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 …
It’s so hard to stay inside in June in Alaska! But we managed to get a lot done anyhow. Here’s the June 2018 wrap-up:
Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …
March has been a busy month for us! Must be all that extra light we’re getting right now that’s letting us get all this work done!
Ruth Hart papers; 1964-2003. HMC-1279. The collection contains the papers of Ruth …
When collections arrive there is a certain level of excitement. We love to get our hands in them, begin describing, and always look forward to what we will find. We also tend to learn something new with each collection, and …
