Don’t miss out on the latest posts from the American Archivist Reviews Portal! Check out three new posts exploring different facets of the archives profession. Plus, editors Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke share the new microreviews format.
- Lily Hunter (Missouri School of Journalism) reviews Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers by Jessica Schomberg and Wendy Highby. She writes, "[the book], while not written specifically with an archival environment in mind, provides a framework for library employees in any type of library, whether they have a disability or not."
- Ashley Howdeshell (Northeastern Illinois University) reviews Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849–1893 by Richard L. Saunders. She writes, “From an archival perspective, this book is fascinating because it clearly demonstrates how some histories are preserved and others lost.”
- In the latest post in the Intergenerational Conversations series, Vina Begay (Arizona State University Libraries) reviews John Fleckner’s “What is Tribal Archives?” and “Tribal Archives: Some Basic Archival Ideas,” from Native American Archives: An Introduction (SAA, 1984). Begay critiques Fleckner’s use of western archives practices to define Tribal archives and argues for the crucial need for Tribal archives to use their own practices of knowledge keeping.
Head over to the Reviews Portal to start reading now!
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