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 …
It’s May, which means it was time for our Fourth Annual “Eating from the Archives”. This year we decided to feature military menus from our collections. Most of the menus, however, were from Thanksgiving or Christmas, with two being from …
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 …
It’s that time of year for another Archives’ potluck based on an exhibit. Our first ever exhibit potluck, Convalescent’s Banquet, while a learning experience, was pretty tasteless, and last year, Alaska Lunch, provided some interesting Alaskan based dishes. …
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 …
It’s that time of the year again: time for us to announce this year’s photograph for our annual Eye of the Beholder exhibit.
Are you a student, staff, or faculty member at UAA* or APU? Do you know your Alaskan birds? Here’s the chance to show off your birding skills!
As part of the Loren Taft retrospective exhibit at Archives & Special Collections, …
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of receiving a phone call to set up a meeting with a long-time Anchorage resident, Loren Taft. I was told he had a lot of photographs. And then I went to his …
Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator!
Archives & Special Collections, Consortium Library
Eye of the Beholder 5: One Image, Many Perspectives
October 1-31, 2012
THE EXHIBIT: Every year we pick a single photograph from our holdings. And ask you to …
