We’ve been on hiatus with our archives-themed cooking events for a few years, but it looks like it might just be time to bring it back to life. You might recall the Chilkoot Challenge in which we took the grocery …
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.…
It’s Monday, and that means a brand new episode. For our fourth episode of our Archives Month 2021 season, we have an interview with linguistics professor and chair of UAA’s English Department, Dr. David Bowie about his use of Archives …
Happy Archives Month and welcome to a new season of Archiving AK! For our first episode of Season 2, Gwen interviews Julie Varee, Community Outreach Archivist at the Anchorage Museum’s Library and Archives. Our conversation with Julie delves into …
We’re back after a long hiatus with a special bonus episode of Archiving AK. When I saw a call of proposals for Democracy and Civic Engagement Week from UAA’s Center for Community Engaged Learning, I knew Archives and Special Collections …
This month marks the end of the 2020-2021 academic year and the start of the 2021-2022 year. In the “invisible labor” category, Gwen has been working diligently on her 4th year comprehensive faculty review file, as well as continuing her …
Our researchers in November included UAA students, Anchorage community members, Alaskans, a variety of people from across the United States, and a professor visiting from Norway. Topics of research included the performing arts in Anchorage, maritime history, Arctic …
Veronica has moved on to a great new job in the Lower 48: Farewell, Veronica, safe travels, and we wish you all the best!
Change of hours: Due to several years of budget cuts at the Consortium …
For a month in which all but 2 days had at least one of us gone, we were pretty busy!
20 images from the Christine McClain papers
205 images from the Bill Bacon …
You might not know this, but these are pretty trying times for Alaskan archives and those who research in them. A lot of the Alaskan archives have cut access hours, are under hiring freezes, are facing additional budget cuts. We’re …
