Results for "Smithsonian Libraries"
Link Love: 3/16/2012
- Date: March 16, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
Link Love: 1/19/2018
- Date: January 19, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of
Link Love: 6/29/2018
- Date: June 29, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's
Link Love: 4/20/2012
- Date: April 20, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 2/20/2015
- Date: February 20, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Blog Post
The Burning of the Smithsonian
- Date: January 23, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: One hundred fifty years ago, on January 24, 1865, a massive fire erupted in the west wing of the Smithsonian Castle.
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Link Love: 10/15/10
- Date: October 15, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Nora's Conservation Bag, courtesy Nora Lockshin."][/caption] New guest blog posts from our own over at the Smithsonian Collections blog: Sarah Stauderman on why the Smithsonian hasn’t digitized all of our collections yet, and conservator Nora Lockshin on what’s in her bag (hint: it’s not lipstick). There are 153 miles of
Link Love: 3/16/2018
- Date: March 16, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Apparently black holes are not a one-way vortex we assumed. This image from NASA demonstrates objects projecting out of black holes! [via The Space Academy]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will acquire records of The Academy of Washington, D.C., an LGBT organization that produced nationally-recognized drag pageants. [via Washington Blade]You can vote on
Early 20th-Century Women Computers at the Smithsonian
- Date: August 12, 2021
- Description: Learn about Florence A. Graves, Gladys Thurlby Bond, and Nancy Prichard, three 20th century women computers who advanced solar research.
Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station
- Date: December 2, 2021
- Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.
The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II
- Date: July 16, 2020
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.