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The Archives New Website and Blog!
- Date: September 12, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ new home on the web! Since joining the Archives, I’ve been impressed by the staff’s enthusiasm for the collections are custodians of, and their level of commitment to making the collections available and useful to researchers and enthusiasts.
New Website: The Mischievous Megatherium Club!
- Date: February 6, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: "It is five o’clock, when the Megatherium takes its prey, that the most interesting characters of the animal are seen. Then it roars with delight and makes up for the hard work of the day by much fun and conduction." Folks at Home, February 17, 1863, Robert Kennicott[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]Not only is this beast intriguing as a specimen, but it is the
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Fishes and Frogs and Birds, OH MY!
- Date: May 26, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Cruriraja cadenati, 6 Oct 1959, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, USNM 196443. "][/caption] The Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, just launched nearly 2 million records on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center related to their vertebrate
6 Questions Answered at the Archives
- Date: December 27, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's new branding campaign, "Seriously Amazing," answers some interesting questions about the Smithsonian.
Link Love: 3/2/2017
- Date: March 3, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Get your metadata nerd on with new fashion by Andrea Wallace from the Rijksmuseum's 2017 Rijksstudio competition! The largest transgender archive from the University of Victoria is now on the Internet Archive. [via Archive It]The Center for the Future of Museums has released their 2017 TrendsWatch report highlighting empathy, criminal justice reform, refugees & migration,
Link Love: 2/3/2017
- Date: February 3, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of
Celebrate 2014 Archives Month!
- Date: October 2, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It's time again to celebrate all the wonderful things archives have and do! The Society of American Archivists declares each October American Archives Month and the Smithsonian theme for this year is "Discover and Connect." At the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we handle over 6000 reference requests per year and have an ambitious digitization plan to serve people worldwide
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The Woman with the Gramophone
- Date: April 2, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- 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,
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Smithsonian Digitization Update
- Date: April 14, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Even if you have visited the Smithsonian in person, you probably don’t know that it’s comprised of 19 museums and 9 research centers. You can’t see it all by visiting the Mall in Washington D.C. since there are museums in New York and research centers in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Panama. Each museum and research center researches and collects around different topics, from
Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Thursday, October 22
- Date: October 15, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: In honor of Archives Month, it’s time for the Smithsonian’s annual Facebook Q&A where the public can ask questions about preserving and organizing their own collections!
17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)
- Date: August 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!
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Please Feed the Visitors!
- Date: August 3, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,