Who can I talk to?
As we are rapidly coming up on the end of May, it’s time to set up the A&SC reference desk schedule for the next few months. So MC, Nicole, & Arlene sat down this morning to figure out who is …
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What happens to all that stuff anyhow?
One of our occasional joys is when we get to see the finished product of researcher work. Sometimes that’s a student paper, sometimes a National History Day presentation, sometimes a documentary, sometimes a webpage, sometimes a book. Or any other …
Documenting the underdocumented
Every once in a while, somebody in A&SC gets a wild hair to document us. We spend a lot of our time working with documentation of other people and groups and such and encouraging people to document, but we’re not …
Policy du jour (or, the breakfast special)
Today was the monthly departmental employee meeting for A&SC for all full-time permanent employees in the department. Now, that sounds deadly, we know, but keep in mind that at the moment there’s only two of us full-time permanent types here …
In search of a thesis
One of our visitors in A&SC today was in search of UAA theses. Generally, the Consortium Library ends up with two copies of each masters thesis produced here at UAA and APU. Both copies are listed in the library catalog …
Friday lite
It’s been kind of a busy week for us here in A&SC, so it’s time for a Friday break. We’re going to share with you a favorite photo from our collections.
This one was taken somewhere along Cook Inlet (we …
Be careful what you wish for
Normally these blog entries aren’t going to be related. But if you haven’t yet read yesterday’s entry, you might want to do so. Even if only to explain the title of this posting.
- Thursday, 9:45 am: 6 tons of records
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The coolest job in the world.
So it’s probably not a good sign when Mariecris keeps making up excuses to check on or get a voice response from me (Arlene) to make sure I haven’t passed out on my keyboard. She’s also been following me around …
The gift of citations
We used to get a lot of requests from users who had seen a photo in a book and wanted to reuse it for another purpose and the citation said UAA, so of course they contacted us here at UAA …
A day in the life of…
Or a day in the work life of, anyhow.
Here’s a sample of the things the archivists in A&SC worked on today:
Nicole: Nicole continued proofing the transcript of the Glenn diary in preparation for bringing it online.
Mariecris: Mariecris …
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What happens to all that stuff anyhow?
One of our occasional joys is when we get to see the finished product of researcher work. Sometimes that’s a student paper, sometimes a National History Day presentation, sometimes a documentary, sometimes a webpage, sometimes a book. Or any other …
Documenting the underdocumented
Every once in a while, somebody in A&SC gets a wild hair to document us. We spend a lot of our time working with documentation of other people and groups and such and encouraging people to document, but we’re not …
Policy du jour (or, the breakfast special)
Today was the monthly departmental employee meeting for A&SC for all full-time permanent employees in the department. Now, that sounds deadly, we know, but keep in mind that at the moment there’s only two of us full-time permanent types here …
In search of a thesis
One of our visitors in A&SC today was in search of UAA theses. Generally, the Consortium Library ends up with two copies of each masters thesis produced here at UAA and APU. Both copies are listed in the library catalog …
Friday lite
It’s been kind of a busy week for us here in A&SC, so it’s time for a Friday break. We’re going to share with you a favorite photo from our collections.
This one was taken somewhere along Cook Inlet (we …
Be careful what you wish for
Normally these blog entries aren’t going to be related. But if you haven’t yet read yesterday’s entry, you might want to do so. Even if only to explain the title of this posting.
- Thursday, 9:45 am: 6 tons of records
The coolest job in the world.
So it’s probably not a good sign when Mariecris keeps making up excuses to check on or get a voice response from me (Arlene) to make sure I haven’t passed out on my keyboard. She’s also been following me around …
The gift of citations
We used to get a lot of requests from users who had seen a photo in a book and wanted to reuse it for another purpose and the citation said UAA, so of course they contacted us here at UAA …
A day in the life of…
Or a day in the work life of, anyhow.
Here’s a sample of the things the archivists in A&SC worked on today:
Nicole: Nicole continued proofing the transcript of the Glenn diary in preparation for bringing it online.
Mariecris: Mariecris …