This may sound like a weird topic in the midst of dealing with clean-up after an earthquake, but bear with me here.
There’s a few reasons. We’re nearly at capacity for physical collections, our vault is about 85-90% full. …
Thanks to Northwest Archivists, the professional association for our region, we received some funding for an Archives Month event.
Do you have some books, journals, or diaries that need a little added protection on your shelves? Want to learn …
We’re a teensy bit late on May Day this year. On May 1, we often celebrate May Day by doing something to help us out with preservation or disaster recovery planning. We’ve been getting some collections with old stills in …
Were you a part of the Women’s March on Saturday?
Here’s what’s going on. As anybody who reads this probably already knows, we as an archives in an educational institution have an obligation not only to preserve materials, but to …
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 …
Today is MayDay. While some think of it as the first day of May and a way to celebrate Spring activities, in the archives world it is a day designated to do something significant to protect archival collections in the …
There are a number of things that I find cringe-worthy as an archivist: legal sized documents, scotch tape, paperclips, rusty staples, and unruly masses of paper. Although my favorite archival tool can’t address all of …
Just a few weeks ago, I had the great fortune to travel to Nome, Alaska with members of the Alaska State Historic Records Advisory Board (ASHRAB) to help teach a full-day workshop on caring for archival records. The whole experience …
180 turns on long-standing policy is not something that happens around here much, but over the past few months we’ve been thinking and discussing. You know all those images we put up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site? We spend …
So I (Arlene) dressed down today, figuring I was going to spend the afternoon in the vault moving things about. We’ve been slowly moving boxes off the tops of the shelving for two reasons: 1. maybe someday we’ll get compact …
