April 6th-12th is Public Health Week, and we are excited to share some new newly available archival resources related to public health in Alaska and the circumpolar north. In 2019, thanks to the hard work of Veronica Denison, we received a grant through the Council on Library and Information Resources…
Well, March isn’t going to look like our most productive month ever. Both Gwen and Arlene spent a lot of March preparing tasks to be able to do at home. Since we can’t take home collections to work on them, we’ve both been doing a lot of scanning and it…
Our annual Eating from the Archives event, though great fun!, is a really bad idea right now. So in trying to come up with ways we could do an event like this but support social distancing and allow folks to participate from home, we’ve come up with a twist on…
February was a busy month for the Archives. In addition to describing several new collections and adding photos from a couple other collections to Alaska’s Digital Archives, we set up a new exhibit of Fur Rondy photographs and started a crowdsourcing project to transcribe some of our audio recordings. The…
We know there’s a lot of Ruben Gaines fans out there. We hear from them occasionally. Did you know that we have a bunch of his broadcast recordings? Are you wondering who Ruben Gaines was? He came to Alaska in 1946 and originally worked as a radio broadcaster in Fairbanks,…
Happy Friday and happy last day of January. This month we added several new collections and additions to existing collections, as well as putting photos from three of our collections online. Gwen engaged in community outreach on behalf of the Archives with a presentation to the Pioneers of Alaska. Newly…
Some of you may recall the earthquake we had in November 2018. Thankfully the archives didn’t suffer too much damage. Boxes off of shelves, but thankfully the boxes did their great protective job of the contents and the archival materials were fine, even if about 200 boxes had to be…
December events: Dr. Jennifer Stone of the UAA English department held her A476: History of English Language student posters presentations in the Archives. The students shared posters and presented on their research topics, many of which were based on documents from the Archives holdings. Above: Students from Professor Stone’s class…
Research round-up: Our researchers in November included UAA students, Anchorage community members, Alaskans, a variety of people from across the United States, and a professor visiting from Norway. Topics of research included the performing arts in Anchorage, maritime history, Arctic environmental science and politics, and images requested for use in…
This month we described two new collections and added 86 new items to Alaska’s Digital Archives, in addition to participating in UAA’a STEM Day. Behind the scenes, we’ve been implementing new digital preservation policies and procedures. Newly described collections: HMC-1342: Anne D. Pasch papers; 1952-2014. Primarily slides of an Alaskan…
