The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

A few attempts to roll back the color shift on faded prints from 1955

Check out a few warm weather photos from the newest digitization efforts of our Field Book Project team.

The equipment, technology, and process that goes into digitizing field books, from an intern’s perspective.

Stereo slides present unique challenges for digitization. Here are a few tips for documenting your collection.

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.

Another successful American Institute of Conservation Conference is in the book for the Smithsonian Institution Archives Conservation Team.

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

See how one collection of field books yielded a variety of challenges and treatments for the Archives’ conservators.

Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific expeditions. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt’s correspondence reveals some of the difficulties he encountered between 1925 and 1930 while traveling for his research with the Smithsonian.