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    1. Two African American women on Oprah's stage with

      Link Love: 6/8/2018

      • Date: June 8, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture," a new exhibit highlighting celebrity activist, Oprah Winfrey, opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]Archivists with The Obsidian Collection are digitizing and publishing newspapers that document the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow eras. [via Info

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    3. A screenshot of the Smithsonian’s mobile website as it appears on the Internet.

      Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

      • Date: July 17, 2012
      • Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.

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    5. Link Love: 5/31/2013

      • Date: May 31, 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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    7. Link Love: 7/12/2013

      • Date: July 12, 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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    9. Michael Pahn, Media Archivist, National Museum of the American Indian.

      Who's Answering Your Questions

      • Date: October 16, 2012
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Meet the people who will be answering your questions about your personal archives from 10-5, today, October 17th, 2012.

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    11. Restoring

      Link Love: 12/26/2014

      • Date: December 26, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A find for early animation - Archivists at Norway's National Library discovered a missing animation film, Empty Socks, about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse. [via The National Library of Norway]A fascinating look at the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi, a National Geographic employee who builds camera contraptions for their photographers. [via Proof,

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    13. Info graphic comic of bar chart showing dates on x axis and formats on y axis

      Link Love: 11/3/2017

      • Date: November 3, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The comical infographic of the week that's hitting a nerve with electronic records archivists! [via xkcd]Our National Museum of the American Indian is asking the public to submit design ideas for a memorial honoring American Indian military service. [via Navy Times] The oldest museum of African American culture, the DuSable Museum, was founded by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs in

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    15. Medieval image of black bird with on gold background.

      Link Love: 8/4/2017

      • Date: August 4, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Oh those adorable/creepy Medieval beasts...[via Hyperallergic]Did you miss the Society of American Archivists annual conference? The proceedings are now available for a modest fee! [via SAA]Brought to you by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, track the solar eclipse with their new app. [via Smithsonian Associates]Kind of irresistible: Legos of retro technology. [via

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      #AskAnArchivist 2017: You Asked, We Answered

      • Date: October 19, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On October 4th, 2017, we joined archivists around the U.S. for SAA's #AskAnArchivist on Twitter. We did finger warm-ups and dug up our tips and resources to answer your questions! We gave tips on preserving social media and autograph books. And things got a bit weird when people started sharing their favorite archival biodiversity photos, but fun nonetheless. We hope you enjoy

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    19. Handwritten table called

      Link Love: 4/28/2017

      • Date: April 28, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.

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    21. Rewinding American Archives Month: #ArchivesAVTakeover

      • Date: November 5, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This American Archives Month, we teamed up with archivists and conservators around the Smithsonian for five Instagram takeovers to highlight the breadth of the Institution's audiovisual collections.

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    23. Graphic of kitten popping through ceiling into outer space saying,

      Link Love: 5/26/2017

      • Date: May 26, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe

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