Where to find additional EVOS documents and items

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill documents and items are available in a number of formats and locations (as of 25 February 2020):

Digital files available at Alaska Resources Library & Information Services (ARLIS): Over the last several years, the Trustee Council funded a multi-phased digitization project, undertaken to make information available to the public in a digital format that provides accessibility past the lifespan of the Council. Numerous documents have been digitized and indexed to facilitate public and digital access, including:

  • Restoration Plan Final Environmental Impact Statements
  • Project information predating the EVOSTC database, including project files
  • Natural Resource Damage Assessment Files
  • Public-domain EVOS-related Video Files
  • EVOS-related legal documents—these will be available digitally at ARLIS; originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Shoreline Surveys, 1989-1991
  • Public-domain EVOS Photo Files
  • Stream Files—these will be available digitally at ARLIS; originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Alaska Oil Spill Commission Transcripts—these will be available digitally at ARLIS and via the ARLIS website; originals will be accessible at the Archives

Also Available at ARLIS:

  • 6000+ spill-related items in the ARLIS General Collection
  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Public Record
  • Public domain media related to EVOS, including videotapes and photographs—many video files and high-resolution photographs will be available digitally by contacting ARLIS
  • Newspaper clippings related to EVOS—much of this collection is also available via digital databases

The previous FAQs, Links, and Unique Resources at ARLIS document (22 March 2019).

Available at the Alaska State Library:

  • Approximately 900 items from the EVOS Special Collection–these will be available at the Alaska State Library. Roughly 85% of these items are duplicated in the ARLIS General Collection/Digital Collection and are available to the public at ARLIS as well

Available at the Alaska State Archives: Other EVOS- and EVOSTC -related holdings are indexed and will be available at the Alaska State Archives, and include the following:

  • Stream Files—as noted above, these will also be available digitally at ARLIS—originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Coastal Habitat Studies— as noted above, these will also be available digitally at ARLIS; originals and raw data will be accessible at the Archives
  • Sea otter/necropsy files—originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Boat surveys and hydrocarbon analyses—originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Reprint file of articles relevant to oil spill research—much of this collection is available via digital databases; originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Bibliography files of articles relevant to oil spill research—much of this collection is available via digital database; originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • EVOS-related Legal documents— as noted above, these will be available digitally at ARLIS; originals will be accessible at the Archives
  • Media related to EVOS, including audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, and maps—audio and video are digitized for preservation; any digital files and any originals of these items will be available at the Archives; photos and video in the public domain will be available digitally at ARLIS
  • Alaska Oil Spill Commission Transcripts— as noted above, these will be available digitally at ARLIS; originals will be accessible at the Archives

The established procedure for accessing data from the Archives is straightforward, given that the material being sent to the Archives is itemized, easy to identify, and included in a comprehensive index which will be available on the ARLIS website as well as the EVOSTC website, and will be maintained at the Archives as well.

Available at the Geological Materials Center:

Indexes to all documents will be maintained by ARLIS and EVOSTC, and on their respective websites, so that researchers and others may easily identify documents and digital files available at ARLIS, the State Library and the State Archives.

Disposition of the EVOS/EVOSTC Collections to these repositories enables the collections to be protected and retained in perpetuity while remaining accessible in digital and other formats to researchers and the public. EVOSTC document organization and preservation is consistent with the current phase of the Council, and dovetails with the completion of the digitization projects discussed above.