exhibits on a shoestring
well, fabric tape, to be a little more precise.
The 2009 edition of Eye of the Beholder is up in our research area in A&SC and we think it looks pretty good. Most of our exhibit flat panels are in …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
A different view of archives
Archives: your ally in the battle against plagiarism.
Okay, so this isn’t quite how David Bowie (a new prof in English here at UAA) phrased it, we took a little dramatic license. But it’s basically the idea. Professor Bowie visited …
the buildup to an exhibit
The entries for our Eye of the Beholder exhibit are starting to trickle in. Which is good, since earlier this week we had none and were beginning to wonder if we’d have anything to exhibit. The nature of deadlines and …
Clamber over? Or walk around? When automation creates work for us.
(This is Arlene). It’s not often I indulge my need to complain in quite such a public setting, but I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few days working on additions to the Alaska’s Digital Archives and, well, …
Put the thinking caps on
So I (Arlene) was writing an email this afternoon to set up a meeting and realized that I really dislike the term “Reading Room.” Where to start? First, too passive. People aren’t just reading, they’re researching. So I suggested Research …
Jammin’ at the Archives
Guest blogger: MC.
Archives preserve and make available a variety of resources in a variety of mediums. People tend to associate archives with “old stuff.” Though “old stuff” is inadequate it does refer to the non-current nature of a majority …
Getting things done
Some days it seems like the most efficient people around here are our student workers. And maybe that’s because we give them tasks with beginnings, middles, and ends, unlike the stuff we reserve for ourselves which seems pretty much permanently …
Hanging out in a log cabin
So UAA has an honest-to-goodness, real log cabin parked on the grounds of the Alaska State Fair. Apparently Matanuska-Susitna College has a cabin building course every so often and the cabin is the product of the 1982 class. (Photos coming …
The need to move things about.
I (Arlene) inherited this from my mother. Periodically, I just need to rearrange furniture. And I’ve been thinking about the reading room for a long time. Long narrow tables, lined up in rows, backs to the window, facing the reference …
Archives at the State Fair
It doesn’t seem like a natural match, and after next Monday we might decide it isn’t, but MC & I (Arlene) have volunteered to spend Labor Day at the Alaska State Fair at the UAA booth promoting A&SC and maybe …