So I (Arlene) am known around the dept as the go-to woman for deciphering handwriting. Which is rather amusing when you consider my own cursive looks like it was done by a particularly uncoordinated third-grader. Which should be no surprise since that’s about the last time I wrote in cursive…
It seems so odd for an archivist to feel as if s/he is unable to communicate. After all, we’re all about records and documents and records and documents are all about information and the transference of information. But since Sunday afternoon, the UAA webservers have more or less been down. …
This is Arlene. That title isn’t a joke. A couple of years ago my mother found my kindergarten grade card and sent it to me. I did okay on the less physical elements of the curriculum, but the things requiring coordination? Not so much. So imagine my surprise (distress, concern,…
Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the exhibit about the filming of the movie Eskimo on our…
The September ’09 copy of Arctic, the journal of the Arctic Institute of North America landed in our mailbox today. This is a little unusual since A&SC doesn’t actually subscribe to any journals, so the next possibility is, hey, maybe somebody published something that cited one of our collections! Which indeed…
Recently an Anchorage resident stopped by the Consortium Library and dropped off a manila envelope addressed to the Archives. The Access Services clerk who received the envelope dutifully brought it up to us (thanks Behnaaz!). We popped it open and inside it was a little white slide box with 20…
So I (Arlene) dressed down today, figuring I was going to spend the afternoon in the vault moving things about. We’ve been slowly moving boxes off the tops of the shelving for two reasons: 1. maybe someday we’ll get compact shelving for the space and if we do, we’re not…
well, fabric tape, to be a little more precise. The 2009 edition of Eye of the Beholder is up in our research area in A&SC and we think it looks pretty good. Most of our exhibit flat panels are in use down in the Library Great Room through the end…
Archives: your ally in the battle against plagiarism. Okay, so this isn’t quite how David Bowie (a new prof in English here at UAA) phrased it, we took a little dramatic license. But it’s basically the idea. Professor Bowie visited us yesterday to ask about possibly having some of his…
The entries for our Eye of the Beholder exhibit are starting to trickle in. Which is good, since earlier this week we had none and were beginning to wonder if we’d have anything to exhibit. The nature of deadlines and academic institutions, probably. It’s hard not to hand things in…
