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  1. Color photo of woman using virtual headset smiling.

    Link Love: 3/17/2017

    • Date: March 17, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Hirshhorn is making Yayoi Kusama's blockbuster show accessible with virtual reality. [via Washington Post]Rare sighting of the endangered marbled cat via infrared camera trap! [via National Geographic]Mark your calendars: April 17-21 is Endangered Data Week. [via Digital Library Federation]We contributed to the Nationa Digital Stewardship Alliance's 2016 Web Archiving

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  3. Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Roxie Collie Laybourne

    • Date: August 19, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Tolkien Map of Middle Earth

    Link Love: 10/30/2015

    • Date: October 30, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Lord of the Rings fans! A newly-discovered map annotated by Tolkien. [via Open Culture]A last call for Archives Month to contribute your stories and memories of gardens and gardening to the Community Gardens digital archive. [via Smithsonian Gardens]Gorgeous fly-throughs of 17th Century London before The Great Fire from a talented group of students at De Montfort University. A

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  7. Richard Jones House

    Link Love: 8/12/2016

    • Date: August 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Reconstructing a former slave house in our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via Atlantic]Cheating was common at the Olympics in ancient Greece. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Citizen science at its best: the app, iNaturalist, is actually helping scientists discover new species! [via NPR]Book-lovers rejoice! You may live longer. [via Guardian]Download 1000's

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  9. Handwritten table called

    Link Love: 4/28/2017

    • Date: April 28, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.

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  11. Cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. 2013 (Diana Alvarenga)

    Link Love: 3/29/13

    • Date: March 29, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly blog post with favorite links.

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  13. A Rauschenberg combine from 1954, courtesy Rauschenberg Foundation.

    Link Love: 3/4/16

    • Date: March 4, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Images from the Rauschenberg Foundation are now available for educational use. [via NY Times] "How to Preserve Your Family Photos, Movies, and Memories Like a Smithsonian Archivist," with our own, Ricc Ferrante. [via Fatherly]The Bob Dylan Archive which includes sketches, notes, lyrics and chord progressions for unrecorded songs, has found its home at the University of Tulsa.

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  15. Aerial View of U.S. Capitol, c. 1917 - 1934, Boston Public Library, Image ID 08_06_008683.

    Link Love: 1/8/16

    • Date: January 8, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Aerial images of Washington D.C. from the Boston Public LIbrary. [via Ghosts of DC]Digital maps from University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab and Stamen Design showing social, political, and economic movements in America. [via Smithsonian Magazine]How do you move over 800 space and aviation models? [via Air Space Blog]Perhaps forecasting a new fashion trend, "Design a

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  17. Carte Geologique De L'Europe.

    Link Love: 6/24/2016

    • Date: June 24, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will

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  19. Jacqueline Rush Lee's “Anthology,” image courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.

    Link Love: 1/1/2016

    • Date: January 1, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New Year's edition!10 years of beautiful bookish art from the Brooklyn Public Library. [via Hyperallergic]You can now tour online 9 floors and 85 permanent galleries of the British Museum which includes 80,000 artifacts. [via Open Culture]More good open access news: American Jewish literary news and opinion works spanning 2nd half of the 20th century is now available freely

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  21. Buddha draped in robes

    17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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  23. Black and white couple in formal dress seated on couch and chairs in room with red walls. JFK smoking with attendants in the background.

    Link Love: 3/2/2018

    • Date: March 2, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Librarians at the White House Historical Association have digitized 25,000 previously uncatalogued slides! [via CNN]In case you missed it, the blog, Missing Scientists' Faces, shared 28 days of African American female scientists during Black History Month. [via @MissingSciFaces]Check out some of the Digital Public Library of America's primary source sets for Women's History

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