Waxing poetic
We here at A&SC get a lot of help from the students who work for Access Services in the Consortium Library. They help us deal with cleanup from disasters, even when they’re not our own, rehouse new accessions, digitize, describe, …
Category: Blog
Be careful what you wish for (redux)
Friday night, a serious quantity of water mixed with glycol from the HVAC systems came through the Dean’s office area. Carpeting across several rooms was soaked through and some of it continued to the 2nd floor Medical Library offices below.…
Working on sustainability
The Alaska’s Digital Archives has been one of the most popular topics for this blog in its short lifespan so far. And the reason we didn’t have a Friday entry is because Mariecris was very busy with reference and Arlene …
Does the work ever end?
Today was a day we all spent on long-lived, and in some cases long-overdue, projects.
Mariecris spent the day working on the Commonwealth North records. Commonwealth North deposited some 80 cubic feet worth of records with us about a year …
Hidden collections
We’ve been hearing this term a lot lately. Some granting agencies are offering grants to help uncover “hidden collections.” And hidden is usually defined as a lack of descriptive material on the collection.
Hang around archival conferences a lot, and …
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 …
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 …
-
Be careful what you wish for (redux)
Friday night, a serious quantity of water mixed with glycol from the HVAC systems came through the Dean’s office area. Carpeting across several rooms was soaked through and some of it continued to the 2nd floor Medical Library offices below.…
Working on sustainability
The Alaska’s Digital Archives has been one of the most popular topics for this blog in its short lifespan so far. And the reason we didn’t have a Friday entry is because Mariecris was very busy with reference and Arlene …
Does the work ever end?
Today was a day we all spent on long-lived, and in some cases long-overdue, projects.
Mariecris spent the day working on the Commonwealth North records. Commonwealth North deposited some 80 cubic feet worth of records with us about a year …
Hidden collections
We’ve been hearing this term a lot lately. Some granting agencies are offering grants to help uncover “hidden collections.” And hidden is usually defined as a lack of descriptive material on the collection.
Hang around archival conferences a lot, and …
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 …
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 …