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.

How does one climb from working as a clerk typist to being appointed second-in-command at the Smithsonian? Meet Carmen E. Turner.

Eleanor McMillan, Conservator, Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1963–94, supervised conservation projects and educational and training programs.  Although she began as a generalist, McMillan became the first paper conservator in the laboratory. After retirement, she provided initial funding for the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation and donated her 1965 Ford Mustang to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. #Groundbreaker

Choosing the right treatment method can be a challenge—especially when mass interventions are needed on a tight deadline.

Office of Executive Assistant to the Secretary in the east wing of the Smithsonian Institution, or Castle, April 10, 1912, with John U. Perkins, Harry Woodward Dorsey (chief clerk), and James G. Traylor (appointment clerk), SIA RU000095, SIA_000095_B37_F02_008.

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.

He said, “Have a chocolate. They’re good for librarians.” I said, “I’m not a librarian. I’m an editor.”

Ruth O. Selig served in various capacities at the Smithsonian between 1975 and 2010, including as Executive Officer for Programs in the Office of the Provost, Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for the Sciences, Special Assistant to the Director of the National Museum of Natural History, and Public Information Specialist in the Department of Anthropology. Among her many accomplishments, Selig is the co-founder of the Anthropology for Teachers Program and its corresponding publication, AnthroNotes. #Groundbreaker

Posters at the Smithsonian feature a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.

N.G. Morrison in section of new steel bookstacks in library at east end of Great Hall in the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, November 21, 1914.