New in the Archives, June 2019
For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!
New up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives
20 images from the Christine McClain papers
205 images from the Bill Bacon …
Author: Arlene Schmuland
Archiving AK: interview with Sarah Pace
In this episode of Archiving AK, Arlene interviews Sarah Pace, a cataloging librarian with the Alaska Resources Library and Information Service (ARLIS), and more specifically, with the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Here’s links to a few things mentioned …
Alaskan archives and advocacy
You might not know this, but these are pretty trying times for Alaskan archives and those who research in them. A lot of the Alaskan archives have cut access hours, are under hiring freezes, are facing additional budget cuts. We’re …
New in the Archives: May 2019
This month was quite busy between receiving and describing new collections, preparing grant items for shipping to our vendor, editing and uploading two podcasts, and continuing to work on our electronic records.
Collections described:
William D. Workman papers; 1965-2005. HMC-1302. …
New in the Archives: April 2019
Happy May, everyone! Last month, we described 10 collections, or additions to existing collections. This included adding 217 GB of videos and photographs to the Rage City Rollergirls records, which had not been possible without our new digital storage system. …
Archiving AK episode 14: National Poetry Month
In this episode of our podcast, Arlene emcees a selection of poetry writings from archival collections in Alaska.
First of all, thank you so much! to the people who volunteered to read poetry for us or who selected materials from …
Archiving AK Episode 13: Women’s History Month
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivists Gwen Higgins, Veronica Denison, and Arlene Schmuland share some documents from our holdings written by Alaskan women.
The links below are to the guides to each of the collections featured in this podcast.…
Archiving AK episode 10: Anchorage Museum Library and Archives
New in the Archives: January 2019
The first month of 2019 has flown by, and somehow it is the first day of February already. This month we got back into the swing of things adding new items to Alaska’s Digital Archives, which was recently migrated to …
New in the Archives: December 2018
December was a fairly eventful month for us. November went out with a bang (a real one, a 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter very near Anchorage) and so our regular workload for early December was rewritten by needing to deal …