From an unsolicited Facebook posting by a library colleague last night:
For those of you who missed the previous blog posting, we here at A&SC decided to celebrate Archives …
Dear readers of our blog,
We are inviting you – and anyone you know – to stop by our Open House at the Archives on Wednesday, October 6th from 4-6pm. October is Archives Month, and we’re celebrating by …
Guest blogger: Megan
I have an abiding fondness for stereoviews. Anyone of my generation who grew up with their eyes pressed to a View-Master camera knows the sheer magic of looking through the viewfinder into a tiny, three-dimensional scene, every …
A lot of people have been asking me lately about collections and what happens to the embarrassing or maybe not-quite-ready-for-the-public-eye bits in them. And the verb that’s been used by a lot of them is sanitizing. The questions usually fall …
An archivist’s work is never done. Or so it just seems some days. But occasionally projects do end and the one I’m referring to today is our Alan May Aleutian expeditions photographs project. Last year the Alaska State Library and …
Guest blogger: Megan
I sometimes think of the tintype as the ugly duckling of nineteenth-century photo processes. Those that have made it intact to the twenty-first century are often battered, bent, or rusted, the image sometimes shot through with a …
I don’t usually like to talk about new collections that have just come in the door. That’s for a very good reason: usually there’s at least a little bit of lag time (depending on the size of the collection or …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
One of the aspects that I really enjoy about working at A&SC are the tours and workshops we provide to students, faculty, and community members. On Friday, June 18th, I had the opportunity to give …
Guest blogger: Megan
“What are these blue thingies?” That’s a question I’ve heard countless times from interns and volunteers processing photo collections. “Are they supposed to look that way?”
Yep, they sure are. Those “blue thingies” are one of my …
Guest blogger: Mariecris.
The processing of the Alice E. Brown papers is close to an end. I will soon reach the destination of a fully processed collection. But to add a little extra excitement to my journey, I’ve talked with …
