July and August have been pretty busy for us. We’ve managed to fit in some personal vacations amidst a lot of visiting and local researchers, some new collections coming in, and the work of describing collections. …
If you don’t follow us on Facebook, you might not know about our annual staff portrait tradition. In past we’ve taken inspiration from pop culture (Star Trek, Scooby Doo, Holy Grail, Wizard of Oz) but for the past several years …
One of UAA’s priorities is to track various ways in which all of us engage with our communities surrounding us. While we do a LOT of that in the Archives, from describing collections to make them available for …
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 …
HMC-1406-AHS: Catherine Jenne slides; 1961-1963, 1966-1969. 0.06 cubic feet. Slides depicting sites across Alaska, Seattle, and Yellowstone National Park.
HMC-1450: Earth Resources Co. Livengood mining records: circa 1971. 0.2 cubic feet. Annotated maps and claim information for the …
Join us on Thursday, April 25, from 1-3 pm in LIB 307 to get your carb and sugar buzz on!
This year’s Eating From the Archives event will feature recipes from the Christine Heller papers. Christine was a botanist …
The renovation work continues. New tiling has been laid down in the aisle and sections that will not be covered up by the new shelving. The ductwork has been cleaned or replaced. The walls have been painted. We’re still …
EPH-0470: Anchorage Opera Il barbiere di Siviglia performance recording; 2000 April 13. EPH-0470
EPH-0482: All Saints Episcopal Church (Anchorage, Alaska) “Alaska Fishermen’s Hymn;” 1983.
HMC-0525: Tony Simola photograph album; 1934-1949. The original order of the collection …
We’ve been on hiatus with our archives-themed cooking events for a few years, but it looks like it might just be time to bring it back to life. You might recall the Chilkoot Challenge in which we took the grocery …
Our annual Eating from the Archives event, though great fun!, is a really bad idea right now. So in trying to come up with ways we could do an event like this but support social distancing and allow folks to …
