The Alaska State Museum will begin regular summer hours, 9 am to 5 pm daily, starting Wednesday, May 9. Summer admission rates begin on May 1 and are $12 for adults, $11 for seniors, and free for people 18 years old and younger. The Alaska State Library and Alaska State Archives’ Richard Foster Reading Room and Research Center is now open on Mondays – new hours are Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm.
The Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board (ASHRAB) is sponsoring a Digitization Archivist Program Grant during summer/fall 2018: a grant venture that will fund a Digitization Archivist’s travel to an Alaskan repository and offer six weeks of hands-on digitization services and training, and assist the institution in becoming a new contributor to Alaska’s Digital Archives. Small to medium-sized Alaskan institutions, such as museums, libraries, tribal organizations, and other non-profit organizations holding archival materials are encourage to apply. Institutions interested in applying should contact Zachary Jones at zachary.jones@alaska.gov for an application. Applications are due May 30, 2018.
On April 28, 2018, Local artist and educator Daniel Todd led a free mask workshop for youth in the Andrew P. Kashervaroff Building classroom.
Using a papier-mache base, students had the opportunity to design and create a mask of their own using strong art elements, principles of design, and a variety of materials. Inspiration will be found by looking at the history and purposes of different cultures where mask making was important to the expression of the people.
We are grateful to have permission to share pictures of the workshop and the resulting masks:
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.
The Alaska State Archives continues to add materials to Alaska's Digital Archives. In the past few weeks they have added the following, among other items:
The photos of logging show clearcut logging activities in the Tongass National Forest and the damage to habitat and salmon streams as documented by Dept. of Fish and Game. The photos of Gov. Cowper show him signing the bill that created Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. The other files, those of the Indian Police, are a sample of the Alaska State Archives holdings related to the Indian Police that functioned primarily in Southeast Alaska from ca. 1884-1920. They show oaths to the office of Indian Policeman, plus some additional paperwork.
During his 16 year tenure with this Division, Jim had been active with the Alaska Historical Society and the Friends of the State Libraries, Archives, and Museums. He was integral in the development of the Alaska’s Digital Archives project, an ongoing and valued statewide resource that provides more than 80,000 digitized images for widespread use. His work within the Division has been invaluable, as has his active support during the planning, construction, and move into the newish Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau. We will miss his kind and calm presence.
Anastasia Tarmann will serve as interim head of the Historical Collections May 1 to June 28. Robert Hudson, Director of Library Services at Upper Iowa University, will take over as permanent head on June 29.
Jim gave us permission to share his contact information. His e-mail address is simard@gci.net. If you'd like to go the old school route in contacting him, write to 503 5th Street, Juneau 99801.
An April 2018 blog post by the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives of the UAF Rasmuson Library shared the happy news of archived radio. From their post:
More than 120 hours of archival recordings from KUAC-FM, the public radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska, are now available for listening online.
The KUAC-FM Audiotapes Collection consists of nearly 950 open-reel audiotapes containing original local KUAC-FM programs from the late 1970s through the 1990s. It is held at the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.
Technicians at the Northeast Document Conservation Center digitized 126 hours of recordings with grant funding provided by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The digital recordings are now available for listening online through the UAF library catalog.
Topics include Arctic policy, climate change, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, whaling, dog mushing, gardening and the arts. Programs contain interviews with Alaska Native leaders as well as Alaska authors, politicians and students.
For additional information, contact Leslie McCartney, 907-474-7737, lmccartney@alaska.edu.
Call for Artists. The Valdez Museum is now accepting exhibit proposals for Summer 2019 through 2021. Deadline: May 25, 2018, 5 PM. See the museum's exhibits page for guidelines and proposal form. If you have questions about this call for artists, contact Andrew Goldstein at 907-835-2764.
The second year VISTA for Thorne Bay Library, Mark Lisowski, applied for and received a $2,000 Interlibrary Cooperation Grant from the Alaska State Library to renovate a small overgrown garden outside of the library and also create a children's garden. The goals of the project were to offer a sustainable supply of healthy foods for library programs, enable children to take part in gardening as a learning experience, expand the library’s collections to include more children's literature on the subject of gardening, and to increase library patronage.
In October of 2017, the volleyball team from the Thorne Bay School volunteered by helping to build a fence around the garden. In March of 2018, two experienced builders volunteered to finish up the project, and with the help of around seven additional volunteers, the fence around the garden area was completed, twelve garden beds were built, and a tool shed was built.
Five of the available gardening beds have already been designated to library gardeners who in return for use of the garden space and materials, have agreed to give a portion of their harvest to the library for use in programming, and to lead one program per year for each bed that they occupy. The library gardeners decide what they want their program to focus on and what age group they would like to target, but all programs must be age appropriate and educate on some aspect of gardening or use of the harvest.
Community support for the Thorne Bay garden project has been amazing. Between the renovation and the gardening itself, 21 individual volunteers have worked on the project, and have the library has received donations of tools and building supplies. The first scheduled garden program was held on Friday, April 27th, and will involve children painting rocks to decorate the garden.
Tudor Elementary, with an enrollment of 346 students, won the 2018 Follett Challenge Grand-Prize for its "Young Global Citizens" entry, which showcases what it means for their students to be global citizens, how it impacts their learning, their perspectives on the world and the impacts they can have on it.
This is a $60,000 grand prize in Follett products and services. This is the second time in three years an Alaskan school has won the grand prize. In 2016 Ben Eielson Jr/Sr in North Pole won.
USDA is accepting applications for grants to fund broadband infrastructure projects in unserved rural communities. USDA is accepting applications through May 14 in the Community Connect program. Grants from $100,000 to $3 million are available to state and local governments, federally-recognized tribes, nonprofits and for-profit corporations. Applicants must be able to provide a 15 percent match on the desired grant amount. See page 11494 of the March 15 Federal Register for details.
DEED’s Child Nutrition Programs unit is looking for school districts, parks and recreation departments, non-profit organizations, and churches to operate Summer Food Service Program feeding sites for children and youth in low-income areas in Alaska. Sponsors are reimbursed with federal funds for each eligible meal served at approved feeding sites. All sponsors receive training and technical assistance from DEED’s Child Nutrition Programs unit prior to starting their Summer Food Service Program, and throughout the program’s duration. Training is available. Applications are due May 15, 2018.
If you have a government information question, you might try asking the folks at Government Information Online.
GIO is a free online information service supported by libraries that participate in the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Depository Library Program. Many are also official depository libraries for other types of governments and public agencies. GIO is sponsored by the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association.
Librarians from a number of institutions who are experts at finding information from government agencies of all levels (local, state, regional, national, international) answer all the questions submitted to GIO.
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