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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Blogger: Megan Friedel
In my last post, I discussed one of my favorite photograph formats, the stereoview. However, unlike most photographs, which are meant to be viewed as-is, the stereoview requires the use of another tool for the viewer to …
Guest blogger: Megan
For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of …
180 turns on long-standing policy is not something that happens around here much, but over the past few months we’ve been thinking and discussing. You know all those images we put up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site? We spend …
