In this first digital-only issue of American Archivist 84.1, Kimberly Anderson and Jessica Maddox present a case study on how the University of Nevada, Reno, adopted the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials; Donald Force and Randy Smith consider the relationship among digital surrogates, their physical counterparts, and their metadata; and Patricia Galloway examines issues of access to mental health archives—and more. In addition, contributors review ten archival books both old and new and Meredith Evans shares her 2020 SAA presidential address.
This issue's cover features producer and performance artist Elizabeth Wurst—of the experimental beatbox project loopmami—who performs from her home in Lima, Peru, in March, 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Wurst is one of the producers featured in the Bit Rosie digital media archives at the New York University Fales Library. Adele Fournet offers the Bit Rosie archives as a case study in transforming web-based multimedia research initiatives into digital institutional archives. Photo by Adele Fournet, courtesy of Bit Rosie media.
American Archivist 84.1 (Spring/Summer 2021)
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- "Something New"
Amy Cooper Cary
Presidential Address
- "WE Are SAA"
Meredith Evans
Theodore Calvin Pease Award (forthcoming!)
- “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Documenting Disability History in Western Pennsylvania
Bridget Malley
Articles
- "Surveying as Unsettlement: The Protocols Alignment Survey at the University of Nevada, Reno"
Kimberly Anderson and Jessica Maddox - "How to Wrangle Multiple Discrete Collections from One Donor: A Case Study of the Subject-based Physical and Digital Consolidation of the Wade Hall Collections"
Laura M. Gentry, Erin Ryan, Jessica Rayman, and Martha Bace - "Context Lost: Digital Surrogates, Their Physical Counterparts, and the Metadata that Is Keeping Them Apart"
Donald C. Force and Randy Smith - "Bit Rosie: A Case Study in Transforming Web-Based Multimedia Research into Digital Archives"
Adele Fournet - "Dusting Off that Old Projector: Preservation through Projection"
Marsha Gordon and Dino Everett - "Providing Restricted Access to Mental Health Archives within Government Archives: The Subject Stakeholder"
Patricia Galloway
Reviews
- "Reviewing the Past"
Bethany Anderson, Reviews Editor - Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times
Rebecka Taves Sheffield
Reviewed by K.J. Rawson - Transparência e opacidade do estado no Brasil: Usos e desusos da informação governamental
José Maria Jardim
Reviewed by Shirley Franco - Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond
Edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Reviewed by Diana E. Marsh - Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation
Edited by Mary Kandiuk
Reviewed by Carli V. Lowe - “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook
Edited by Tom Nesmith, Greg Bak, and Joan M. Schwartz
Reviewed by Francis X. Blouin Jr. - Zwölf Wege ins Archiv. Umrisse einer offenen und praktischen Archivwissenschaft
Christian Keitel
Reviewed by Katharina Hering - A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
Lynn Meskell
Reviewed by Lauren Van Zandt - Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change
Ted Underwood
Reviewed by Harriett Green - Producing the Archival Body
Jamie A. Lee
Reviewed by Brian M. Watson - Reference and Access for Archives and Manuscripts
Cheryl Oestreicher
Reviewed by Kayla Scott
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