio Mercanti

Transforming academic libraries into GenAI-enabled libraries: proposing experience, evaluation and engagement (3Es) dimensions through UGT and TAM perspective Available to Purchase
Lokesh Jasrai; Amanpreet Kaur

From traces to heritage: transdisciplinary steering of the AI footprint Available to Purchase
Caterina Perri; Francesco Pupo; Giancarlo Fortino

Toward a cultural cyber-critical ecosystem: concepts, threats and challenges Open Access
Emanuele Bellini; Emiliano Degl’Innocenti

The human element in digital heritage: an interview with Ines Vodopivec Free
Ines Vodopivec; Anna Maria Tammaro

CFP: Special Issue – Power and vulnerability in the in-depth interview: exploring a new ‘ethic of care’

We invite papers that problematise the ways in which ideas about abuse, harm, trauma, ‘victimhood’ and vulnerability risk limiting our research ambitions and pathologizing our research subjects.

Oral historians, biographers, anthropologists, sociologists and narrative journalists, as well as archivists are increasingly encouraged to reflect on whether their interviewing and archival practices are ‘trauma-informed.’ The feminist therapeutic and organisational practices that situated harms against women and children within systems of oppression (Herman, 1992; Bloom, 1994) have been displaced by individualising models of trauma and trauma-informed practice (Harris and Fallot, 2001; SAMHSA, 2014). Trauma-informed approaches have been adopted uncritically in many settings and contexts, with little opportunity for questioning the concept or the way it has been operationalised. Its emphasis on values and relational practice means a certain vagueness and a difficulty in thus measuring how much it is used and its effectiveness.

This is the case across the disciplinary cultures within which we attempt to recover, preserve and centre the voices of a diverse cohort of survivors, whether of, for example, child abuse, institutional harms, medical malpractice, natural disasters, acts of terrorism or genocide. The uncritical deployment of trauma as an ahistorical concept is applied equally to political and cultural catastrophes as to distressing events in individual lives. 

The ‘trauma-informed care’ concept has crept beyond health services into humanities research and has become de rigueur in grant and ethics applications, usually without expounding on how the practice will be operationalised. The avoidance of methods that might ‘retraumatise’ participants or activate ‘traumatic memories’ (Mocnik, 2023) is favoured. Some scholars have offered alternative non-clinical concepts to trauma (Das, 2007; Bourke, 2022; Marecek, 1999). However, the common use of ahistorical, neuro/ psycho-centered notions of trauma raises questions about epistemologies, ethics and our everyday interviewing practices.

This special issue asks how we can work ethically and equitably with living subjects to research recent history or contemporary themes in the arts and humanities via long-form or multi-sessional interview(s). Can we define a new ethic of care that attends to structural harms and systemic failures, power dynamics and intersectionalities rather than individual pathology? Within the interview process, the concept of trauma and the notion of being ‘trauma-informed’ can pose a risk of reducing interviewees to a state of victimhood and in so doing obscure their agency, resilience and fortitude. It can imply that every interviewee is in need of special care and protection, skewing the power and authority towards the interviewer. And in the broader sense, this mode of understanding the dynamic relationship does not appear conducive to achieving historical accountability and justice – personal and political.

Shifting the lens from one of private, personal trauma to a new ethic of care can help to transform in-depth interviewing about individual suffering and resilience, into a tool for addressing issues around historical accountability and justice and to support contemporary advocacy, policy critique and institutional accountability. Moving beyond viewing harm solely as an individual experience, historians adopting a new approach might better trace how state, cultural and economic systems continue to perpetuate and maintain harm, exposing this violence as an ongoing everyday reality, and thereby shifting the focus from individual recovery/healing and instead placing the responsibility onto fixing the cultures and institutions that caused and perpetuated that violence. Can a new ethic of care attend to sensitive topics, vulnerability and painful experiences in a way that neither reproduces harms nor silences participants? Must we reduce this positive ethic of care to a negative: ‘avoiding retraumatisation’? 

