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…
Yet again, it has been a busy few months in Archives and Special Collections. We have new collections available, added photographs and texts to Alaska’s Digital Archives, and even had a new archivist join our crew. Collections now available (the link directs to the collection guide): Ruth Schmidt papers: The collection…
In the archives we deal with a lot of dates. If you look at the finding aids on our website, you will see the dates the collections were created, the life dates of the creators, and dates for subdivisions within the collections, from series to folder. When we process a…
Celebrate Archives Month with us! The Anchorage Museum Archives, Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA) and Archives & Special Collections are hosting a home movie and slide show evening. We’ll be featuring movies and photos from our collections celebrating getting outside and enjoying so much of what there is to…
Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator! Archives & Special Collections, Consortium Library Eye of the Beholder VII: One Image, Many Perspectives October 13-November 8, 2014 THE EXHIBIT: Every year we pick a single photograph from our holdings. And ask you to interpret or describe it, or use it in some…
Back in 2012, after our umpteenth request for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation records that had been here very very briefly in the 1990s, I wrote a blog entry about where to find documents about the Palmer Colony. We had (and have) several collections related to the early years of…
We have been keeping busy so far this Summer in the Archives. Here’s a brief list of what’s new: Collections now available (the link directs to the collection guide): Charles Cassata photographs: Charles Cassata was a former Alaska resident. The photograph collections includes images of Hope, Seward, Valdez, Wasilla, and…
The following might look a little familiar, but it is new as of July 21, 2014, we promise. The Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage is pleased to announce a recruitment for a three year archival residency. We are looking for an energetic, motivated, and innovative professional to…
First, we want to thank those of you who have been fans of our Facebook page. We’re not quite ready to give that up–we’re having too much fun with it! But it’s time to re-evaluate Facebook as our primary social media broadcast method. Due to some Facebook changes over the…
