and on with the old news…
Last year we did a great exhibit called “Eye of the Beholder.” Well, not so much we, as everybody else who decided to do the really heavy lifting for us. Here’s the theory behind the exhibit: take a single photograph, …
Category: Arrangement and description
a quiet week in Lake whateverthisis…
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Reading hieroglyphics
Who knew that hieroglyphics existed as late as the 1970s? I (Mariecris) made this discovery when looking through a collection with a donor. She was describing all the files she would deposit in the archives. One of the files she …
Encouraging an archivist
Today I (Arlene) finished description to a collection we received a couple of months ago. Having this description finished and posted on our website basically makes the collection available to our research audience.
It’s a small collection, but it’s important, …
Checking in from Stuttgart.
Today’s guest artist: Kathy.
To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we …
Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.
Today’s entry is by Arlene.
I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. …
Such sweet sorrow
One of the perils of getting student help is that eventually they find jobs. Elsewhere. And while we’re thrilled that they’re achieving one of the goals of getting a college education: bettering themselves, the problem is that we’ve grown to …
Looking for a good story
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris.
One of my favorite parts of collections are kodachrome slides.
Kodachrome slides are brilliant Technicolor-like 35mm transparencies. Not only are they beautiful they have the reputation of lasting a very, very long time. In the photography …
A typical Stuttgart-Anchorage workday
Guest artist today: Kathy.
Arlene’s mentioned in our blog that one of her staff members now lives in Stuttgart, Germany, well that would be me! It does make it difficult for me to make the “morning coffee” staff meetings, but …
One of the twin pillars of archivy
Today I (Arlene) was working on rehousing a collection as I was working a shift on the reference desk. Rehousing is archives-talk for taking photographic slides out of carousels and other types of trays and placing them in polypropylene slide …
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a quiet week in Lake whateverthisis…
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Reading hieroglyphics
Who knew that hieroglyphics existed as late as the 1970s? I (Mariecris) made this discovery when looking through a collection with a donor. She was describing all the files she would deposit in the archives. One of the files she …
Encouraging an archivist
Today I (Arlene) finished description to a collection we received a couple of months ago. Having this description finished and posted on our website basically makes the collection available to our research audience.
It’s a small collection, but it’s important, …
Checking in from Stuttgart.
Today’s guest artist: Kathy.
To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we …
Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.
Today’s entry is by Arlene.
I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. …
Such sweet sorrow
One of the perils of getting student help is that eventually they find jobs. Elsewhere. And while we’re thrilled that they’re achieving one of the goals of getting a college education: bettering themselves, the problem is that we’ve grown to …
Looking for a good story
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris.
One of my favorite parts of collections are kodachrome slides.
Kodachrome slides are brilliant Technicolor-like 35mm transparencies. Not only are they beautiful they have the reputation of lasting a very, very long time. In the photography …
A typical Stuttgart-Anchorage workday
Guest artist today: Kathy.
Arlene’s mentioned in our blog that one of her staff members now lives in Stuttgart, Germany, well that would be me! It does make it difficult for me to make the “morning coffee” staff meetings, but …
One of the twin pillars of archivy
Today I (Arlene) was working on rehousing a collection as I was working a shift on the reference desk. Rehousing is archives-talk for taking photographic slides out of carousels and other types of trays and placing them in polypropylene slide …