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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
