32 Days until January 21, 2020 - Census 2020 Enumeration of Remote Alaska begins in Toksook Bay
103 Days until April 1, 2020 – 2020 Census Day
Resources:
The Alaska State Museum is recruiting graduate student interns to work at three small Alaska museums during the summer of 2020. These paid internships will focus on collections management activities. Interns should be enrolled in museum studies programs or affiliated graduate degree programs.
Interns will begin in late May or early June, 2020. They will receive a $4500 stipend, free housing, and reimbursement for the cost of air fare to the host communities. For more information, please visit https://lam.alaska.gov/museum-resources/internships.
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information for two professional references to anjuli.grantham@alaska.gov by January 17, 2020.
The Alaska State Library recently published a list of items cataloged in September/October 2019 as part of the Alaska State Publications Program. A few online publications that might be of interest to patrons are:
The Sheldon Jackson Museum December Artifact of the Month is a pair of Yup'ik dance fans (SJ-II-S-146). According to files, these dance fans along with a dance headband made with ribbon, glass beads, wolf and beaver fur (SJ-II-S-149) were purchased at "Winter Festival at Bethel" and received by Alice Postell in February 1973. The set of dance fans was purchased for just $12.
If your library is on Twitter, we encourage you to follow the Alaska Library Network (ALN) at https://twitter.com/AkLibNet.
On Friday 11/29 and Saturday 11/30, the Division cosponsored a youth activity program with Charlie Skultka Jr. Librarian Claire Imamura offered this report of the workshops:
We had a great time making scratch bracelets with Charlie Skultka Jr last week! Participants practiced basic formline, created their own designs, scratched them into black-coated aluminum bracelet blanks, and then formed them into a bracelet. The scratching part turned out to be quite a bit harder than most participants expected, so it was quite a challenge! We also had time to tour the museum exhibits and see examples of beautiful bracelets and formline design.
Many of the participants were Olivia the Octopus contributors and excitedly sought out their artwork on her arms.
This program is partially funded by the citizens of the City and Borough of Juneau through sales tax revenues and is sponsored by the Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.
If your library, archives or museums has held a public event recently, we would love a paragraph or two about how it went that would could publish in a future Friday Bulletin.
Interested in visiting Juneau when the weather is more likely to be pleasant, flights are more likely to get in, and there are lots of fun and touristy things to do in town? Have you done or learned or taught something interesting that other library folk around Alaska and the Pacific Northwest might find helpful to know about? Consider proposing a session for the joint conference:
PNLA/AkLA 2020: Thriving on Shaky Ground
August 4-7, 2020; Juneau, Alaska
Libraries continue to find themselves on the front lines of socio-political turmoil, as well as continually fighting for funding and recognition. Great programs and service models have emerged from this existence, and we want to hear about them! We are accepting proposals for presentations on this theme for our annual conference in August. We are looking for presentations from all corners of the library world – academic, public, school, special… and anything in between!
You may have gotten a Word document earlier, but the webform is now up! Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2020.
The December 2019 Gustavus Public Library noted that they’re in the process of having a bike barn designed. From the newsletter:
The intent of the bike shed is to accommodate 40 bikes (allowing for growth) and 1 or 2 picnic tables for people to sit and talk or use the library wi-fi or cell phone coverage. The project will utilize the most cost-effective materials and labor, including volunteers when permitted.
Currently the library estimates that 20 bikes can assemble at the library during peak times. That made us curious about what sort of bike traffic your institution sees. If you see a lot of bikes used at your building, please drop us a line.
If you are studying, Lingít Yoo X'atángi (Tlingit language), Xaad Kíl (Haida language), or Sm’algyax (Tsimshian language), SHI has a new program that may help you. From the Haa Yoo X'atángi Deiyí: Our Language Pathway program page:
The program, Haa Yoo X'atángi Deiyí: Our Language Pathway, will provide full scholarships to 16 heritage language scholars enrolled at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) who are taking classes in Lingít Yoo X'atángi (Tlingit language), Xaad Kíl (Haida language), or Sm’algyax (Tsimshian language). Scholarships include room, board and tuition.
Students must enroll now at UAS for the 2020 spring semester or later for a degree program starting in the summer or fall. Students may enroll online at uas.alaska.edu. For help, contact the UAS Registrar’s office at 907.796.6100 or uas.registrar@alaska.edu.
The deadline to apply for scholarships under the language pathway program is January 6.
For further information and an application, visit the program page. If you are aware of programs providing scholarships in Alaska Native languages, art or culture, please send us the scholarship information.
We recently received this exciting news from Valerie Ní hEideáin of the Irene Ingle Public Library in Wrangell, Alaska:
The Irene Ingle Public Library began exploring the possibility of digitizing local historical newspapers in 2017. We first contacted the owners of the Wrangell Sentinel to obtain their permission to digitize the paper. We then consulted with the Alaska State Library to ensure that any digitization project we undertook would be completed to the same standard as the Alaska State Library (ASL)’s digitization program. In 2018, we completed the first step of the project by having the original microfilm rolls duplicated onto silver rolls.
