Results for "National Science Foundation (U.S.)"
Link Love: 1/15/16
- Date: January 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own
Link Love: 10/28/2016
- Date: October 28, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You
Link Love: 6/24/2016
- Date: June 24, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will
Link Love: 2/9/2018
- Date: February 9, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim
Link Love: 4/13/2018
- Date: April 13, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now
Link Love: 9/23/2016
- Date: September 23, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A new Smithsonian traveling exhibit, When Things Come Apart, highlights the inner workings of everyday objects! [via BuzzFeed]The Hammer Museum, with the support of the Mellon Foundation, is putting the archives for several exhibits (starting with this one on African American artists) online. [via LA Times]Forensic anthropologists confirm a gruesome history at Jamestown. [via
Link Love: 6/30/2017
- Date: June 30, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: An intimate look at the painting conservation studio at the National Gallery of Art. [via NPR]A newly discovered species of wasp was named in honor of David Bowie. [via Mashable]The Smithsonian is just one of the organizations banning drinking straws due to the environmental harm they cause. [via Washington Post]Can real coral reefs be saved by artificial ones? [via Fusion
Link Love: 6/22/2018
- Date: June 22, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial
Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!
- Date: April 5, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Johnnetta Cole
- Date: July 19, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Anthropologist & educator Dr. Johnnetta Cole was director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art from 2009–2017, and the only person to have served as president of two historically Black colleges for women in the U.S., Spelman and Bennett. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 7/14/2017
- Date: July 14, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]Archives Unleashed
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.