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The JCAS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library an

01/13/2026

We’re looking for reviewers to write for our journal! Take a look at the list of available titles and our reviewer guidelines: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/bookrev... Interested? Email us at [email protected] by Jan 21!

12/05/2025

We're wrapping up this year with the publication of four new articles! Announcing the publication of:

"Archival Notations of the Norwegian Charter Material" by Juliane Tiemann: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/14/

“Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education” by Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/15/

“Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning” by Jinfang Niu: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/16/

“Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica” by Andrew Williams: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/17/

11/18/2025

November is - are you looking to develop your skills? Let JCAS be a step on your path with our 165 articles and global reach! https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/

Interested in contributing your own knowledge to the literature? Take a look at our submission guidelines: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/policies.html

Or maybe you’d like to be a part of the editorial process? Sign up to be a peer reviewer! Email us at [email protected].

11/06/2025

We are pleased to introduce our two newest associate editors!

Kayla Harris is Associate Dean for Special Collections and Executive Director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton. She's published on topics including web archiving, teaching with primary sources, and religious archives. She previously served as Editor for the Society of American Archivists Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources and particularly enjoys helping first time authors through the publishing process.

Jessica Tai (she/her) is the University Archivist at the Bancroft Library. Prior to her role at UC Berkeley, Jessica was an archivist at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where she was the inaugural chair of the Library's Reparative Archival Description Working Group from 2019-2022. Jessica held previous roles as a project archivist at UCLA Library Special Collections, and a research team member for the Community Archives Lab at UCLA. She is the author of “Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description,” published in the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies special issue on Radical Empathy in Archival Practice. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design and her MLIS with a concentration in archival studies from UCLA.

Learn more about our editorial team at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/editorialboard.html

09/19/2025

Need some weekend reading? We have 5 new publications for you, hot off the press!

Announcing the publication of “Community Defining Archives: A comparative view of community archives definitions” by Britney Bibeault: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/11/

Announcing the publication of “Associations among Trauma Exposures, Workplace Factors, and Distress Responses in Archivists” by Cheryl Regehr, Wendy Duff, and Rachael Lefebvre: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/12/

Announcing the publication of “Beyond Description: Interrogating Narrative Elements in Archival Finding Aids” by David J. Williams and Richard Kearney: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/13/

And two new book reviews! “Review of Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives” by Rachel C. Po**en: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/9/ and “Review of Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory” by Emily Homolka: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/10/

Check out all 165 of our articles and at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/

09/09/2025

Did you know that September is ? Improve your professional archival skills by reading one (or more!) of our 160 articles! Find them all at https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/

09/03/2025

Join the New England Archivists and JCAS authors for a reading group discussion of the article “Beyond the Grant: Cultivating Sustainable Next Steps” – September 24 at 1 PM on Zoom. Register at https://newenglandarchivists.org/event-6301787 and find the article at https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol11/iss1/5/

08/19/2025

We’re looking for reviewers to write for our journal! Take a look at the list of available titles and our reviewer guidelines: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/bookreview.html Interested? Email us at [email protected] by Aug 29!

08/01/2025

Announcing the publication of two new ! "Review of Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library” by Nicholas Wantsala: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/7/ and “Review of Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners” by Alexandra Y. Bush: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/8/

07/21/2025

Announcing the publication of a new ! "Review of Averting the Digital Dark Age: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage” by Rebecca L. Hastings: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/6/

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Founded in 2014, the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists. With articles published on a rolling basis, the journal currently accepts submissions of original works of research and inquiry from professionals and graduate students in library science, archival science, and public history.