aka Palmer Colony
**Please note: this blog entry–though correct in details, is wrong in one very important respect. In August 2014, the National Archives gave the ARRC records to us. So while the history in this entry is true, we have an update…
Category: Reference
Some bad news, some good news
The decision to close off access to a document is not one we make easily around here. Anybody who has spent any time with me is fairly aware that I believe that the vast majority of decisions in an archives …
It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Man
One of the things about having students in to do research is that we often don’t get to see what becomes of the research they do. That’s not really a complaint, by the way, it’s just the way things go. …
how much do you trust records?
We’ve had students in an anthropology class working in the Archives this semester on a variety of projects having to do with the Independence Mine (Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company records, to be more precise.) They’ve been a …
It’s all about access
In my office is a framed print of one word: “Exhale.” It’s not that I have it as a regular reminder, but sometimes…
2010 was one of those sometimes for us here at the Archives. A very busy year. And …
Mining the collections
Guest blogger: Megan
We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.
The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …
Little by Libble.
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
Are gardens important?
Guest blogger: Mariecris
My father was the only gardener in the family. As for me, I did not inherit my father’s green thumb and as a child I developed the perception that flowers and plants were places bugs lived. Luckily, …
Wind blown and in print
We’re used to seeing items from our collections show up in footnotes in scholarly articles, that sort of thing. But this weekend we had the pleasant experience of seeing a thank you to us (Nicole, Mariecris, & Arlene) show up …
Elizabeth Peratrovich and the speech
It’s coming up on Alaska Civil Rights/Martin Luther King Jr. Day and once again the question has reappeared. Archivists, librarians, and historians around the state are being asked: “Where do I find the text of Elizabeth Peratrovich’s speech to the …
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Some bad news, some good news
The decision to close off access to a document is not one we make easily around here. Anybody who has spent any time with me is fairly aware that I believe that the vast majority of decisions in an archives …
It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Man
One of the things about having students in to do research is that we often don’t get to see what becomes of the research they do. That’s not really a complaint, by the way, it’s just the way things go. …
how much do you trust records?
We’ve had students in an anthropology class working in the Archives this semester on a variety of projects having to do with the Independence Mine (Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company records, to be more precise.) They’ve been a …
It’s all about access
In my office is a framed print of one word: “Exhale.” It’s not that I have it as a regular reminder, but sometimes…
2010 was one of those sometimes for us here at the Archives. A very busy year. And …
Mining the collections
Guest blogger: Megan
We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.
The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …
Little by Libble.
Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
Are gardens important?
Guest blogger: Mariecris
My father was the only gardener in the family. As for me, I did not inherit my father’s green thumb and as a child I developed the perception that flowers and plants were places bugs lived. Luckily, …
Wind blown and in print
We’re used to seeing items from our collections show up in footnotes in scholarly articles, that sort of thing. But this weekend we had the pleasant experience of seeing a thank you to us (Nicole, Mariecris, & Arlene) show up …
Elizabeth Peratrovich and the speech
It’s coming up on Alaska Civil Rights/Martin Luther King Jr. Day and once again the question has reappeared. Archivists, librarians, and historians around the state are being asked: “Where do I find the text of Elizabeth Peratrovich’s speech to the …