Archives 101
Becky the Archives’ intern here, ready to ask all the “dumb” questions so you don’t have to! I’ve been working in the UAA Archives this past semester, and I’ve stumbled across a few common areas of confusion that I’ve decided …
Category: Finding aids
What we did this year, part 2
Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.]
One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 3
This blog post is a continuation of Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2, which describes what the students in UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course found in the Charles V. Lucier papers. Part 1 describes the work completed in the …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2
This blog post is the second in a series of three written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.
Below is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 1
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
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
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
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
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.
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 …
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What we did this year, part 2
Another in our reports on our activities here in Archives for the 2014-2015 academic year. [For the first one, on the Alaska’s Digital Archives, see here.]
One of the things that takes up a lot of our time is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 3
This blog post is a continuation of Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2, which describes what the students in UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course found in the Charles V. Lucier papers. Part 1 describes the work completed in the …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 2
This blog post is the second in a series of three written by guest blogger Alyssa Willett. Part 1 describes the work completed in the Archives by UAA’s Ethnohistory of Alaska Natives course during the Spring 2015 semester.
Below is …
Ethnohistory and Archives Part 1
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
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
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
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
Where, what, when, why and mostly who
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.
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 …