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…
Here are a few more pieces from our guest curators for Eye of the Beholder II. Behnaaz Irani, a UAA graduate student and a library worker at the time, was inspired to write a poem. Ode to a Sourdough By Behnaaz. I There was a foregone time, Perhaps in…
It’s coming up on the end of the fiscal year, traditionally a time when I try to finish off projects or clean up my office. In that spirit, I’ve been meaning to go online with some of our Eye of the Beholder exhibits. For those of you who watch this…
Like most archives, we have a few collections with materials in them that are starting to age, and age badly. One example of that is the Frederick John Date papers: most of what is in the collection is in great shape, but the photograph albums, not so much. Some of…
History is not just about the big names, it is also about the small names. In 2005 Archives and Special Collections bought a letter at internet auction to add to our collections. It documents the experience of a male in the military during World War II. It, however, does…
