So you’re working on that book. You need some colorful background information on your setting. Say you’ve set a novel in Nome or Fairbanks or Homer in 1954. What did those towns look like? What movies (if there WERE movie theaters) were playing in July of that year? You’d like to look at some news […]
Alaska Research – The Digital Divide: A Guest Post by Michael Catoggio Read More »
Our entire 49 writers “family” wishes you a great new year – with lots of ways to reach those writing goals we know you’re considering as you write your 2011 resolutions. If this is your year to learn and grow, take a class with us: from Storytelling on Jan. 9, to Stirring Words, a food-writing
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Old cans of squid and tuna, labeled in Russian. Con artist Soapy Smith’s pocket watch, engraved with an elk. A catalog of Gold Rush-era ads, providing clues to what life in that fabled era was really like. These were just some of the eclectic treasures seen by visitors who attended librarian Michael Catoggio’s insider’s tour
A peek inside the Alaskana Vault with Michael Catoggio Read More »
Recently, Nancy Lord wrote about our need for libraries. Today, we direct you to an ADN Community Voices blogpost by Bill Sherwonit about the Anchorage public library system’s current challenges. Sherwonit says, It’s not like local libraries and their staffs are living high on the hog. If the Daily News is correct and Sullivan’s proposed
Libraries in peril, plus an upcoming tour Read More »
By Michael Catoggio Special Collections Librarian, Loussac Library About a month into my new job, I picked up the ringing phone and said “This is Michael in the Alaskana section here at Anchorage Public Library.” A familiar voice replied, “Is this the Michael I think it is?” I had been out of the state the
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