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Home Archive by category "Blog" (Page 3)

Category: Blog

The Intern Round-Up: Connor Benson

Alaska's Digital Archives, Blog, Digitization, Finding aids

Hello everyone! My name is Connor Benson and I have been interning here in the archives for the 2024 Spring semester. I am a senior here at UAA and am set to graduate next semester with a bachelor’s degree in …

New in the Archives, March-April 2024

Alaska's Digital Archives, Blog, Digitization, Events, Exhibits

Newly available:

HMC-1406-AHS: Catherine Jenne slides; 1961-1963, 1966-1969. 0.06 cubic feet. Slides depicting sites across Alaska, Seattle, and Yellowstone National Park.

HMC-1450: Earth Resources Co. Livengood mining records: circa 1971. 0.2 cubic feet. Annotated maps and claim information for the …

Eating from the Archives 2024: the Cookies edition

Blog, Events, Outreach

Join us on Thursday, April 25, from 1-3 pm in LIB 307 to get your carb and sugar buzz on!

This year’s Eating From the Archives event will feature recipes from the Christine Heller papers. Christine was a botanist …

Archiving AK Season 3 Episode 1 We are fine: letters from the 1964 earthquake

Blog, Podcast

We’re rebooting our podcast, Archiving AK! With this one, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. In the podcast, Arlene, Becky, and Gwen all read some letters from our holdings from people in Anchorage …

New in the Archives, January-February 2024

Blog, New in the Archives, Uncategorized

Welcome to Interns

We have two History Dept interns this spring. Welcome to Connor! He’s off to a great start with his creation of the new topic guide, Christianity in Alaska. And welcome also to Hannah: who is starting …

New in the Archives: November – December 2023

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Blog, Events, Facilities and equipment, Outreach

Renovations

The renovation work continues. New tiling has been laid down in the aisle and sections that will not be covered up by the new shelving. The ductwork has been cleaned or replaced. The walls have been painted. We’re still …

New in the Archives: September-October 2023

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Blog, Digitization

What happened in September and October?

A LOT!

Nearly all of our collections are moved off-site in preparation for our renovations (if you missed it, here’s a description of the project). This took about 9 days for our terrific …

New in the Archives: July-August 2023

Arrangement and description, Blog, Deaccessions, Exhibits, Facilities and equipment, Preservation/Conservation, Reference

So busy:

We’ve had the amazing support of a lot of the Access Services workers over the summer as they’ve had time in their busy schedules to help us out with move preparations. One more visible aspect of that work …

Good news and temporary inconveniences

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Blog, Conservation, Digitization, Facilities and equipment, Finding aids, Preservation/Conservation, Rare books and theses, Reference

2/28: Timeline has been updated! A few contracts were delayed, permits were problematic, and so we’re starting and continuing a bit later than intended–and will be limited access for longer than hoped. More details on the current status below.

As …

New in the Archives: May-June 2023

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We need to start with two huge announcements. First up, Becky Butler has joined us for a two year term archivist position as an Assistant Professor. We’re very excited to have her here and she’s definitely hitting the ground …

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