- Mark your calendars, Fall 2015 - The Smithsonian hopes to open the Arts and Industries Building to host special events. [via Washington Post]
- The American Library Association released their State of America's Libraries Report for 2014. [via InfoDocket]
- New technology embraced in the past leads to unitended consequences as paintings conservator, Dawn Rogala, discovers that the cause of cracks in some mid-century paintings was the result of artists' use of newly available at the time commercial paints in their works. [via The Torch, SI]
- Getting dirty - April is National Garden Month and the Smithsonian Gardens has a website, Community of Gardens, that hopes to serve as place for people to share their stories about their gardens. [via Smtihsonian Gardens blog]
- The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature debuted on Library of Congress website this week. [via InfoDocket]
- An important question: "Where is my flying car?" gets answered for the time being as the dream is still very much alive. [via AirSpace blog, NASM]
- The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project to identify, image, transcribe, annotate, and publish all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime; [via InfoDocket]
- The journey of digital collections from donor to repository as told by the Library of Congress. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LC]
- In case you haven't visited your local public library lately, hopefully the video below will inspire you to check it out! [via InfoDocket]
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