All right, I’ll ‘fess up. Our whole Eye of the Beholder exhibit thing? Was Arlene being lazy. In early September 2008, when I asked if we should do something for Archives Month in October, Mariecris suggested an exhibit. The problem …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
Serendipity has been the catch phrase in the archives these recent months. All sorts of serendipitous events have occurred within this past year, one of which is the accession of the Alice E. Brown Papers. Rebecca Lyon …
I tend to be a pretty big believer in serendipity. As this week is starting to bear out.
Back to the beginning. Two years ago (about) Tim Miller, an educator out in Bethel, was in town for a workshop we …
Guest blogger: Megan
We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.
The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …
Without going on at length about archival appraisal and what that means and how we do it, sometimes it just comes down to throwing stuff out. Take this past Saturday, for example.
About once a month we have a Saturday …
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
Today was the second time I participated in the UAA workshop series, “I’m going to College,” in which fifth and sixth graders were invited to UAA to participate in workshops that provide them the opportunity to see …
I’ve been working on preparing digital files of some photograph albums of late, for eventual posting on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site. No, that’s not the deadliest/dirtiest job nomination, I’m getting to that in a minute. But first, let me …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
My father was the only gardener in the family. As for me, I did not inherit my father’s green thumb and as a child I developed the perception that flowers and plants were places bugs lived. Luckily, …
Dear Diary:
As an archivist I see a fair share of personal papers in the archives: personal letters, poems, lists, annotations on articles or reports people are writing/editing, and diaries! I love the concept of diaries! Ever since I was …
