Alaska Resources Library and Information Services (ARLIS)

Publications and Records on ARLIS and Its History

Government Documents

Date	Author	Title
1972	United States Department of the Interior. Office of the Secretary	News Release: Secretary Morton Completes Withdrawal of Almost 79 Million Acres for Study as Potential Additions to National Park, Forest, Refuge and Rivers Systems The actions described in this September 13, 1972, news release were in accordance with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and precipitated the call the following month for a natural resources library in Alaska. ARLIS call number: S930.U6 1972
1972 or before	United States Bureau of Land Management. Departmental Library	Recommendations for the Establishment of a Library/Information Resource Data Center--Alaska State Office Cited in the memorandum dated October 12, 1972. No known copy available at this time despite inquiries made in August 2023.
1972	United States Department of the Interior. Office of the Secretary (Rogers C.B. Morton)	Establishment of Natural Resources Library in Alaska Original document. This reproduction is difficult to read. Transcription of document The original secretarial order of October 12, 1972 establishing a federal natural resources library in Anchorage. It requests the establishment and operation of such a library under the Bureau of Land Management. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44U6 1972
1980	United States	Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, PL 96-487. Section 1305: Cooperative Information/Education Centers Though a library is not explicitly mentioned, this Section authorizes the Secretary in consultation with federal agencies to plan for such centers in Anchorage and Fairbanks for visitors. ARLIS call number: KF3635.A328198A2 1983 (available in several resources)
1986	United States. Bureau of Land Management	Organizational Change Proposal Original document Transcription of document A proposal was written to transfer Alaska Resources Library in Anchorage, Alaska, from the U.S. Department of the Interior to the Alaska State Office of the Bureau of Land Management effective January 1, 1987. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44U59 1986
2007	Murkowski, Lisa	Alaska Resources Library and Information Services Fee Authorization Act of 2007 (Draft) "A bill to authorize federal agencies participating in the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services to collect fees for goods and services provided by the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services" introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski to the U.S. Senate, 2007. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44U63 2007

Reports About ARLIS for Internal Use

Date	Author	Title
1997		Alaska Natural Resources Library Group Reinvention Laboratory : Interim Report. [Anchorage, Alaska] : [Alaska Resources Library and Information Services], [1997] "October 1, 1997." ARLIS call number: Z733.A44A5 1997
2002	Dunn, Sandy; Malyshev, Nina	Alaska Resources Library and Information Service Organizational Assessment: Final Report and Recommendations, by Sandy Dunn and Nina Malyshev. [Anchorage, Alaska] : [Alaska Resources Library and Information Services], [2002] "January 28, 2002." ARLIS call number: Z733.A44D86 2002

Date

Author

Title

1997

Alaska Natural Resources Library Group Reinvention Laboratory : Interim Report.

[Anchorage, Alaska] : [Alaska Resources Library and Information Services], [1997]

"October 1, 1997."

ARLIS call number: Z733.A44A5 1997

2002

Dunn, Sandy; Malyshev, Nina

Alaska Resources Library and Information Service Organizational Assessment: Final Report and Recommendations, by Sandy Dunn and Nina Malyshev.

[Anchorage, Alaska] : [Alaska Resources Library and Information Services], [2002]

"January 28, 2002."

