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 …
For years we (the archivists) had grappled with what to do with our electronic records. But in 2018 a couple of things happened that made us realize we really needed to make headway. Up until then, our digitized content was …
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 …
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 …
For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!
20 images from the Christine McClain papers
205 images from the Bill Bacon …
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:
S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …
December was a fairly eventful month for us. November went out with a bang (a real one, a 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter very near Anchorage) and so our regular workload for early December was rewritten by needing to deal …
September is always a season of change in the Archives with the start of the semester! It feels like this has been an intensive outreach month for us with several events that happened and even more that we’re preparing for. …
When I took over as head of Archives and Special Collections in June of 2007, I had a lot of goals for the department. Most of those were user-focused and revolved around simplified access to collections. One of the things …
A guest post from our summer intern: Anna Leinweber. Thanks Anna!
As the summer intern visiting Alaska for the first time, I expected to learn many things about the state and its history while here. My expectations were that I …
