Results for "Librarians"
- Blog Post
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
- SI History Bibliography
Jane Wadden Turner, Smithsonian Librarian and Pioneer
- Date: 2014
- Creator: Henson, Pamela M 1948-
- Creator: Henson, Pamela M 1948-
Portrait of Catherine Scott, Librarian for National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
- Date: 1977 December 29, 1977
- Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
- SI History Bibliography
In Memoriam. Susan Wadden Turner. Professor William Wadden Turner, librarian of the Patent Office, Washington, D.C. Jane Wadden Turner. Recorder of Scientific Collections and Exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution for thirty years and for twenty years Assistant Librarian to the Library of Congress
- Date: 1898
- Creator: Dall, Caroline Wells Healey 1822-1912
- Creator: Dall, Caroline Wells Healey 1822-1912
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian
- Date: March 27, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.
- SI History Chronology
True Appointed Librarian for USNM
- Date: 1881
- SI History Chronology
Joseph Henry Nominates Charles Coffin Jewett as Smithsonian Librarian
- Date: January 26, 1847
- SI History Chronology
Full Compensation Approved for the Assistant Secretary and Librarian Charles Coffin Jewett
- Date: January 6, 1849
Joseph Henry Dismisses Smithsonian Librarian Charles Coffin Jewett
- Date: July 10, 1854
- Document
Aug 6 Librarian Cyrus Adler Creates Catalogue of Scientific Literature | Smithsonian Institution Arc
- SI History Chronology
Librarian Cyrus Adler Represents the United States Government at the second Conference on an International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1898
- Date: October 11, 1898
Link Love: 12/16/2016
- Date: December 16, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.
