One of our fairly regular reference requests goes like this: “I’m looking for a list of all the men who worked on the Alaska Highway.” One of the regular variants of that request goes like this: “My uncle/grandfather/dad/dad’s friend worked …
We’ve been hearing this term a lot lately. Some granting agencies are offering grants to help uncover “hidden collections.” And hidden is usually defined as a lack of descriptive material on the collection.
Hang around archival conferences a lot, and …
As we are rapidly coming up on the end of May, it’s time to set up the A&SC reference desk schedule for the next few months. So MC, Nicole, & Arlene sat down this morning to figure out who is …
One of our occasional joys is when we get to see the finished product of researcher work. Sometimes that’s a student paper, sometimes a National History Day presentation, sometimes a documentary, sometimes a webpage, sometimes a book. Or any other …
Today was the monthly departmental employee meeting for A&SC for all full-time permanent employees in the department. Now, that sounds deadly, we know, but keep in mind that at the moment there’s only two of us full-time permanent types here …
One of our visitors in A&SC today was in search of UAA theses. Generally, the Consortium Library ends up with two copies of each masters thesis produced here at UAA and APU. Both copies are listed in the library catalog …