ARLIS call number: Z733.A44D86 2002

Articles, Brochures, and Pamphlets

Several articles tell about the circulating taxidermy items (furs, skulls, bird mounts), animal replicas/models, and educational kit collection. Most of these items are no longer owned by ARLIS. The few that remain are on public display, but do not circulate Many of these previously owned items are available at the Anchorage office of Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Date	Author	Title
1997		"Alaska Resource Libraries." Page 11 in: People Land & Water, Volume 6, number 2 (February 1997). Washington, DC : United States Department of the Interior, [1997] This monthly news magazine published for employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior carries a blurb (page 11) under the title "Alaska Resource Libraries" about the Department starting a reinvention laboratory to address library services in Alaska's natural resources. This plan was realized later in October 1997 as Alaska Resources Library and Information Services. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44P4 1997 (full news issue; see page 11 for this article)
1998		"ARLIS Opens, Expands Research Horizons." Pages 1 and 3 in: Restoration Update, Volume 5, number 1 (January/February 1998). Anchorage, AK : Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, 1998. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44A75 1998 (individual article) ARLIS call number: GC1552.P75R49 (full newsletter issue)
1998	Braund-Allen, Juli; Sokolov, Barbara	"Alaska Resources Library and Information Services," by Juli Braund-Allen, Barbara Sokolov. Pages 201-206 in: International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. Annual Conference (24th : 1998 : Reykjavík, Iceland). Electronic information and publications. Fort Pierce, Fla. : IAMSLIC, 1999. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44B728 1999
2001	Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)	2001 Awards for Museum and Library Service. Washington, DC : Institute of Museum and Library Services, [2001?] See the chapter "ARLIS: The Alaska Resources Library and Information Service" on pages 4-5. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44A122 2001
2002	Braund-Allen, Juli; Carle, Daria O.	"Alaska Resources Library and Information Services: Building Community in the Forty-Ninth State," by Juli Braund-Allen and Daria O. Carle. Pages 119-123 in: Reference & User Services Quarterly, Volume 42, number 2 (winter 2002). ARLIS call number: Z733.A44B73 2002
2002		"Alaska Information Consortium Wins National Library Honor." Page 3 in: People Land & Water, Volume 8, number 8 (January/February 2002). Washington, DC : United States Department of the Interior, [2002] An article in this monthly news magazine (published for employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior) tells that ARLIS has received the 2001 National Award for Museum and Library Service and gives a short overview of the library. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44A46 1997 (full news issue; see page 3 for this article)
2004	Carle, Daria O.; Braund-Allen, Juli	"Alaska Resources Library and Information Services: Pioneering Partnerships on the Last Frontier", by Daria O. Carle and Juli Braund-Allen. Pages 107-133 in: Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries / Rita Pellen, William Miller, editors. -- Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, c2004. Co-published and mirrored simultaneously in the journal: Science & Technology Libraries, Volume 24, numbers 1/2 (2003). Online access through ScholarWorks@UA (cited as 2008 and downloads as a Microsoft Word file). Also available through the electronic book or through the journal is possible through a library computer at ARLIS or the UAA/APU Consortium Library or through Google Books (with authorized access). ARLIS call number: Z733.A44D3 2004 (article) UAA/APUA Consortium Library call number: Z675.T3 I485 2004 (entire book)
2004		PNLA Quarterly, Volume 68, number 2 (winter 2004) This issue of PNLA Quarterly features four articles written by ARLIS regular and temporary staff members. They wrote chiefly about cataloging at ARLIS and the hiring of temporary catalogers funded by grant money in 2003 and 2004. Contents: Cataloging Alaska. By Lisa C. McDaniels, Kitty P. Benson, Nicole M. Jackelen, Sandra R. Macke, Catherine A. Miller, Corey T. O’Halloran, Julie Moore Iliff, and Cathy S. Vitale. -- Pages 8-10, 21-22 Hiring from a Distance : Bringing Cataloging Interns to Alaska. By Julie Moore Iliff, Cathy S. Vitale, Pres Winslow, Lisa C. McDaniels. -- Pages 11-14 Cataloging : It’s All About Connecting People With Information. By Julie Moore Iliff. -- Page 15 Malingering at ARLIS. By Cathy S. Vitale. -- Page 16 ARLIS call number: Z733.A44P17 2004
2007	Kazzimir, Ed	"Library School Graduates Called to Alaska," text and photographs by Ed Kazzimir. Pages 6-7 in: Newspoke (Juneau, Alaska : 1987), Vol. 20, number 4 (Oct./Dec. 2007). Two temporary catalogers (and recent library school graduates) were hired from "The Outside" using project funding. They discuss predicaments in cataloging technical literature and their adjustment to life in Alaska. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44K29 2007
2009	Carle, Daria O.; Kazzimir, Edward; Rozen, Celia M.	COMMFISH: All About Alaska's Commercial Fisheries Collections, by Daria O. Carle, Edward Kazzimir, Celia M. Rozen Pages 3-17 in: International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. Annual Conference (34th : 2008 : Suva, Fiji). Sustainability In a Changing Climate. -- Newport, Oregon : IMSLIC, 2009. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44C325 2009
