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Read the latest news, ideas, and achievements shaping archives across Tennessee. Tennessee Archivist brings together Society updates and stories from the professionals preserving our state’s history.

Issues of the Tennessee Archivist are available in Digital Tennessee.

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Digital copies of issues published before 2026 are pending publication in Digital Tennessee, an online repository supported by the Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Physical copies of past issues of the Tennessee Archivist are available in the Society of Tennessee Archivists Records collection housed at the Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Submit an Article

Tennessee Archivist welcomes submissions from the Society's members and non-members. Share your news, expertise, and collections with Tennessee’s archival community.

Types of Submissions

News

Announcements of approximately 150 words to highlight:

  • New collections or services
  • Grants, fundraising, and successful resource-development efforts
  • Personnel updates, including new hires, career milestones, and retirements
  • Outreach initiatives, exhibits, events, and public programming
  • Employment opportunities

Features

Articles of approximately 500–1,000 words exploring:

  • Innovative archival projects, programs, or services
  • Collection processing, description, digitization, and preservation work
  • Collaborations with educators, students, researchers, artists, or community partners
  • Institutional histories, anniversary projects, and notable collections
  • Lessons learned from challenges, experiments, or changes in practice

Covers

Seasonally relevant images from your collections that highlight:

  • Sports, recreation, and music traditions
  • Political movements, civic life, and elections
  • Historic buildings, neighborhoods, and landmarks
  • Community celebrations, festivals, and parades
  • Maps, architectural drawings, posters, and other visually compelling records

Submission Instructions

  • Include your name, position, institution, and/or repository
  • Submit articles as Microsoft Word (.docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) files
  • Attach accompanying photographs, figures, illustrations, and other relevant images in Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg) or Tagged Image File Format (.tiff) files
  • For each accompanying image, include a brief caption, alt text, and a citation (if appropriate)
  • For cover images, submit a 300 dpi or higher images in .jpg or .tiff format with an accompanying caption, alt text, and citation

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