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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

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Hiring, New accessions, Photographs, Reference 0

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 …

Enjoying the great Alaskan outdoors

Events 0

Celebrate Archives Month with us!

The Anchorage Museum Archives, Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA) and Archives & Special Collections are hosting a home movie and slide show evening. We’ll be featuring movies and photos from our collections celebrating getting …

What goes around, comes around

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, New accessions 4

Back in 2012, after our umpteenth request for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation records that had been here very very briefly in the 1990s, I wrote a blog entry about where to find documents about the Palmer Colony. We had …

Summer updates

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Events, Finding aids, New accessions, Outreach, Photographs, Reference 0

We have been keeping busy so far this Summer in the Archives. Here’s a brief list of what’s new:

Collections now available (the link directs to the collection guide):

Charles Cassata photographs: Charles Cassata was a former Alaska resident. The …

Re-evaluating our outreach

Outreach 2

First, we want to thank those of you who have been fans of our Facebook page. We’re not quite ready to give that up–we’re having too much fun with it!