Mining the collections
Guest blogger: Megan
We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.
The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …
Category: Finding aids
Little by Libble.
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
The Spoils of Conversion: Charlotte E. Mauk’s Color Slides
Guest blogger: Megan
For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of …
An archivist’s external memory
Being an archivist means always having something new to learn. This is Arlene. I’ve been with A&SC for just over 7 years now. So I’ve got a fairly good grasp on what collections we have–maybe not item or folder level–but …
Is there an echo in here?
Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the …
I’ve been working on the Pipeline.
Recently an Anchorage resident stopped by the Consortium Library and dropped off a manila envelope addressed to the Archives. The Access Services clerk who received the envelope dutifully brought it up to us (thanks Behnaaz!). We popped it open and …
Getting things done
Some days it seems like the most efficient people around here are our student workers. And maybe that’s because we give them tasks with beginnings, middles, and ends, unlike the stuff we reserve for ourselves which seems pretty much permanently …
Organize, organize, organize
Some days you just have to dump all those waiting reports and documents to write and such and just spend a day moving stuff about. Today was that day.
And it all started with the picturingUAA project. We’ve been putting …
a quiet week in Lake whateverthisis…
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.
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. …
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Little by Libble.
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
The Spoils of Conversion: Charlotte E. Mauk’s Color Slides
Guest blogger: Megan
For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of …
An archivist’s external memory
Being an archivist means always having something new to learn. This is Arlene. I’ve been with A&SC for just over 7 years now. So I’ve got a fairly good grasp on what collections we have–maybe not item or folder level–but …
Is there an echo in here?
Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the …
I’ve been working on the Pipeline.
Recently an Anchorage resident stopped by the Consortium Library and dropped off a manila envelope addressed to the Archives. The Access Services clerk who received the envelope dutifully brought it up to us (thanks Behnaaz!). We popped it open and …
Getting things done
Some days it seems like the most efficient people around here are our student workers. And maybe that’s because we give them tasks with beginnings, middles, and ends, unlike the stuff we reserve for ourselves which seems pretty much permanently …
Organize, organize, organize
Some days you just have to dump all those waiting reports and documents to write and such and just spend a day moving stuff about. Today was that day.
And it all started with the picturingUAA project. We’ve been putting …
a quiet week in Lake whateverthisis…
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.
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. …