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“C’est le paÿs où je réussirai le mieux, & peut être le seul où je pourroi réussir tout à fait": James Galiffe, banquier genevois dans l’Empire russe, entre carrière commerciale et subjectivité patricienne
Full text linkCet article s’intéresse à un aspect inédit du séjour de Jacques-Augustin (“James”) Galiffe dans l’Empire russe (janvier 1805 – mai 1814) : son expérience au Comptoir des banquiers de la Cour (Kontora pridvornykh bankirov) d’Alexander von Rall. L’analyse des egodocuments du Genevois (sa correspondance avec ses parents et son journal personnel) met la microhistoire au service de l’étude du fonctionnement des institutions bancaires de l’Empire russe au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, tout en exemplifiant le rôle particulier que pouvait y jouer un patricien. Par ailleurs, ce travail s’intéresse, du point de vue de l’histoire des émotions, aux pratiques sociales de Galiffe, dans le but de comprendre comment sa situation professionnelle d’employé de banque interagissait avec son statut aristocratique.
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This article focuses on one aspect of Jacques-Augustin (“James”) Galiffe\u27s stay in the Russian Empire (January 1805 – May 1814): his experience as a clerk at the Court Bankers’ Counter (Kontora pridvornykh bankirov) under Alexander Rall’s supervision. Relying on Galiffe’s egodocuments (his correspondence with his parents and his personal diary), this study uses microhistory to shed light on the functioning of one of the banking institutions of the Russian Empire at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Additionally, it uses the History of Emotions to explore Galiffe\u27s social practices, aiming to unravel how his professional position as a bank clerk interacted with his aristocratic status.Résumé:
Cet article s’intéresse à un aspect inédit du séjour de Jacques-Augustin (“James”) Galiffe dans l’Empire russe (janvier 1805 – mai 1814) : son expérience au Comptoir des banquiers de la Cour (Kontora pridvornykh bankirov) d’Alexander von Rall. L’analyse des egodocuments du Genevois (sa correspondance avec ses parents et son journal personnel) met la microhistoire au service de l’étude du fonctionnement des institutions bancaires de l’Empire russe au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, tout en exemplifiant le rôle particulier que pouvait y jouer un patricien. Par ailleurs, ce travail s’intéresse, du point de vue de l’histoire des émotions, aux pratiques sociales de Galiffe, dans le but de comprendre comment sa situation professionnelle d’employé de banque interagissait avec son statut aristocratique.
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This article focuses on one aspect of Jacques-Augustin (“James”) Galiffe\u27s stay in the Russian Empire (January 1805 – May 1814): his experience as a clerk at the Court Bankers’ Counter (Kontora pridvornykh bankirov) under Alexander Rall’s supervision. Relying on Galiffe’s egodocuments (his correspondence with his parents and his personal diary), this study uses microhistory to shed light on the functioning of one of the banking institutions of the Russian Empire at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Additionally, it uses the History of Emotions to explore Galiffe\u27s social practices, aiming to unravel how his professional position as a bank clerk interacted with his aristocratic status
Wilson, Bernard, and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, editors. Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 434 pages. Print ISBN 9789811526329
Full text linkGilbert-Hickey, Meghan, and Miranda A. Green-Barteet, editors. Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 280 pages. ISBN: 9781496833815.
Full text linkThreading Community Resources into an Encyclopedic View on Our 125-Year Collective Milestone
Full text linkThe Archival / Preservation Education SIG session offers pedagogical insights on master’s-level information science and archival education. Four fifteen-minute individual presentations and audience discussion examine how the educators engage with agency, identity, and practices in their pedagogy; presenters bring perspectives from multiple states.
“Creative Interdisciplinary Archival Content Delivery” by Sarah Buchanan reflects on graduate archival classwork navigating through interdisciplinary source content in archival collections. In teaching with both holistic identity expression and community care at the foreground of student guidance, this work examines pedagogical strategies to empower local and global change.
“Promoting Representation in the Audiovisual Archives Field: The AMIA Salary and Demographics Survey and Pathways Fellowship Program” by Brian Real reviews data from the recently concluded 2025 cycle of the ongoing Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Salary and Demographics Survey of the Field, which builds on prior cycles of 2021 and 2020 (published with Teague Schneiter in The Moving Image) and collects information that the association uses in its advocacy efforts. This work analyzes recent challenges that have had a disproportionate impact on the profession. In addition to the survey and resulting data, it will also briefly discuss other related initiatives from AMIA that can serve as meaningful models for substantive improvements, such as the IMLS-funded Pathways Fellowship program which is currently supporting its fourth cohort.
