Description: As an administrative officer to two Assistant Secretaries and as executive assistant to Secretary Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg was the backbone behind the Smithsonian’s top offices between 1959 and 1980.
Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.
Description: Nothing brings a couple together like scientific research, right? Celebrate Valentine’s Day by exploring a love so deep, new species were named about it.
Description: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' preservation strategies for its born-digital collections, including documents and spreadsheets, images, audio, video, text, email, databases, software, and website and social media records.
Description: The choice to create duplicate copies of collection material is often made for both preservation and access considerations. For some media, such as audiovisual materials, digitization is preservation. For fragile or actively deteriorating paper and photographic collections, a digital surrogate can be made to preserve the content and provide a stable copy for
Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full