The Alaska State Library Internship Project will bring one intern who has recently completed, or is near completing, their Master's degree in Library or Information Science to work in an Alaskan public library for two months in the summer of 2022. The deadline to apply is February 25, 2022.
Tuesday, February 8, 12 pm on Zoom
Learn how to use My Social Security online account and other online services. Go to www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount to create a “My Social Security” account and print out your Social Security Statement before attending the workshop. There will be opportunities for questions and answers with a Social Security Administration representative.
The Alaska Digital Newspaper Project was recently featured in the Wrangell Sentinel:
"Issues of the Wrangell Sentinel from its founding in 1902 through 1956 are now available in free online databases, where users can look through the pages. The websites allow people to search the pages by keywords, such as looking for any news stories about their family members."
"It’s part of an effort to add as many Alaska newspapers as possible to the national project, said Anastasia Tarmann, of the state library in Juneau.
"Libraries working to put decades of Sentinels online" by Larry Persily, January 20, 2022. Wrangell Sentinel, accessed 1/21/22.
Tuesday, January 25, 5:30 pm on Zoom
One of Alaska’s most notable backcountry skiers and guides, Matt Kinney, will talk about the lessons learned navigating Chugach avalanche terrain.
Wednesday, February 2, 6 pm on Zoom
Part of the Alaska Humanities Forum ANCSA@50 Conversation Series:
"How does language connect us? How does language divide us? Join us for a few hours to participate in a conversation exploring the ways languages bridge and divide us."
"The Alutiiq Museum's newest podcast features community members reading unigquat–legends. In January April Laktonen Counceller shares 'How the Raven Brought the Light.' The podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor. Supported by the Kodiak Island Borough School District READ project."
The American Indian Library Association (AILA) and the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) are accepting applications for the 'Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture' grant 2022.
Talk Story is a literacy program that celebrates American Indian, Asian, and Pacific Islander families' stories through books, storytelling, and art. Going on its thirteenth cycle, AILA and APALA are partnering on this Talk Story grant program to allocate funding to libraries and community organizations to implement intergenerational literacy programming. Two grant winners for each organization, a total of four winners, will receive $500 each to fund a program that meets the criteria of the grant. Planned programs can be in-person or virtual.
Emily Pastore shared:
"The Edward S. Curtis Legacy Foundation recently reached out to us here at Sealaska Heritage to announce that they have released a 300 page coffee table book of previously unpublished images taken in Alaska in 1927 titled Edward S. Curtis: Unpublished Alaska, Photographs and Personal Journal. Part of the Foundation’s giving-back program is to put these books, free of charge, in all the Alaska public libraries and museums...Contact Coleen at coleen@curtislegacyfoundation.org or call 719-338-4747."
"The Kenai City Council voted Wednesday to accept roughly $28,000 in grant funds for the Kenai Community Library to be used for the purchase of a holds locker and other materials."
"The funds are split across two grants and are both awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development’s Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums, according to a Dec. 6 memo to the city council from Kenai Community Library Director Katja Wolf.
"Kenai Council Approves Library Grants" by Ashlyn O'Hara, January 6, 2022. Peninsula Clarion, accessed 1/21/22.
"Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held Wednesday hearing exploring broadband investments in Tribal communities."
"Alaska’s remoteness might lead the state to receive a majority of federal government funds allotted to broadband for Tribal communities.
"'Alaska is going to be one of the highest areas of need,' said Hallie Bissett, executive director of the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, speaking at a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday.
"Alaska Predicted to Receive a Majority of Tribal Broadband Funds" by Theadora Soter, January 12, 2022. Broadband Breakfast, accessed 1/21/22.
"'Sooyii' is one of several films in recent years to bring attention to Indigenous languages -- from the Haida language feature film 'SGaawaay K'uuna' ('Edge of the Knife') to a Maori language translation of the Disney hit 'Moana.' And as these endeavors prove successful and demand for such content grows, the medium is increasingly being seen as a tool to revitalize dying tongues."
Related read: https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/sundance-puts-spotlight-on-indigenous-films
"How film is putting Indigenous languages in the spotlight" by Harmeet Kaur, January 18, 2022. CNN, accessed 1/21/22.
"'Alaskan Dinosaurs,' produced by GBH, follows University of Alaska Museum of the North director and researcher Patrick Druckenmiller, along with Florida State University scientist Gregory Erickson and other collaborators, as they discover fossilized bones, footprints and an Arctic dinosaur nursery."
"Nova episode highlights Alaska dinosaur research" by Marmian Grimes, January 14, 2022. UAF news and information, accessed 1/21/22.
"Last year, the Mandeville Gallery asked three contemporary artists to create artwork in response to materials held in the Union College Special Collections and Archives pertaining to Sheldon Jackson (Class of 1855), a missionary, minister and political leader."
Alaskan artists Merritt Johnson and Sonya Kelliher-Combs are featured in the exhibit:
“'Adams, Johnson and Kelliher-Combs draw on history, cultural traditions and archives, along with a strong belief in seeking alternative narratives, to create artworks that exist as a record of unconsidered perspectives and often unrecognized pasts,' Lohnes said.
"Mandeville artists respond to archival materials of alumnus Sheldon Jackson," January 12, 2022. Union College News and Events, accessed 1/21/22.
"The Svalbard Islands, part of Norway, are warming seven times faster than the global average. Aerial pictures from the 1930s are helping researchers understand what that means for the region’s ice . . . Now, advances in computing are helping scientists bring old ice back to life in astonishing detail. Using black-and-white photos taken during mapping expeditions nearly a century ago, they are creating three-dimensional digital models of how the glaciers looked before modern record-keeping, and illuminating the ways they have changed over a longer stretch of time."
"A Trove of Old Photos Could Reveal the Future of These Arctic Glaciers" by Raymond Zhong,
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