One of my standard instructional statements when helping students learn about how to find primary source materials is: Who would have had a reason to document what it is you’re trying to study? Find the who, find the record. Find the who and the why, and you can learn a…
Every so often we get a phone call, email, visit, from somebody looking for information about a specific ship that might have sailed in Alaska waters. While we may or may not have archival materials related to that ship, my first suggestion to the researcher is usually not part of…
October is Archives Month, and we’ll be celebrating by offering four FREE workshops! Descriptions are below. All workshops are open to UAA students, faculty and staff, as well as any interested members of the general public and will be held at the UAA/APU Consortium Library. Space is limited, so register…
**Please note: this blog entry–though correct in details, is wrong in one very important respect. In August 2014, the National Archives gave the ARRC records to us. So while the history in this entry is true, we have an update. Now back to the original programming.** Every so often we…
Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator! Archives & Special Collections, Consortium Library Eye of the Beholder 5: One Image, Many Perspectives October 1-31, 2012 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 way…
The decision to close off access to a document is not one we make easily around here. Anybody who has spent any time with me is fairly aware that I believe that the vast majority of decisions in an archives like ours should be access-driven. But we’ve had this problem…
Last, but not least… I saved this one for posting last mostly because it’s a little more complicated to post than the others. Well, almost impossible in fact. This entry was brought in by Anne Freitag, a long-time Archives supporter and local librarian. In library lingo, what she created was…
We have a few more entries to show you. The first one below is by Deborah Tharp, an associate professor of photography at UAA. Sorry about the not-great photo. One of these days, maybe you can come visit the very large original! If you click on it, you’ll bring up…
And we continue on, looking at the entries to Eye of the Beholder II from 2009. From Kristi Powell, Student Worker Supervisor and Reserves Manager here in the Consortium Library. And also a Mom. Usually I end up writing some sort of exhibit summary, but this…
And here are more! From Amy Green, an assistant professor in Culinary Arts & Hospitality at UAA. Cooking is challenging in even the best conditions but consider cooking food on gases and heat emitted from a volcano. This image depicts just that. In 1919, explorers in the Katmai National Park…
