Becky the Archives’ intern here, ready to ask all the “dumb” questions so you don’t have to! I’ve been working in the UAA Archives this past semester, and I’ve stumbled across a few common areas of confusion that I’ve decided to address for those of us just dipping our toes in…
Do you have photographs of Alaska that you want to have digitized? Are you looking for an opportunity to share those photos with the world? Would you like to further the educational mission of your university by making your photos available for research? Well, we have a solution. We are excited to introduce…
Have you been enjoying following all the “color our collections” posts from archives this week on Twitter? #ColorOurCollections is the hashtag to search and lots of great coloring opportunities have been going by. We thought it would be fun to participate, too. Here’s a few sketches of Alaskan buildings from…
Tips if you’re planning to do some research in our collections or in the Rare Books collection. This turned out longer than I intended, so here’s a list of topics at a glance. If your question isn’t listed here, please contact us! I’m not a university student or faculty member.…
The almost everything else post! We’ve shared our 2014-15 performance statistics in three previous posts: 1) Alaska’s Digital Archives, 2) Processing and description, and 3) Access. And here’s some of the many other things we do on a daily basis. Again, these are the stats for August 2014-August 2015, since…
Long overdue, sorry. I took a long overdue vacation. The third in our blog posts on our annual report for the academic year ending in August 2015 [ed note: fixed from 2014]. This one is probably the nearest and dearest to my heart: a look back at our reference numbers.…
Did you know it’s Pet Peeve Week? (We didn’t, but we do now). So in that spirit: Okay, we admit, most of these are pretty low on the annoyance scale. But we were commiserating over a few collections recently and slowly the conversation got funnier and funnier as we tried…
Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.] One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is getting a handle on incoming collections, or sometimes even backlog collections…
We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We report these out on the academic year cycle, so this…
We haven’t calculated the statistics, but anecdotally, we can tell you that of all the document media types we hold photographs are probably one of the most popular types of documents used by researchers here at ASC. Following along with that, sometimes we get questions about various photographers and photography…
