Results for "How Things Fly (Website)"
Some Web Developer Career Advice
- Date: June 7, 2018
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- 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 be sure to let us know who you would like to hear from next!
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SIA Acc. 16-346, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Education Division, Publications, circa 1982-2007
- Date: 1982 1982-2007 circa 1982-2007
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Education Division
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Bugs on books and papers? (submitted by email)
- Date: July 26, 2013
- Description: I've noticed little white bugs that appear on papers I have in storage and I'm afraid they may be deteriorating the treasure. They ONLY seem to accumulate around and on old newspaper stock, but nothing else. Any suggestions would help. Thanks in advance! ~ BSC
- Blog Post
Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open
- Date: June 23, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: If you are a regular reader, or someone who works for a museum, library, or archive, you intimately understand the difficulty in managing big collections. If you’re not in this world, you do understand how hard it is to manage family photographs, a collection of email love letters, or the folder tucked in the bottom of your closet with old college papers. When you multiply
The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith
- Date: December 21, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It
You Asked, We Listened: Introducing the Archives New Site Search
- Date: September 23, 2014
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: The Smithsonian Archives is pleased to present it’s new site search functionality.
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The Smithsonian in Books
- Date: July 10, 2013
- Description: A list of books which reference the Smithsonian.
Halloween Humidification Horrors!
- Date: October 31, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
The Billionaire Club . . .
- Date: December 22, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3314" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Looking, May 2009, by Karthick Ramalingam, Digital photograph, Pentax K200D, www.makkaphotography.com, © Karthick Ramalingam."][/caption] What photography is, how it works, and the ways it has become indispensable in our lives are difficult to pin down. The medium itself keeps changing and trying to figure
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: February 11, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.
- Blog Post
Tips from Smithsonian Photographers on Photographing Fireworks
- Date: June 28, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Note: This blog post borrows heavily from the article, “Shooting Fireworks: Capture the Spectacle,” from former Smithsonian employee, Jim Wallace (originally published on the Smithsonian staff photographer’s website in 1995), with valuable additions from Ken Rahaim. The 4th of July is coming up next week, promising picnics, gatherings, and of course, fireworks. You may have
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The Smithsonian in Popular Culture
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Description: How is the Smithsonian, with its museums full of specimens and research labs full of scientists, portrayed in movies, novels, television, and videogames? Smithsonian staff and the iconic buildings they work in have been portrayed in mysteries, romances, dramas, comedies, and science fiction. Often, the ways that museum curators, explorers, and lab researchers and what they do