Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has a new show on the history of silhouettes, a pre-photography method for capturing an individual's likeness. [via Artsy]"How To File Catalogs" and more Office 101. [via Smithsonian Libraries]What do archives look like before they come to clean boxes and folder arrangement? Yikes. [via Cambridge University Library Special
Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.
Description: BackgroundIn July 2009, Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough spoke of the digital future of museums, libraries, and archives. "We have the capacity to tell the story of America and all its hopes, struggles, triumphs, creativity, contradictions, and courage." "Ultimately, we want to put all of our ... objects ... online so you can access them wherever you live. An overview of
Description: The University of Iowa Libraries released an avant-garde archive online: Digital Dada Library and the Fluxus Digital Collection. [via University of Iowa]The Hirshhorn's new indoor café has 700-year old tree roots for tables, excellent coffee, and a planned outdoor gelato stand opening this summer! [via Washingtonian]Romeo, who may be the last remaining Sehuencas water frog,
Description: Old school filters. [via Smithsonian Libraries]Progress is being made to find the burned remnants of the last slave ship to reach U.S. soil. [via National Geographic]Meet the Library of Congress reference librarian who helps people research their African American genealogy. [via LOC]You can help transcribe the papers of Civil Rights figure, Julian Bond, with the University of