It’s not been a quiet week here in A&SC! In fact, at one point yesterday I think our research area was probably the noisiest room in the library. Lots of people having some great discussions about collections, research, and archival …
When teaching archival research methods, one of the things we frequently talk about is assessing the value, the authenticity of a document. Nothing high end, necessarily, no need to pull out the electron microscopes, but using internal or external evidence …
Often when promoting A&SC’s resources to faculty or students I’ll say something like “There’s not a topic taught at this university that we can’t provide archival material to support. Well, except maybe math.” Hokey, I know. Occasionally it gets a …
In my office is a framed print of one word: “Exhale.” It’s not that I have it as a regular reminder, but sometimes…
2010 was one of those sometimes for us here at the Archives. A very busy year. And …
A little over a week ago, I was in Kodiak on a consulting job with the Kodiak College library. They’re going to be creating a Kodiak room, and wanted some advice on organization, facilities, so forth. I always learn a …
A few months ago, I received a phone call from one of our long-ago donors, Ellen Hays. Daughter of Andrew Hope, she’d given us a collection comprised of her father’s papers and her own. Most of the papers related to …
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In my last post, I discussed one of my favorite photograph formats, the stereoview. However, unlike most photographs, which are meant to be viewed as-is, the stereoview requires the use of another tool for the viewer to …
[Ed note: I don’t know what’s worse, that I put down the wrong election day in this posting originally–based on the advice of a colleague which I didn’t confirm–or that none of you caught it in the 4 days it …
Yesterday, while working on the blog entry about one of the reasons we don’t buy collections, I wanted to enter a link to the finding aid to the Eric A. Hegg photographs. Since we’re in the process of converting …
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …
