Thanks to the keen eye of a 13 year old, the Libraries received four Apollo Program training publications on the lunar module written and donated by Mr. Carl Klempner, a more »
Month: September 2009
Martin Kalfatovic is Assistant Director of the Libraries’ Digital Services Division responsible for the active digital library program. This program includes the creation of digital editions of library materials, online more »
The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: Leopold Trattinnick's Die essbaren Schwamme des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates. [Edible fungi of more »
From the Libraries' digital collection, The Making of a Homemaker: To occupy small children, a simple drawing would be given for them to outline in yarn. This particular drawing would more »
Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn has been Director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries since 1997. She is a recognized leader in international librarianship, the preservation of library collections, the application of more »
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Library boasts more than 10,000 postcards in its “hidden” collection; arranged by subject in card file drawers, they range in date from the turn more »