In our ongoing series of questions asked by History students at UAA: In the modern social media era, a lot of things are exclusively digital. How do you foresee the preservation of such content in an official archival setting? This is a great question because this is a challenge that…
Another from the set of questions we received from students in a UAA History class. Do all pieces of historical documents stay in the archives indefinitely? Or for when you make an electronic version of a document, what happens to the original paper copy? In most cases they what…
Last week we received some great questions from some History majors here at UAA about what we do. Gwen spent a lot of time answering them (and then Arlene spent time making Gwen’s answers even longer) and we thought they were such terrific questions, that we’d share them here, one…
Use of materials Laurie Arnold and Miki‘ala Ayau Pescaia published “Considering the Revolution: Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawai‘i, and the Indigenous Plateau” in the November 2021 issue of The Public Historian. The article included this image from the Charles Lucier papers. …
Use of materials The Anchorage Daily News used some our Anchorage Organizing Committee records in their ongoing series Curious Alaska: this entry about past attempts to bring the Olympics to Anchorage. Gwen appears in a few of the photographs. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Emergency Operations Department used a 1964…
For our last episode in our Archives Month series of the Archiving AK podcast, we have an interview with Freya Anderson from the Alaska State Library about copyright. Mentioned in this episode: Copyright resources guide Digital Copyright Slider Copyright First Responders
Next up in our Archives Month podcast series is an interview with Nancy Yeaton and Andrea Floersheimer from Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation, which helps to preserve the cultures, languages and histories of the Alaska Native peoples and communities of the Chugach Region. Nancy and Andrea discuss the organization’s newly established archive…
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators from the Ketchikan Museums: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale. In part two of this podcast, we focus in on their oral history program. They talk about how they’ve gone about planning and conducting the project with an…
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale, from the Ketchikan Museums. In part one of this podcast, we talk about their missions and collections, how archival collections fit into their work, their outreach efforts, what it’s like to work…
A new episode: this one is the 5th in our October 2021 Archives Month reboot of our podcast. In this episode, Arlene talks with Desiree Ramirez, Alissa Gardner, and Chris Warner. Desiree is the museum specialist at Wrangell – St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alissa and Chris are with…
