About: Books and Periodicals

The Alaska Book and Periodical Collection includes scholarly and literary works, travel literature, dissertations, professional journals, magazines, and microfilmed newspapers emphasizing all aspects of life in Alaska and more generally covering the circumpolar North and Antarctica.

Besides materials in English, the collection includes works in Russian, German, French, Danish, and many other languages.

In addition to coverage of contemporary circumpolar issues, the collection's particular strengths include:

• works by and about Alaska Native and circumpolar Native peoples; 
• works on Arctic and Antarctic exploration by all nations; 
• works on Russian expansion into Siberia and Alaska;
• memoirs of life in Alaska, both commercially published and self-published; 
• Alaskan cookbooks, both commercially published and "fundraisers" issued by community groups and organizations; 
• the literature of Alaskan tourism; 
• books about the North written for children.

Katherine Arndt, Alaska and Polar Regions Bibliographer, Curator of Rare Books and Rare Maps
klarndt@alaska.edu
Phone: 907-474-6671