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Home Archive by category "Finding aids" (Page 4)

Category: Finding aids

Ethnohistory and Archives Part 1

Archival instruction, Classes and tours, Finding aids, Outreach 0

This is the first in a series of three blog posts written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. The blog post will introduce the work completed  in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.…

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 …

Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Arrangement and description, Disaster recovery, Finding aids 0

Forty-five years ago today, Wally Hickel, just 6 days into his term as Secretary of the Interior, received the following notice:

Oil Spill Santa Barbara SITREP One:  29 January 1969. Advised that Union Oil Platform “A” experienced high pressure gas

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Where, what, when, why and mostly who

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Finding aids 1

One of my standard instructional statements when helping students learn about how to find primary source materials is: Who would have had a reason to document what it is you’re trying to study? Find the who, find the record. Find …

Dusty and quiet? Riiiiight.

Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Exhibits, Finding aids 0

It’s not been a quiet week here in A&SC! In fact, at one point yesterday I think our research area was probably the noisiest room in the library. Lots of people having some great discussions about collections, research, and archival …

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 …

Alice E. Brown papers part 1: The beginning of the processing journey

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Finding aids, Grants, New accessions Alice E. Brown papers 0

Guest blogger: Mariecris

Serendipity has been the catch phrase in the archives these recent months. All sorts of serendipitous events have occurred within this past year, one of which is the accession of the Alice E. Brown Papers. Rebecca Lyon …

A swarm of circumstances

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Finding aids Fletcher Miller papers, Sigrid Brudie 1

I tend to be a pretty big believer in serendipity. As this week is starting to bear out.

Back to the beginning. Two years ago (about) Tim Miller, an educator out in Bethel, was in town for a workshop we …

Mining the collections

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Finding aids, Reference Arliss Sturgulewski papers, LibGuides, Megan Friedel, Stoll family papers 2

Guest blogger: Megan

We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.

The first is to tackle our backlog.  First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …

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