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    1. North Entrance of Arts & Industries Building

      Link Love: 8/26/2016

      • Date: August 26, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An inside peek at the "Belle of the Mall" (aka our Arts & Industries building) which just received its new director. [via NPR]Less than 30 days until our new African American History and Culture Museum opens and its director, Lonnie Bunch, gives us some perspective on this historic event. [via WAMU]Sketch your way to finding the image you're searching for! [via The Verge]One

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      Link Love: 6/10/2011

      • Date: June 10, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in

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    5. Untouched school chalkboards from 1917. Courtesy of Oklahoma City Public Schools.

      Link Love: 6/12/2015

      • Date: June 12, 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.

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    7. Link Love: 06/25/2021

      • Date: June 25, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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    9. Link Love: 11/20/2020

      • Date: November 20, 2020
      • 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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      Link Love: 6/3/2011

      • Date: June 3, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="186" caption="Waistcoat, France, 1790, Silk embroidery on silk plain weave, linen back, 60 x 50 cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.), Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf, Photo: Steve Tague, Courtesy of the Cooper-Hewitt

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    13. Data loss card mockup by Abbie Grotke; graphics from the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

      Link Love: 9/20/2013

      • Date: September 20, 2013
      • 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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    15. Embracing the Crowd

      • Date: April 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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    17. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

      Link Love: 12/22/2017

      • Date: December 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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      Link Love: 4/25/2016

      • Date: March 25, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A secret trash archive in New York City's Sanitation Department? [via Atlas Obscura]MoMA released 65,000 works of early 20th century modernists online. [via Open Culture]NOT for lunchtime browsing; the Mütter museum's new website gives you a close look at diseased bodies and "terrifying surgical instruments." [via Mental Floss]The Library of Congress is focusing on preserving

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      Link Love: 1/24/2014

      • Date: January 24, 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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    23. Hold on Loosely

      • Date: May 28, 2019
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Whether we love to hate them, or hate to love them, paper clips are a huge part of working in archives. In an attempt to showcase this little contraption, we did a call out to the twitterverse for other archivists to share their collection of paper clips. Needless to say, it was not a disappointment. Now go forth archivists! And remember Clippy will always be there to

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