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Library Science
Interviews with authors about new books in library science.
May 19, 2024
Shaping Archaeological Archives
Archaeology as a discipline has undergone significant changes over the past decades, in particular concerning best practices for how to handle the vas…
May 15, 2024
The Left Hand of Data
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice …
May 9, 2024
Book Banning
Book bans and book challenges are both on the rise. And they are increasing at unprecedented rates. But why is this happening? Dr. Christine Emeran of…
May 7, 2024
Teaching the History of the Book
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kin…
April 27, 2024
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the …
April 26, 2024
The Specter of the Archive
We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive: Poli…
April 18, 2024
Indigenous Archival Activism
The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuri…
April 12, 2024
Archival Film Curatorship
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film a…
April 9, 2024
Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despit…
March 31, 2024
Books Through Bars
Co-edited by Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Through Bars: St…
March 30, 2024
The Experimental Library
Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forwa…
March 23, 2024
Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse
Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandem…
March 22, 2024
Resurrecting the Black Body
The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. …
March 2, 2024
Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (Routledge, 2024) revisits the definition of a reco…
February 28, 2024
Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan
Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2023) by Katy B. Mathuews and Ryan A. Spellman h…
February 21, 2024
Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies
Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publi…
February 20, 2024
Stories of Our Living Ephemera
Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907 (Utah State University Press…
February 19, 2024
The Crown and Its Records
Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. In The Crown and Its Records: Archiv…
February 14, 2024
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationship…
February 4, 2024
Hip Hop Archives
Despite the vast popularity and cultural influence of hip-hop, efforts to archive its history are still in fairly early stages. Hip-Hop Archives: The …