We’ve been very grateful to have time loaned to us by the Library’s Access Services department. Many days over the past several months, we have had a few hours of their staff time and they’ve …
Donald Mitchell oral histories recordings and transcriptions digitized and placed online in the Alaska’s Digital Archives: Joe and Carolyn Begich, Frank Bracken, Maurice Carmody, Roy Peratrovich, Hugh Gallagher, 2 interviews with Emil Notti, and 2 …
Laurie Arnold and Miki‘ala Ayau Pescaia published “Considering the Revolution: Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawai‘i, and the Indigenous Plateau” in the November 2021 issue of The Public Historian. The article included this image from the …
The Anchorage Daily News used some our Anchorage Organizing Committee records in their ongoing series Curious Alaska: this entry about past attempts to bring the Olympics to Anchorage. Gwen appears in a few of the photographs.…
We archivists at the Consortium Library know well how hard it can be to find archival resources on whatever your research topic may be. That’s partly due to the nature of archival collections: they’re unique and they can be voluminous …
Our March-April edition is running a little late! But here you go:
Newly available collections:
EPH-0452: COVID19 vaccination materials, 2021.
William Murry papers; 1917-1944. HMC-1366-AHS. Memorabilia collected by an early Anchorage resident.
Billy Roberts papers; 1946-1947. HMC-1368. Memorabilia from …
We remain working a mixed schedule of working from home and being in the Archives. We’ve had regular on-site appointments with students (UAA, APU, & UAF and beyond!) and community members. And we continue virtual research appointments via videoconferencing, and …
Processing:
1 cubic foot addition to the Robert C. Kallenberg papers.
Subject guides:
Arlene created a guide to the Anchorage Community College and University of Alaska Anchorage student newspapers. Most of the collection inventories were rewritten to meet …
With a lot of our April time being dedicated to working from home, we’ve been focusing on keeping up with reference requests and putting digitized materials online.
But first up, we won an award! We won the 2020 John Sessions …
Hello there, all you cool archivists and researchers! This is Becky Butler here to tell you about my experience working on the digitization project made possible by the Council on Library and Information Resources and funded by the Andrew W. …
