Thinking about the future

Every once in a while when we get busy or it seems like projects are piling up, it’s nice to know that we will be hiring another archivist soon, hopefully this fall. Since we won’t be opening the position til sometime in August, this gives us a little time to…

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we do talk to each other, you know

If you count up all the archivists in Alaska, well, you’ll need more than just your fingers and toes but maybe not very much more.  And it’s odd because for as many people who assume we’re all on first-name basis with each other, there’s probably as many people who assume…

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Preserving 2.0

Web 2.0 technologies seem ubiquitous in business and personal life these days. For those of you who don’t quite know what web 2.0 is, think of this blog: that’s a 2.0 technology. Social networking, sites that offer online collaboration like wikis and such. A&SC uses 2.0 tech here, in this…

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Waxing poetic

We here at A&SC get a lot of help from the students who work for Access Services in the Consortium Library.  They help us deal with cleanup from disasters, even when they’re not our own, rehouse new accessions, digitize, describe, organize, and all with an amazing level of cheerfulness and…

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Working on sustainability

The Alaska’s Digital Archives has been one of the most popular topics for this blog in its short lifespan so far. And the reason we didn’t have a Friday entry is because Mariecris was very busy with reference and Arlene was in an all-day meeting relating to the Alaska’s Digital…

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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…

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