If you don’t follow us on Facebook, you might not know about our annual staff portrait tradition. In past we’ve taken inspiration from pop culture (Star Trek, Scooby Doo, Holy Grail, Wizard of Oz) but for the past several years …
One of UAA’s priorities is to track various ways in which all of us engage with our communities surrounding us. While we do a LOT of that in the Archives, from describing collections to make them available for …
We have two History Dept interns this spring. Welcome to Connor! He’s off to a great start with his creation of the new topic guide, Christianity in Alaska. And welcome also to Hannah: who is starting …
This post covers our activities for the months of May and June. We have largely been working from home over the last few months, and we have had to shift our focus to activities that can be done remotely. This …
April 6th-12th is Public Health Week, and we are excited to share some new newly available archival resources related to public health in Alaska and the circumpolar north.
In 2019, thanks to the hard work of Veronica Denison, we …
February was a busy month for the Archives. In addition to describing several new collections and adding photos from a couple other collections to Alaska’s Digital Archives, we set up a new exhibit of Fur Rondy photographs and started a …
We know there’s a lot of Ruben Gaines fans out there. We hear from them occasionally. Did you know that we have a bunch of his broadcast recordings?
Are you wondering who Ruben Gaines was? He came to Alaska in …
Happy Friday and happy last day of January. This month we added several new collections and additions to existing collections, as well as putting photos from three of our collections online. Gwen engaged in community outreach on behalf of the …
This month we described two new collections and added 86 new items to Alaska’s Digital Archives, in addition to participating in UAA’a STEM Day. Behind the scenes, we’ve been implementing new digital preservation policies and procedures.
HMC-1342: …
I moved to Alaska six years ago to be an archivist at the UAA/APU Archives and Special Collections. It was my first professional archives job. And it is bittersweet that I am now leaving to be an archivist at Kansas …
