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…
Our current exhibit in the great room of the Library is all about food in Alaska, with items from the Rare Books collection including cookbooks from the state. After the success (or at least entertainment value) of last year’s Convalescent’s Banquet, we in Archives and Special Collections felt that there was…
We frequently get asked: “what’s your favorite [collection/photo/document/etc]?” That’s a hard question to answer! And it’s usually dependent on what we’ve had our hands on recently. By turns funny, sad, poignant, thoughtful, it can vary. This week, though, we’ve been on something of a humor kick. And in that spirit,…
This blog post is a continuation of Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2, which describes what the students in UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course found in the Charles V. Lucier papers. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester. The blog posts were written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. …
This blog post is the second in a series of three written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester. Below is a breakdown of assigned task areas each student mention in this blog post worked…
This is the first in a series of three blog posts written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. The blog post will introduce the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester. As a part of UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives, an upper division course taught through…
What better place to take a bunch of electronic records courses than in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska in June? June 8-12, 2015 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage, to be precise. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just signed the contract with the…
