The Alaska State Library receives $1.1M annually from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve library services across Alaska, which we award as grants to libraries. Every five years, the State Library must submit a five year plan to IMLS on how we will use these funds to enhance library services across Alaska. All grants awarded by the State Library must address at least one of the activities in the plan.
We need your feedback! Please email your comments to eed.library.grants@alaska.gov by the end of the day Monday, June 20.
The Honoring Alaska Native Heritage project features presentations on topics of interest to tribal librarians and librarians who serve Alaska Native communities.
As a direct result of SLED credentials being posted on public web pages, we are changing the SLED (https://sled.alaska.edu) password on June 27, 2022.
Credentials were mailed to public library directors as identified through the most recent Public Library Report.
If you work in a library, school, archives or museum and would like the new password BEFORE the change, please e-mail daniel.cornwall@alaska.gov (preferably from your work e-mail) with the following: Name, Institution, Position, Email. Daniel will email you the NEW credentials, which will work starting 6/27/2022.
Starting 6/27/2022, you will be able to request the new credentials in two ways:
If your phone number has a 907 area code, you may call 1-800-440-2919 and hear the id and the new password.
Learn more and register for a seat. Once your application is approved, the Public Library Coordinator will register you for your Infopeople course. You'll receive an email confirming your registration.
A four-day video workshop at the Alaska State Museum gave students a chance to produce mini-documentaries using footage gathered at the museum. Their theme was fisheries, tied into the museum’s current Mug Up cannery exhibit. The project was funded by the City and Borough of Juneau and the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museum.
Saxton said that she was thrilled with the high turnout of hungry minds readily gathering information. She said that she was thankful for Guild members' time and felt like the class had a lot to offer.
"The authors were just fantastic. They all had unique perspectives about the actual process of being published," Saxton said. "The museum does such a good job of locating these kind of different interest groups across the community and making it accessible."
"Alaska Writers Guild visits Wasilla Museum" by Jacob Mann, June 16, 2022. Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
Bayli Berry is the access services specialist for the Kodiak Public Library. On a recent Tuesday, she set the scene and laid out the escape room rules before my team gave it a go.
“You and your partner are mining for gold in the mountains. When you strike it big a massive gold nugget. Your partner insists on keeping it safe, he starts acting very suspiciously and keeps the gold nugget locked up. He just stepped away from camp and said he’ll be back in one hour, now’s the time to find the gold nugget and escape,” Berry said.
"Kodiak Public Library launches new escape room" by Dylan Simard, June 10, 2022. KMXT.org.
Objects back home in Alaska after a years-long process under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Nine objects of cultural patrimony removed from Wrangell, Alaska in the 1940s are now back home in the hands of the Naanya.aayí clan after a years-long process.
These objects include a Killerwhale Hat from the original Chief Shakes House Flotilla of Killerwhale Hats (pictured right); Killerwhale Flotilla Chilkat Robe; Killerwhale Stranded on a Rock Robe; Mudshark Hat; three Mudshark Shirts; Killerwhale with a Hole Fin; and a Storm Headdress.
"Nine objects of cultural patrimony repatriated to the Naanya.aayí Clan" by Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, June 10, 2022. Indian Country Today.
Monday afternoon, the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak laid to rest the remains of Alutiiq ancestors. As the sun shone over the city cemetery, community members gathered for a service commemorating the return of four people.
Sun’aq Tribe staff member Randy Boskofsky made a large wooden cross to mark the grave and held it during a service led by the Father Innocent Dresdow of the Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Cathedral. The Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers sang three songs, including two ancestral pieces returned to the Alutiiq community by the Tlingit people of Sitka. Alutiiq Museum Executive Director April Counceller spoke about the importance of repatriation and community members placed flowers in the grave.
"Sun’aq Tribe and Alutiiq Museum Lay Four Ancestors to Rest" By Alutiiq Museum,
Alaska's Koyukuk River was the site of an interesting discovery. During a float down the river, a group of University of Virginia professors spotted a woolly mammoth tusk along the riverbank. The tusk was originally discovered by the Coldfoot Camp and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The group from UVA had the tusk pointed out to them.
Adrienne Ghaly, a postdoc in Environmental Humanities, was able to document the moment in a photograph...
"Seeing an exposed mammoth tusk embedded in the riverbank was really arresting," says Ghaly. "It's extinction and climate change in a single image."
"A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image" by Matt Adams, June 14, 2022. NPR.org.
Per capita, Alaska is the most-scammed state in the country, according to the state’s Department of Law. So far this year, there have been close to a thousand reports of fraud. As CoastAlaska’s Angela Denning reports, some scammers pretend to be local businesses, requiring residents to stay extra-vigilant...
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is a U.S. government program run by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program to help low-income households pay for internet service and connected devices like a laptop or tablet.
You are likely eligible if your household’s income is below 200% of the Federal Poverty Line, or if you or someone you live with currently receives a government benefit like SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, WIC, Pell Grant, or Free and Reduced-Price Lunch.
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