Results for "Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education"
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Volunteers and the Smithsonian: A History
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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How Much is Enough?
- Date: August 17, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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A Living Exhibition
- Date: July 19, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey
To Preserve or Not to Preserve: Social Media
- Date: June 13, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A quick overview of how the Archives decides what social media to preserve to document the Smithsonian’s history.
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Records and Information Management: The Archivist
- Date: May 6, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio
- Date: June 8, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.
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The Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Date: January 20, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.
The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman
- Date: May 25, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response
- Date: March 16, 2021
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- 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.
There Are Records and Then There Are Records
- Date: April 12, 2016
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Records, not to be confused with albums, are defined as information created or received during the course of business.
Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals
- Date: December 20, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.
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Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals