In issue 86.1 of American Archivist, Makala Skinner and Ioana Hulbert share results from the A*CENSUS II: All Archivists Survey Report; Eira Tansey examines how American Archivist authorship and institutional affiliation has changed since its inception; and Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz study the relationship between SAA and graduate archival education programs.
Other articles examine the current landscape of college and university archives and the effectiveness of team processing during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, contributors review several books that consider archival materials and primary sources as classroom tools, decolonization and diversity in archives, archives records as care work, and more.
On the Cover: The interior view of a set for Scarface, a film produced by The Caddo Company, an early Howard Hughes film production company. Scarface: The Shame of the Nation debuted April 9, 1932, and faced a censorship battle that Hughes used to bolster the film’s promotion. In their article, “Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic,” Sarah Jones and Ryan DiPaolo discuss a collaborative project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Special Collections and Archives to process the Howard Hughes Film Production Records (previously held by the university’s film department) that began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article to learn how the team adapted physical processes and overcame challenging pandemic restrictions. Photo courtesy of the Howard Hughes Film Production Records, UNLV Special Collections and Archives.
American Archivist 86.1 (Spring/Summer 2023)
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- Mirror, Mirror
Amy Cooper Cary
Presidential Address
- "Show? To Who?"
Courtney Chartier
A*CENSUS II
- Building a Baseline of Archival Data with A*CENSUS II
Jennifer Gunter King and Beth Myers - A*CENSUS II: All Archivists Survey Report
Makala Skinner and Ioana Hulbert
Articles
- "Sometimes I feel like they hate us": The Society of American Archivists and Graduate Archival Education in the Twenty-first Century
Alex H. Poole and Ashley Todd-Diaz - The Academic Enclosure of American Archivist
Eira Tansey - College and University Archivists: Doing It All for Less
Michelle L. Sweetser, Tamar Chute, Elizabeth James, Jane LaBarbara, and Krista Oldham - Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic
Sarah Jones and Ryan DiPaolo
Reviews
- Archives in Conversation
Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke - What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom
Jen Hoyer, Kaitlin H. Holt, and Julia Pelaez
Reviewed by Sara Lyons Davis - Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research
Lijuan Xu
Reviewed by Kayla Harris - Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience
Peter Lester
Reviewed by Claire Du Laney - Viral Cultures: Activists Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Marika Cifor
Reviewed by Marissa Friedman - Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
Alea Henle
Reviewed by Amber Glen - Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries
Edited by Jess Crilly and Regina Everitt
Reviewed by Heather Mulliner - Cultural Humility
David A. Hurley, Sarah R. Kostelecky, and Lori Townsend
Reviewed by Jessica Tai
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