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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

Selective Memory: Assessing Conventions of Memory in the Archival Literature
Mason A. Jones

“Quietly Incomplete”: Academic Historians, Digital Archival Collections, and Historical Research in the Web Era
Donald Force and Bradley Wiles

No Manuals: Archives Administration 100 Years After Jenkinson’s Manual
James Lowry, Riah Lee Kinsey, Aimee Lusty, Ezra Hyman, Phyllis Heitjan, Alexander Rettie, and Kylie Goetz

Digitize Your Yearbooks: Creating Digital Access While Considering Student Privacy and Other Legal Issues
April K. Anderson-Zorn and Dallas Long

The Platinum Rule Meets the Golden Minimum: Inclusive and Efficient Archival Description of Oral Histories
Weatherly A. Stephan

Book Reviews

Review of Communities, archives and new collaborative practices (2020)
Jennifer Coggins

Review of Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis
Rose Buchanan

Review of Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times
Lynn A. Cowles

Review of Mary Kandiuk, editor. Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2020.
Jennifer Gotwals

Review of Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century - Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox
Rose Buchanan

Case Studies

The Value of a Note: A Finding Aid Usability Study
Betts Coup

Greening the Archive: The Social Climate of Cotton Manufacturing in the "Samuel Oldknow Papers, 1782-1924"
Bernadette Myers and Melina Moe

Aim High: Pushing Collaboration and Outreach Limits for the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
Molly Stothert-Maurer and Julie Swarstad Johnson

Labor Gone Digital (DigiFacket)! Experiences from Creating a Web Archive for Swedish Trade Unions
Jenny Jansson, Katrin Uba, and Jaanus Karo

A Methodology for Implementing the Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Melanie Griffin

Conference Report

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

Works-in-progress

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.

Researcher Access to Born-Digital Collections: an Exploratory Study
Julia Y. Kim