A few days ago, I blogged about the closing of several National Archives branches. One of those included the branch in Anchorage, Alaska. Now it looks like some of the records will be staying in Alaska.
The following teaser is from an article by James Brooks, posted in the April 4 edition of juneauempire.com:
Alaska’s archivists and historians are gaining ground in a fight to keep federal records in the state, but the Anchorage office of the National Archives and Records Administration is still set to close by the end of the year.
On Wednesday, Alaska State Library director Linda Thibodeau told the Alaska Historical Commission that negotiations are under way to keep roughly one quarter of the archive’s 12,000 boxes of records.
The remaining 9,000 boxes, which contain documents on topics as varied as village schools and the U.S. Coast Guard, are scheduled to move to the National Archives office in Seattle.
“We are going to be — that’s a sure thing — taking in 1,000 boxes of Alaska Railroad records,” Thibodeau told the commission.
Negotiations are under way for 2,000 boxes of territorial court records to also be transferred to the state archives in Juneau.
