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 …
Note: This blog post contains many references to parts of a finding aid. It may help to reference another blog post, So, what is a finding aid? if you have any questions.
How many archivists do you know? If you’re …
Finding aids. If you have never used an archive, you may have never heard this term used in this, or any, context before. Many first-time users of archives are often confused by the term “finding aid,” and then once they …
Our crew’s professional reading today was the proposed user metrics document created by a SAA and ACRL/RBMS* joint task force.
Sound boring? It’s not at all! And it’s incredibly important work because in the end, pretty much everything archives do …
