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Home Archive by category "Digitization" (Page 3)

Category: Digitization

So, what is a finding aid?

Appraisal, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Rare books and theses 0

Finding aids. If you have never used an archive, you may have never heard this term used in this, or any, context before. Many first-time users of archives are often confused by the term “finding aid,” and then once they …

A day in the life of an archivist

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Appraisal, Digitization, Finding aids, New accessions, Photographs, Reference 2

“So, what does an archivist do?”

It’s a question I hear a lot from pretty much everyone, from researchers and other faculty members, to people I meet in my everyday life. I generally give them the short answer, which is …

Keeping up on professional reading: the Use Statistics edition!

Acquisitions, Appraisal, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Events, Exhibits, Outreach, Preferred citation, Publication requests, Reference 0

Our crew’s professional reading today was the proposed user metrics document created by a SAA and ACRL/RBMS* joint task force.

Sound boring? It’s not at all! And it’s incredibly important work because in the end, pretty much everything archives do …

Sharing Community Images Project

Alaska's Digital Archives, Digitization, Events, Photographs 0

Do you have photographs of Alaska that you want to have digitized? Are you looking for an opportunity to share those photos with the world? Would you like to further the educational mission of your university by making your photos …

What we did this year, part 1

Alaska's Digital Archives, Digitization, Photographs, Reference 0

We get asked a lot “Just what is it you do, anyhow?” We’ll get more into the broader answer in some other posts, but in between those, we thought we’d share some of our production statistics for last year. We …

Updates

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Hiring, New accessions, Photographs, Reference 0

Yet again, it has been a busy few months in Archives and Special Collections. We have new collections available, added photographs and texts to Alaska’s Digital Archives, and even had a new archivist join our crew.

Collections now available (the …

Summer updates

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Events, Finding aids, New accessions, Outreach, Photographs, Reference 0

We have been keeping busy so far this Summer in the Archives. Here’s a brief list of what’s new:

 Collections now available (the link directs to the collection guide):

Charles Cassata photographs: Charles Cassata was a former Alaska resident. The …

Alaska is a small town

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization 0

As much as archivists can try not to become attached to the collections they are working on, it happens. A student asked me (Veronica) the other day what my favorite collection at the Archives is, which one is the most …

Some bad news, some good news

Alaska's Digital Archives, Conservation, Digitization, Reference Fred Wildon Fickett papers 1

The decision to close off access to a document is not one we make easily around here. Anybody who has spent any time with me is fairly aware that I believe that the vast majority of decisions in an archives …

It’s all about access

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Grants, Hiring, Reference 0

In my office is a framed print of one word: “Exhale.”  It’s not that I have it as a regular reminder, but sometimes…

2010 was one of those sometimes for us here at the Archives. A very busy year. And …

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