Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical
Description: Bird, William L., "A suggestion concerning James Smithson's concept of 'Increase and Diffussion,'" Technology and Culture XXXIV (No.2, April 1983): 246-55.Field, Cynthia R., Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing. The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.Hellman, Geoffrey T. The Smithsonian: Octopus
Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.