In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators from the Ketchikan Museums: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale. In part two of this podcast, we focus in on their oral history program. They talk about how …
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale, from the Ketchikan Museums. In part one of this podcast, we talk about their missions and collections, how archival collections fit into …
A new episode: this one is the 5th in our October 2021 Archives Month reboot of our podcast. In this episode, Arlene talks with Desiree Ramirez, Alissa Gardner, and Chris Warner. Desiree is the museum specialist at Wrangell – St. …
Happy Archives Month and welcome to a new season of Archiving AK! For the third episode of Season 2, Arlene talks with Karen Gray and Leah Geibel of the Alaska State Archives. Karen and Leah talk about what the State …
We archivists at the Consortium Library know well how hard it can be to find archival resources on whatever your research topic may be. That’s partly due to the nature of archival collections: they’re unique and they can be voluminous …
Happy Archives Month and welcome to a new season of Archiving AK! For the second episode of Season 2,Arlene interviews Erin Wahl, a librarian at New Mexico State University, creative writer and former archivist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. …
This month marks the end of the 2020-2021 academic year and the start of the 2021-2022 year. In the “invisible labor” category, Gwen has been working diligently on her 4th year comprehensive faculty review file, as well as continuing her …
We recently learned about two great websites created by our researchers:
WWII Alaska: The Second World War dramatically impacted the Alaskan territory and all of its people. Explore firsthand stories from Alaska Native elders …
Our March-April edition is running a little late! But here you go:
Newly available collections:
EPH-0452: COVID19 vaccination materials, 2021.
William Murry papers; 1917-1944. HMC-1366-AHS. Memorabilia collected by an early Anchorage resident.
Billy Roberts papers; 1946-1947. HMC-1368. Memorabilia from …
2021 got off to an interesting start, when the Archives vault suffered a leak that resulted in hundreds of boxes having to be removed from the vault and some materials rehoused into dry boxes. With help from the Access Services, …
