PROFESSOR EMERITUS MARVIN W. FALK is semi-retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he continues to edit his "Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series" for the University of Alaska Press. Trained in the history of Europe, he came to UAF to work as a bibliographer, developing the university library's special collection on Alaska and the Polar Regions and teaching courses in history and northern studies. He later became Curator of Rare Books and began publishing a series of historical reference works on Alaska, including articles, cartobibliographies, and scholarly translations...