Category: Arrangement and description
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 …
Describing Collections: The Johnny Ellis papers
Describing Collections: Introduction
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 …
So, what is a finding aid?
Keeping up on professional reading: the Use Statistics edition!
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 …
Archives 101
What we did this year, part 2
Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.]
One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 3
This blog post is a continuation of Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2, which describes what the students in UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course found in the Charles V. Lucier papers. Part 1 describes the work completed in the …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2
This blog post is the second in a series of three written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.
Below is …
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 …
Describing Collections: The Johnny Ellis papers
Describing Collections: Introduction

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 …
So, what is a finding aid?
Keeping up on professional reading: the Use Statistics edition!
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 …
Archives 101
What we did this year, part 2

Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.]
One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 3

This blog post is a continuation of Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2, which describes what the students in UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course found in the Charles V. Lucier papers. Part 1 describes the work completed in the …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2

This blog post is the second in a series of three written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.
Below is …