Guest blogger: Mariecris
I have been steadily working on Alice’s papers and am really enjoying it! But I needed to stop and share some of the interesting things I’m seeing, learning, and doing. First of all, Alice did a wonderful …
Guest blogger: Mariecris Ed. note: We’ve been working on Arliss’s papers for quite some time. Arliss originally gave them to us in 1997, I’d worked on them from about 2003-2005 sporadically, and after Mariecris started, I assigned them to her …
180 turns on long-standing policy is not something that happens around here much, but over the past few months we’ve been thinking and discussing. You know all those images we put up on the Alaska’s Digital Archives site? We spend …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
“I feel Kuumba is a funnel through which information, feelings, political climate, racial dilemmas can be acknowledged and resolved. In order to achieve our highest potential we must recognize ourselves, our culture and values. It’s time that …
One of the things we love about working in archives is that sometimes the papers give you a little glimpse into people’s lives. Not the important, momentous, world-shaking events, but daily lives. A window on relationships, family, love. In the …
Guest blogger: Mariecris.
Black History -Will no longer be taught in the context of slavery then freedom, of our arrival in the country before the Mayflower in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. – Yes earlier than Mayflower dropping anchor at Plymouth …
Guest blogger: Megan
Last week, we had a visit to the Archives by Channel 2 (KTUU) to film a segment on African American history in anticipation of February’s Black History Month. The collection they were most interested in seeing and …
I (Arlene) am off to Austin this week for the annual Society of American Archivists conference. MC will be holding down the fort, with an occasional substitution by Nicole. So it’s probably going to be fairly quiet on the blog …
I (Mariecris) love movies and am especially excited when archives make it into the movies. In Fool’s Gold, the two main characters utilize the archives to find hidden treasure. Robert Langdon, in Angels and Demons, navigates temperature and …
[Mariecris:] When working the reference desk you never know what type of reference requests will come along. Some of them are pretty consistent: people doing research for a book/dissertation, requesting images for a documentary or exhibit, compiling family history etc.…
