{"id":1876,"date":"2024-02-22T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:54:06","slug":"learn-about-fur-rondy-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2024\/02\/22\/learn-about-fur-rondy-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about Fur Rondy at the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fur Rondezvous winter festival kicks off tomorrow, Friday, February 23, with 10 days of<br \/>\nactivities and entertainment. There\u2019s something for everyone, including the Iditarod ceremonial<br \/>\nstart on Saturday, March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you\u2019re curious about the history of dog mushing in Alaska or want to know more about<br \/>\nsled dog racing. The Consortium Library provides access to excellent resources that can be used<br \/>\nto research many aspects of dog mushing. From our homepage, use <a href=\"https:\/\/uaa.summon.serialssolutions.com\/search?s.q=history+dog+mushing#!\/search?ho=t&amp;include.ft.matches=t&amp;l=en&amp;q=history%20dog%20mushing\">QuickSearch<\/a> or link to any<br \/>\nof our databases to find information. The Newsbank database is a great starting point for both<br \/>\ncurrent and historical news coverage. If you want historical footage, make sure to also explore<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vilda.alaska.edu\/\">Alaska\u2019s Digital Archives<\/a> for archival images of sled dogs and dog mushing.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/vilda.alaska.edu\/digital\/collection\/cdmg21\/id\/8570\/rec\/2\">link<\/a> for a picture of Balto, famous for helping deliver the diphtheria medicine to Nome in 1925.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fur Rondezvous winter festival kicks off tomorrow, Friday, February 23, with 10 days of activities and entertainment. There\u2019s something for everyone, including the Iditarod ceremonial start on Saturday, March 2. Perhaps you\u2019re curious about the history of dog mushing in Alaska or want to know more about sled dog racing. The Consortium Library provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}