This second comprehensive Archival Census and Education Needs Survey in the United States (A*CENSUS II) was funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The surveys were conducted by Ithaka S+R in conjunction with SAA. The All Archivists Survey, which garnered 5,699 responses, targeted self-identified archivists/archives workers in the United States to gather information about their demographics, educational background and needs, job placement and status, and salaries, as well as their perspectives on key issues in the field. The All Archivists Survey Report is published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of American Archivist. The Archives Administrators Survey, which garnered 746 responses, targeted the directors of archival organizations to gather data about institutional characteristics, resources, strategic directions, and equity, inclusion, diversity, and access issues. Both datasets are open access in the SAA Dataverse at https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/ACENSUS.

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In this article, through a historical and theoretical reflection on the Amir Hassanpour Fonds, held at the University of Toronto, the author investigates the role of personal and community archives in counter-archiving in the Middle East, especially in Iran. He expands on his experience working on appraising, describing, and arranging the Amir Hassanpour Fonds at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS) to argue that archiving a diasporic and revolutionary counter-archive calls for more than a procedural and habitual institutional practice. To activate such a counter-archive, there should be, first, close attention paid to the memory institutions against which the counter-archive has been developed. Such close attention calls for an investigation into the larger political structures in which the memory institutions are embedded. Second, the counter-archive should be understood in the broader modes and methods of cultural and memory resistance in that specific political structure, engaging analytically and theoretically with the creator's counter-archiving praxis, in this case Amir Hassanpour's Marxist internationalist revolutionary approach. The article ends with a brief discussion of the various ways UTARMS attempted to enliven this specific fonds.

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KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive is a pioneering project to repatriate, digitize, record, and classify the remaining sonic memory of Morocco's dwindling Jewish community. This article probes into the necessary sociological cognitive rupture that either allows or disallows the formation of archival repositories of minority memory. Stemming from interventions since the eighteenth century, Morocco's Jewish archives have mainly been kept in the diaspora by Jewish communities and higher education institutions. Contextualizing them within the long durée of Jewish presence in Morocco, this article develops the challenges posed by efforts toward establishing centralized digital archival repositories of the Jewish minority within Morocco itself. This case study proposes a shift into crowdsourced archiving, thus allowing for the alternate grassroots history of Morocco to be maintained and told by intersectional minority actors themselves, while simultaneously engaging with the sonic role, gender, and memory of nonhegemonic and grassroots members of this minority community until today with the formation of an other-archives.

In Born-Digital Design Records, edited by Samantha Winn, archival practitioners from across the design records landscape come together to provide a new, much-needed resource: an in-depth overview of the management of born-digital design records presented in three modules.

Winn knows from experience the singular difficulties posed by these records, having served from 2014 to 2020 as the collections archivist for Virginia Tech's International Archives of Women in Architecture. The collections that document the work of the design disciplines, including architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and construction, have always proved challenging for archivists to manage due to their specificity and

THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor

Amy Cooper Cary (2020–2026), Marquette University

Reviews Editors

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

Editorial Board

Natalia Fernandez (2023–2027), Oregon State University
Shirley Franco (2022–2026), University of Brasília
Amanda Greenwood (2023–2024), Archival Consultant
Rebecca Hankins (2022–2027), Texas A&M University Libraries
Eric Hung (2020–2024), Music of Asian America Research Center
Jessica Lacher-Feldman (2020–2024), University of Rochester
María Matienzo (2021–2025), Magical Tome, Inc.
Marlee Newman (2021–2025), Archival Consultant
Jordon Steele (2023–2027), Johns Hopkins University