University Archives Research Articles

Site-discordant expression of myeloid cell nuclear differentiation antigen in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm

Abstract Objectives Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and aggressive hematologic neoplasm that can show clinical, morphologic, and immunophenotypic overlap with acute myeloid leukemia. Myeloid cell nuclear differentiation antigen (MNDA) is a nuclear protein expressed by myelomonocytic cells previously reported to be reliably absent in BPDCN and proposed as a useful adjunct for the distinction of BPDCN and acute myeloid leukemia. We encountered a case of BPDCN that showed strong nuclear expression of MNDA in bone marrow and breast samples and weak to absent expression in skin samples, prompting us to reevaluate the expression of MNDA in BPDCN. Methods We collected all available BPDCN cases from the Stanford University archives collected in the past 10 years and subjected them to MNDA immunohistochemistry. In select cases, molecular profiling by next-generation sequencing was performed. Results We found 4 cases (of 8 total examined [50%]) with convincing site-discordant MNDA expression. This expression was seen in 3 of 6 (50%) bone marrow samples, 1 of 2 (50%) breast soft tissue samples, and 3 of 14 (up to 21%) skin samples and was not obviously predicted by age, sex, history of myeloid neoplasm, or treatment history. In 2 cases, MNDA was strongly expressed in 2 distinct sites (breast/bone marrow, skin/bone marrow) and negative in subsequent samples. Conclusions Our findings suggest that MNDA expression in BPDCN is anatomic site dependent and transient, with noncutaneous infiltrates showing more frequent expression than cutaneous infiltrates. These results caution against the use of MNDA to exclude BPDCN when considering the differential diagnosis of a blastic extramedullary infiltrate.

The Ismaʿili Manuscripts in University Library Tübingen

Abstract The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the special, mostly precarious situation of Ismaili manuscripts. It sheds light on the history of a group of 42 Ismaili manuscripts, some of them stolen from the famous Hamdani Collection in Surat/Gujarat, India, and the circumstances of their acquisition by the University Library Tübingen between 1970 and 1972. When the manuscripts were acquired, the true origins and disposition of these manuscripts were still completely shrouded in darkness. More than fifty years after these events, I would like to put some pieces of the mosaic together and follow the history of the displaced manuscripts from their place of origin in Surat via Beirut to their final destination, Tübingen. My sources are: Archival material from Tübingen University Archive, dispersed documents, oral and written accounts of contemporary witnesses, further informants—and last not least, the manuscripts themselves.

Meaning-Making and Archive-Making: Teaching Oral History with Archives Professionals on Campus

ABSTRACT When faculty collaborate with archives professionals at their universities, they can together create oral history courses that engage students in both the meaning-making and archive-making dimensions of the practice. In this article, we summarize various archives-engaged approaches to teaching oral history and explore how these approaches benefit both students and university archives. As an illustrative example, we describe a course that we collaboratively designed and taught twice in 2020–21, in which students built a new collection of oral histories for the archives at DePaul University in Chicago. Drawing from this experience, we share recommendations about how to focus, structure, and coordinate courses that feature substantive collaboration with university archives. We also conclude that students in courses such as ours produce collections of interviews that may best be understood by archivists and researchers as “learners’ collections,” which, while valuable, raise questions about appropriate standards for preservation and access.

A Case Study on How a University Archives can Improve its Archives Information Services: Focusing on the Competency Diagnosis Evaluation of a Teaching Institution

A Case Study on How a University Archives can Improve its Archives Information Services: Focusing on the Competency Diagnosis Evaluation of a Teaching Institution

Cultural Communication Models and Strategies of Red Archives in Colleges and Universities under the Perspective of Digital Empowerment

This study explores the significant impact of digital technology on the dissemination and accessibility of red archives within colleges and universities, highlighting it as a crucial evolution in these institutions' cultural endeavours. By applying Maletzke's communication model, the research thoroughly investigates the factors influencing red archive culture communication in the digital context within colleges and universities. It develops a specific communication model for these educational institutions. It outlines five strategic approaches to enhance digital empowerment: improving the quality of content, building and enhancing collaborative team structures, upgrading functional features for personalized service offerings, effectively identifying and engaging the target audience, and utilizing policy, culture, and technology as fundamental elements for the sustainable development of red archive resources. This strategic proposal aims to facilitate the effective promotion and use of red archive resources in colleges and universities amidst the ongoing digital transformation.