“Attributes Mapping to Generate Pathways of Archival Studies and Social Justice Intersections: The SJ4A Community-Embedded Experience” by Bharat Mehra and Robert Riter explores attributes mapping, based on the IMLS-funded “Archival Studies Social Justice Master’s Scholarship Program (SJ4A).” The grant program recruited and trained 17 community-embedded paraprofessional archivists to begin their MLIS program in January 2023, who graduated in December 2024. This work highlights intersecting attributes related to professional motivations and demographic characteristics, workplace dynamics and patron communities, and career growth values, competences, and vision; providing an exploration into appropriate solutions, and insights into operationalizing the how-to’s of social justice in archival practice and agency in LIS education.
“Empowering Rural Voices: Teaching Archival Practices in Community Contexts” by Vanessa Reyes and ALISE President Vanessa Irvin reflects the development of a new concentration in archives and cultural heritage, aimed at preserving the local heritage of rural communities through a place-based education (PBE) approach. Based on recent research, this presentation will showcase a curriculum focused on relationship-building, critical thinking and partnerships with rural communities and archive and heritage professionals, and its dual impact on student development and community empowerment.
The moderator will facilitate Q&A within and across the presentations
Livingness as a Liberatory Framework for Decolonizing LIS Praxis
Full text linkThe fields of library and information science (LIS) are in a pivotal moment. While the stakes may seem higher than ever, Indigenous, Black, and queer communities have long anticipated this moment, demonstrating how libraries and archives are not yet equipped to meaningfully participate in the project of decolonization. I build on existing calls for decolonization in our discourse and practices by drawing attention to the living/non-living dualism in our ontologies and the ways it constrains our ability to reconcile with our fields’ colonizing origins. I contemplate what it would mean to treat all information as endowed with a sense of livingness, which exposes the ethical downfalls of trying to neatly group objects as living or non-living, document or body. Livingness as a liberatory framework moves our discourse beyond who or what should be given ethical regard and centers a relational, more-than-human ethics of care
Strengthening our Resolve: Implementing AI in pedagogy and working toward a framework for policy development
Full text linkMuch has been written and discussed about artificial intelligence (AI) and growing sentiment suggests it is here to stay. How AI should be used, positioned, developed and governed? Will AI be the solution to persistent and inconceivable challenges, position early adopters for competitive advantage and economic growth? Questions and concerns abound, but it is time we move beyond debate and come to a resolution regarding ethical AI standards and policies to influence and govern use. Co-sponsored by the Information Policy and Information Ethics special interest groups (SIGs), this proposal is for a pair of 90-minute speaker panels, facilitated by the respective SIG convenors. This joint panel presents a continuous conversation to strengthen our resolve for ethical AI standards and policies. Panelists will present intercultural and geopolitical perspectives to frame an ethical stance that will be workshopped across panels for an ethical pedagogical position to inform policy.
The second panel, Implementing AI in pedagogy: Toward a framework for policy development, will feature four speakers focusing on policy considerations. Shengnan Yang (University of Western Ontario) and Awa Zhu (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) will share a study examining the contradictions that emerge when Generative AI is integrated into LIS teaching using Activity Theory, exploring how faculty navigate tensions between pedagogical values and technological innovation. Jenny Bossaller (University of Missouri) will discuss the shifting U.S. policy on AI, from Biden’s cautious BluePrint for an AI Bill of Rights to Trump’s stance, marked by laissez-faire and rapid deployment. That shift has global repercussions for both higher education and scholarly publishing. Adam Berkowitz (University of Alabama) will speak on the legal frameworks that govern intellectual property, data, non-expressive works, and fair use, which enable tech companies to leverage copyrighted works as AI training data, and ethical, critical, and legal implications concerning the manner in which tech companies extract data from copyrighted works and the use of AI to produce expressive works.
