<h3>Editors</h3>

<table>
	<tr><th><em>Editor-in-Chief</em></th></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Lauren Coats</td><td>.......</td><td>Assistant Professor of English (LSU)</td></tr>
	<tr><th><em>Advisory Board</em></th></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Daniel Chamberlain</td><td>.......</td><td>Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research (Occidental College)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Gabrielle Dean</td><td>.......</td><td>Curator of Modern Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts, Librarian for English and the Writing Seminars (Johns Hopkins University)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Meg Norcia</td><td>.......</td><td>Assistant Professor of English (SUNY-Brockport)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Elliott Shore</td><td>.......</td><td>CIO, Director of Libraries, and Professor of History (Bryn Mawr College)</td></tr>
	<tr><th><em>Planning Group</em></th></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Dan Cohen</td><td>.......</td><td>Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History; Director, Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Johanna Drucker</td><td>.......</td><td>Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies (UCLA)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Sharon Farb</td><td>.......</td><td>Associate University Librarian (UCLA)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Kathleen Fitzpatrick</td><td>.......</td><td>Associate Professor of Media Studies and English (Pomona College)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Julia Flanders</td><td>.......</td><td>Director, Women Writers Project; Associate Director for Textbase Development, Center for Digital Scholarship (Brown University)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Amanda French</td><td>.......</td><td>THATCamp Coordinator, Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Chuck Henry</td><td>.......</td><td>President, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Cecily Marcus</td><td>.......</td><td> Curator in Archives and Special Collections (University of Minnesota)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Tara McPherson</td><td>.......</td><td>Associate Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (University of Southern California)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Kenneth M. Price</td><td>.......</td><td>University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American Literature; Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Richard Szary</td><td>.......</td><td>Director, Louis Round Wilson Library; Associate University Librarian for Special Collections (UNC-Chapel Hill)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">Laurie N. Taylor</td><td>.......</td><td>Interim Director, Digital Library Center (University of Florida)</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="name">John Willinsky</td><td>.......</td><td>Khosla Family Professor of Education (Stanford University)</td></tr>
</table>

<h3>Support </h3>
The project has been funded with an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant.

<h3>Mission</h3>
<em>Archive </em>focuses on the use and theory of archives and special collections in higher education.

The academic community has invested deeply in the preservation, use, and digitization of materials in special collections, and that <em>Archive </em>provides the space to reflect on this investment.  The objects and texts in special collections and archives are the focus of this journal, just as they are the focus of the many projects from and in archives that have been executed and continue with great success.  Digitization efforts large and small have freed archives from the bounds of brick and mortar by bringing a wealth of texts and objects into virtual circulation. Teachers and librarians have increasingly emphasized work with original materials for students at all levels as a way to enrich student experience and position students as researchers.  The use of materials in special collections as the objects of scholarly study continues to be a key methodology of humanities disciplines even as new technologies, from data mining to visualizations, open up possibilities for what scholars learn from these objects. Recent archival projects have involved multiple institutions (universities and colleges, independent libraries and archives, and non-profit organizations) and multiple constituencies (including librarians, archivists, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, university press directors, and information technologists). In this moment when archival projects, both virtual and real, have become the norm rather than the exception, <em>Archive </em>offers a way to forge connections among the projects and the communities producing them.

<h3>Structure of the Journal</h3>

The journal consists of three content areas:
<ul style="list-style: decimal">
<li><em>360°: Analysis and Discussion in the Round </em>features an asynchronous “discussion” among contributors from various backgrounds -- in the form of several individual, linked essays -- on a single archive or archival topic.</li>
<li><em>Archives, Remixed: Critical Perspectives and Pathways</em> invites analytical and creative pieces that reflect on meaning-making in and through archives. The format is open to both traditional research or theoretical essays, as well as multi-modal, alternate, or experimental formats.  Contributions that analyze, use, theorize, create, find ways through, or reconstitute particular archives, objects or exhibits are invited.  Only original work that has not been published elsewhere will be accepted for publication.</li>
<li><em>Life in the Archive</em> serves as a community space for people to share best practices and archival finds, and distribute information.  It has several subsections:
<ul style="list-style: lower-alpha">
	<li><em>Notes &amp; Queries</em>: 150-250 word or ~ 2 min. video posts on best practices.</li>
	<li><em>Archive Fever</em>: ~250 word text or ~2 min. video/audio description of a favorite archival object.</li>
	<li><em>Archive Finder</em>: A map of archives held by universities, community organizations, special interest groups, or museums, which will over time become a community forum to share information about individual archives.</li>
	<li><em>News &amp; Announcements</em>: An rss feed, as well as notices submitted by editorial board members and users.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<h3>Submission</h3>
Please contact the editor, via our <a href="/about/contact">contact page</a>, if you are interested in submitting to the journal, or have any suggestions for or comments about the journal.

<h3>Web Design</h3>
Hayes  Smith <a href="http://infernalcontraption.com">[Infernal Contraption]</a>
