(via Melissa Wong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
As the Editor-in-Chief of Library Trends, I am pleased to share a call for proposals for a forthcoming issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis”, guest edited by Anna Kijas (Tufts University) and Andreas Segerberg (University of Gothenburg). Please see below for more details, including the link to the submission form.
For this special issue of Library Trends, we interpret cultural heritage broadly, it may include physical tangible artifacts, such as books, manuscripts, art, sculpture, monuments, or buildings, as well as intangible artifacts, such as language, knowledge, folklore, and traditions. We also include digital cultural heritage, which may include websites, data, digital images, 3D models or visualizations, multimedia, etc. Proposals for this issue should focus on how cultural heritage professionals working in organizations with a mission to preserve and make cultural heritage accessible have engaged in activities such as digital activism, culturally responsive curation, preservation of physical or digital cultural heritage, or community-centered archives and collections within the context of cultural heritage in crisis. We are also interested in approaches, case studies, or theoretical approaches on how cultural heritage is created, preserved, or reconstructed before, during, or after crises within the library and archives profession.
Potential topics may include:
- Activism and community engagement
- Supporting open culture
- Culturally responsive curation/metadata practices
- Centering community and care in preservation of cultural heritage
- Anti-colonial practices in approaches to digital curation, metadata, archives, etc.
- Digital approaches to preserving or reconstructing cultural heritage (e.g. 3D modeling, machine learning, AI, linked data, etc.)
- Developing institutional collaboration and partnership with damaged libraries and archives
- Digital repatriation of cultural heritage
- Crisis documentation and rapid response archiving
- Countering disinformation
Proposals are due Friday, July 25, and should be submitted via the online proposal form. Please see the form for additional instructions on the submission’s format and content.
Inquiries about the planned issues and ideas for articles should be directed to the guest editors, at anna.kijas@tufts.edu and andreas.segerberg@gu.se.