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      Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

      • Date: September 2, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Archives, Record Management, and Digital Material

      • Date: July 12, 2018
      • Description: As a student with a background in libraries, one of the most interesting things I learned as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives this summer was how closely related records management is to archival practice. I was unaware that as an institutional archive, the Archives is specifically concerned with preserving records that relate to the Smithsonian’s identity,

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      Felix Nadar

      • Date: April 17, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Portrait of Felix Nadar (1820-1910), Photographer and Aeronautical Scientist, Unidentified Photographer, Unidentified Photographer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries"][/caption] In response to our recent Flickr Commons set highlighting women in science, Erin, our colleague from Smithsonian Libraries, did some deeper

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      Link Love: 3/26/2010

      • Date: March 26, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I

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    9. Conservators from Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the rare books conservation lab at North Capitol Street Services Center

      Sneak Peek 9/9/2019

      • Date: September 9, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Conservators from Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the rare books conservation lab at North Capitol Street Services Center, SIA RU000371, 79-14235-04A.

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      Coming Soon: Smithsonian 175th Film Fest

      • Date: August 5, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Grab your popcorn! To mark the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary this year, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host monthly virtual programs featuring films from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Register today.

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    13. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

      • Date: September 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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    17. drawing or engravings of bird heads, The bird is black with a white color on its wing. A fuller sketch is in the center and surrounded by three sketches of bird heads.

      Link Love: 4/10/2020

      • Date: April 10, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical

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      Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

      • Date: March 28, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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    21. Talking and Doing About Emergency Preparation

      • Date: May 1, 2012
      • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
      • Description: Every May 1 is a chance to do one thing about Emergency Preparation; here’s how the Smithsonian Institution Archives is doing it.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Barbara J. Smith

      • Date: May 12, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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