Results for "Animal Connections: Our Journey Together (Blog)"
Thank you, Volunteers!
- Date: April 23, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.
Link Love: 6/14/2013
- Date: June 14, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Combining Interests: You never know what you might find at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Date: January 31, 2012
- Description: A Smithsonian Institution Archives volunteer discusses a Triceratops video collection that also relates to his work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Between the Lines with the Smithsonian Transcription Center Volunteers
- Date: February 24, 2015
- Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.
Web Archiving Update, October 2014
- Date: October 7, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A progress report on the Archives' most recent two years of web archiving.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019
- Date: March 26, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.
Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge
- Date: June 11, 2013
- Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.
Link Love: 6/9/2017
- Date: June 9, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants
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Walking on Broken Glass
- Date: July 22, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7450" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="A broken glass plate negative, Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] We are in the throes of summer here in Washington DC, and that means three things: heat, more heat, and interns. Interns not only allow us to share expertise and experience with newcomers to the field, but also allow
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The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian
- Date: March 27, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.
Flattened Between the Pages
- Date: July 2, 2013
- Description: Memorable illustrations, photographs, and plant and animal specimens found pressed between the pages from the Field Book Project.
Outstanding Women in Ornithology: Florence Merriam Bailey
- Date: March 25, 2014
- Description: With women’s history month upon us, SIA would like to recognize ornithologist and nature writer Florence Merriam Bailey.