Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 13-108
Smithsonian Institution
Website Records, 2009-2012
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting Facebook accounts maintained throughout the Smithsonian Institution (SI). Facebook is a third-party social networking site used for interaction with the general public. In addition to general SI-wide accounts, many of which are managed by the Office of Public Affairs, the accession documents the individual accounts of museums, research centers, and programmatic units throughout SI. Materials include screenshots of a portion of the "Wall," general information screens, photographs, event listings, and notes. The majority of the accounts were captured in March 2012, though a handful were captured as early as November 2011 and as late as August 2012. In general, approximately 2 months of content was captured; however, accounts that included a significant amount of original content were captured going back to the beginning of the account or the last date the account was captured. In the spring of 2012, Facebook began converting institutional accounts from the "Wall" format to the "Timeline" format and examples of both formats can be seen in this accession. Materials are in electronic format.
The unit responsible is listed, followed by the Facebook name, the date of earliest captured wall post, and the date of capture.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lunder Conservation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum. Luce Foundation for American Art
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.)
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Lemelson Center
- Museum Conservation Institute
- National Anthropological Archives
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
- National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- National Postal Museum (U.S.)
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Smithsonian Affiliations (Program)
- Smithsonian Associates
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Books (Publisher)
- Smithsonian Institution. Archives
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Institution. Global Volcanism Program
- Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
- Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Smithsonian Latino Center
- Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Human Origins Program
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Ocean Portal
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Catalog of American Portraits
- Smithsonian Associates. Art Collectors Program
- Smithsonian Associates. Jazz Café
- Smithsonian Associates. Studio Arts Program
- Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation
- Smithsonian Channel
- Smithsonian Enterprises
- Smithsonian Institution. Asian Pacific American Program
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement. Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Smithsonian Institution. Scholarly Press
- Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Enterprises. Smithsonian Journeys
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Bocas del Toro Research Station
- Archives of American Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. ArtLab+
- O. Orkin Insect Zoo
- Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History)
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Fellowships and Internships
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Human Resources
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Smithsonian Institution. Accessibility Program
- Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
- Biodiversity Heritage Library Consortium
- Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Branch
- Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
- Smithsonian Associates. Discovery Theater
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Galeta Point Marine Laboratory
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Facebook (Electronic resource)
- Smithsonian Magazine
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-108, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records