New in the Archives, August 2019
Notable news:
Veronica has moved on to a great new job in the Lower 48: Farewell, Veronica, safe travels, and we wish you all the best!
Change of hours: Due to several years of budget cuts at the Consortium …
Category: Arrangement and description
New in the Archives, July 2019
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 …
New in the Archives, June 2019
For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!
New up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives
20 images from the Christine McClain papers
205 images from the Bill Bacon …
New in the Archives: March 2019
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:
New collections described
S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …
New in the Archives: December 2018
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 …
New in the Archives: September 2018
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. …
Finishing a decade-long project
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 …
Not Found in the Other 49: The Ron and Penny Zobel Papers
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 …
New in the Archives: June 2018
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:
New personnel:
Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …
New in the Archives: March 2018
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!
Collections described:
Ruth Hart papers; 1964-2003. HMC-1279. The collection contains the papers of Ruth …
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New in the Archives, July 2019
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 …
New in the Archives, June 2019
For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!
New up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives
20 images from the Christine McClain papers
205 images from the Bill Bacon …
New in the Archives: March 2019
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:
New collections described
S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …
New in the Archives: December 2018
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 …
New in the Archives: September 2018
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. …
Finishing a decade-long project
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 …
Not Found in the Other 49: The Ron and Penny Zobel Papers
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 …
New in the Archives: June 2018
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:
New personnel:
Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …
New in the Archives: March 2018
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!
Collections described:
Ruth Hart papers; 1964-2003. HMC-1279. The collection contains the papers of Ruth …