Results for "Smithsonian Half-Century Book Project"
Engineering a Smithsonian for the 21st Century
- Date: December 18, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: As the twelfth Smithsonian Secretary, G. Wayne Clough, retires, historian Pamela Henson looks back on his impact on the Smithsonian in 6 ½ short years – creating a positive dynamic, fostering environmental responsibility, and stimulating collaborations across the Institution.
Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program
- Date: March 10, 2022
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.
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New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons
- Date: August 24, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book
- Date: August 14, 2018
- Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity
New Field Book Images on Flickr Commons
- Date: December 6, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Check out our latest set of images from our Field Book Project on the Flickr Commons.
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Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book
- Date: August 24, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more
Where in the World Is That Field Book?
- Date: July 28, 2016
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: Field books are now on our website. Not only that, but they are becoming full text searchable.
Field Book Narratives of Volcanologist James F. Luhr
- Date: August 18, 2016
- Description: A look into the field books of volcanologist James F. Luhr.
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Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises
- Date: May 25, 2017
- Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
- Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.
Porcupine, Deer, or Other? A Field Book Mystery
- Date: November 12, 2013
- Description: Use of microscopy and collaboration with members of the Smithsonian staff helped get to the bottom of a field book mystery.
An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book
- Date: May 18, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!
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Google Halts an Archiving Project
- Date: June 8, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.