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…
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…
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…
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.…
Every once in a while, somebody in A&SC gets a wild hair to document us. We spend a lot of our time working with documentation of other people and groups and such and encouraging people to document, but we’re not always good at doing the same for ourselves. If you…
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. …
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…
It’s been kind of a busy week for us here in A&SC, so it’s time for a Friday break. We’re going to share with you a favorite photo from our collections. This one was taken somewhere along Cook Inlet (we presume) during 1898. We don’t know who this woman and…
Normally these blog entries aren’t going to be related. But if you haven’t yet read yesterday’s entry, you might want to do so. Even if only to explain the title of this posting. Thursday, 9:45 am: 6 tons of records arrive, a new collection Thursday, 10:00 am: 45 2nd graders…
So it’s probably not a good sign when Mariecris keeps making up excuses to check on or get a voice response from me (Arlene) to make sure I haven’t passed out on my keyboard. She’s also been following me around a lot, I think she’s concerned I might get lost…
