Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,
Description: Nothing brings a couple together like scientific research, right? Celebrate Valentine’s Day by exploring a love so deep, new species were named about it.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Arch Bridge, Keene NH, by Genuine Curteich, Chicago IL, Photographic postcard, Keene Public Library, Resource Identifier: hsykbrg008."][/caption] Wahoo! New folks on the Flickr Commons: The Reykjavik Museum of Photography and the Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA] This year is the
Description: Gorgeous rights-free illustrations of caterpillars from a German entomological by Christian Friedrich Vogel volume in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [via Public Domain Review]A look at the first multispecies experimental coral microcosm in the world installed at our National Museum of Natural History in 1980. [via Ocean Portal]You can explore over 30,000 NY Historic
Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer
Description: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical
Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s
Description: When Mickey Mouse was used in war propaganda. [via National Museum of American History]NASA is on the search for new planets. [via BBC]The Initiative for Open Citations is attempting to make an open repository of citations. [via Boing Boing]Benjamin Franklin's papers are now online at Library of Congress. [via LOC blog]Service training for DC police officers — a visit to the
Description: The Library of Congress has posted nearly 700 Civil War photos to the Flickr Commons. Forget Tomb Raider—an Archive Raider is much cooler. How is the discoverer of the poinsettia plant, Joel Poinsett, connected to SIA and the Smithsonian? Find out more on the Around the Mall blog. It’s like first aid for your books: Archives Outside gives detailed directions about how to make
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