Archival pet peeves
Did you know it’s Pet Peeve Week? (We didn’t, but we do now). So in that spirit:
Okay, we admit, most of these are pretty low on the annoyance scale. But we were commiserating over a few collections recently and …
Category: Blog
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 …
What we did this year, part 1
We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We …
Finding Alaskan photographers
We haven’t calculated the statistics, but anecdotally, we can tell you that of all the document media types we hold photographs are probably one of the most popular types of documents used by researchers here at ASC.
Following along with …
Alaska Lunch
Our current exhibit in the great room of the Library is all about food in Alaska, with items from the Rare Books collection including cookbooks from the state. After the success (or at least entertainment value) of last year’s Convalescent’s …
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 …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 1
This is the first in a series of three blog posts written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. The blog post will introduce the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.…
Electronic records in Archives part 2
What better place to take a bunch of electronic records courses than in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska in June?
June 8-12, 2015 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage, to be precise.
We’re pleased …
Updates
Yet again, it has been a busy few months in Archives and Special Collections. We have new collections available, added photographs and texts to Alaska’s Digital Archives, and even had a new archivist join our crew.
Collections now available (the …
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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 …
What we did this year, part 1
We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We …
Finding Alaskan photographers
We haven’t calculated the statistics, but anecdotally, we can tell you that of all the document media types we hold photographs are probably one of the most popular types of documents used by researchers here at ASC.
Following along with …
Alaska Lunch
Our current exhibit in the great room of the Library is all about food in Alaska, with items from the Rare Books collection including cookbooks from the state. After the success (or at least entertainment value) of last year’s Convalescent’s …
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 …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 1
This is the first in a series of three blog posts written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. The blog post will introduce the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.…
Electronic records in Archives part 2
What better place to take a bunch of electronic records courses than in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska in June?
June 8-12, 2015 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage, to be precise.
We’re pleased …
Updates
Yet again, it has been a busy few months in Archives and Special Collections. We have new collections available, added photographs and texts to Alaska’s Digital Archives, and even had a new archivist join our crew.
Collections now available (the …