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Home Archive by category "Blog" (Page 31)

Category: Blog

Picturing UAA

University records Alden Rollins, Cathie Innes-Taylor, John Dede, Nancy Lesh, Renee Carter-Chapman 0

[Note from September 2018: Due to a cost increase for PicturingUAA, all images that were once available on PicturingUAA have been moved to Alaska’s Digital Archives. We also have many more images within our physical holdings. Please contact us…

An organized desk is the sign of an organized mind. Or is it?

Disaster recovery, Whimsy Arlene Schmuland, Brad Generous, Greg Schmitz, Kevin Tripp, Mariecris Gatlabayan, Nicole Jackelen 1

Usually my  (Arlene’s) office is a pretty accurate barometer of my work life.  The more things going on, the more disastrous–and I mean that word very literally–my office looks. But today was cleaning day.  Not because I had anything less …

Checking in from Stuttgart.

Arrangement and description Kathleen Bouska, Marty Damron, Michael Stallings, Steve Rollins, Tatiana Vayner, Winnie Treitline 0

Today’s guest artist: Kathy.

To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we …

Everyone’s a comedian. Or maybe not.

Arrangement and description, Finding aids, Reference, Whimsy Edwin Forbes Glenn collection 0

Today’s entry is by Arlene.

I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end.  Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine.  …

Alaskans for global warming, estab. 1898

Whimsy Edwin Forbes Glenn collection, Nicole Jackelen 0

Today’s guest artist: Nicole.

An early global warming advocate, as recorded by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, Oct 21, 1898:

I told him [Hanmore] of the country traversed by me and particularly of the Madanuska [sic: Matanuska] Valley as an …

Acting out

Uncategorized, Whimsy Add new tag, Alaska Repertory Theatre records, Mariecris Gatlabayan 0

Today’s guest artist: Mariecris.

Growing up as a little girl I loved watching musicals! I hoped one day to go to New York City and see a real Broadway musical. While I lived in Boston I only made two trips …

According to Webster

Whimsy Edwin Forbes Glenn collection, Nicole Jackelen 1

Today’s guest artist: Nicole.

Merriam-Webster’s defines talebearer as “one that spreads gossip or rumors; also: tattletale,” while the Oxford English dictionary frames it as “one who officiously carries reports of private matters to gratify malice or idle curiosity.” Captain Glenn…

So what does that transcript abbreviation mean anyway?

Reference, University records University catalogs, University transcripts 0

Believe it or not, but those course title abbreviations that show up on your transcript are actually read by a number of different people who are deliberately seeking to make them as understandable as possible!  But sometimes that is almost …

Such sweet sorrow

Arrangement and description Atwood family papers, Kathleen Bouska, Marty Damron 0

One of the perils of getting student help is that eventually they find jobs.  Elsewhere.  And while we’re thrilled that they’re achieving one of the goals of getting a college education: bettering themselves, the problem is that we’ve grown to …

The archival dig (and we don’t mean that in a dirty way)

Reference Alaska Festival of Music records, Mariecris Gatlabayan 0

Today’s guest artist: Mariecris.

Sometimes I like to think that archival research is like an archaeology dig. An archaeologist may find clues in maps, newspaper articles, books, historical documents, previous archaeological digs/discoveries to determine where would be a good place …

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