It’s pretty uncommon for one of our collection pickups to take us outside of southcentral Alaska and involve sea-going vessels and airplanes, but in July, we did just that!
The Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska had a large collection …
It’s so hard to stay inside in June in Alaska! But we managed to get a lot done anyhow. Here’s the June 2018 wrap-up:
Sara Rollins, a local high school student, is volunteering with us this summer for …
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 …
So UAA has an honest-to-goodness, real log cabin parked on the grounds of the Alaska State Fair. Apparently Matanuska-Susitna College has a cabin building course every so often and the cabin is the product of the 1982 class. (Photos coming …
It doesn’t seem like a natural match, and after next Monday we might decide it isn’t, but MC & I (Arlene) have volunteered to spend Labor Day at the Alaska State Fair at the UAA booth promoting A&SC and maybe …
So it’s probably not a good sign when Mariecris keeps making up excuses to check on or get a voice response from me (Arlene) to make sure I haven’t passed out on my keyboard. She’s also been following me around …
Sometimes being an archivist isn’t an 8-5 M-F job. This past Saturday Arlene Schmuland (head of A&SC & your author) traveled to Homer and back in order to work with an incoming collection. More on that collection later when all …
