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    1. 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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    3. Off-white page with black type written text and abstract black print

      Link Love: 2/16/2018

      • Date: February 16, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The University of Iowa Libraries released an avant-garde archive online: Digital Dada Library and the Fluxus Digital Collection. [via University of Iowa]The Hirshhorn's new indoor café has 700-year old tree roots for tables, excellent coffee, and a planned outdoor gelato stand opening this summer! [via Washingtonian]Romeo, who may be the last remaining Sehuencas water frog,

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    5. American Library Association's Promotional Poster with David Bowie

      Link Love: 4/8/2016

      • Date: April 8, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Reading never looked so cool with the American Library Association. [via Open Culture]Libraries join the fight against homelessness. [via InfoDocket]NYPL and The Moth join forces to make their audio more accessible with Together We Listen. [via NYPL labs]Teen art museum programs have a lasting impact. [via Smithsonian.com]A peek into Vincent VanGogh's personal life from his

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    7. A yellow-tinted catalog page showing two women in front of painted backgrounds, one of a nature scene, one of a shipdeck with a ship on water in the background.

      Link Love: 7/20/2018

      • Date: July 20, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Old school filters. [via Smithsonian Libraries]Progress is being made to find the burned remnants of the last slave ship to reach U.S. soil. [via National Geographic]Meet the Library of Congress reference librarian who helps people research their African American genealogy. [via LOC]You can help transcribe the papers of Civil Rights figure, Julian Bond, with the University of

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    9. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

      Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

      • Date: April 28, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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    11. MondriPong

      Link Love: 4/1/2016

      • Date: April 1, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Art Deco beetles and butterflies from Smithsonian Libraries. [via Hyperallergic]Depression-era faces lost to history by an editor's hold punch. [via PetaPixel]A new online archive: the Digital Transgender Archive. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Photographers' Identities Catalog, a collection of biographical data for over 115,000 photographers, studios, etc. [via NYPL LABS]A new

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    13. A woman wearing gloves and a man work with a wooden tool on a desk.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

      • Date: September 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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    15. Large book resting on a table. It is open to a page.

      Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives

      • Date: July 2, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.

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      Link Love: 3/22/2019

      • Date: March 22, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    19. Secretary Clough at the Museum Support Center.

      Link Love: 9/2/2011

      • Date: September 2, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Smithsonian Secretary Clough's most recent earthquake update. Whoa. For all you web nerds out there, check out this interactive timeline called, "The evolution of the web," which takes us through the birth and death of many a web browser, coding language, and web specific technology [via Swissmiss]. A Smithsonian Institution Libraries intern recounts her internship experience,

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      Spooky, Scary Page Frights!

      • Date: October 13, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: This October cultural institutions around the world will be getting a little spooky and scary for Page Frights, a month-long look at our creepiest collection finds.

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    23. Gene Wilder

      Link Love: 9/2/2016

      • Date: September 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the

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