Research on Information Data Security of University Archives

Under the background of the rapid development of information technology, the information technology of university archives has become an important part of the modernization of education management. However, in this process, the problem of data security has become increasingly prominent, which has become a major obstacle restricting the in-depth development of university archives informatization. In the face of security threats such as data leakage and network attacks, this paper proposes a series of systematic protection countermeasures, aiming at providing a safe and reliable data environment for university archive informatization, ensuring the integrity and availability of information resources, and thus promoting the improvement of university management efficiency and the optimal allocation of education resources.

Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Crystalglobulin-Induced Nephropathy: A Case Series

Crystalglobulinemia is a rare syndrome characterized by intravascular crystallization of monoclonal immunoglobulins (MIgs). Data on kidney involvement are limited to case reports. This series characterizes the clinicopathologic spectrum of crystalglobulin-induced nephropathy (CIN). Case series. Nineteen CIN cases were identified from the nephropathology archives of Mayo Clinic and Columbia University. CIN was defined by intravascular (extracellular) MIg crystals visible by light (LM) and electron microscopy (EM). Among the cases, 68% were male and 65% were Caucasian (median age 56 years). Most patients presented with severe AKI (median creatinine 3.5 mg/dL), hematuria, and mild proteinuria (median 1.1 g). Common extrarenal manifestations were constitutional (67%), cutaneous (56%), and rheumatologic (50%). Fifty percent of cases had hypocomplementemia. The hematologic disorders were monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS) (72%), lymphoma (17%), or myeloma (11%), with 65% of these disorders discovered concomitantly with CIN. All patients had MIg identified on SPEP/SIF (IgGκ in 65%). The sFLC ratio was outside the renal range in 40%, and bone marrow biopsy detected the responsible clone in 67%. On LM, crystals involved glomeruli (100%) and vessels (47%), often with an inflammatory reaction (89%) and fibrin (58%). All cases exhibited crystal substructures (mostly paracrystalline) by EM. Immunofluorescence (IF) on paraffin embedded tissue was more sensitive than frozen tissue (92% versus 47%) for demonstrating the crystal composition (IgGκ in 63%). Follow up (median 20 months) was available in 16 patients. Eighty-one percent received steroids, 44% plasmapheresis, 38% hemodialysis, and 69% chemotherapy. Ninety-percent of patients who received clone-directed therapy achieved kidney recovery vs. 20% of those who did not (p=0.017). Retrospective design, small sample size. CIN is a rare cause of nephropathy associated with lymphoplasmacytic disorders (mostly MGRS) and typically presents with severe AKI and extrarenal manifestations. Diagnosis often requires IF performed on paraffin embedded kidney tissue. Prompt initiation of clone-directed therapy, coupled with corticosteroids and plasmapheresis, may lead to recovery of kidney function.

Preserving the history of the American Library Association

The American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the official repository of the American Library Association, the world’s oldest and largest library association. Established in 1973, the American Library Association Archives holds over a terabyte of digital content and nearly 4000 cubic feet of official records, personal papers, and publications created by or relating to the association, its members, and the history of librarianship. On the strength of its collection and affiliation with the University Archives, the American Library Association Archives serves as a major research center on the history of the association and American librarianship. This article reflects on the history of the American Library Association Archives, the investment made by the American Library Association to preserve its heritage, and the growth of the program. It also discusses the current state of the collection and what has made the program successful.

Application of Artificial Intelligence-based Technology in College Archives Management

This study looks into the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies, notably Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models and data augmentation approaches, in college archives management. With the rapid expansion of digital information, archive organizations have enormous issues in maintaining, organizing, and giving access to their vast collections of historical documents and scholarly resources. AI solutions present possible solutions to these difficulties by automating labor-intensive operations and improving the efficiency and accuracy of preservation workflows. In this study, they investigate the transformational potential of CNN models in digitization activities, utilizing their visual data processing skills to automate and enhance the digitization of visual resources within college archives. In addition, they look into how data augmentation techniques might improve the resilience and generalization capabilities of AI models, reducing biases and improving performance across a variety of archive collections. Using empirical research, theoretical analysis, and case studies, they present insights into the opportunities and obstacles of implementing AI-based technology in college archive management. Furthermore, they discuss ethical implications for the deployment of AI solutions, emphasizing the significance of transparency, accountability, and stakeholder participation. This study aims to inform archival practitioners, technologists, and stakeholders about the effective and responsible integration of AI technologies in cultural heritage preservation and promotion within academic institutions by elucidating the practical applications and implications of CNN models and data augmentation techniques in archival contexts.

