Guest blogger: Megan We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about. The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a place that has a smaller backlog! This is largely due…
Without going on at length about archival appraisal and what that means and how we do it, sometimes it just comes down to throwing stuff out. Take this past Saturday, for example. About once a month we have a Saturday workday here in A&SC. It gives us the chance to…
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides to present research information to users. We here in A&SC…
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…
