Despite some weather closures, we hit the ground running after the holiday break with a session for the UAA Winter Teaching Academy for faculty, in which we discussed how (and why!) to incorporate archival materials into course curriculum. And that session has already borne some results: we are getting contacts…
Well folks, a new opportunity arose for the Archives in the final quarter of last year – we received funds through Congressionally Directed Spending to focus the next three or so years on improved description and digitization of lands-related collections in our holdings! This project also allows Becky Butler Gallegos…
It was a busy end to the year; things are still happening in the Archives even as students leave campus. Arlene used the holiday break to label all our brand new shelves. If you notice increased speed in our retrieval of items for you, it’s thanks to her hard work!…
If you don’t follow us on Facebook, you might not know about our annual staff portrait tradition. In past we’ve taken inspiration from pop culture (Star Trek, Scooby Doo, Holy Grail, Wizard of Oz) but for the past several years we’ve gone to our collections for inspiration. This year, in…
Community engagement: One of UAA’s priorities is to track various ways in which all of us engage with our communities surrounding us. While we do a LOT of that in the Archives, from describing collections to make them available for research, to working with collection donors, to working with local…
New project alert We have been busy over the summer setting up a new project in the Archives! We realized so much of UAA/APU student life is now electronic and more difficult for the Archives to capture (although not impossible, but that’s another blog post). In an attempt to document…
It’s the peak of tourism season in Alaska, so we’re reading letters from tourists in our holdings! Tour guide Becky Butler Gallegos will give you a quick overview of various tourism routes in Alaska. We’ll hear from folks traveling the Inside Passage, through the Interior, and even out to Western…
There’s two parts to this question, and the quick response to both is: it depends! It depends on your question and the depth and the breadth and the topic itself. So let’s take a closer look at some data that might change the assumptions of “everything I need is online…
Newly described collections EPH-0559: Alaskan aerial photograph holiday cards; undated. 26 photographic cards featuring aerial photographs of Alaskan villages and holiday greetings. EPH-0560-APU: South-Central Alaska Regional Science Fair program; 1972. EPH-0561-APU: Poetry Society of Alaska Stella Borealis newsletter; 1964 March. HMC-0780-APU: Mildred O. Mantle papers; 1949-1956. 0.01 cubic feet and…
We’re pausing our regularly scheduled Letters Live season to bring you an episode explaining oral histories, introducing our new Student Oral History Project, and providing an example of an oral history interview. Our summer intern, Rachel, hosts and is interviewed by Becky. The UAA/APU Archives and Special Collections collects, preserves,…
