In celebration of Archives Month in October, you are invited to an Open House and Film Screening hosted by UAA Archives & Special Collections and the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA). WHEN & WHERE: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 Third floor of the UAA/APU Consortium Library (click here to see…
Every so often we’ll find something in a collection that really resonates with us and the work we do. For me (Arlene), this week, that was a letter. The letter was pasted into an album of photographs kept by A. G. Maddren. A. G. Maddren was a geologist with the…
UAA Archives & Special Collections invites you to register for a free all-day workshop on “Preserving & Identifying Photographs”! WHEN: Saturday October 22nd, 10:30am-4pm WHERE: UAA/APU Consortium Library, 3rd floor, Room 307 WHAT: Do you have hundreds of family photographs and negatives stored at home in shoe-boxes in your closet?…
Anchorage was almost the home of the Winter Olympics. Twice. Our fair city was the U.S. Olympic Committee’s choice as a the host site for both the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you ask), both times the International Olympic Committee chose another location: Albertville,…
In 1862, the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Trades sponsored an international exposition in London. Exhibitors brought wares from 36 countries, and a publishing house chose 300 of the items in the exhibit to publish via tinted lithographs. Which they did, in a 3-volume set with…
Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator! Archives & Special Collections Eye of the Beholder 4: One Image, Many Perspectives October 3, 2011-? THE EXHIBIT: Archives & Special Collections is mounting an exhibit to demonstrate how a single item: this image in particular, could be used/interpreted/described in a variety of ways…
Just a few weeks ago, I had the great fortune to travel to Nome, Alaska with members of the Alaska State Historic Records Advisory Board (ASHRAB) to help teach a full-day workshop on caring for archival records. The whole experience was wonderful. From the moment we got off the plane,…
The archives is blessed to have the aid of the Consortium Library’s fine student workers. Just by searching our blog you can see the multiple projects that students have helped make possible. This blog is to talk about one student in particular, Ksenia Polikakhina. Our archives vault is getting full.…
This was the third year that Archives and Special Collections has participated in “I’m Going to College,” a day of classes and workshops for fifth and sixth graders held at UAA to give them a taste of what college is like. Mariecris Gatlabayan had taught our portion of the workshops…
One of the regular questions we get is “what do you collect?” That’s not always an easy question to answer! Sometimes the answer is: it depends. For a while now, though, we’ve been talking about formalizing our collection policy for A&SC. Or at least putting it into some sort of…
