Often when promoting A&SC’s resources to faculty or students I’ll say something like “There’s not a topic taught at this university that we can’t provide archival material to support. Well, except maybe math.” Hokey, I know. Occasionally it gets a …
In my office is a framed print of one word: “Exhale.” It’s not that I have it as a regular reminder, but sometimes…
2010 was one of those sometimes for us here at the Archives. A very busy year. And …
A little over a week ago, I was in Kodiak on a consulting job with the Kodiak College library. They’re going to be creating a Kodiak room, and wanted some advice on organization, facilities, so forth. I always learn a …
A few months ago, I received a phone call from one of our long-ago donors, Ellen Hays. Daughter of Andrew Hope, she’d given us a collection comprised of her father’s papers and her own. Most of the papers related to …
Last May, Betsy Tower came to find me in my office one day. Many of you know of Betsy: she was recently inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame. A physician, she moved to Anchorage in 1954 with …
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[Ed note: I don’t know what’s worse, that I put down the wrong election day in this posting originally–based on the advice of a colleague which I didn’t confirm–or that none of you caught it in the 4 days it …
Yesterday, while working on the blog entry about one of the reasons we don’t buy collections, I wanted to enter a link to the finding aid to the Eric A. Hegg photographs. Since we’re in the process of converting …
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …
From an unsolicited Facebook posting by a library colleague last night:
For those of you who missed the previous blog posting, we here at A&SC decided to celebrate Archives …
