Guest blogger: Mariecris Today was the second time I participated in the UAA workshop series, “I’m going to College,” in which fifth and sixth graders were invited to UAA to participate in workshops that provide them the opportunity to see all the cool stuff they can learn and use at…
I’ve been working on preparing digital files of some photograph albums of late, for eventual posting on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site. No, that’s not the deadliest/dirtiest job nomination, I’m getting to that in a minute. But first, let me tell you a little bit about these albums. About a…
Guest blogger: Mariecris My father was the only gardener in the family. As for me, I did not inherit my father’s green thumb and as a child I developed the perception that flowers and plants were places bugs lived. Luckily, as I grew up I began to appreciate flowers. Sadly…
Dear Diary: As an archivist I see a fair share of personal papers in the archives: personal letters, poems, lists, annotations on articles or reports people are writing/editing, and diaries! I love the concept of diaries! Ever since I was a kid I used to love the idea of writing…
Guest blogger: Megan For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of time in past jobs on a conversion and usability projects,…
T.S. Eliot might have called it the cruellest, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped a lot of people from using April to celebrate a lot of things. Jazz. Gardens. And poetry, mathematics, and food, too. To celebrate April, the exhibit cases in the Great Room of the Consortium Library…
180 turns on long-standing policy is not something that happens around here much, but over the past few months we’ve been thinking and discussing. You know all those images we put up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site? We spend a great deal of time scanning them at a fairly…
Today, March 26, is the anniversary of the day the White Alice communications network was put into service. In a random bit of serendipity,this morning I finished the finding aid (collection guide) to the Leland Olson papers. Lee Olson was a surveyor and personnel manager for Western Electric, one of…
Guest blogger: Mariecris “I feel Kuumba is a funnel through which information, feelings, political climate, racial dilemmas can be acknowledged and resolved. In order to achieve our highest potential we must recognize ourselves, our culture and values. It’s time that we name ourselves, understand ourselves and create for ourselves!” Paula…
Guest blogger: Megan If you’re just tuning in, we’re celebrating Black History Month here at the Archives & Special Collections blog (with a brief detour for some Valentine’s Day affection). Mariecris and I have been highlighting collections from our archives that focus on the history of blacks in Alaska, and…
