December was a fairly eventful month for us. November went out with a bang (a real one, a 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter very near Anchorage) and so our regular workload for early December was rewritten by needing to deal …
For those of you of a certain age, you may remember those interminable evenings spent watching somebody’s vacation 35 mm slides projected onto their living room wall. For those of you under that certain age, think Powerpoint or similar slidedecks. …
September is always a season of change in the Archives with the start of the semester! It feels like this has been an intensive outreach month for us with several events that happened and even more that we’re preparing for. …
It’s so hard to stay inside in June in Alaska! But we managed to get a lot done anyhow. Here’s the June 2018 wrap-up:
Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …
March has been a busy month for us! Must be all that extra light we’re getting right now that’s letting us get all this work done!
Ruth Hart papers; 1964-2003. HMC-1279. The collection contains the papers of Ruth …
Over the past 12 years we’ve received grant funding from the Institution of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal agency working to support the efforts of libraries and museums all over the nation. Our grant awards from IMLS …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
