Experienced a disaster within your library, archives, museum, historical holding or cultural center and overwhelmed by it all? Who ya gonna call? Certainly not the ghost busters! But you could now call the Alaska Collections Emergency Response Team or AKCERT. Never heard of them? Thats OK because its a brand new group. Theres a new…
Stacey Glaser Dear AkLAMembers- Over a month has passed since we all converged on Mollie Good in Valdez for her perfectly orchestrated conference. Another stellar performance by a valuable AkLA member. Thank you, Mollie and Conference Committee members. Great sessions, inspiring speakers, interesting exhibitors, good…
Native elders, scholars, university and state officials, librarians, and members of the public gathered in the Rasmuson Library on February 22, 2013, to welcome the Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) to the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library and to celebrate the renaming of the archive in…
You may have heard that AkLA has a Twitter stream and a Facebook page. You may even have heard about our Flickr page, GoodReads group, and LinkedIn group. They are all run by the newly-formed Social Media Committee, and we urge you to check them…
Among the founding fathers of Anchorage who arrived in the early years was Zack Loussac, who came to Anchorage in 1916 and opened a drugstore on Fourth and E downtown. He served three terms as mayor and created the Loussac Foundation. http://motherearthtravel.com/united_states/anchorage/history.htm In 1946, with…