Today is International Museum Day with this year's theme of "Museums and Tourism." Why not tour the Libraries' digital collections and check out a museum library (or two)?—Elizabeth Periale Ernest more »
Month: May 2009
The Smithsonian's Freer-Sackler Library features numerous items related to the Tian Yi Ge Library Museum in Ningbo, China, the private library of the Fan family dating back to the early more »
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is holding an open house today from 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at its location in Edgewater, MD. It is free and open to the public. more »
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day. Here is a recipe from the Libraries' trade literature collection to whet your appetite…—Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Jim Roan & Mike Hardy
May is National Duckling Month.—Elizabeth Periale "Plate 91 – The Pied-bill Dopchick," Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, more »
You can never have too many tulips.—Elizabeth Periale D.M. Ferry & Co., Bulbs and Seeds Autumn 1897, 1897, Back Cover John Lewis Childs, Fall Catalogue of Bulbs that Bloom, 1899, more »
We like to think we have many jewels in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' collections in the figurative sense, but here is a lovely volume bound in precious mother-of-pearl with silver more »