The Libraries is pleased to announce Mary Augusta Thomas as the new Deputy Director. Before accepting this position, Thomas served as Associate Director for Reader Services and Strategic Planning, a more »
Month: April 2009
As a follow up to our post from last week…you can watch the CBS News Sunday Morning segment on Botanica Magnifica in an eight minute clip on YouTube. Enjoy!—Liz O'Brien
Leonhard Euler, an eminent mathematician and physicist, was born this day, April 15, in 1707, in Basel, Switzerland. According to Ronald S. Calinger, a Professor of History at the Catholic more »
Leonardo da Vinci was born today in Vinci, Florence in 1452. The Libraries has books throughout its many locations featuring this unique artist and inventor's interests in art, science, architecture more »
Today is National Library Workers Day. The Smithsonian Libraries would like to celebrate its entire staff and all they do, every day. The Libraries updates its public and patrons with more »
Thomas Jefferson was born today in Shadwell, Virginia in 1743. The Libraries has a variety of interesting titles about this former governor of Virginia, minister of France, Secretary of State, more »
The Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library includes a catalog from the company that first created a popular Easter candy called Marshmallow Peeps. The trade more »