This month was quite busy between receiving and describing new collections, preparing grant items for shipping to our vendor, editing and uploading two podcasts, and continuing to work on our electronic records. Collections described: William D. Workman papers; 1965-2005. HMC-1302. 6.5 cubic foot addition. William Workman is an archeologist who…
In this episode of Archiving AK, Gwen interviews Becky Butler, an archivist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives. The collections that she mentions in the interview, including the Ernest Gruening papers and the The Fabian Carey Collection of Fairbanks Red Light District…
In this bonus episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison interviews researcher Dylan Harris, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His research topic surrounds climate change and the way we talk about it. In this episode, we discuss his research, experiences in different archives…
Happy May, everyone! Last month, we described 10 collections, or additions to existing collections. This included adding 217 GB of videos and photographs to the Rage City Rollergirls records, which had not been possible without our new digital storage system. To celebrate National Poetry Month, our podcast featured poems from…
In this episode of our podcast, Arlene emcees a selection of poetry writings from archival collections in Alaska. First of all, thank you so much! to the people who volunteered to read poetry for us or who selected materials from their archives to be included in the podcast. Those wonderful…
What have we been up to in the Archives in March? You might well ask, because the answer is: quite a lot! Here’s some highlights: New collections described S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and canneries which the S.S. Shamrock stopped between 1924 November and 1925 July…
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivists Gwen Higgins, Veronica Denison, and Arlene Schmuland share some documents from our holdings written by Alaskan women. The links below are to the guides to each of the collections featured in this podcast. Thelma Caulkins papers; 1936-1975 Alaska Nurses’ Association collection; 1887-1995 Barb…
Most of our time this month went to working on multi-institutional topic guides and preparing for our session at the Alaska Library Association Conference in Juneau the first weekend of March, but we also released two podcasts, described some new collections, added photographs to Alaska’s Digital Archives, including our 20,000th…
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison speaks with Dr. Ian Hartman, history professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ian discusses his research regarding African American civil rights in Anchorage, his experience with archival material, and the importance of libraries and archives. For our March episode,…
In this bonus episode, Gwen sits down for a chat with Rosemary Austin, an archivist at the Alaska Aviation Museum. Thank you all for listening. Our next regularly scheduled episode is an interview with UAA professor Ian Hartman.
