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<strong>Mission</strong>

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

What you see on this site is the pilot issue, published April 2011.  Work is currently underway (as of October 1, 2011) on Issue 2, which will focus on undergraduate work in the archive.

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.
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<td width="136">Lauren   Coats</td>
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<td width="456">Assistant   Professor of English (LSU)</td>
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<td width="136">Daniel   Chamberlain</td>
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<td width="456">Director,   Center for Digital Learning and Research (Occidental College)</td>
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<td width="136">Gabrielle   Dean</td>
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<td width="456">Curator   of Modern Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts, Librarian for English and the   Writing Seminars (Johns Hopkins University)</td>
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<td width="136">Cecily   Marcus</td>
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<td width="456">Curator   in Archives and Special Collections (University of Minnesota)</td>
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<td width="136">Laurie   N. Taylor</td>
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<td width="456">Interim   Director, Digital Library Center (University of Florida)</td>
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<td width="174">Wendy   Hui Kyong Chun</td>
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<td width="456">Professor   of Modern Culture and Media (Brown University)</td>
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<td width="174">Dan   Cohen</td>
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<td width="456">Associate   Professor, Department of History and Art History; Director, Center for   History and New Media (George Mason University)</td>
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<td width="174">Sharon   Farb</td>
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<td width="456">Associate   University Librarian (UCLA)</td>
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<td width="174">Kathleen   Fitzpatrick</td>
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<td width="456">Director   of Scholarly Communication (MLA); Professor of Media Studies (Pomona College)</td>
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<td width="174">Julia   Flanders</td>
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<td width="456">Director,   Women Writers Project; Associate Director for Textbase Development, Center   for Digital Scholarship (Brown University)</td>
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<td width="174">Amanda   French</td>
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<td width="456">THATCamp   Coordinator, Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)</td>
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<td width="174">Chuck   Henry</td>
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<td width="456">President,   Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)</td>
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<td width="174">Patricia   Hswe</td>
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<td width="456">Digital   Collections Curator (Penn State University)</td>
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<td width="174">Tara   McPherson</td>
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<td width="456">Associate   Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (University of   Southern California)</td>
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<td width="174">Kenneth   M. Price</td>
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<td width="174">Elliott   Shore</td>
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<td width="456">CIO,   Director of Libraries, and Professor of History (Bryn Mawr College)</td>
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<td width="174">Richard   Szary</td>
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<td width="456">Director,   Louis Round Wilson Library; Associate University Librarian for Special   Collections (UNC-Chapel Hill)</td>
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<td width="174">Ed   Whitley</td>
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<td width="456">Associate   Professor of English (Lehigh University)</td>
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<td width="174">John   Willinsky</td>
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<td width="456">Khosla   Family Professor of Education (Stanford University)</td>
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<strong>Support </strong>

The project has been generously supported with grant funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

<strong>Structure of the Journal</strong>

The journal consists of three content areas:
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	<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:
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	<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>
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<strong>Submission</strong>

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.

<strong>Web Design</strong>

Hayes Smith, <a href="http://infernalcontraption.com/">Infernal Contraption</a>