Mining the collections
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…
Sometimes we throw stuff out
Little by Libble.
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…
I’m going to college, take 2.
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…
The world’s deadliest/dirtiest jobs?
Are gardens important?
Dear Diary,
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…