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…
We used to get a lot of requests from users who had seen a photo in a book and wanted to reuse it for another purpose and the citation said UAA, so of course they contacted us here at UAA (University of Alaska Anchorage). But A&SC didn’t exist as an…
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…
Today Mariecris Gatlabayan had the great opportunity to work with two groups of fifth and six graders here to attend the UAA-sponsored “I’m going to college” days. They came over to explore what an archives is, what types of things we have,and what kinds of things can be done with…
