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      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

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    3. Portrait photograph of Mariah Wahl. She has shoulder-length hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. She is standing in front of a door.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: September 14, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    5. Three men test out new computer equipment. They are all wearing suits.

      Volunteer Spotlight: John Churchman

      • Date: April 22, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize John Churchman, a research associate who has been documenting the history of computing at the Smithsonian.

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    7. Smithsonian employees hanging Christmas ornaments, 1977

      Tis the Season at the Smithsonian

      • Date: December 20, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!

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      Link Love: 4/8/2011

      • Date: April 8, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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    11. A woman in a bluish-green blouse holds a trophy. She is wearing glasses.

      Annie Sullivan: A Bright and Shining Star

      • Date: February 28, 2019
      • Description: Impacting the National Air and Space Museum with her caring attitude and dedication to her work in the Building Management Department, Annie Sullivan is an individual to be remembered.

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    13. A computer window titled DArchInfo with clickable heading tabs labeled Search, Query Results, Clipboard, SQL, and logoutThe first column contains accession numbers for Smithonian Archives born-digital holdings (i.e. 00-002). The second column contains names of format types (i.e. AppleDouble Resource Fork, etc.). The third column is the number of each type of file format in that accession (i.e. there are 93 Acrobat PDF/A files).

      Assessing File Format Risk for Born-Digital Preservation Planning

      • Date: August 3, 2021
      • Description: In addition to physical damage and deterioration of storage media, the technological complexity and dependency of electronic records make them uniquely vulnerable to loss, corruption, and alteration (both accidental and malicious). To achieve long-term preservation of fragile born-digital materials, digital archivists need a plan.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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    17. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

      • Date: May 12, 2022
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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      Link Love: 8/19/2011

      • Date: August 19, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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    21. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

      The Life Work of Smillie

      • Date: July 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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    23. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

      • Date: May 25, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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