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The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has long involved itself with graduate-level archival education. It has sponsored committees and subcommittees, guidelines, roundtables/sections, student chapters, and pre-conferences. But limited empirical evidence exists regarding faculty members' view of SAA's involvement with graduate archival education. This exploratory qualitative case study employs semistructured interviews with full-time, tenure-track archival faculty. We address the ways in which SAA contributes to faculty members' teaching, faculty members' encouragement of students to join SAA, SAA student chapters and faculty advising, and how SAA might promote better communication, coordination, and collaboration between graduate archival education programs and practitioners. We contend that despite decades of effort on both sides, the relationship between graduate archival education programs and the Society of American Archivists remains disjointed, ultimately limiting the field's development. We offer recommendations and suggestions for future research to strengthen this relationship in the interest of improving student experience and the health of the profession.

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American Archivist is the oldest journal of the US archival profession. In its first several decades of publication, a wide variety existed among the institutional affiliations of American Archivist contributors. Since the 1990s, articles authored by archivists within higher education have almost completely eclipsed articles authored by archivists from other sectors, particularly government archivists. This “academic enclosure” of American Archivist has significant ramifications for the quality and richness of our professional discourse. This is the first article to track institutional affiliations of American Archivist research article authors across nearly the entirety of the journal's publication history. The author examined the institutional affiliation of a data set of 1,799 articles printed in American Archivist from the journal's inception in 1938 through 2019. This article contextualizes the trends in institutional affiliations by reviewing the editorial policies of the journal over its eighty-year run.

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The Society of American Archivists (SAA) and its members have conducted numerous surveys of the archival profession—both of archivists as individuals and of archival institutions—through the years. In 1949, the College and University Archives Committee of SAA conducted the first survey specifically of college and university archives. Building off previous surveys, in 2021 the College and University Archives Landscape Survey was undertaken by the College and University Archives Section to gather data about the management and organization of college and university archives within the United States, as well as about the backgrounds, skills, responsibilities, and tasks in which college and university archivists are engaged. While the initial results were released to the membership, this article represents further analysis and contextualization with other professional literature. It identifies trends, similarities, and differences between surveys and eras, and it provides suggestions for future surveys and research.

In What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom, authors Jen Hoyer, Kaitlin H. Holt, and Julia Pelaez with Brooklyn Public Library describe their successful collaborative education program, Brooklyn Connections, and present a thoroughly developed, interesting, and accessible approach to incorporating work with archival materials into classrooms. As an educator who often works with marginalized students, I found that this book offers useful resources to connect archival, primary sources with students and classrooms of all ability levels and experiences.

The Brooklyn Public Library's stated mission is to “ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture,

EDITOR

Amy Cooper Cary (2020–2023), Marquette University

Editorial Board

Sumayya Ahmed (2019–2023), Simmons University
Shirley Franco (2022–2026), Universidade de Brasilia
Amanda Greenwood (2023–2024), Union College
Rebecca Hankins (2022–2023), Texas A&M University Libraries
Katharina Hering (2019–2023), German Historical Institute
Eric Hung (2020–2024), Music of Asian America Research Center
Jessica Lacher-Feldman (2020–2024), University of Rochester
Maria Matienzo (2021–2025), Stanford University Libraries
Marlee Newman (2021–2025), Archival Consultant
Sylvia Welsh (2020–2024), Harvard University

Reviews Editor

Rose Buchanan (2021–2024), National Archives and Records Administration
Stephanie Luke (2021–2024), University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

Mirror, Mirror

“Show? To Who?”¹

Building a Baseline of Archival Data with A*CENSUS II

A*CENSUS II: All Archivists Survey Report

Executive Summary

“Sometimes I feel like they hate us”: The Society of American Archivists and Graduate Archival Education in the Twenty-first Century

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The Academic Enclosure of American Archivist

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College and University Archivists: Doing It All for Less

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Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic

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Archives in Conversation

What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom

Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research

Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience

Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States

Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries

Cultural Humility

Front Matter

The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising Interviews

Front Matter

Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life

Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies

Journalism History and Digital Archives