In this episode of our podcast, Arlene emcees a selection of poetry writings from archival collections in Alaska.
First of all, thank you so much! to the people who volunteered to read poetry for us or who selected materials from …
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:
S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivists Gwen Higgins, Veronica Denison, and Arlene Schmuland share some documents from our holdings written by Alaskan women.
The links below are to the guides to each of the collections featured in this podcast.…
In this episode of Archiving AK, archivist Veronica Denison speaks with Dr. Ian Hartman, history professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ian discusses his research regarding African American civil rights in Anchorage, his experience with archival material, and the …
In this bonus episode, Gwen sits down for a chat with Rosemary Austin, an archivist at the Alaska Aviation Museum.
Thank you all for listening. Our next regularly scheduled episode is an interview with UAA professor Ian Hartman.…
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 …
In this episode of Archiving AK, Gwen, Veronica, and Arlene tell their tales of the November 30th 2018 quake here in southcentral Alaska and then get together for a discussion of lessons learned and things observed. It’s a little longer …
We’re back open to our normal hours on Wednesday, December 5. (With a few exceptions upcoming. See our main website page for details on those.)
But we’re not quite cleaned up from the earthquake quite yet. Here’s our current status:…
This may sound like a weird topic in the midst of dealing with clean-up after an earthquake, but bear with me here.
There’s a few reasons. We’re nearly at capacity for physical collections, our vault is about 85-90% full. …
