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      Born Digital Access Project (BDAP)

      • Date: June 27, 2024
      • Description: About the ProjectFor more than two decades, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA) Electronic Records Program has preserved and stewarded millions of born-digital holdings in the Archives permanent collections. The term “born-digital” refers specifically to records and primary source material that is created digitally. For the past 10 years, around 50 percent of the Archives

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    3. Sepia toned image of African American woman posed and seated in chair.

      Link Love: 4/7/2017

      • Date: April 7, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress were able to pool funds to purchase a rare photo of a young Harriet Tubman. [via Washington Post]The Audobon profiles Smithsonian scientist, Roxie Laybourne, who started the field of forensic ornithology which identified birds involved in plane strikes and led to improved

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    5. Field Book Registry Collection

      Russell E. Train Africana Collection, 1663-1996, Smithsonian Institution Library, c. 1894-1939

      • Date: circa 1894-1919, undated
      • Creator: N'zau, Bula

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    7. The Mars Rover Spirit took this sublime view of a sunset over the rim of Gusev Crater, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. Taken from Husband Hill, it looks much like a sunset on Earth—a reminder that other worlds can seem eerily familiar. Sunset and twilight images help scientists to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends and to look for dust or ice clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Texas A&M/Cornell.

      Link Love: 1/10/2014

      • Date: January 10, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    9. The Smithsonian Castle, c. 1857-1858

      Link Love: 6/8/2012

      • Date: June 8, 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.

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    11. 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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    13. An example of a Ryan Gosling Hey Girl museum post.

      Link Love: 12/30/2012

      • Date: December 30, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    15. Four green cots are set up on the floor of the National Air and Space Museum. A large spaceship is in the background. Sleeping bags and backpacks rest on the cots.

      An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates

      • Date: September 8, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.

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      Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City Library

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      • Link Love: 4/17/2020

        • Date: April 17, 2020
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      • Color photo of grey/brown bird specimen perched on branch.

        Link Love: 3/31/2017

        • Date: March 31, 2017
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of

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      • Link Love: 2/1/2019

        • Date: February 1, 2019
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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