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      Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar

      • Date: April 23, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information

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      Records and Information Management: The Archivist

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

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      Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

      • Date: April 28, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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    7. Visual Information Specialist Rolland O. Hower in Freeze Dry Lab

      Sneak Peek 11/27/2017

      • Date: November 27, 2017
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Visual Information Specialist Rolland O. Hower in freeze dry lab at National Museum of Natural History, 72-7733.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sharon Reinckens

      • Date: September 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sharon Reinckens, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, has served as Acting Director, Senior Designer, and Supervisory Visual Information Specialist at the museum, 1980–present. Reinckens also produced award-winning documentaries about African American artists in Washington D.C for the museum. #Groundbreaker

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      Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives

      • Date: May 13, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week

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      Yes, We’re Still Talking About Email

      • Date: August 4, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Archives and libraries are seeking various ways to preserve and to make email collections available to researchers.

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      Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

      • Date: May 14, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.

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      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.

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      Less is More With Compressed Scanning

      • Date: March 3, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.

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      Link Love: 4/15/2011

      • Date: April 15, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Congratulations to the main Smithsonian website, which has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Cultural Institution website! (Please go and vote.) Mark your calendars! The Library of Congress will be hosting the free public event, Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m to provide the public with information about

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    23. A screenshot of the Smithsonian’s mobile website as it appears on the Internet.

      Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

      • Date: July 17, 2012
      • Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.

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