Veronica’s farewell
I moved to Alaska six years ago to be an archivist at the UAA/APU Archives and Special Collections. It was my first professional archives job. And it is bittersweet that I am now leaving to be an archivist at Kansas …
Author: Veronica Denison
Getting the NAS
For years we (the archivists) had grappled with what to do with our electronic records. But in 2018 a couple of things happened that made us realize we really needed to make headway. Up until then, our digitized content was …
Getting the grants: Atwood Foundation and CLIR RAR
In 2017, I (Veronica) decided I wanted to digitize the audio, video, and film within our collections. The idea had been in my head for a while, mainly because we kept receiving requests to digitize the audio reels in the …
Archiving AK episode 14a: Interview with Dylan Harris
In this bonus episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison interviews researcher Dylan Harris, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His research topic surrounds climate change and the way we talk about it. In …
New in the Archives: March 2019
What have we been up to in the Archives in March? You might well ask, because the answer is: quite a lot! Here’s some highlights:
New collections described
S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …
New in the Archives: February 2019
Most of our time this month went to working on multi-institutional topic guides and preparing for our session at the Alaska Library Association Conference in Juneau the first weekend of March, but we also released two podcasts, described some new …
Archiving AK Episode 12: Ian Hartman
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison speaks with Dr. Ian Hartman, history professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ian discusses his research regarding African American civil rights in Anchorage, his experience with archival material, and the …
New in the Archives: October 2018
October, which also happens to be Archives Month, has come to an end, which means it’s time to post about what we did over the last month. Alaska’s Digital Archives is undergoing a change in hosting, so we have been …
Archiving AK episode 7: Alaska State Archives
In the seventh episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison interviews Chris Hieb and Leah Geibel – two archivists at the Alaska State Archives. In the episode Chris and Leah discuss their roles at the State Archives, the types …
New in the Archives: September 2018
September is always a season of change in the Archives with the start of the semester! It feels like this has been an intensive outreach month for us with several events that happened and even more that we’re preparing for. …