The stuff of memories
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 …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
Moving along
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 …
sometimes we say goodbye
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 …
Thank you.
… the campaign season
[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 …
Who is that guy, anyhow? Or: when documentation fails
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 …
To buy or not to buy
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 …
Too much fun to leave
From an unsolicited Facebook posting by a library colleague last night:
Too much partying at the Archives Open House–I missed my bus.
For those of you who missed the previous blog posting, we here at A&SC decided to celebrate Archives …
Archives & Special Collections and AMIPA Open House, October 6th
Dear readers of our blog,
We are inviting you – and anyone you know – to stop by our Open House at the Archives on Wednesday, October 6th from 4-6pm. October is Archives Month, and we’re celebrating by …
The sanitary archivist
A lot of people have been asking me lately about collections and what happens to the embarrassing or maybe not-quite-ready-for-the-public-eye bits in them. And the verb that’s been used by a lot of them is sanitizing. The questions usually fall …