Archival pet peeves
Did you know it’s Pet Peeve Week? (We didn’t, but we do now). So in that spirit:
Okay, we admit, most of these are pretty low on the annoyance scale. But we were commiserating over a few collections recently and …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
What we did this year, part 2
Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.]
One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is …
What we did this year, part 1
We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We …
Finding Alaskan photographers
We haven’t calculated the statistics, but anecdotally, we can tell you that of all the document media types we hold photographs are probably one of the most popular types of documents used by researchers here at ASC.
Following along with …
Scenes in the archives
We frequently get asked: “what’s your favorite [collection/photo/document/etc]?”
That’s a hard question to answer! And it’s usually dependent on what we’ve had our hands on recently. By turns funny, sad, poignant, thoughtful, it can vary. This week, though, we’ve been …
Electronic records in Archives part 2
What better place to take a bunch of electronic records courses than in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska in June?
June 8-12, 2015 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage, to be precise.
We’re pleased …
Enjoying the great Alaskan outdoors
Celebrate Archives Month with us!
The Anchorage Museum Archives, Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA) and Archives & Special Collections are hosting a home movie and slide show evening. We’ll be featuring movies and photos from our collections celebrating getting …
Eye of the Beholder 7: another glorious year
Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator!
Archives & Special Collections, Consortium Library
Eye of the Beholder VII: One Image, Many Perspectives
October 13-November 8, 2014
THE EXHIBIT: Every year we pick a single photograph from our holdings. And ask you …
What goes around, comes around
Back in 2012, after our umpteenth request for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation records that had been here very very briefly in the 1990s, I wrote a blog entry about where to find documents about the Palmer Colony. We had …
Seeking an archives job?
The following might look a little familiar, but it is new as of July 21, 2014, we promise.
The Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage is pleased to announce a recruitment for a three year archival residency. We …