What Is in a <unittitle>? Cross-lingual Topic Detection & Information Retrieval in Archives Portal Europe

Archives Portal Europe (APE, www.archivesportaleurope.net ) is the portal of European archives, an aggregator that connects on a single research point the catalogues and digitised archival material of all archives in and about Europe. It currently hosts material from more than 30 countries and from a variety of archival institutions (such as State archives, city archives, university and parish archives, private institutions, and more). It is maintained by the Archives Portal Europe Foundation, an international consortium of State archives and other archival institutions that aim to connect the archival material of single institutions into one digital repository to allow universal access to the archival heritage of Europe, promoting new forms of archival research beyond national or local boundaries. One of the research tools made available by Archives Portal Europe is by topics; however, these are currently maintained manually by the archivists, and the vast amount of archival material ingested in the portal makes it impossible to have a comprehensive body of topics that describe the whole of the APE repository. Archives are traditionally not organised by their subject content, but around the entity (person, organization, body) that created and/or collected the documents in the course of their activities. While this is an undisputed pillar of archival management, the availability of online digital repositories for archival research requires new tools for digital archival research, particularly when different archival traditions from different countries and different types of institutions are merged into a unique research portal. Topic detection becomes a fundamental tool to guide archival research and to allow archives to be accessible to potentially world-wide users in a situation where national and linguistics barriers blur or are re-defined. This article presents the preliminary results and plan for future iterations of an AI tool for automated topic detection in a multi- lingual environment, where human-created taxonomies act as bases for the algorithms to aggregate relevant material around a specific topic. The development is based on supervised machine learning, with a combination of human inputs in different languages, and of the usage of Wikipedia pages to model the relevant vocabulary and entities.

Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives

Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives

Ciencia, mar y poder. Historia sociopolítica del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela (1958-1969)

This work consists of a socio-political history of the Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela (IOV), a research center with which the field of Marine Sciences began its process of academic institutionalization in Venezuela. The initial decade (1958-1969) of the institute meant a start and boom of research in the Venezuelan seas, even in the context of controversies and confrontations for the control and direction of the institute, which in turn were directly influenced by the Venezuelan political climate of the time and because the IOV was also the academic center that made was possible to create the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) in 1958 in the city of Cumaná (Sucre state, Venezuela), a higher education center created in 1958 in the city of Cumaná (Sucre state, Venezuela), Venezuela), a center of higher studies created by the new political elite of the nascent Venezuelan representative democracy. The analysis was based on primary documents from the archive of Pedro Roa Morales, academic archives of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and the UDO and the Oriente Universitario (UDO’s newspaper in the 1960s). These are letters, minutes, telegrams and manuscripts that were made available to us by Evelyn Zoppi de Roa - Pedro Roa’s widow - in 2017. As a university project that summoned scientific and political leaders, the UDO was born as a space where science converged with political- partisan practice through ideological loyalties and confrontations, features that did not take long to appear in the IOV. Thus, politicians (and politics) prevailed over scientists even in an academic institution, putting in check the project that gave rise to it.

Welcome to the purge: Digital records in an era of new limits

Following Google’s announcement that it would be introducing storage limits for Google Apps for Education institutional clients, archivists from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Special Collections and University Archives worked with campus IT partners to plan for the upcoming changes to how Google storage limits are managed on campus, and how to handle dormant accounts and their associated files. This paper describes how archivists worked to manage records in Google Team Drive accounts, apply a capstone-like review to accounts pending deletion, and planned to guide a campus-wide shift in record-keeping behaviour.

The "Sound Social Base of Every Great Civilization": Family Farm, Catholic Priorities, Farmworkers, and the Bracero Program

ABSTRACT: Buried in the Stanford University Archives is an undated anonymous pamphlet entitled "The Legend of Pancho Sanchez," which offers a Catholic critique of the Bracero Program. This article puts "Legend" and its vision of the program in conversation with the church's late 1950s/early-1960s position on agriculture and its longstanding advocacy for family-based, owner-operated farms as the centerpiece of morally healthy agricultural production. I contend that the church's deep commitment to small farms as key to a healthy society shaped its hesitancy to rethink this priority, despite shifting migration patterns and increased prevalence of migrant farmworkers, domestic and non-. "Legend" suggests that official church priority could not see how the structural underpinnings of industrial agriculture affected in interrelated ways domestic farmworkers and Mexican braceros alike, exacerbating the precarity of all farmworkers.

Digital Testimonios and Reimagining Public History

This article explores the practice of integrating digital testimonios—multimedia storytelling—into higher education courses, as well as university and community-based archives. I argue that digital testimonios, as a methodology practiced through the use of everyday phone-editing technology, provides Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) students, particularly non- film majors, with the opportunity to develop storytelling voices, thereby contributing their experiences to the cultural wealth and knowledge production of our society. This study highlights the powerful possibilities of digital testimonio projects—oral history, civic engagement, and archival work—where students themselves become change agents in the invaluable development of public history.

