New books

We just received several new books, including three dictionaries published by Sealaska Heritage Institute.

• Dictionary of Tlingit, by Keri Edwards
• Dictionary of Alaskan Haida, by Jordan Lachler
• Dictionary of Shm'algyack, by Donna May Roberts

We also now have a copy of Bill Bright's Native American Placenames of the United States. This volume contains information on many Alaskan names of Native origin. ANLC faculty Lawrence Kaplan and James Kari are consulting editors.

Alutiiq language materials

The Archive just received a deposit of Alutiiq language materials prepared by the Native Village of Afognak with funding from the Administration for Native Americans. The materials include a curriculum workbook, a teacher's guide, and several story books. Materials have been adapted for the Kodiak dialect from materials originally prepared in the Chugach dialect. In addition, the materials are supplemented by new recordings. All of these materials can be accessed online at the Alutiiq Language Elementary Curriculum website.

Hughes and Huslia Elders visit ANLA

A group of visitors from Hughes and Huslia visited the Archive on November 12 as part of a Gates of the Arctic National Park repatriation project. More information about this visit, along with some photos, is available on the Talking Alaska blog.

DY volume (finally)

We finally now have a copy of the Dene-Yeniseian volume. I cataloged it as CA973K2010. Needs a spine label.

Dealing with backups of digital files for other organizations

Karen Linnell and Tana Finnestad stopped by today to bring updated digital files for backup from the C'ek'aedi Hwnax project. I transferred these onto the computer but also wanted to upload them to the server for preservation. To facilitate this I created a new, ad-hoc record for the entire set of files: AT-AHF-2010. You can view it at:

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/search/resultDetail.xml?id=AT-AHF-2010

I then put the entire batch of files (150 MB) into a folder titled AT-AHF-2010 and put that into the "Online" folder.

Since I specified a value in the Restrictions field, these files will not actually be accessible to users, but the WILL be preserved.

Automatic synchronization of online files

Online files now synchronize automatically every night. Simply drop the files into the "Online" folder:

D:\DigitalArchive\Online

and they will be uploaded automatically the next even. Files still need to be enclosed in a folder whose title is the same as the identifier of the item.

Comparative Athabaskan

I am working on a short pilot project with Digital Photo services in the Rasmussen Library to begin scanning the paper materials in the archive. To start I cataloged contributions to the Comparative Athabaskan holdings by M. Krauss. 5 boxes CA961K1961- CA961K1983 were delivered to the "scanner" this morning.