This post covers our activities for the months of May and June. We have largely been working from home over the last few months, and we have had to shift our focus to activities that can be done remotely. This …
One of the challenges to being mostly closed to in-house visitors lately has been how to share hard copy archival documents with researchers who may or may not yet know if they want copies. Actually this has been a long-term …
With a lot of our April time being dedicated to working from home, we’ve been focusing on keeping up with reference requests and putting digitized materials online.
But first up, we won an award! We won the 2020 John Sessions …
Well, March isn’t going to look like our most productive month ever. Both Gwen and Arlene spent a lot of March preparing tasks to be able to do at home. Since we can’t take home collections to work on them, …
Our annual Eating from the Archives event, though great fun!, is a really bad idea right now. So in trying to come up with ways we could do an event like this but support social distancing and allow folks to …
February was a busy month for the Archives. In addition to describing several new collections and adding photos from a couple other collections to Alaska’s Digital Archives, we set up a new exhibit of Fur Rondy photographs and started a …
We know there’s a lot of Ruben Gaines fans out there. We hear from them occasionally. Did you know that we have a bunch of his broadcast recordings?
Are you wondering who Ruben Gaines was? He came to Alaska in …
Some of you may recall the earthquake we had in November 2018. Thankfully the archives didn’t suffer too much damage. Boxes off of shelves, but thankfully the boxes did their great protective job of the contents and the archival materials …
Dr. Jennifer Stone of the UAA English department held her A476: History of English Language student posters presentations in the Archives. The students shared posters and presented on their research topics, many of which were based on documents …
Our researchers in November included UAA students, Anchorage community members, Alaskans, a variety of people from across the United States, and a professor visiting from Norway. Topics of research included the performing arts in Anchorage, maritime history, Arctic …
