Libraries, archives, and the new year
A host of articles about libraries, archives, and much more! Hope you enjoy this week's selections.
Hello everyone! I hope you having a great holiday break.
I didn’t send out a newsletter last week, but that’s because last Wednesday I graduated from University of Maryland with my MLIS! Anyway, I thought I’d put this newsletter together as an end-of-the-year present to you all!
This week I read a host of articles in Hack Library School. Some wrote about interviews, others said to be optimistic, and some talked about how we should all grow as individuals. This ties into some other articles in the library field which are much broader. American Libraries posits whether libraries are liable for “fake news” and an article within In The Library With The Lead Pipe focuses on policing and security in libraries. The most interesting news I read this week, however, was the opening of the LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive and the LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive by the Library of Congress, a great step forward.
At the same level of positivity were the tabulations by the Archivist of the U.S., David Ferriero, of those that used NARA resources in 2019. I also enjoyed reading the interview with Christine Kristen, Burning Man’s Archivist, Art Collection Curator and Photo Gallery editor, the 20-page Winter 2019 newsletter of the SAA’s Performance Division, and Marc Brodsky’s case study, “Seeing Through Risk in the Special Collections Classroom: A Case for Flexibility.” I also found the articles, “Describing Web Archives: A Computer-Assisted Approach” and ““Who’s Driving the Bus?” or How Digitization Is Influencing Archival Collections” in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies fascinating and must-reads for those in the archival field (and library field as well).
While my friend stopped writing fictional narratives for now, they are assembling much of what they have written this year into a second e-book. I may also, in the future, change the day of the week these newsletters go out to a different day, perhaps on the weekend, but we’ll see what happens!
Hope everyone has a great rest of their week and the New Year to come!
- Burkely