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The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) is sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists (NEA), and is hosted by Yale University Library’s institutional repository, EliScholar. JCAS is currently accepting submissions of original works of research and inquiry from professionals and graduate students in library science, archival science, and public history.

Please see the Journal Overview for a full explanation of the journal’s aims and scope.

Recent Content

Articles

An Archival Responsibility: A Scoping Review of Literature Regarding the Documentary Burdens of Refugees
Ana Roeschley, Kinza Alizai, Crystal Tharayil, Amy Lanier, Merrion D. Frederick, and Homero R. Cuevas

Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections
Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford

Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica
Andrew Williams

Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning
Jinfang Niu

Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak

Book Reviews

Review of Ethics in Linked Data
Rebecca Fried

Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education
Anna Z. Szapiro

Review of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Kai H. Uchida

Review of Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory
Emily Homolka

Review of Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives
Rachel C. Poppen

Case Studies

The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project: Providing Equitable Access to Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History
Emily Vinson and Bethany Scott

Teaching Archival Intelligence through an Immersive Class Experience
Dulce Kersting-Lark

Listening to Ghosts in the Appalachian Mountains: The Western North Carolina Tomorrow's Black Oral History Project as a Community Archive
Elizabeth Harper

Improving Access and Discovery of LGBTQIA+ Materials Across Collection Services Workflows
Alexandra deGraffenreid and Gideon Goodrich

Data on Deck: A Case Study of a Historic Undersea Film and Video Digitization Project
Karen Urbec MLIS, CA; Audrey Mickle MLIS; and Lisa Raymond

Conference Report

Review of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2019 Conference
Elizabeth Hobart

Works-in-progress

Defining Archival Debt: Building New Futures for Archives
Jillian Cuellar, Audra Eagle Yun, Jennifer Meehan, and Jessica Tai

Use of Digital Archives during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Murray State History Students
David Sye

Web Archiving in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad During COVID-19
Jessica Dame

MPLP: From Practice to Theory
Kyna Herzinger

Humanizing the Enslaved of Fort Monroe’s Arc of Freedom
William R. Kelly Jr.