Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of Sponsored Projects"
Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions
- Date: August 15, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.
Keeping up with our #Volunpeers – SIA’s Transcription Center Accomplishments
- Date: September 14, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: When it comes to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, there’s always more to discover, more material with which to engage. It can be easy to lose track of just how much our crowd of #volunpeers accomplished and why it is so important to us. We’re not done yet, but after four years, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what has been accomplished through the effort of
Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help
- Date: February 26, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
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Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!
- Date: May 9, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.
Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!
- Date: October 11, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.
Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online
- Date: September 8, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.
Is there a place for paleography in archives?
- Date: January 23, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on
Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom
- Date: July 23, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.
On Expedition with Waldo Schmitt
- Date: July 31, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.
Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports
- Date: May 19, 2016
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.
Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?
- Date: October 12, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific
Where Are Archives Going? Impressions from SAA 2012
- Date: August 30, 2012
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Impressions from the Society of American Archivists 2012 Annual Meeting on how archives are transforming themselves in the 21st century.