- There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)
- Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]
- Students from the College of William and Mary found 30 forgotten boxes which tell the story of Maggie Lena Walker, the first African American woman to own a bank. [via Washington Post]
- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery adds President Obama to their America's Presidents exhibit. [via WJLA]
- The first American-born (and Smithsonian-born) panda, Bao Bao, is learning new languages, eating new food, and getting ready to have her own cubs in China. [via NY Times]
- Who knew? The world's largest collection of (gorgeous) florescent rocks is in New Jersey at the Sterling Mill Mining Museum. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- A peek inside the Newberry Library's Women's Marches archive. [via SAA]
- Yale Libraries has centralized their digital preservation work to keep up with at-risk born-digital collections across their libraries and museums. [via The Signal/LOC]
- A look at archivists preparing materials related to Orson Welles' unfinished 1970's film, The Other Side of the Wind, to be shipped for production. [via Indie Wire]
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