Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

Jennifer Locke Jones is the Chair and Curator of the Armed Forces Division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where she has worked on exhibitions  since 1985. Additionally, she managed reoragnization efforts, fundraising programs, and digitization plans for the museum’s National Numismatics Collection as its Chair between 2012 and 2016. #Groundbreaker

Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted at SIA this past winter.

Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, Washington, D.C., circa 1910s.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

What happens when your digital prints get wet and why is this important? Answers below!

Manjula Kumar was a Project Manager and Project Director in various offices around the Smithsonian, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service and the Center for Education and Museum Studies, between 1985 and 2015. She organized multicultural programming and directed the award process for proposals submitted to the Educational Outreach Fund. #Groundbreaker

A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.

National Zoological Park keeper holds an echidna, also known as a spiny anteater, 1903, by E.F. Keller, SIA RU000095, SIA_000095_B46_F02_013.