There’s two parts to this question, and the quick response to both is: it depends! It depends on your question and the depth and the breadth and the topic itself. So let’s take a closer look at some data that …
We need to start with two huge announcements. First up, Becky Butler has joined us for a two year term archivist position as an Assistant Professor. We’re very excited to have her here and she’s definitely hitting the ground …
Another from the set of questions we received from students in a UAA History class.
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 …
Were you a part of the Women’s March on Saturday?
Here’s what’s going on. As anybody who reads this probably already knows, we as an archives in an educational institution have an obligation not only to preserve materials, but to …
When we tell people we permanently remove material (mostly news clippings) from collections, you can almost hear them gasp. When I have had to explain why newspapers are not archival according to our collection policy, they seem to understand. …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
