King Vulture, NZP, c. 1900, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Image no. MNH-17742.

Link Love: 5/8/2020

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.
May 8, 2020, by Deborah Shapiro

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch has announced a new digital portal for remote learning (--and for studying the National Zoo’s naked mole-rats all day long). [via Lonnie Bunch]

King Vulture, NZP, by Unknown, c. 1900, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, MNH-17742.

In honor of Migratory Bird Day, the National Zoo features some of its recent happy bird tales. [via National Zoo] 

Zzzzb zzzzb zzzb. What's that noise? Oh, it must be those new 3D scans of 17th- and 18th-century globes. [via Hyperallergic]

Commander Nicholas Hunter Heck (left) and Frank Neumann (right) of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Surve

Try your hand at these jigsaw puzzles from Smithsonian Libraries collections! [via SI Libraries]

Science librarian Alison Kelly travels through a century of lemon pie. [via Library of Congress] 

Smithsonian Magazine has debuted a weekly crossword feature! [via Brian Wolly]

Get your Sunday afternoon history kicks with Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks. [via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]

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