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…
It’s Monday, and that means a brand new episode. For our fourth episode of our Archives Month 2021 season, we have an interview with linguistics professor and chair of UAA’s English Department, Dr. David Bowie about his use of Archives and Special Collections in his classes.
Happy Archives Month and welcome to a new season of Archiving AK! For the third episode of Season 2, Arlene talks with Karen Gray and Leah Geibel of the Alaska State Archives. Karen and Leah talk about what the State Archives does, the types of materials they hold, and some…
We archivists at the Consortium Library know well how hard it can be to find archival resources on whatever your research topic may be. That’s partly due to the nature of archival collections: they’re unique and they can be voluminous (end to end, our filled collections shelving goes on for…
Happy Archives Month and welcome to a new season of Archiving AK! For the second episode of Season 2,Arlene interviews Erin Wahl, a librarian at New Mexico State University, creative writer and former archivist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Erin recently co-wrote an article with Pamela Pierce on how…
