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Basic Facts:
| Name of Library | Sessions |
|---|---|
| Sitka Public Library | 12,319 |
| Kenai Community Library | 3,883 |
| Unalaska Public Library | 1,969 |
| Delta Community Library | 1,472 |
| Haines Borough Public Library | 1,353 |
In addition to reporting total number of wireless sessions, WhoFi can report the busiest hour and the busiest day of the week for wifi usage. Learn more at our Getting Wifi Statistics page from our wireless networking guide. If you'd like to sign up your library to WhoFi at no cost to you, please check with your IT people - if you have them - then contact Daniel Cornwall.
In May 2021 the OWL Videoconference Network hosted 103 videoconferences with a total of 432 participants. Representative videoconferences included:
Remember, if your patrons have home or mobile internet access, you can use your library's instance of Zoom as your virtual meeting room. Your library's account holder would start the meeting. The account holder could either stay and monitor the meeting, or could make one the participants a host and leave the meeting. Ask Daniel, Jack or Kyle to show you how.
If you already have an OWL Zoom account, we ask you to give descriptive names to your meetings so we can better document the types of events done over OWL. So instead of "LibrarNameHere's Zoom Meeting" or "LibraryNameHere's Personal Meeting Room" something like "LibraryNameHere: Cooking with canned Salmon." THANKS!
If your public or school/public library does not yet have an OWL issued Zoom account to schedule your own videoconferences OR If you are a non-profit, local, state or federal government agency interested in doing outreach/training through library partners, please contact OWL Program Manager Daniel Cornwall.
From our friends at the UAF Museum of the North:
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This spring, the museum is articulating and suspending a 42-foot bowhead whale skeleton from the lobby’s ceiling.
Join us on June 7 for a Virtual Grand Opening! Hear from project leaders and learn more about the challenges they overcame to prepare and suspend a 1,830-pound whale skeleton from the museum ceiling. Celebrate the project completion with UAMN and partners.
View and see chat:
Schedule:
For months, staff have been working behind-the-scenes to prepare the ceiling and the bowhead skeleton for installation. Visit the Bowhead Exhibit page to learn more and see videos of the process.
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From our friends at the Sealaska Heritage Institute:
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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and put online video of its second Celebration, a dance-and-culture festival first held in 1982 that has grown into the world’s largest gathering of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people.
The entire event, which was documented in 1984 on a now-obsolete video platform, is viewable for the first time in decades on SHI’s YouTube channel.
Through the project, SHI has resurrected old footage of one of the most important events in Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures in modern times, said SHI President Rosita Worl.
The second series includes performances by 14 dance groups documented from May 9-11, 1984, in Juneau. By 2022, SHI plans to digitize the rest of the Celebrations, which comprise more than 1,000 hours, and put the footage online.
The videos will be a treasure trove for Native people studying previous performances, oratory, Native languages and regalia and for scholars researching Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures, Worl said.
The Celebration: 10,000 Years of Cultural Survival project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant NG-03-15-0022-15.
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For additional information, read the full press release at the Sealaska Heritage Institute.
On 5/21/2021, Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Alaska hosted the webinar, Cultural Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation: A Conversation with Alaska Native Artists, which featured moderator Melissa Shaginoff (Ahtna Athabascan, Paiute) and speakers Dimi Macheras (Dena’ina Athabascan), Vera Starbard (Tlingit, Dena’ina Athabascan) and Peter Williams (Yup’ik). The webinar was on the subject of cultural appreciation vs. cultural appropriation, as it relates to Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples. Dawn Biddison from the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska introduces the event. Recorded on: May 21, 2021. Watch the webinar.
General information about the subject is available at the following links recommended by the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Alaska:
In late May 2021, the REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) project issued a new research briefing that reviewed research on COVID-19 vaccination, variant strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and building ventilation that may affect operations, policies, and procedures. They also updated their toolkit pages including Boston Children’s Museum CEO Carole Charnow sharing details of the pandemic’s impact on her institution one year later. New toolkit “roundups” exploring risk assessment and trauma management in archives, libraries, and museums are also available.
We all feel time pressed. But we have time to check the accessibility of our websites. The UK based accessibility company posted a YouTube playlist consisting of ten one minute videos showing how to check websites for:
For more ideas about website accessibility, visit the design page of the State Library's guide: Creating a simple library website. Scroll down to "Keep Accessibility in Mind"
From our friends at the Library of Congress:
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The Library offers a number of orientations/classes and that includes Business Reference. We have given the in-person So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress before and because there was interest, we are doing it this time as a webinar! On June 9th at 1pm eastern time we are teaching the Historical Company Research Webinar.
While the class is primarily about using the Library’s resources to do historical research on companies, some of the resources we cover aren’t necessarily specific to the Library, so if you can come, you may be able to take what you learn and see if your local public libraries and historical societies have resources that can help with this type of research. We plan on covering print and electronic sources – both free and subscription – as well as giving a few tips and tricks picked up over the years.
So if you found an old stock or bond certificate in a relative’s papers, or you are interested in the company that made that cool item you found while antiquing, this class might be for you!
If you want to attend, you can register for the Historical Company Research Webinar.
Individuals requiring accommodations for any of these events are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
*You will receive a Zoom link prior to the webinar*
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