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Category: New accessions

Archivists adventuring

Acquisitions, New accessions, Traveling archivist

It’s pretty uncommon for one of our collection pickups to take us outside of southcentral Alaska and involve sea-going vessels and airplanes, but in July, we did just that!

The Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska had a large collection …

New in the Archives, March-April 2022

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Grants, New accessions, Preservation/Conservation, Reference

Thanks, first, to Access Services!

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 …

Archives field trip: picking up a collection

Acquisitions, New accessions

Going to visit people in their homes and offices to look at and pick up collections is a fairly regular occurrence around here. We like to think of them as archival field trips! We had one of those today, but …

New in the Archives: June 2018

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Grants, New accessions, Outreach, PicturingUAA, Rare books and theses, Traveling archivist 0

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:

New personnel:

Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …

Describing Collections: The Johnny Ellis papers

Appraisal, Arrangement and description, Finding aids, New accessions, Preservation/Conservation

When collections arrive there is a certain level of excitement. We love to get our hands in them, begin describing, and always look forward to what we will find. We also tend to learn something new with each collection, and …

A day in the life of an archivist

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Appraisal, Digitization, Finding aids, New accessions, Photographs, Reference 2

“So, what does an archivist do?”

It’s a question I hear a lot from pretty much everyone, from researchers and other faculty members, to people I meet in my everyday life. I generally give them the short answer, which is …

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 …

What goes around, comes around

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, New accessions 4

Back in 2012, after our umpteenth request for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation records that had been here very very briefly in the 1990s, I wrote a blog entry about where to find documents about the Palmer Colony. We had …

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 …

What’s new: June/July 2013

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Grants, Hiring, New accessions, Reference 0

This is the first of what I hope are regular monthly or bimonthly updates as to what has happened recently in the Archives. So what are we doing with our summer?

We’re keeping busy!

Collections now available (the link points …

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