Results for "Research Libraries Group"
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.
- Blog Post
The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”
- Date: April 28, 2020
- Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.
- Blog Author
Mitch Toda
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Many Hands Make Light Work in the Digitization Process
- Date: September 11, 2014
- Description: Digitizing collection material at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is a group effort involving interns, volunteers, and staff.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 06-287, Smithsonian American Art Museum Office of the Deputy Director, Subject Files, FY 2003
- Date: 2002 2002-2003 FY 2003
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of the Deputy Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Field Book Project
- Date: January 27, 2017
- Description: Scientific and scholarly pursuit are hindered when primary sources are un-cataloged or accessible only by visiting cultural heritage institutions. The Field Book Project seeks to promote awareness of and access to thousands of scientific field notes in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and holdings at the National Museum of Natural History and the
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 93-130, Smithsonian Institution Office of Information Resource Management, Director's Records, 1981-1991
- Date: 1981 1981-1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Information Resource Management
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Field Book
Random Records of a Lifetime devoted to Sciences and Art, 1846-1931 : volume VI, Aboriginal Bowlder Quarries, Piney Branch, D.C., Soapstone Quarries, Paint Mines, and Lay Figure Groups
- Date: 1889-1894 1889 1894
- Blog Post
Hindsight is 20/20: Revisiting Paper Treatments From Twenty Years Ago
- Date: April 28, 2011
- Description: This post is written in honor of Preservation Week, April 24–30, 2011. In celebration of this week, preservation specialists around the world will bring attention to the preservation work going on in their institutions, and inspire action to preserve collections in libraries, archives, museums, and communities. [caption id="attachment_12654" align="aligncenter" width="432"
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Publications & Resources
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: Access publications, presentations, and recommended resources from the Archives' staff.
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Sharing Plants, Animals, and Friendships
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=110,left]Exchanging specimens is essential in botanical research: Herbaria swap their duplicates in return for specimens they lack. Such international trading is based on relations established through correspondence and research trips, relations that endure through generations of botanists. By the early twentieth century,
Link Love: 3/15/2013
- Date: March 15, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.