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Category: Reference

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 …

New in the Archives, September-October 2021

Acquisitions, Arrangement and description, Finding aids, Grants, Outreach, Reference

Use of materials

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.…

New in the Archives, July-August 2021

Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Outreach, Photographs, Reference

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 …

New in the Archives: May-June 2021

Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Reference

What our researchers are producing

We recently learned about two great websites created by our researchers:

WWII Alaska: The Second World War dramatically impacted the Alaskan territory and all of its people. Explore firsthand stories from Alaska Native elders …

New in the Archives, September-October 2020

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

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 …

New in the Archives, July-August 2020

Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Digitization, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

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 …

Testing virtual archival reference

Facilities and equipment, Reference

One of the challenges to being mostly closed to in-house visitors lately has been how to share hard copy archival documents with researchers who may or may not yet know if they want copies. Actually this has been a long-term …

New in the Archives, April 2020

Alaska's Digital Archives, Digitization, Exhibits, Finding aids, Grants, Reference

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 …

New in the Archives, September 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Archival instruction, Arrangement and description, Classes and tours, Digitization, Finding aids, Reference

September was our first month with reduced hours. If you’re wondering why we have reduced access hours, it’s because one of our archivists left in late August and several years of University budget cuts have meant a hiring freeze for …

New in the Archives, August 2019

Acquisitions, Alaska's Digital Archives, Arrangement and description, Conservation, Digitization, Exhibits, Facilities and equipment, Finding aids, Grants, Outreach, Preservation/Conservation, Reference

Notable news:

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 …

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