Category Archives: New publications

New publication: Lost and Found

We welcome a new publication, closely related to the work of our partners in the Diasporic Literary Archives Network: Lost and Found: an A-Z of neglected writers of the Anglophone Caribbean, written and edited by Alison Donnell (Papillote Press, 2025). … Continue reading

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New publication: Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive

Tim Sommer (ed.), Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital, Routledge. From Routledge website: ‘Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated … Continue reading

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New publication: Placing Papers

Amy Hildreth Chen: Placing papers; the American literary archives market. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]. This is a book about literary archives in the USA, which may have been less noticed because it was published during the COVID pandemic. … Continue reading

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Disputed Archival Heritage

SLA members will be interested to learn of the publication (October 2022) of a new book entitled Disputed Archival Heritage, edited by James Lowry. The book is available on open access here. Among the essays included the one entitled ‘Diasporic, … Continue reading

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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence

A new edited collection entitled Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence has recently been published on open access. The open access book can be found here. Publishers’ information: Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers … Continue reading

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Safe Havens for Archives at Risk: Guiding Principles

The Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk have been approved by ICA and published on the official ICA website. They were produced by an international group of experts, convened by swisspeace, with input from ourselves, among many … Continue reading

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Latest edition of ‘Comma’

Congratulations to the editorial team of Comma, who have produced a really interesting new issue in mid-pandemic. Entitled Yaoundé Conference 2018/Miscellany, issue number 2019-1 (published 2020) includes papers from a number of sessions at the ICA Annual Conference in Cameroon, … Continue reading

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Born-digital literary archives in ‘Archives & Manuscripts’

The latest issue of Archives & Manuscripts (vol. 47, no. 3, November 2019) is dedicated to born-digital literary archives under the special theme of After the Digital Revolution guest edited by Lise Jaillant. The contents of the issue are as … Continue reading

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Archives and Human Rights

Congratulations to our ICA colleagues Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio and Antonio González Quintana, who have signed an agreement with Routledge to produce a collection of essays on the subject of Archives and Human Rights, for publication next year. Within ICA, … Continue reading

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UNESCO SCEaR Newsletter

The latest Newsletter of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme’s Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR) has recently been circulated. It includes interesting articles on various aspects of Memory of the World, together with a feature report on Literary … Continue reading

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