The library, in cooperation with the Wrangell Cooperative Association, applied for funding under the 2020 Institute of Museum and Library Services Native American Library Services Basic Grant Program. Funding was approved to digitize approximately 18,500 images including the Stikine River Journal (1898 – 1899), the Fort Wrangell News (1898), and the Wrangell Sentinel (1902 – 1959). We chose to use Apex Covantage to digitize the newspapers as they are the same vendor used by ASL. The digitization process is expected to be completed in early January and we anticipate images to be uploaded to Archive.org in early 2020.
We look forward to seeing and highlighting these new historical resources. If you have a digital project you’d like to share, please send us a paragraph or two about it!
Casey Grove of Alaska Public Media highlighted the new exhibit, “Snow Flyers” on display at the Anchorage Museum. The exhibit runs through April 5, 2020 and according to the museum’s exhibit page:
The exhibition Snow Flyers celebrates the ways we recreate and travel on snow and showcases how Northern ingenuity has for centuries inspired people to adapt winter gear, equipment and machinery for survival, sport and transportation.
For more coverage, reading and listen to:
Snow Flyers’ puts adaptation, innovation and joy of winter on display at the Anchorage Museum by Casey Grove. Alaska Public Media, 12/12/2019.
From our 2020 Census partners at Alaska Counts:
Alaska Counts is an education campaign organized by the Alaska Census Working Group (ACWG) to ensure that every person in Alaska understands that completing the census is confidential, easy to complete, and critical to ensuring that every community gets its full share of funding for local public services. We are working to reach Alaskans across the state ahead of the 2020 count through census communications and outreach.
What is the Alaska Counts mini-grant program?
The mini-grant program is an opportunity for organizations across the state to apply for up to $250 to conduct local census outreach in their own community. The Foraker Group, as fiscal agent for Alaska Counts, will disburse funds to organizations that apply for mini-grant funding.
What is the timeline to apply?
Mini-grants will be disbursed on a rolling basis. Groups are encouraged to apply early, as funding is limited. Applicants can expect to hear back about their mini-grant application within two weeks.
Who is eligible to apply?
Any nonprofit, government organization, regional housing authority, school, tribal organization, or tribe in the state of Alaska is eligible to apply for a mini-grant. Unfortunately we cannot disburse mini-grants to individuals; Preference will be given to entities that have not already been granted to; entities that apply for multiple mini-grants will need to demonstrate that they are serving different hard-to-count groups with each event/activity.
What are examples of eligible activities?
Eligible activities range from hosting a local census lunch & learn event to sponsoring a poster making contest or developing a student-led census art project. Be creative–you know your community best! We won’t fund partisan political activities/events, alcohol, or other impairing substances.
What are the reporting requirements?
Reporting requirements for the mini-grant program are simple: All we ask is that you A) send a photo of the event/outreach activity you engage in along with an estimate of the number of people impacted by the project, and B) share a post on your group’s social media within one week of the use of the mini-grant and tag Alaska Counts.
To apply, visit the Alaska Counts Mini-Grants application page. If you get a grant, please share with us what you did!
Give this video four minutes and learn a great civics resource for kids
From our friends at the Government Publishing Office:
A webcast, "Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government," is now available for viewing.
- Duration: 4 minutes
- Speaker: Stacey Kinsel, Technical Services Librarian, U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
- Learning outcomes: Learn about Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government, an educational website geared toward children and educators. Features of the site include age-appropriate information about the U.S. Government, information about Benjamin Franklin, a glossary, and educational games.
No prerequisite knowledge is required, and GPO encourages all to share and post these brief educational webcasts on your web pages and social media.
Shortened URLs like bit.ly/abcd, goo.gl/efgh, etc are efficient ways to list links in e-mails, social media, pencils, etc. They can also carry security risks. For this reason, they are sometimes blocked by web filters.
Here are two ways that you can find out where a short URL goes without opening it. These methods also give you the full URL, which you or your web filter ought to be able to tell if it’s safe to visit.
Hat tip to our webmaster Amy Carney for the DuckDuckGo workaround.
As previously mentioned in the 11/15/2019 Friday Bulletin, support for Windows 7 computers is ending on 1/15/2020.
According to Michael Kan of PC Magazine, Microsoft intends to step up its “TIME TO UPGRADE!!!” game with FULL SCREEN popup notifications starting on 1/15/2020. For details, visit Microsoft to Badger Windows 7 Users With Upgrade Pop-Ups by Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12/10/2019.
For free and low cost ways to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, check out “Time to upgrade from Windows 7” in the 11/15/2019 Friday Bulletin.
The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) is soliciting for development and predevelopment grant proposals to help with rehabilitation costs for historic properties. Owners of buildings and structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places individually or as contributing properties in a registered historic district are eligible to apply. The grants are for up to 50 percent of the total project costs.
Predevelopment grants are limited to $3,500 minimum and $10,000 maximum in matching assistance, and development grants are limited to $10,000 minimum and $25,000 maximum in matching assistance. The application deadline is 12:00 p.m., Thursday, January 30, 2020. The application package is available from Jean Ayers, Grants Administrator, 907.269.8694 / jean.ayers@alaska.gov. Grant applications and evaluation criteria are also available on OHA’s grant page.
Hat tip to Anjuli Grantham of the Alaska State Museum for noting this item.
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