We invite proposals for papers reflecting on these challenges. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Feminist ethics of care 
  • Gatekeeping – who gets to adjudicate what and who is researchable, sayable, and ethical
  • Critical reflections of ‘trauma-informed’ interviewing practices
  • Care within research practices – theoretical considerations
  • Care and ‘vulnerability’ – what are the boundaries of scholarly responsibilities
  • Intersectionality and positionality in relation to care practices in interviewing
  • Care – making our methodologies visible
  • Positionality and working across difference including class, race, age, Global North/South, disability, neurodiversity
  • Gender stereotypes and care labour
  • Incorporating lived experience expertise in approaches
    • Institutions
    • ‘lived experience’ 
    • Power, collaboration, equity
  • The interviewer as an ally in the fight for social justice 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO NOTE:

Papers should draw on individual original research experience and their own research concerns and dilemmas. To express your interest, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short bio to r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk cc claudia.soares@newcastle.ac.uk by 14 December 2026.

Contact Information

Dr Ruth Beecher, Birkbeck University of London, UK. r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk

Dr Claudia Soares, Newcastle University, UK. claudia.soares@newcastle.ac.uk

Contact Email

r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk

URL https://shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-for-papers-power-and-vulnerability-in-the-in-depth-interview-exploring-a-new-ethic-of-care/

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2027

Call for Proposals

Deadline to apply: 18 November 2026

Notification of acceptance: 11 January 2027

Please note that you will have to create an account in Oxford Abstracts to submit a proposal.

The 12th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is delighted to return, with events across countries and modalities in mid-May 2027. Michigan State University continues as host and is partnering with the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, as a lead into their annual DH@Guelph Summer Workshops.

The schedule of events will be as follows. All Symposium days will be live streamed. Multilingual days will be supported through human-generated, live interpretation:

  • 10 May (Monday) – In-Person Symposium at Michigan State University (in English)
  • 12-13 May (Wednesday-Thursday) – Virtual Symposium (in English, Spanish, and French)
  • 15 May (Saturday) – In-Person Symposium at the University of Guelph (in English and French)
  • Mid-May, Post Symposium – DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

We invite work at the intersections of critical DH that engages with anti-colonial and post-colonial frameworks, supports feminist and anti-racist praxis, and crosses political and disciplinary borders. We define the term “humanities” expansively to create space for a range of issues that encourage interdisciplinary understandings of the field.

This Symposium welcomes proposals by Wednesday, 18 November 2026 midnight in your timezone.

This year, we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics, and we are especially interested in hearing about specific practical, creative, and theoretical examples from the Global Majority context:

  • Multilingualism and language justice in DH
  • Indigenous led DH work and community engaged collaborations in DH
  • Globally situated human-AI collaboration and critique in DH
  • DH approaches to the study of the environment and considerations of environmental justice in DH infrastructure and practice

We are always interested to hear about the following topics, and their connections to the digital, as reflected in global research conversations and ethical DH practices across disciplines:

  • Relational, distributed, and/or creative frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy
  • Public and community-engaged DH
  • Digital historical research and archives
  • Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH
  • Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in global contexts
  • Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
  • Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict
  • Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
  • Disability justice and accessibility
  • DH methods in interdisciplinary and cross-regional research
  • Digital storytelling and artistic representations in digital spaces
  • Computational literary studies

Presentation Formats

Virtual

Submission and presentation language options: Spanish, French, English
Presentation materials (draft slides and presentation text) for lightning talks, 15 minute presentations, and panels must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium (Monday, 26 April 2027).
7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.
Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.Project showcase and Artist Gallery

(Not live streamed; no live interpretation)

Proposal: 250-300 words

The Project Showcase and Artist Gallery is a session similar to a poster session, in which presenters share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of 30 minutes. Moderators will be present to support and facilitate the live discussions among presenters and audience members.These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects and digital art projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques. We invite artists and designers to submit data-driven online artworks related to this year’s theme.