We acknowledge and appreciate the individual and collective decolonizing efforts and commitments of our SIG members. Our conversations reflect complex intercultural challenges, which we discuss with an ethic of care, confidentiality, intellectual curiosity and respect for divergent perspectives and practices
Public libraries and opioid harm reduction organizations in the US: An exploration of how collaborative partnerships address community needs
Full text linkPublic libraries have long been found successful supporting vulnerable populations, likely due to a high level of community trust. This paper explores current harm reduction information needs and provision in libraries, collaborative relationships between libraries and opioid-related harm reduction organizations, and how these relationships are different between types of communities. A mixed-methods survey was sent out to library directors in counties with the highest rates of drug overdose deaths across the US, divided equally by urban and rural communities. A qualitative content analysis demonstrated patterns in the data that describe current library harm reduction needs, practices, and collaborations, which we compared, employing quantitative statistics, with the availability of local harm reduction organizations and community type. Many of the 35 libraries that responded already engage in harm reduction information provision and have active collaborative relationships with harm reduction organizations. Urban libraries report being more affected by the crisis, while rural libraries report more community collaboration. In addition to our analysis of these collaborative relationships, our poster will also present our findings on what the library director believe are the harm reduction information needs of the people who have opioid use disorder, based upon their interactions and requests with library staff
Post-Structural Informational Realism
Full text linkIn my dissertation, I establish a generative tension between Luciano Floridi’s structuralist approach to Philosophy of Information and Jacques Derrida’s post-structuralist theorizing. Central to this tension are themes of totalization; structuralist information theory establishes reality as the totality of information, while post-structuralism warns of a violence inherent to such totalitarianism. I use this tension as an entry point into information ontology. In my poster, I first construct information ontology according to Floridi, establishing his theory of Informational Structural Realism (ISR). I then deconstruct this ontology, drawing forward two core problems which haunt ISR. I label the first problem the ontic-ontological problem, as it involves a conceptual and methodological confusion between ontic existents and ontological existence. I label the second problem the abstract-concrete problem, as it involves the failure to account for the movement from noumenal data to phenomenal data. Finally, I reconstruct a theory of Post-Structural Informational Realism (PSIR), arguing that it overcomes the problems implicit in ISR. I additionally explain how reconceptualizing information ontology to subvert informational totality has practical and theoretical implications for information epistemology and information ethics, as it orients informational-being-in-the-world towards the yet-to-come and towards those-to-come. This construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction challenges foundational assumptions in philosophy of information.
ARCHIV-ALL MSI: Serving Students Through Archives and Special Collections at Minority Serving Institutions
Full text linkThe study set out to explore and assess the current state of academic archives in Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). Utilizing Rutger’s University Directory for MSIs, over 700 institutions were addressed, and a preliminary analysis was conducted. To further narrow the scope a survey was disseminated to the leading individuals in their academic archives after information was obtained through the preliminary analysis. There were 167 responses with varying concerns and needs surrounding the state of academic archives within MSIs. Through the interpretation of the survey, the major areas of improvement for the archives surrounded their lack of funding, staffing issues, and minimal awareness of the archives from the student and faculty population. The results provide enough data to map out the challenges and support needs present in MSI communities. As the study evolves, the integration of focus groups will continue to help address specific concerns and challenges faced by the archivists and librarians.
Ultimately, the study aims to address the gaps in awareness of the state of these institutions to begin fixing the discrepancies present through the development of a resource and community network of archivists at MSIs
The Monumental Challenges of Pastmaking
Full text linkPastmaking is a process in which agents exercise power to make or use documents depicting a past that can be given or taken as historical truth. Such documents often possess narrative elements perceived for use in heritage formation, collective remembering, and identity maintenance practices. Pastmaking encompasses the performative creation of historical knowledge, prompting considerable pause about: (1) who gets spoken for in (re-)tellings of prior events, (2) how agents arrive at consensus to determine what is historically known, and (3) how knowledge is lost or gained when historical narratives get (re-)written, a salient issue in light of conceptual developments on epistemicide and epistemic injustice in library and information science (LIS). The research question of this dissertation asks: How are epistemicide and pastmaking related through storytelling? In response, this dissertation undertakes comparative case studies of two commemorative monuments using critical discourse and narrative analysis, abductive content analysis, and document phenomenological insights. They include: (A) Columbus Circle in Syracuse, NY, and (B) The Place of Remembrance at Syracuse University. Following a literature review of storytelling, epistemicide, and pastmaking, Narrative Documentality is introduced as the framework for studying the interplay between narratives and documents. This critical qualitative investigation reveals how commemorative monuments subject to performative agencies of giving and taking–afford or deny experiences of historical narrative through their use in constructing the past. Findings offer three distinct contributions to LIS: (1) a relational model of pastmaking, (2) the assessment of relevance as a performative process, and (3) demonstrating instances of document-dependent truth