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Donation helps illuminate daily life in 19th century Alaska

...bitters."The Alaska Commercial Company donated the documents last month to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library, which is working to record and parse through the details of the intriguing collection. They provide a deeper understanding...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-25/donation-helps-illuminate-daily-life-19
State
Project Jukebox website features oral history of Alaska courts

The Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska has completed its latest multi-media oral history website, Judges of Alaska Project Jukebox.The...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-04/project-jukebox-website-features-oral-his
Art
Alaska Project Jukebox features history of dog mushing

The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has completed its latest multimedia oral history website: Dog Mushing in Alaska Project...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-20/alaska-project-jukebox-features-history
Local
Looking back, moving forward: Cy Peck Jr. reflects on his life in pictures

...also conducted many interviews while with the station, a collection that has been copied to permanent files at the Rasmuson Library.His on-air voice also led to an opportunity of a different kind, one that would dramatically change his life...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-07-06/looking-back-moving-forward-cy-peck-jr-re
Art
First annual Ted Stevens Day well received

...on the Winner Creek Trail.Fairbanks unveiled an exhibit at the Senator Ted Stevens Gallery inside the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The exhibit is titled "Ted Stevens and Alaska Statehood: The Process and...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-23/first-annual-ted-stevens-day-well-recei
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Fall season preview

...stories from Alaskans about their history," with William Schneider, anthropologist, curator of oral history, UAF Rasmuson Library Oct. 1: "Juneau's Government: Should we throw it out and start over?" with Jonathan Anderson, UAS associate...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090210/art_703933778.shtml
Arts
Alaskans remember climber, photographer as a pioneer

...donated his personal diaries, expedition logbooks, Alaska correspondence and more than 9,000 negatives to the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Carl Benson, a retired professor of geophysics, knew the Washburns for...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011507/sta_20070115012.shtml
News
TV documentary chronicles AK's road to statehood

...100 hours of interviews have already been transcribed and archived at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. Letzring also relied heavily on archived documents, photos and artifacts. He pored over personal photo collections...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020606/sta_20060206010.shtml
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Oral historians record and then protect Alaskan's words

...started in 1988 when the Oral History Program, part of the Alaska and Polar Regions Department of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, faced budget cuts and looked for self-contained ways to develop uses for taped interviews. A graduate student...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031202/sta_oralhistory.shtml
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University's new supercomputer lets users walk into virtual world

...supercomputing center recently finished installing the lab, a Mechdyne MD Flex system, in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library. The project was funded with a Next Generation Internet grant. The staff last week offered the first official demonstration...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/033103/sta_university.shtml
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