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  1. Physicist Dr. Stella S.R. Offner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, uses computer simulations to understand how stars form. She is also a WorldWide Telescope Ambassador.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Stella S.R. Offner

    • Date: June 24, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Physicist Dr. Stella S.R. Offner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, uses computer simulations to understand how stars form. She is also a WorldWide Telescope Ambassador. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

    Link Love: 9/9/2016

    • Date: September 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • 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

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  5. Beige, tan, and burgundy webpage with black and white archival photos across the top.

    Some Archives Technologist Career Advice

    • Date: May 24, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and don’t be afraid to let us know who you would like to hear from next!The Archives has

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  7. Pink backpack, field notes notebooks, microphone, audio recorder, and guides on recording oral histories

    Link Love: 6/29/2018

    • Date: June 29, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's

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  9. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

    • Date: November 10, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting

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  11. Link Love: 12/9/2016

    • Date: December 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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  13. Lambert cylinder featuring

    Link Love: 11/12/2015

    • Date: November 13, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Voices from the past! A treasure trove of over 10,000 cylinder recordings of historic sounds to stream or download from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [via Hyperallergic] A powerful new VR experience; location-based storytelling from the New York Times, NYT VR. [via New York Times] Digital provenance comes to life at the Carnegie Museum: New open-source software,

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  15. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

    Link Love: 3/30/2018

    • Date: March 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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  17. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

    • Date: November 4, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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  19. Large black paper cutouts of children around a may pole.

    Link Love: 5/25/2018

    • Date: May 25, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • 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

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    Link Love: 8/6/2010

    • Date: August 6, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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