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Home Blog Archive by category "Digitization" (Page 4)

Category: Digitization

New in the Archives, April 2020

Alaska's Digital Archives, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

With a lot of our April time being dedicated to working from home, we’ve been focusing on keeping up with reference requests and putting digitized materials online.

But first up, we won an award! We won the 2020 John Sessions …

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, …

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 …

New in the Archives, August 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Conservation, Digitization, Exhibits, Facilities and equipment, Finding aids, Grants, Outreach, Preservation/Conservation, Reference

Notable news:

Veronica has moved on to a great new job in the Lower 48: Farewell, Veronica, safe travels, and we wish you all the best!

Change of hours: Due to several years of budget cuts at the Consortium …

New in the Archives, June 2019

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Events, Finding aids, Outreach, Photographs, University records

For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!

New up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives

20 images from the Christine McClain papers

205 images from the Bill Bacon …

New in the Archives: March 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Grants, Outreach

What have we been up to in the Archives in March? You might well ask, because the answer is: quite a lot! Here’s some highlights:

New collections described

S.S. Shamrock pilothouse record, 1924-1925. Pilothouse record detailing the ports and …

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