Digital resurrection of historical figures: A case study on Mary Sibley through customized ChatGPT

<p>This study investigates the emerging realm of digital resurrection, focusing on Mary Sibley (1800–1878), the esteemed founder of Lindenwood University. The core objective was to demonstrate the capability of advanced artificial intelligence, specifically a customized version of ChatGPT, in revitalizing historical figures for educational and engagement purposes. By integrating comprehensive diaries from Sibley with Claude 2.0, the research utilized a substantial autobiographical dataset to develop a GPT beta version that replicates her distinct voice and tone. The incorporation of her official portrait and diaries into the GPT Builder was pivotal, creating an interactive platform that accurately reflects her perspectives on critical issues such as gender roles, women’s education, and religious beliefs. This approach signifies a considerable advancement from previous methods of historical engagement, offering a more dynamic and immersive learning experience. The collaboration with the university archivist was instrumental in refining the AI to align closely with the known worldview of the subject, showcasing the significance of expert input in achieving authenticity in digital recreations. The successful implementation of this project illuminates the potential for future research in digital resurrections, especially for historical figures with extensive personal writings. It underscores the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration, involving both historical expertise and technological innovation, to ensure the accuracy and ethical representation of such figures. The results from this study contribute significantly to the field of digital humanities, proposing a novel approach to historical education and interactive learning.</p>

Design and Development of College Archives and Correspondence Applications

This study aims to develop a web-based archiving and correspondence application to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of archiving and delivery of correspondence on the smart campus. The method used is the software development method. This research involves data collection through interviews and observations to understand the process of archiving and delivering correspondence on smart campus. The developed application can help users to archive and deliver correspondence more efficiently and effectively with features such as correspondence search, automatic archiving, and task and notification settings. The results showed that the use of web-based archives and correspondence applications can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of archiving and delivering correspondence on smart campuses by reducing time and costs, and increasing the accuracy and security of correspondence and archive management.

Monopoly on doubt: Post-mortem examinations in Israel, 1950s-1980s.

This article examines the durability of high post-mortem examination rates in Israel between the 1950s-1980s. Previous studies overlooked the issue of medical authority and the social history of autopsy, focusing on policy, technological development, and conflict between science and religion. By contrast, our analysis brings together the medical interest in unlimited research of dead bodies and the power relations between doctors and subaltern groups in Israel. Based on the Israeli State Archives, the Hebrew University Archives, and the daily press, we argue that medical biopolitical aspirations and the public shaped the history of postmortem examinations in Israel. High rates were embedded in the medical construction of doubt regarding the cause of death that only physicians could resolve by autopsy. Civilian protests led to a temporary decrease in the 1960s, while political and medical intervention brought about a gradual resurgence in post-mortem rates in the 1980s.

«Нелегкая вечность своя»: Дополнения к биографии Владимира Щировского

The article reconstructs details of the biography of the poet Vladimir Yevgenievich Schirovsky (1909‒1941) based on archival sources. Until today, only the memoirs of his sister-in-law, Aleksandra Dorrer, served as the source of his life’s details. The facts presented in her memoirs had undergone only partial documentary verification. The article establishes Vladimir Schirovsky’s exact date of birth, clarifies the dates and the crucial milestones in the lives of his father, Yevgeny Schirovsky (1850‒1918), and his maternal grandfather Erast Yezhov (1842 – after 1887) using historical records from the Moscow University archives and identifies Schirovsky’s family ties with the noble families of the Yezhovs, Savitskys, Vasilkovskys, and Akaro. Yevgeny Schirovsky, assigned to the lower class of the meschane (urban petit bourgeois) as an illegitimate child of a noble, built an exceptional career as a civil servant. At the peak of his career between 1897 and 1906, he successively held a provincial governorship of the Łomża Governorate, the Kielce Governorate, and the Radom Governorate of the Congress Poland, having risen to the rank of the Privy Councilor (but not to the rank of a senator, as incorrectly thought before based on Aleksandra Dorrer’s account). Yevgeny Schirovsky’s father, Aleksey Kozmich Schirovsky (1805 – after 1869), and grandfather Kozma Alekseyevich Schirovsky (1771‒1849), both physicians who worked at the Mariinsky Hospital for the poor in Moscow alongside Mikhail Andreyevich Dostoevsky, the father of Fyodor Dostoevsky, belonged to the closest circle of friends of the Dostoyevsky family.

Research on Informationization Construction of University Archives Management in the Internet Era

Research on Informationization Construction of University Archives Management in the Internet Era