With the help of SI's Museum Conservation Institute, the Cullman Library has detected arsenic (but no old lace) in the binding of a 17th-century insect encyclopedia. It’s under wraps now. [via SIL Unbound]
Liza Mundy sheds light on the women of the Venona project. Working during the Cold War, these codebreakers decrypted Soviet messages in total secrecy. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
The MoMA Archives' database of digitized records, formerly for staff only, is now open to the public! Browse MAID here. [via MoMA]
A new collective will amplify the voices and work of Latin American and Latinx archivists. Read about the mission of Archivistas en Espanglish in Spanish or English. [via librarieswehere]
Archaeologists found an adorable octopus on the floor of an ancient bathhouse in Arta, Greece! [via Colossal]
The Invisible Histories Project, headed by archivist-historian Joshua Burford, is collecting the materials of LGBTQ history in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. [via INFOdocket]
Poets on poets! Listen to new recordings from the Library of Congress’s Poetry of America series. [via LC Blog]
Explore new facets of portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery’s upcoming two-day symposium. The free event in Washington, DC will accompany the release of Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture, NPG’s upcoming book of essays. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
Bei Bei turned three on August 22! Watch him enjoy his panda diet-friendly birthday cake below. [via NZP News Archive]
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