- This past week the Nationa Postal Museum celebrated its 20th Anniversary. [via Pushing the Envelope, NPM]
- Out and about this weekend? If you happen to be in Winchester, Virginia stop by the Cat Tail Run School for Bookbinding Arts to learn about how books are made and how to preserve them. [via Washington Post]
- The Library of Congress holds many rare books, of particular interest to some may be Otieno, by Barack H. Obama, President Obama's father. [via Library of Congress blog]
- The Wikipedia edit-a-thons continue, this one was at the Smithsonia American Art Museum. [via The New York Times]
- This past week the National Archives released the 2012 Records Management Self-Assessment (4th annual) report which presents the results of the annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) taken by Federal agencies. [via InfoDocket]
- A couple of projects work checking out: Chicago Collections Consortium and Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto: A Digital Monument. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig and Jennifer Wright]
- Not just a car guy, Chris Wilson at the National Museum of American History, shares about a lesser known side of Henry Ford. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- Staff at the National Zoological Park are on watch as female giant panda Mei Xiang may be pregnant. [via National Zoological Park]
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