In-Person

Submission and presentation language for In-Person at Michigan State University: English
Submission and presentation language options for In-Person at University of Guelph: English, French7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.Posters

(Not live streamed)

Proposal: 250-300 words

Presenters will share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of one hour. These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques.

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium follows an open review process. Names and institutional affiliations of submitters will be shared with reviewers, and names and affiliations of reviewers will be shared with submitters along with a comment on their submission from each reviewer.

Submit a proposal: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/81897/submitter

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2026, TPS Collective

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching and working with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: Epic Fails, Collaborative Wins, and an Open Call.

Grounded in issues your colleagues in the field are exploring, this call is intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community. Please see the calls below for more information.

Epic Fails

Not every class session goes according to plan—and sometimes, what happens instead teaches us more than a perfectly executed lesson ever could. Notes from the Field invites submissions for our “Epic Fails: Learning From Experience” series that reflects on teaching with primary sources when an activity fell flat, a carefully designed plan went awry, or an unexpected turn led to a surprisingly successful outcome. We’re especially interested in candid reflections on what authors learned from these experiences and how they shaped their teaching going forward.

Collaborative Wins

Did you recently collaborate with an archivist, librarian, faculty member, student, or community member?  Tell us about it!  What did you create (e.g., a TPS lesson plan, exhibit, or community event), and what steps did you take to ensure a successful collaboration? We’d love to celebrate your win and to learn tips for successful collaborations with different kinds of people in different kinds of spaces.

Open Call

We are also accepting submissions on topics related to teaching and working with primary sources to be featured in peer-reviewed blog posts. While we ask that contributions fall into either our “Reflective Practice” or “Practical How-To” categories, this fall we are once again open to reviewing submissions from a range of contexts. Our hope is that this call for miscellaneous submissions will create opportunities for practitioners to submit work that may fall outside our recent thematic calls.

Contributions should be 1000-1100 words and are subject to Notes from the Field’s peer-review process.

Posts will be published on a rolling basis beginning in December 2026. Full submission information is available in the Notes from the Field author and peer review guidelines.

Any questions, expressions of interest, or submissions can be sent to the Notes from the Field general email at tpsnotesfromthefield@gmail.com.

CFP: 7th Annual Ozarks Studies Association Meeting

Call for Presentations

Ozarks Studies Association 7th Annual Meeting
April 9th, 2027 at MSU-West Plains, West Plains, Missouri

The Ozarks Studies Association (OSA) invites presentations, papers, and posters for its seventh annual meeting in West Plains, Missouri on April 9, 2027. Presentations from across the disciplines on broad array of issues related to any aspect of Ozarks life throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas are invited. 

We invite proposals 

  • of complete panels (with or without a chair) or individual papers
  • by scholars, archivists, museum staff, independent scholars, and graduate students
  • in the fields of anthropology, archelogy, biology, environmental studies, engineering, geography, geology, history, literature, museum design, pedagogy, preservation, urban studies, zoology, etc.

To be considered, submit

  • an abstract 
  • a two-page CV
  • label it as paper or poster

To Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

All materials must be received by January 16th, 2027. Notifications will be made by February 16th, 2027. 

Please remember, beginning this year, to present at the OSA Annual Meeting, you must be a member in good standing (meaning you have paid your annual dues of $30 for academics and independent scholars or $15 dollars for graduate students.)

If you would be willing to chair a panel, submit a two-page CV Dr. Jared Phillips by March 5th, 2027.

All inquiries should be sent to Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

Contact Information

Jared Phillips

Teaching Associate Professor of History 

University of Arkansas

President, Ozarks Studies Association

Contact Email

jmp006@uark.edu

URL

https://history.uark.edu/directory/index/uid/jmp006/name/Jared+Phillips