Microform & Imaging Review: Call for Articles
Microform & Imaging Review is an international journal that
includes articles about digital and microform (microfilm/microfiche)
technologies and collections. Please contact Ken Middleton (ken.middlet@gmail.com) if you are interested in writing an article or a review for the journal.
Possible topics for Articles:
-Case studies of building digital collections
-Offering digital for access / microfilm for preservation
-Newspaper digitization from microfilm
-Library 2.0 technologies and digital collections
-digital media centers for student/faculty use
-digital/microfilm collections in collection development
-overview of current digitization / microfilm equipment
-promoting microfilm collections in the digital age
Digital Collections for Review:
*Adam Matthew Publications
*China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
*Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920
*Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
*Slavery Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007
*Virginia Company Archives
Alexaner Street Press
*African American Music Reference
*Manuscript Women's Letters and
Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society
Brill
*Human Rights Documents Online (Brill)
Digital Library Federation
*Aquifer American Social History Online (http://www.dlfaquifer.org/)
Duke University Press
The Carlyle Letters Online
Gale
British Literary Manuscripts Online (June 2008)
IDC Publishers (http://www.idcpublishers.com/)
*Human Rights Documents Online
*Western Books on China Online
ProQuest
*Colonial State Papers
Readex
*Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
*Also the Readex "Crossroads"research tool
Rotunda (Univ. of Virginia Press)
Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Microform Collections
As a general rule, I require that a reviewer already has access to the complete collection that she is reviewing.
Possible collections to review follow. In addition, most collections published in the past 5 years are candidates for review.
Adam Matthew Publications
*Receipt Books, c1575-1800, from the Folger Shakespeare Library
*Shaw: The Papers of George Bernard Shaw
Primary Source Microfilm
The Changing Men Collections: A Chronicle of the Modern
Men's Movement
Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record
Native America: A Primary Record