Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, Research library at University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States.
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library is the research library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, housing extensive collections across academic disciplines for students and researchers. The facility provides computer workstations, access to over 300 online databases, and dedicated spaces for collaborative work and group study.
The library was founded in 1922 with a small initial collection and grew into a major research facility over the decades. It relocated to its current location in the Fine Arts Complex during the early 1970s, where it has served the university community ever since.
The Alaska and Polar Regions Collections hold historical books and periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, rare books and maps, and the Alaska Film Archives, which posts clips on its own YouTube channel. Project Jukebox combines oral history recordings with film clips, photos and documents on set themes. Since the 2007 closure of Sheldon Jackson College's Stratton Library, this library and the Alaska State Library in Juneau are the main publicly accessible repositories of Alaskan history.
The Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives, with the Alaska Film Archives and Project Jukebox, are the parts most useful to outside visitors; university-affiliated users get the online resources and remote access to over 300 databases. Since the 2007 closure of the Stratton Library at Sheldon Jackson College, this library and the Alaska State Library in Juneau are the main publicly accessible repositories of Alaskan historical material. The building sits in the Fine Arts Complex on the UAF campus in Fairbanks.
The library maintains Project Jukebox, a digital collection that combines recorded oral histories with photographs and documents about Alaska and polar regions. This resource allows visitors to hear firsthand accounts from people who experienced life in these remote areas.
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