Public Services Librarian Claire Imamura offered a short report and some photos of our Division's Youth Art Activity for March:
We had a fun painting workshop with Linda Infante Lyons on Saturday. The kids had a special exhibit tour with Linda and then created their own mountain and volcano paintings inspired by the simple lines, rounded shapes, and whimsical colors of Linda’s work. A huge thanks to Jackie Manning for arranging Linda’s workshop!
Here are a few scenes from the workshop:
Linda with kids around her Ebb and Flow Exhibit..
Kids painting volcanoes.
If you want to learn more about Ms. Lyons, either visit her exhibit at the Alaska State Museum before May 5, 2018 or visit her artist website.
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The Alaska Historical Collections recently added items to the following collections on Alaska's Digital Archives:
Leonard Delano Photograph Collection. ASL-PCA-594
144 photos online
Original collection includes 11 b&w photographs and 300 nitrate negatives
SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE
Prints and negatives document Delano’s work as a professional photographer in Juneau, 1932 –1936. They include photos of aircraft and boats. Two particular portions of the collection document the raising of the ship the Islander, in 1934, and still images taken during Delano’s employment as a camera operator on the motion picture Call of the Yukon, in 1938.
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David & Mary Waggoner. Photographs and Papers, 1900-1940. ASL-PCA-492
SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE
The collection consists of 299 glass plate negatives created principally by David Waggoner. Another 883 prints are taken from photo albums kept by David and Mary Waggoner. The images depict people and communities in Southeast Alaska,particularly Klawock and Juneau.
The collection also includes an album of 49 photographs relating to the 1929 U.S. Navy Alaska Aerial Survey Expedition, featuring aerial views of communities in Southeast Alaska. It also includes a booklet of photos titled Breaking Ground For The Capitol Building, Juneau, Alaska. September 18, 1929.
Full collection includes 932 b&w photo prints, 299 glass plate negatives, and 133 glass lantern slides (some tinted)
The Alaska Library Association (AkLA) has begun posting files for the 2018 AkLA Conference that took place last week in Anchorage. If you don't see materials from your favorite session, check back in a few days.
A big thanks to Joanna Perensovich of the Sitka Public Library for sharing the news that they had digitized the 215 page finding aid to their Clarence Leroy Andrews Collection. This finding aid was compiled for author James A. Michener for his book Alaska. From the introduction
In preparation for the residency of noted author James Michener on the Sheldon Jackson College campus during 1984 and 1985, President Michael Kaelke asked the library staff to prepare a bibliography of the resources available in the C.L. Andrews Collection. These publications are all properly cataloged in the card catalog files of Stratton Library. This compilation was prepared for Mr. Michener to facilitate his research.
We are most fortunate to have possession of this noteworthy collection. Mr. Clarence L. Andrews, teacher, historian, journalist, and photographer first visited Alaska when he was thirty years of age and remained for more than ten years beginning in 1898. He worked in the customs office as an agent of the U.S. Treasury in Sitka, Skagway and Eagle.
The collection consists of approximately 1900 cataloged volumes. In addition, it includes a number of periodicals, folders of documentation, and newspapers published in and around Alaska. There are voluminous notes relating to the history of Alaska from the early days of exploration and fur trading down to the late 1900s.
Start your exploration of this remarkable finding aid today. If you have a digitized finding aid, digital object or collection that you'd like more people to know about, drop us a line!
What: ALA/ALCTS webinar: Preserving Family Recipes
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 and begins at 10am Alaska Time
This webinar is sponsored by the Preservation Outreach Committee for Preservation Week.
Description: From Uncle’s barbecue sauce to Grandma’s cobbler, family recipes fill us with nostalgia and draw us closer to family—if they have been saved and if they actually work right, that is. So what can you do if a beloved recipe is sketchy, horribly outdated, impossible to read, or unwritten? How can you make sure those old handwritten recipes as well as heirloom photos and kitchen artifacts last for future generations? And did you ever stop to look at your recipes with a historian's eye, exploring what that family recipe may be telling you between the lines? Valerie J. Frey, author of Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions (UGA Press), will explore various aspects of your family's heirloom recipes.
Participants will learn:
Who should attend? This Preservation Week webinar is intended to provide a programming opportunity for public libraries to share with their patrons.
Presenter:
Valerie J. Frey is a writer and archivist from Athens, Georgia with projects focusing on genealogy, local history, storytelling, material culture, and the everyday home life of our ancestors. Valerie holds degrees from the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her archives career began with a Junior Fellowship in the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress and she went on to serve as an archivist at the Georgia Historical Society, the Savannah Jewish Archives, and the Georgia Archives. She now writes full time. Her most recent book, Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions was released in November of 2015 through the University of Georgia Press.
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This webinar is free. To attend this free webinar, simply signup online and you will receive the access link via email.
For additional information and access to the registration link, visit the event page.
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Megan Dougherty, ALCTS Program Officer, Continuing Education at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or mdougherty@ala.org
We agreed to pass along the following information from Library Journal:
Those who register before March 26 will have the opportunity for their library’s design challenges—from one-room fixes to building-wide renovation to new construction—to be workshopped by participating architects, who’ll share their expertise in small breakout sessions.
We’d like to offer your members a special rate of $130 per person for the duration of our registration period. (The full rate is $175 per person.) Please use promo code SLC20 to unlock this rate when registering
Whether or not their library is selected for a workshop/breakout, participants will be able to sign up for breakouts that spur their own imagination and ideas. Beyond the breakout sessions, the day also features a mix of panels—on designing for changing collections, staff roles, and new services—and speed sessions in which attendees can get answers to their own questions from architects and vendors. There’s plenty of time to network with colleagues, as well.
And for those who’d like to join us, there’s a half-day tour of both city and county libraries on April 26, capped by a reception at Salt Lake City Main library. Register online today!
The following items first appeared in ALA News for March 13, 2018
YALSA announces 2018 Teen Read Week™ theme
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will feature “It’s Written in the Stars…READ” as the theme for this year’s Teen Read Week celebration, which will take place October 7-13. Teen Read Week is generously supported in part by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Library staff, afterschool providers and educators can use this theme to encourage teens to think and read outside of the box, as well as seek out fantasy, science fiction and other out-of- this-world reads.
LITA Announces Inaugural Excellence in Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists
The Library and Information Technology Association released its first Excellence in Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Denver. The annotated Lists are designed to assist children, their parents, and librarians in selecting books that use (future) science and technology rather than fantasy or magic.
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