2013		"Digital Gas Pipeline Library Launched." Page 6 in: Petroleum News (Anchorage, Alaska), Vol. 18, number 1 (January 6, 2013). This article announces the launching of a digital library initiated by Larry Persily, and which later became The Pipe Files--Alaska Gas Line, a repository of electronic documents and special online catalog for those documents (they cover the natural gas industry and proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline). Not available online through ARLIS due to copyright restrictions. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44D5 2013
2015	Cable News Network (CNN)	The Library That Checks Out Dead Animals. Video duration: 1 minute, 51 seconds. Issued in the video series: Great Big Story. Originally produced and published online in 2015 by Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta. Since 2020, distribution has been through Whynow Media in London. Online access through the Great Big Story website or through the "Great Big Story" YouTube channel. The World's Most Magnificent Libraries. In 2017, the video about ARLIS was combined with other "Great Big Story" videos about interesting libraries around the world to create a new video called "The World's Most Magnificent Libraries" (duration: 13 minutes, 5 seconds). The ARLIS feature is the first one presented. In May 2024, part of the original video about ARLIS along with commentary about it were included in a television broadcast by John Oliver (listed under 2024 below).
2015	Caldwell, Suzanna	"Check Out This Stuff : Need a Wolf Fur? A Puffin Pelt? All You Need Is a Library Card and a Visit to the ARLIS Collection", by Suzanna Caldwell. Pages A1 and A6 in: Alaska Dispatch News, October 6, 2015 Not available online through ARLIS due to copyright. Article is available in microfilm and online through NewsBank service (check with your library). ARLIS call number: Z733.A44C25 2015
2015	Inskeep, Steve	Check Out What You Can Borrow From a Library In Alaska. Podcast duration: 1 minute, 34 seconds. Originally broadcast on NPR's podcast series "Morning Edition" on October 7, 2015. NPR journalists Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne interview Celia Rozen of ARLIS about the circulating furs, skulls, and mounts.
2015	Rozen, Celia	ARLIS--Furs, Skulls, Mounts, Kits and So Much More, by Celia Rozen. Online article in: Alaska Fish & Wildlife News, November 2015 Online access through the ARLIS Document Server (a PDF reproduction) or through the online magazine. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44R742 2015
2016		"Susitna Doc Finder From ARLIS". Page 2 in: Friday Bulletin : News From the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums, August 2021 A half-page notice about the launch of the Susitna Doc Finder, a special online catalog for documents pertaining to the Susitna Hydroelectric Power Project and the later Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project. This notice is not cataloged and not printed out. Please consult the online PDF using the link above.
2017	Rozen, Celia M.; Woods, Helen; Kazzimir, Ed	"Things Collections, Alaska-Style : Furs, Skulls, Mounts," by Celia Rozen, Helen Woods, and Ed Kazzimir ; photographs by Ed Kazzimir. Chapter 15 (pages 201-224) in: Audio Recorders to Zucchini Seeds : Building a Library of Things / Mark Robinson and Lindley Shedd, editors. -- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, c2017. Not available online through ARLIS due to copyright. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44R744 2017 (Chapter 15 only) ARLIS call number: Z688.N6A93 2017 (entire book)
2019	Nalewicki, Jennifer	"This Library in Anchorage Lends Out Taxidermic Specimens : All You Need to Check Out a Snowy Owl or a Mounted Rockfish Is a Library Card." Page 128 in: Smithsonian Magazine, April 18, 2019 (Travel section). ARLIS call number: Z733.A44N25 2019
2019		"Make Way for Ducklings!" Page 128 in: Reader's Digest (October 2019). This is a short notice in reference to the article about the ARLIS taxidermy collection that appeared in Smithsonian Magazine (April 18, 2019). See the blurb on page 128 at the end of "The Genius Section". Not available online through ARLIS due to copyright restrictions. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44M3 2019
2021	Rozen, Celia; Henley, Jon	"ADF&G's Library : It's Always Been There But It's Always Evolving!", by Celia Rozen and Jon Henley. Online article in: Alaska Fish & Wildlife News, August 2021 Online access through the ARLIS Document Server (a PDF reproduction) or through the online magazine. ARLIS call number: Z733.A44R74 2021
2024	HBO	Video recording with multiple viewing options. Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) -- YouTube (free on Internet). Video duration: 27 minutes, 53 seconds. May 5, 2024: Public Libraries -- Max (HBO) website (streaming subscription fee is required). Video duration: 39 minutes. An episode of the late-night talk and satire television program (Season 11, Episode 10): Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. This episode, hosted by John Oliver, was originally broadcast on May 5, 2024, on the cable TV networks HBO and Max, and was later posted on the "LastWeekTonight" channel on YouTube on May 9, 2024. Part of the original 2015 CNN video about ARLIS (listed above under 2015) is excerpted in this episode devoted to public libraries and the current crisis dealing with censorship, accusing librarians of peddling pornography, threats to end library funding, etc. It would seem ARLIS is featured to illustrate how special and useful libraries can be. The episode begins with the segment about ARLIS followed by brief comment on that video. The host closes the episode with a comical suggested reference to ARLIS. Note: During the closing credits, there is footage from the room in ARLIS where the furs, skulls, skins, and bird mounts used to be housed; this can be viewed through the HBO streamed version. Warning: This program uses explicit language.