The coolest job in the world.
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…
The gift of citations
A day in the life of…
Or a day in the work life of, anyhow. Here’s a sample of the things the archivists in A&SC worked on today: Nicole: Nicole continued proofing the transcript of the Glenn diary in preparation for bringing it online. Mariecris: Mariecris had reference desk duty from 10-4 today so she handled…
“I’m going to college” comes to A&SC
The Glenn of the Glenn highway
Finding aids, production of.
Archives in Alaska: side benefits
May Day: celebrate by protecting collections
Today is May Day. In the archives world of late, it’s a day we try to celebrate by doing something to mitigate the effects of a disaster on our collections. For more information, see the Society of American Archivist’s May Day page. Since we had a lot to do today,…
Publishing materials from A&SC
Today one of our email researchers requested permission to publish five images she’d found on the Alaska’s Digital Archives website. She also requested high resolution copies of the images since the ones posted on the Digital Archives are only 72 ppi, which is usually too low for publication purposes. This…