In episode 6 of Archiving AK, Arlene, Veronica, and Gwen talk about our preparations for participating in UAA's STEM Day. We look at how science, technology, engineering and math materials appear in our collections and how they can be or have been used by researchers. We also talk about some of the issues that can crop up with describing and providing access to STEM materials, especially with medical research collections.

In episode 5 of Archiving AK, Anna, our grad intern over the summer, took some time out of her last week with us to interview us for the podcast. The discussion goes into topics like what we hope for/see for the future of the archives profession, what skills and knowledge we would like new professional archivists to have obtained in their archives classes, the role of professional associations in our work and development, and the types of things we wish people knew about our work.

In this episode of Archiving AK, Veronica interviews Kevin Tripp and Greg Schmitz, audio/visual media archivists with Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA). In this episode, we discuss the various collections held by AMIPA, their users, and the difficulties of preserving A/V material.

This bonus episode of Archiving AK is an interview with Dr. Justin Rawlins, whose academic research relates to perception studies. He's been looking at how Alaska is portrayed in media in the past and present, from educational films to reality TV. Dr. Rawlins teaches media and film studies at the University of Tulsa. He was kind enough take the time to talk to Arlene about his research topic, share some of his thoughts about conducting research, and sharing some advice for researchers interested in traveling to Alaska to do research. For more information about the podcast and some of the things mentioned in it, please go to the following link: https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/2018/07/16/archiving-ak-epi…a-justin-rawlins/

In this episode of Archiving AK, we discuss Alaska tourism and how it is reflected in the archival collections held by the UAA/APU Consortium Library Archives. We talk about the different trends in tourism we see, and the format of material.

In the second episode of Archiving AK, archivists Gwen and Veronica interview researcher Pierce Bateman. Pierce has been visiting the Archives as a researcher since 2015: first as an undergraduate student, and more recently as a graduate student writing his thesis. In the episode, they discuss Pierce's background, current research topic, his general interests, and the various aspects of researching in archives from a researcher's point of view. For more details about collections and people mentioned, please go to the following link: https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/2018/05/23/archiving-ak-episode-2/

Archiving AK episode 1: Introduction to us by Archiving AK with the UAA/APU Archives