2021 got off to an interesting start, when the Archives vault suffered a leak that resulted in hundreds of boxes having to be removed from the vault and some materials rehoused into dry boxes. With help from the Access Services, and team, we were able to remove the materials from…
Here’s some of the things we accomplished in the Archives over the past two months. Alaska’s Digital Archives 107 images from the George Madsen photographs. George Madsen owned the Polar Bar in Nome, Alaska. 47 images from the Francis and Grace Cogswell papers. 49 images from the Loren Taft photographs.…
Along with collecting archival materials ourselves, we also serve as the archives for the Alaska Historical Society. When they receive gifts of archival materials, they bring those gifts to us and we care for and provide access to them. Recently a group of materials brought to us included 4 8mm…
We remain working a mixed schedule of working from home and being in the Archives. We’ve had regular on-site appointments with students (UAA, APU, & UAF and beyond!) and community members. And we continue virtual research appointments via videoconferencing, and our regular email and phone research assistance. We’ve also picked…
Processing: 1 cubic foot addition to the Robert C. Kallenberg papers. Subject guides: Arlene created a guide to the Anchorage Community College and University of Alaska Anchorage student newspapers. Most of the collection inventories were rewritten to meet current standards. Now online: The University Reporter, the joint ACC and UAA…
This post covers our activities for the months of May and June. We have largely been working from home over the last few months, and we have had to shift our focus to activities that can be done remotely. This means a lot of new items on Alaska’s Digital Archives,…
One of the challenges to being mostly closed to in-house visitors lately has been how to share hard copy archival documents with researchers who may or may not yet know if they want copies. Actually this has been a long-term issue for us with distance research, but our near-complete research…
With a lot of our April time being dedicated to working from home, we’ve been focusing on keeping up with reference requests and putting digitized materials online. But first up, we won an award! We won the 2020 John Sessions Memorial Award. This award (we’re quoting here from the award…
Hello there, all you cool archivists and researchers! This is Becky Butler here to tell you about my experience working on the digitization project made possible by the Council on Library and Information Resources and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. You can learn more about the project in…
We’re bringing back the podcast for a follow-up on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant that Veronica got to digitize audio, film, and video related to public health. In this episode, Gwen and Becky Butler discuss the work we did on the grant and…
