Thanks, first, to Access Services! We’ve been very grateful to have time loaned to us by the Library’s Access Services department. Many days over the past several months, we have had a few hours of their staff time and they’ve been working away at a very complex, disorganized, and not…
We’ve been on hiatus with our archives-themed cooking events for a few years, but it looks like it might just be time to bring it back to life. You might recall the Chilkoot Challenge in which we took the grocery list for Klondike stampeders and challenged folks to make food…
Grants & Alaska’s Digital Archives: Donald Mitchell oral histories recordings and transcriptions digitized and placed online in the Alaska’s Digital Archives: Joe and Carolyn Begich, Frank Bracken, Maurice Carmody, Roy Peratrovich, Hugh Gallagher, 2 interviews with Emil Notti, and 2 interviews with Victor Fischer. This ongoing project has been funded…
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 Do all pieces of historical documents stay in the archives indefinitely?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…
