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Category: Alaska’s Digital Archives

New in the Archives, November-December 2020

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Photographs, University records

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 …

Visiting Alaska in 1940: films from a salesman

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Preservation/Conservation

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 …

New in the Archives, September-October 2020

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

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 …

New in the Archives, April 2020

Alaska's Digital Archives, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

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 …

New in the Archives, December 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Events

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 …

New in the Archives, November 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Disaster recovery, Finding aids, Outreach, Rare books and theses

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 …

New in the Archives, September 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Digitization, Finding aids, Reference

September was our first month with reduced hours. If you’re wondering why we have reduced access hours, it’s because one of our archivists left in late August and several years of University budget cuts have meant a hiring freeze for …

New in the Archives, August 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Conservation, Digitization, Exhibits, Facilities and equipment, Finding aids, Grants, Outreach, Preservation/Conservation, Reference

Notable news:

Veronica has moved on to a great new job in the Lower 48: Farewell, Veronica, safe travels, and we wish you all the best!

Change of hours: Due to several years of budget cuts at the Consortium …

New in the Archives, July 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Grants

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 …

New in the Archives, June 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Events, Finding aids, Outreach, Photographs, University records

For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!

New up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives

20 images from the Christine McClain papers

205 images from the Bill Bacon …

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