Results for "Smithsonian Chips Collection (Website)"
The Cockroach Kitchen
- Date: October 29, 2013
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.
- Blog Post
The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 9, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
Web Archiving Update, October 2014
- Date: October 7, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A progress report on the Archives' most recent two years of web archiving.
- Blog Post
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.
New Collections by the Numbers
- Date: October 27, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: New Archives collections are trending towards more electronic records, but more paper as well.
- Blog Post
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.
Documenting the Opening of a Museum
- Date: September 27, 2016
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at how documenting the opening of a museum has changed in the age of social media.
- Blog Post
Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar
- Date: April 23, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information
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.
Panda-monium!
- Date: April 16, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Arrival of giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling to the National Zoological Park.
- Blog Post
Paper vs. Electronic: The Not-So-Final Battle
- Date: April 10, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The question of which is better - paper or electronic records - doesn't have a simple answer.
Some Archival Career Advice
- Date: April 26, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Commonly asked questions and answers about becoming an archivist.