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Job: Archivist, National Chiefs Library, Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

“Posting on behalf of Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, one of Ontario’s nine post-secondary Indigenous Institutes in Ontario recognized in regulation under the Indigenous Institutes Act, 2017. Indigenous Institutes are Indigenous governed and operated institutions that provide opportunities for students to start and complete postsecondary education credentials in a flexible, personalized, and culturally responsive learning environment.

Located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig is seeking a full-time Archivist who will be responsible for establishing, growing, and making accessible Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig’s archival collections, which comprise Indigenous created archives, records, and oral histories in all formats and private archives from researchers of Indigenous issues, with thematic emphases on leadership, governance, treaties, community development, education, and resource management. Of note, the Archivist will manage the development of the “National Chiefs Library,” the archives of the Assembly of First Nations and its predecessor, the National Indian Brotherhood in accordance with Assembly of First Nations Resolution 21/2018. The core idea of the National Chiefs library to create the official repository for First Nations-created and First Nations-related research and scholarship information across the country. The Archivist also manages and develops a reference library collection to support research and use of the archives, as well as a gallery space for exhibitions in collaboration with other staff and partners.

The position reports to the Director of Operations and has a salary range of $95,000.00 – $106,869.00 (Canadian).

Please submit your resume; letter of application and three (3) work related references to the attention of Dianne Roach, Director of Operations to careers@shingwauku.org by March 5th 2024, before 4:30pm.

For the complete job description, see: https://shingwauku.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SKG_NCL_Archivist.pdf ” (EXLIBRIS-L)

https://shingwauku.org/library-archives/archival-services

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Witchy women

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trials-marion-gibson-book-review

“Marion Gibson, a professor of Renaissance and magical literature at the University of Exeter, has now written eight books on the subject of witches, including “Witchcraft Myths in American Culture” and “Witchcraft: The Basics.” Her eighth book, “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials” (Scribner), traverses seven centuries and several continents.”

Medieval Christmas token discovered in England

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/medieval-christmas-token-discovered-in-england/

“A medieval Christmas token has been found during an archaeological survey in eastern England. Dating to between 1470 and 1560, the token is believed to be depicting St Nicholas.

In the medieval and early Tudor eras, on the Feast Day of St Nicholas (6th December), a choirboy in cathedrals and churches across the country was chosen to act as ‘Boy Bishop’, a parody of the Bishop over the Christmas period. It was a tradition that was also practiced in other countries including Germany, Spain and France. They would lead certain religious services, as well as processions, and would collect money for the church and their local parish.

Boy Bishops, mostly in Suffolk, also doled out tokens to the poor typically during a procession through the town, which could be spent at the Abbey in Bury St Edmunds or in the locality on food during the period of 6 December (St Nicholas Day) to 28 December (Holy Innocents Day).

Most likely from Bury St Edmunds Abbey nearly 30 miles away in Suffolk, the token found near Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, gives us an indication of the distance people may have travelled for these festive celebrations.”

UK plans to destroy historic wills

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/easier-access-to-historic-wills-under-new-government-plans

“The ambitious digitisation programme could see millions of wills dating back more than 150 years moved online and more easily accessible to the public in a bid to improve the current storage system.

Currently about 110 million physical documents are stored costing taxpayers £4.5 million per year. The consultation is seeking views on keeping hard copies for about 25 years, in recognition of their sentimental value to families, while saving them digitally longer term.

Where wills belong to notable individuals or have significant historical interest the physical copies would remain preserved.”

UK: Loss of access to EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations causes major disruption for PhD students

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scholars-stumble-through-british-library-tools-stay-offline

“PhD students have described “stumbling through” their research after losing access to the UK’s national database of doctoral theses, as disruption to the British Library’s digital archive following a devastating cyberattack enters its third month. […]

Concern among many researchers focuses on the loss of the EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations. About half of this site’s users are postgraduates. […]

Academic librarians have also expressed hope that the service will be restored soon. With EThOS now regarded as one of the UK’s great open access resources, its loss would be “a harsh blow to research communities both in the UK and globally”, said Caroline Ball, academic librarian (business, law and social sciences) at the University of Derby.

“EThOS is the only free, open access, large-scale, aggregated source of UK dissertations available to researchers,” explained Ms Ball. “There are institutional repositories and subscription databases, but nothing else that does both for UK theses and researchers.”

EThOS is “also often the only place to find details of many pre-digital era, print-only theses – many of which are in fact digitised on behalf of universities by the British Library as a result of requests via EThOS,” added Ms Ball. “While much of the research itself is archived and duplicated elsewhere, there is no comparable source to bring together, promote and highlight open access to the crucial and innovative PhD research taking place within UK higher education institutions.””

OAPEN and CLOCKSS have developed a strategic relationship for the long-term preservation of Open Access books

https://librarytechnology.org/pr/29473

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DOAB Check is a collaboration between the Free Ebook Foundation and the Directory of Open Access Books. It checks each the links in DOAB about once a month, looking for any links that are broken or misconfigured.

https://doab-check.ebookfoundation.org/

Digitizing books can spur demand for physical copies

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/10/digitizing-books-can-spur-demand-physical-copies

“Their paper, “Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project,” published Oct. 31 in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [Paywall! KG].

Their main findings: Digitization can boost sales of physical books by up to 8% by stimulating demand through online discovery. The increase in sales was found to be stronger for less popular books and even spilled over to a digitized author’s nondigitized works.”

American Chemical Society (ACS) charges authors $2,500 US for the right to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository without an embargo period

“COAR joins a growing chorus of voices […] denouncing a new authors’ fee introduced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), which charges authors $2,500 US for the right to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository without an embargo period.”

https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coars-response-to-the-american-chemical-societys-new-fee-for-repository-deposit/

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