I’ve got a project in the offing for which I need to conduct some comprehensive literature reviews. I think I’m familiar with the journals that cover archives, but I am less confident about the sources for special collections. I also, of course, may be forgetting something obvious. So I once again ask for your assistance. In addition to the list below, what other journals (or publications or conferences or online sources) should I be looking at? (This review will address only developments in the U.S., so although I’m not limiting myself to sources published in the U.S. I do want to focus on sources which will have authors from the U.S.)
Journals:
- The American Archivist
- Archivaria
- Journal of Archival Organization
- Archival Science
- Archival Issues
- Archival Outlook
- College and Research Libraries
- College and Research Libraries News
- RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
Online Publications
Conferences (primarily looking for those for which presentation materials may be available online or for which proceedings are published):
- SAA Annual Meeting
- RBMS Preconference
- ACA Annual Meetings
- Museums and the Web (I’ve seen some presentations on archives topics there)
I know there must be others. Any suggestions?
Provenance?
Probably not a bad idea. (Provenance is the journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists: http://www.soga.org/publications/provenance.)
Which reminds me:
The Society of North Carolina Archivists has a journal too: http://www.ncarchivists.org/publications/journal-of-the-society-of-north-carolina-archivists-j-snca/
And there’s the new Journal of Western Archives: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/
You might want to check out the syllabi for Rare Book School. Some of them have some good out-of-the-way references, e.g.
http://www.rarebookschool.org/reading/libraries/l60/
Moving Image journal covers the film, video, and new media sides of the archival field.
You’ll also want to look at, depending on topic in question:
Journal of Academic Librarianship
Libraries & Culture / Libraries & The Cultural Record
Studies in Bibliography
Portal: Libraries and the Academy
The Library
Library History
Technical Services Quarterly
Code4Lib Journal
The New Review of Academic Librarianship
And, of course, the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Information and Culture (formerly Libraries and the Cultural Record): http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jlc.html
It more like a history of information broadly construed, but there have been a number of archives and special collections specific articles (including two I wrote!). The always awesome David Gracy used to edit it.
I may have to rethink including special collections, then. Oy! Such a list! Thanks!
ARSC Journal, the journal of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, has the occasional relevant article.
Wired and ArsTechnica have some archives related content. Wired’s article on reconstructing Stasi records led to my applying to archival programs and led to further research on forensic archives: http://bit.ly/359zp.
Archives and Manuscripts (The Australian Society of Archivists journal)
Archives and Records (The Journal of the Archies and Records Association (UK))
Information, Communication, and Society (only one issue that I know of)
American Indian Quarterly
The various state historical society journals
Comma (ICA journal)
Thanks, Kim. I am looking for primarily sources written by Americans or about developments in the U.S. I included Archivaria in my list because I know that Americans do publish there from time to time. Is the same true of the other international journals?
I am not sure about ICA’s Comma, but Information, Communication & Society did have an issue with archives content that involved American authors (me and two others). Archives & Manuscripts periodically features American authors as does the UK journal. I assumed Comma would work since ICA has American members and a North American section.
Worth mentioniong…
Most of these journals are indexed in Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts, which you can search for free from EBSCO: http://www.libraryresearch.com.
For your online publications:
Archive Journal
http://www.archivejournal.net/