When it all comes together
A&SC has been working on a number of department-wide tasks lately, but two have come together in an interesting way. Task one is to write a report on our activities over the past year and our goals for the next. …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
When disaster doesn’t strike
At a bit of a loss for a current blog entry today, I (Arlene) decided to tell one of my favorite stories from working here.
I’ve read (Terry Pratchett) that opera works on the catastrophe curve: everything that could go …
Creative archives
Deborah Tharp is one of our researchers who has been utilizing photographs in our collection in some creative ways. Below is a composite photograph she created using images from our National Geographic Society Katmai Expeditions photograph collection. The photographs …
Encouraging an archivist
Today I (Arlene) finished description to a collection we received a couple of months ago. Having this description finished and posted on our website basically makes the collection available to our research audience.
It’s a small collection, but it’s important, …
It takes a library
Recently we were offered a Bunch of Boxes, gently used, from another archival facility in town. They’d emptied them out and simply didn’t have the storage space to keep them on the off chance that they might need them again …
Picturing UAA
[Note from September 2018: Due to a cost increase for PicturingUAA, all images that were once available on PicturingUAA have been moved to Alaska’s Digital Archives. We also have many more images within our physical holdings. Please contact us…
An organized desk is the sign of an organized mind. Or is it?
Usually my (Arlene’s) office is a pretty accurate barometer of my work life. The more things going on, the more disastrous–and I mean that word very literally–my office looks. But today was cleaning day. Not because I had anything less …
Checking in from Stuttgart.
Today’s guest artist: Kathy.
To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we …
Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.
Today’s entry is by Arlene.
I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. …
Alaskans for global warming, estab. 1898
Today’s guest artist: Nicole.
An early global warming advocate, as recorded by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, Oct 21, 1898:
I told him [Hanmore] of the country traversed by me and particularly of the Madanuska [sic: Matanuska] Valley as an …