Some bad news, some good news
The decision to close off access to a document is not one we make easily around here. Anybody who has spent any time with me is fairly aware that I believe that the vast majority of decisions in an archives …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
Eye of the Beholder 2009 exhibit part 6
Last, but not least…
I saved this one for posting last mostly because it’s a little more complicated to post than the others. Well, almost impossible in fact. This entry was brought in by Anne Freitag, a long-time Archives supporter …
Eye of the Beholder 2009 exhibit part 5
We have a few more entries to show you. The first one below is by Deborah Tharp, an associate professor of photography at UAA. Sorry about the not-great photo. One of these days, maybe you can come visit the very …
Eye of the Beholder 2009 exhibit part 4
And we continue on, looking at the entries to Eye of the Beholder II from 2009.
From Kristi Powell, Student Worker Supervisor and Reserves Manager here in the Consortium Library. And also a Mom.
Usually I …
Eye of the Beholder 2009 exhibit part 3
And here are more!
From Amy Green, an assistant professor in Culinary Arts & Hospitality at UAA.
Cooking is challenging in even the best conditions but consider cooking food on gases and heat emitted from a volcano. This image depicts
…Eye of the Beholder 2009 exhibit part 2
Here are a few more pieces from our guest curators for Eye of the Beholder II.
Behnaaz Irani, a UAA graduate student and a library worker at the time, was inspired to write a poem.
Ode to a Sourdough
…Eye of the beholder 2009 exhibit
It’s coming up on the end of the fiscal year, traditionally a time when I try to finish off projects or clean up my office. In that spirit, I’ve been meaning to go online with some of our Eye of …
Surrogate access to the unknown
Like most archives, we have a few collections with materials in them that are starting to age, and age badly. One example of that is the Frederick John Date papers: most of what is in the collection is in …
Playing with memes
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And since we’d be bad archivists if we didn’t cite our own stuff… Clockwise from the upper left:
1. Captains Glenn & Culp, near Portage Bay, 1898. Photographer: Walter C. Mendenhall. Edwin F. …
It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Man
One of the things about having students in to do research is that we often don’t get to see what becomes of the research they do. That’s not really a complaint, by the way, it’s just the way things go. …