Does the work ever end?
Today was a day we all spent on long-lived, and in some cases long-overdue, projects. Mariecris spent the day working on the Commonwealth North records. Commonwealth North deposited some 80 cubic feet worth of records with us about a year and a half ago. MC recently finished a draft of…
Out walking the blog
June is deadline month around A&SC. External deadlines, so no chance of begging off or asking for extensions. In terms of personnel, faculty have leave days that expire at the end of June. In terms of grants, grant reports are due. And it seems like everybody around a university likes…
Hidden collections
We’ve been hearing this term a lot lately. Some granting agencies are offering grants to help uncover “hidden collections.” And hidden is usually defined as a lack of descriptive material on the collection. Hang around archival conferences a lot, and the term you’ll probably hear is not “hidden collections” but…
Who can I talk to?
As we are rapidly coming up on the end of May, it’s time to set up the A&SC reference desk schedule for the next few months. So MC, Nicole, & Arlene sat down this morning to figure out who is in when. And it’s pretty sketchy. MC will be out…
What happens to all that stuff anyhow?
One of our occasional joys is when we get to see the finished product of researcher work. Sometimes that’s a student paper, sometimes a National History Day presentation, sometimes a documentary, sometimes a webpage, sometimes a book. Or any other of the various uses to which people put archival materials.…
Documenting the underdocumented
Policy du jour (or, the breakfast special)
Today was the monthly departmental employee meeting for A&SC for all full-time permanent employees in the department. Now, that sounds deadly, we know, but keep in mind that at the moment there’s only two of us full-time permanent types here and we usually just go out to breakfast, Arlene buying. …
In search of a thesis
One of our visitors in A&SC today was in search of UAA theses. Generally, the Consortium Library ends up with two copies of each masters thesis produced here at UAA and APU. Both copies are listed in the library catalog and one copy, available for checkout, goes into the general…