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…
(This is Arlene). It’s not often I indulge my need to complain in quite such a public setting, but I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few days working on additions to the Alaska’s Digital Archives and, well, I’ll say it, ContentDM is driving me nuts. Don’t get…
So I (Arlene) was writing an email this afternoon to set up a meeting and realized that I really dislike the term “Reading Room.” Where to start? First, too passive. People aren’t just reading, they’re researching. So I suggested Research Center to MC, who said that sounded like a whole…
Guest blogger: MC. Archives preserve and make available a variety of resources in a variety of mediums. People tend to associate archives with “old stuff.” Though “old stuff” is inadequate it does refer to the non-current nature of a majority of our records. So we do have ‘old stuff,’ but…
Some days it seems like the most efficient people around here are our student workers. And maybe that’s because we give them tasks with beginnings, middles, and ends, unlike the stuff we reserve for ourselves which seems pretty much permanently on-going. In the last week, we’ve had 2 students polish…
So UAA has an honest-to-goodness, real log cabin parked on the grounds of the Alaska State Fair. Apparently Matanuska-Susitna College has a cabin building course every so often and the cabin is the product of the 1982 class. (Photos coming later.) So we spent the day hanging out at the…
I (Arlene) inherited this from my mother. Periodically, I just need to rearrange furniture. And I’ve been thinking about the reading room for a long time. Long narrow tables, lined up in rows, backs to the window, facing the reference archivist. Was this really the most congenial/inviting format? Did the…
