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My sophomore year of college, I had a job in the cafeteria dish room: scraping food off plates, stacking trays, helping the occasional panicked freshman dig through trash for a [...]

ABSTRACT: Private archives play a critical role in the safeguarding of Haitian cultural heritage, even as they are often precariously held collections. In this article, I take a closer look [...]

STANDING ON A HILL overlooking the marshes of Malheur Lake in eastern Oregon for the first time in 1908, William Lovell Finley reflected on the origins of his lifelong fascination [...]

This article is the Guest Editor's introduction to the virtual issue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Journal of Consumer Affairs UCA) published on the journal website in the summer [...]

French Polynesia and New Caledonia library and archives collections are typically in French and tend to be organized according to French institutional and scientific methods. Recent transfers of power from the French State toward certain territorial institutions have not significantly changed this fact. This particular situation is, on the one hand, a source of enrichment because it creates diversity within the Pacific region and because these sources of documentation and the way they are organized link these territories to larger repositories of knowledge in France and elsewhere in Europe. On the other hand, it is also an isolation factor in the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, whose inhabitants are mainly anglophone, and in an academic world that is also dominated by the growing use of English. After a listing and presentation of all the libraries and media centers existing in French Polynesia and New Caledonia, the focus of this essay moves on to the question of partnerships to be built between the various institutions of these two territories, metropolitan French libraries and networks, and English-language institutions of the Pacific region. KEYWORDS: libraries, documentation, resources, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and New Caledonia library and archives collections are typically in French and tend to be organized according to French institutional and scientific methods. Recent shifts in power from [...]

This article is an overview of a story highlighting a collection of displaced archives caused by the decolonization process. In the midst of Indonesian revolution against Dutch colonial rule, the [...]

Much has been written about women and the home front during the two world wars--from their entry into the workforce to their volunteer efforts. What is sometimes overlooked, however, is [...]

Popularly known as the 'voice of the prairies,' Fred McGuinness was known by many titles and honorifics: apiarist, author, columnist, editor, father, memoirist, Morse operator, publisher, radio broadcaster, vice-president, and [...]

The Georgia Historical Society is pleased to announce seven new archival collections are now available for research: Sea Island Company records, 1769-2012 (MS 2486); Esther Buchsbaum collection of hurricane preparation [...]