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 …
Over the past 12 years we’ve received grant funding from the Institution of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal agency working to support the efforts of libraries and museums all over the nation. Our grant awards from IMLS …
There’s a software glitch going on with the Alaska’s Digital Archives right now. In your results list, you may have noticed that when you try to move to the next page, nothing happens.
We absolutely share any irritation you might …
“So, what does an archivist do?”
It’s a question I hear a lot from pretty much everyone, from researchers and other faculty members, to people I meet in my everyday life. I generally give them the short answer, which is …
When and where: Saturday, October 15, 11 am – 4 pm. Archives, Consortium Library Room 305. Parking is Free! If you can’t make it on this day, contact us: we’ll see what we can do to accommodate you. uaa.archives@alaska.edu
Are …
Did you know? That email address on all of the Alaska’s Digital Archives pages goes to us! Alaska and Polar Regions Collections up at UAF handled the questions that came in for a long time, but last year we decided …
Do you have photographs of Alaska that you want to have digitized? Are you looking for an opportunity to share those photos with the world? Would you like to further the educational mission of your university by making your photos …
We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We …
Yet again, it has been a busy few months in Archives and Special Collections. We have new collections available, added photographs and texts to Alaska’s Digital Archives, and even had a new archivist join our crew.
Collections now available (the …
Back in 2012, after our umpteenth request for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation records that had been here very very briefly in the 1990s, I wrote a blog entry about where to find documents about the Palmer Colony. We had …
