Category: University of Alaska

Historical posts about the University of Alaska – Originally the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines

Rasmuson Library at University of Alaska - Fairbanks carries on the dream of Charles Bunnell

Rasmuson Library at University of Alaska – Fairbanks carries on the dream of Charles Bunnell

The library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks had an inauspicious beginning. According to Ted Ryberg (the university’s librarian in 1970), while the university’s predecessor, the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, began...

College Station and the Toonerville Trolley

  College Station in the mid-1920s. The four miles between the University of Alaska and downtown Fairbanks offers little impediment to modern travelers. However, when the university’s predecessor, the Alaska College of Agriculture and...