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Home Archive by category "Blog" (Page 8)

Category: Blog

What they don’t tell you about digitization projects . . .

Archival instruction, Digitization, Grants

Hello there, all you cool archivists and researchers! This is Becky Butler here to tell you about my experience working on the digitization project made possible by the Council on Library and Information Resources and funded by the Andrew W. …

Archiving AK episode 19: Preserving audio, video, and film related to public health in Alaska

Digitization, Grants, Podcast

We’re bringing back the podcast for a follow-up on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant that Veronica got to digitize audio, film, and video related to public health. In this episode, Gwen and Becky …

New in the Archives, March 2020

Digitization, Photographs

Well, March isn’t going to look like our most productive month ever. Both Gwen and Arlene spent a lot of March preparing tasks to be able to do at home. Since we can’t take home collections to work on them, …

Ready for Eating from the Archives 2020 edition?

Events

Our annual Eating from the Archives event, though great fun!, is a really bad idea right now. So in trying to come up with ways we could do an event like this but support social distancing and allow folks to …

Earthquake recovery: a year later

Disaster recovery, Preservation/Conservation, Rare books and theses

Some of you may recall the earthquake we had in November 2018. Thankfully the archives didn’t suffer too much damage. Boxes off of shelves, but thankfully the boxes did their great protective job of the contents and the archival materials …

New in the Archives, December 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Events

December events:

Dr. Jennifer Stone of the UAA English department held her A476: History of English Language student posters presentations in the Archives. The students shared posters and presented on their research topics, many of which were based on documents …

New in the Archives, November 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Disaster recovery, Finding aids, Outreach, Rare books and theses

Research round-up:

Our researchers in November included UAA students, Anchorage community members, Alaskans, a variety of people from across the United States, and a professor visiting from Norway. Topics of research included the performing arts in Anchorage, maritime history, Arctic …

New in the Archives, September 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Digitization, Finding aids, Reference

September was our first month with reduced hours. If you’re wondering why we have reduced access hours, it’s because one of our archivists left in late August and several years of University budget cuts have meant a hiring freeze for …

Getting the NAS

Arrangement and description, Digitization, Facilities and equipment, Preservation/Conservation

For years we (the archivists) had grappled with what to do with our electronic records. But in 2018 a couple of things happened that made us realize we really needed to make headway. Up until then, our digitized content was …

Getting the grants: Atwood Foundation and CLIR RAR

Digitization, Grants, Preservation/Conservation

In 2017, I (Veronica) decided I wanted to digitize the audio, video, and film within our collections. The idea had been in my head for a while, mainly because we kept receiving requests to digitize the audio reels in the …

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