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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
It’s that time of the year again: time for us to announce this year’s photograph for our annual Eye of the Beholder exhibit.
This is the first of what I hope are regular monthly or bimonthly updates as to what has happened recently in the Archives. So what are we doing with our summer?
We’re keeping busy!
Collections now available (the link points …
The Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage is recruiting for the position of the Hickel Papers Archivist for Archives and Special Collections. This gift-funded position is expected to last two years, November 2013-October 2015 with the possibility of …
This is a post nearly 10 years in the making. It’s a saga about the best laid plans, unexpected quandaries, human error, strapping tape solutions, the benefits and drawbacks of computer programming, and what we hope is a HEA (happily-ever-after, …
