The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the open access publication of Library Trends 75 (1) “Cultural Heritage in Crisis.”
Guest edited by Anna E. Kijas and Andreas Segerberg, the issue highlights a global pattern of cultural heritage in crisis, “under threat from war and occupation, from political censorship, from structural marginalization, and from the silent erosion that occurs when individuals fail in their mission to preserve their collections and make them accessible.” Authors explore examples that range from efforts to preserve Ukrainian cultural materials, to data rescue and signage preservation efforts in the United States, to censorship of queer literature in China.
As Kijas and Segerberg note in their introduction, authors not only document how cultural heritage materials are endangered, but also provide, “examples of resilience, activism, and inspiration in [the] continued work of safeguarding cultural heritage for future generations.”
Library Trends will host a webinar with Kijas, Segerberg, and select authors later this fall.
The table of contents includes:
- Anna E. Kijas and Andreas Segerberg, “Introduction”
- Melissa Terras, “Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage”
- Laura Rothfritz, “Data Rescue Revisited: Episodic Invisibility, Activism, and Institutional Gaps”
- Kiley Jolicoeur, “Combating Care: Using Care Ethics to Interrupt Epistemicide”
- Lena Bohman, Lynda Kellam, and Mikala Narlock, “The Data Rescue Project: A Crowdsourced Effort to Preserve At-Risk US Federal Data”
- Molly Blake, Lena Bohman, Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios, “Save Our Signs: National Park Signs and the Power of Crowdsourcing to Combat Censorship”
- Bahare Sanaie-Movahed, Jessica M. Parr, H. Killion Mokwete, and Patricia Davis, “Digitally Preserving African Built Heritage: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Architecture, History, and Geospatial Documentation”
- Annie K. Lamar, “The Linguistic Marginalization of Low-Resource Languages: Confronting AI’s Limits in Digital Cultural Heritage”
- Meli Taylor, “Danmei as Chinese Cultural Heritage: Political Censorship, Queer Resistance, and Transnational Solidarity”
- Nataša Simeunović Bajić and Antonija Čuvalo, “Socialist Television Heritage in Crisis: A Case Study of the Radio Television of Serbia Centre for Public Opinion, Programme, and Audience Research”
- Svitlana Konovalova and Iryna Voloshyna, “Folklore Archives in Ukraine: A History of Survival and Preservation”
Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.
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