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…
In 1898 and 1899 expeditions came up through Cook Inlet to look for inland routes to the gold fields (as well as for other reasons, of course.) These expeditions were commanded by Edwin Forbes Glenn, a captain in the U.S. Army. Edwin Glenn is the Glenn in Glennallen and in the Glenn…
Finding aids are the description that archivists provide to aid researchers in finding the materials they seek. Most of the finding aids we create here at A&SC are single collection inventories: these can vary from an item level listing (rare because they take a lot of time) to short descriptions…
Sometimes being an archivist isn’t an 8-5 M-F job. This past Saturday Arlene Schmuland (head of A&SC & your author) traveled to Homer and back in order to work with an incoming collection. More on that collection later when all the ownership papers have been signed. To be clear: Homer…
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,…
