MayDay in the Archives
Today is MayDay. While some think of it as the first day of May and a way to celebrate Spring activities, in the archives world it is a day designated to do something significant to protect archival collections in the …
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Weekly round-up! Where in the world is Jack?
It’s time again for the weekly round-up of answers to the Where in the world is Jack? contest we have running on our Facebook page. And if you’re trying to figure out the contest rules, they’re here.
Monday: …
Chez Bland
To celebrate Public Health Week (April 7-13) we in the Archives decided to do a medical exhibit in the great room of the Library entitled “What Medicine Used to be” using rare books. One of the books was quite captivating: …
Weekly roundup! Where in the world is Jack?
A little late on the round-up for last week, sorry about that!
But here we go:
Monday, with no correct answers submitted, San Pedro Sula, in Honduras.
Tuesday, Lisa Denison had it correct with Brugge, Belgium.
Wednesday, Lisa Denison managed …
Reaching a peak!
In 2002 was a milestone for A&SC: the Alaska’s Digital Archives was founded. This collaborative project between the Alaska State Library, the UAF Rasmuson Library, and the Consortium Library (and the archives sections within each), was founded with the assistance …
King Crab casserole?
Some of you might have spotted this image that we put on our Facebook feed on Thursday 2/27/14. (To see a larger, readable version, you can click on the image.)
Now, I don’t like crab so this isn’t a recipe …
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Forty-five years ago today, Wally Hickel, just 6 days into his term as Secretary of the Interior, received the following notice:
Oil Spill Santa Barbara SITREP One: 29 January 1969. Advised that Union Oil Platform “A” experienced high pressure gas
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Alaska is a small town
As much as archivists can try not to become attached to the collections they are working on, it happens. A student asked me (Veronica) the other day what my favorite collection at the Archives is, which one is the most …
Join our crew!
Wow, that’s starting to sound really familiar as a title this year. The good news is, our former employees go on to get really great jobs! Having said that…
The Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage is pleased …
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Those of you who have been following us for some time either here or on Facebook (or both) may have noticed that occasionally we do what archivists are normally very bad at doing: we document ourselves.
This all started back …
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Weekly round-up! Where in the world is Jack?
It’s time again for the weekly round-up of answers to the Where in the world is Jack? contest we have running on our Facebook page. And if you’re trying to figure out the contest rules, they’re here.
Monday: …
Chez Bland
To celebrate Public Health Week (April 7-13) we in the Archives decided to do a medical exhibit in the great room of the Library entitled “What Medicine Used to be” using rare books. One of the books was quite captivating: …
Weekly roundup! Where in the world is Jack?
A little late on the round-up for last week, sorry about that!
But here we go:
Monday, with no correct answers submitted, San Pedro Sula, in Honduras.
Tuesday, Lisa Denison had it correct with Brugge, Belgium.
Wednesday, Lisa Denison managed …
Reaching a peak!
In 2002 was a milestone for A&SC: the Alaska’s Digital Archives was founded. This collaborative project between the Alaska State Library, the UAF Rasmuson Library, and the Consortium Library (and the archives sections within each), was founded with the assistance …
King Crab casserole?
Some of you might have spotted this image that we put on our Facebook feed on Thursday 2/27/14. (To see a larger, readable version, you can click on the image.)
Now, I don’t like crab so this isn’t a recipe …
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Forty-five years ago today, Wally Hickel, just 6 days into his term as Secretary of the Interior, received the following notice:
…Oil Spill Santa Barbara SITREP One: 29 January 1969. Advised that Union Oil Platform “A” experienced high pressure gas
Alaska is a small town
As much as archivists can try not to become attached to the collections they are working on, it happens. A student asked me (Veronica) the other day what my favorite collection at the Archives is, which one is the most …
Join our crew!
Wow, that’s starting to sound really familiar as a title this year. The good news is, our former employees go on to get really great jobs! Having said that…
The Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage is pleased …
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Those of you who have been following us for some time either here or on Facebook (or both) may have noticed that occasionally we do what archivists are normally very bad at doing: we document ourselves.
This all started back …