Getting the grants: Atwood Foundation and CLIR RAR
New in the Archives, August 2019
Archiving AK episode 18: Emily Moore
In this episode, Gwen interviews Emily Moore, an Art History professor at Colorado State University. Emily did research in the Archives for her recent book, Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks. After this episode, Archiving AK will transition to releasing episodes more sporadically, rather than monthly,…
Upcoming changes
Veronica Denison, who has been one of our professional archivists here for six years, will be leaving us at the end of August and moving on to another professional opportunity. Congratulations to Veronica on the great new job but we will miss you very much. Due to budget cuts, we…
New in the Archives, July 2019
July was a busy month for us, with a bunch of new special collections, university records, and ephemera being processed and described. We added our first batch of digitized audio and video from Veronica’s Atwood Foundation grant to Alaska’s Digital Archives. If you would like to learn more about our…
Archiving AK episode 17b: Veronica and grants
In this episode of Archiving AK, Arlene and Veronica discuss Veronica’s recent grant projects. Her projects involve digitizing obsolete audiovisual media in our holdings. Here’s links to some of what is mentioned in the podcast: Atwood Foundation CLIR Recordings at Risk program And Veronica mentioned a lot of collections! Descriptions…
Archiving AK episode 17a: Gwen and grants
In this episode of Archiving AK, Arlene and Gwen have a conversation about a recent grant project Gwen has managed for the Archives. This grant project was about creating a series of guides to popular Alaskan research topics and where primary sources about those topics can be found. Here’s links…
Introducing multi-institution topic guides on SLED
It can be difficult and time consuming to figure out what different archives in Alaska have on a particular subject. Alaskan archives all have different tools for finding their collections, ranging from searchable catalogs to lists on their websites, and having to navigate these different search mechanisms can be a…