Published Mar 31, 2023 In March 29 interview with Petroleum News, Rebecca Logan, CEO of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, said the “end game” of the newly formed Alaska Oil & Gas Historical Society is a physical museum.
Logan and other Alliance members helped form the new non-profit.
“Alaska is the only oil-producing state that doesn’t have a historical society,” she said.
“In our first year we will be focused on founding members, collecting papers, pictures, books and the most important project will be our oral history project. We are working with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks on that project,” Logan said.
“A lot of the people we want to interview are in their 90s. UAF has a fantastic oral history department, so they are going to be doing most of work. We’ll give them the names of the people we want interviewed and they’ll do the interviews, editing and archive.”
In the first two years the society will be working on several things, some of which are as follows:
- Begin collecting previously recorded or in-person oral history from industry pioneers. - Establish the long-term membership scheme and solicit donations. - Secure an Anchorage-based facility for temporary storage and archiving the collection. - Hire an archivist to implement the society’s system for CRM and cataloging of the collection
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