Digital File Migration continues

Just a quick update to let you know that we are making progress migrating digital files to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. As of this time not all files are accessible. That is, you may receive an error when you click to download a digital file. Thank you for your patience while we manage this transition. I'll post an update once the process is complete.

Digital file migration

We are currently in the process of migrating digital files to a new server at the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center. During this process some files may become inaccessible. Once the migration is complete we will be able to make even more media files available, thanks to vastly increased storage space. Thanks for your patience during this transition.

Library school scholarship for Native Americans

[Just received the following announcement from the American Indian Library Association]

In 2012, the American Indian Library Association (AILA) will provide a library school scholarship to a qualified American Indian individual in the amount of $2000 for the 2012-2013 academic school year. The scholarship has been named to honor Virginia Mathews, one of the original founders of AILA.

The purpose of the Virginia Mathews Memorial Scholarship shall be to provide tuition to an American Indian individual who lives and works in the American Indian community, and who is enrolled, or has been accepted and will enroll, in a master's degree program at a university with a library and/or information sciences program accredited by the American Library Association.

Further details and scholarship criteria, as well as application forms and instructions, are available at the AILA website at http://www.ailanet.org/activities/lss.htm. All applications, references, and other supporting materials must be received by May 1, 2012.

Lower Tanana Athabascan Place Names

ANLA is pleased to announce the availability of a new online publication: Lower Tanana Athabascan Place Names. Edited by James Kari, this publication provides a comprehensive inventory of indigenous place names from the Lower Tanana region.

In addition to a listing of more than 1000 names with English glosses, this publication includes 3 full-color large-format wall maps in pdf format. A unique feature of this online place names publication is the inclusion of ArcGIS geodatabase files which allow Lower Tanana place names to be incorporated into other digital mapping projects.

All of the associated digital files can be accessed at ANLA Item TN981K2012.

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation Alaska EPSCoR Program.

Conor Daly papers on Alaska Russian

Thanks to Conor Daly we have just received a collection of papers on Alaska Russian. The collection can be accessed at:

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/item.xml?id=RU985D1985

Preparing for digital file migration

Just received word today that everything is now in place to transition live hosting of our digital files to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. While ARSC has been providing secure backup for some time now, a new server will now provided dedicated access. In the new system files which are not accessed often will be stored on tape backup, possibly creating a short delay for users. However, this procedure will essentially remove our capacity limit, solving the problems we ran into last fall which caused us to take most of our audio files offline.

Users should not be directly affected by this migration and will still access digital files from our catalog interface.

New Publication received

Thanks to Igor Krupnik of the Smithsonian Institution ANLA has just received a copy of Faces We Remember / Neqamiqegkaput by Igor Krupnik and Vera Kaneshiro. The book is a catalog of more than 140 historical photographs from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian which have been carefully annotated and identified. The photographs are striking, and the ethnographic information gives context and meaning to what were originally unidentified images.

The book has been cataloged as ANLA Item SY000K2011