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.…
Recently we were offered a Bunch of Boxes, gently used, from another archival facility in town. They’d emptied them out and simply didn’t have the storage space to keep them on the off chance that they might need them again …
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris.
Growing up as a little girl I loved watching musicals! I hoped one day to go to New York City and see a real Broadway musical. While I lived in Boston I only made two trips …
If you count up all the archivists in Alaska, well, you’ll need more than just your fingers and toes but maybe not very much more. And it’s odd because for as many people who assume we’re all on first-name basis …
June is deadline month around A&SC. External deadlines, so no chance of begging off or asking for extensions. In terms of personnel, faculty have leave days that expire at the end of June. In terms of grants, grant reports are …
