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    1. Staff from Office of Computing Services and Accounting Office with New Computing Equipment

      Sneak Peek 12/10/2018

      • Date: December 10, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Staff from Office of Computing Services and the Accounting Office with new computing equipment for use in the implementation of the Smithsonian Institution Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS), SIA RU000371, 78-6288-31.

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    3. Guard house and cell-block, la Central, Coiba Island, Panama, 1956.

      Link Love: 9/9/2011

      • Date: September 9, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Among the many photos in the Archives' collections are images from the Panamanian island, Coiba, where former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, conducted ornithological research. We've featured some of these images on the blog before, and I always wondered about their captions, which mentioned that Coiba was a penal colony.

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    5. This image was renamed from DSCN2773 to Max_Alex_102010_1.JPG.

      Clean Sweep in the New Year: Organizing Digital Photos

      • Date: January 4, 2011
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Gaining an Appreciation for the Archives

      • Date: December 7, 2017
      • Description: For the past month, I have been immersed in the complexity that is the world of digital archiving as an intern for the Smithsonian Institution Archives. As a digital preservation intern, I have discovered aspects about archiving that I would have never considered previously, such as the processes required to document accessions, recording information for accessibility and

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    9. Three men test out new computer equipment. They are all wearing suits.

      Volunteer Spotlight: John Churchman

      • Date: April 22, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize John Churchman, a research associate who has been documenting the history of computing at the Smithsonian.

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    11. Color photograph of a large group of Tibetans in traditional clothing, standing outside on the National Mall, under flags.

      Archives, Record Management, and Digital Material

      • Date: July 12, 2018
      • Description: As a student with a background in libraries, one of the most interesting things I learned as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives this summer was how closely related records management is to archival practice. I was unaware that as an institutional archive, the Archives is specifically concerned with preserving records that relate to the Smithsonian’s identity,

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    13. 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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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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      The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings

      • Date: July 27, 2010
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural

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    19. Storefront at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm 1957, by Gunnar Ekelund, Photo Nr: 2017

      Link Love: 10/14/2011

      • Date: October 14, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    21. Link Love: 4/19/2013

      • Date: April 19, 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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    23. A screenshot of a data table used for recording the condition of discs. The left side contains label information for the discs and the upper right side lists different types of damages.

      Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I

      • Date: September 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.

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