Miranda Metcalf is the new intern from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art / National Portrait Gallery Library. Miranda recently graduated from the University of Washington in more »
Month: October 2009
I am attending a meeting of ICOMOS the International Council on Monuments and Sites on the island of Malta. The meeting consists of a Scientific Symposium on the topic of more »
The invention of the telephone has a fraught and complicated history, but in spite of legal challenges and controversy, most can comfortably credit Alexander Graham Bell with its creation. On more »
Louis Figuier, Les nouvelles conquetes de la science [The new conquests of science], 1883-85, Tome 1, plate opposite page 430 – "Fig.163: Fig. 163: Bureau centrale telephonique" (Telephone Exchange). In more »
The Freer-Sackler Library will be temporarily closing to the public at the beginning of November 2009 through March 2010 for a renovation in order to increase space for the Library’s more »
Featured on Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: New & Notable Pop-ups & Movables from the Cooper-Hewitt Library: The first movable books for children, developed in England in the 1700s, were more »
Libraries' featured exchange partner for September 2009 is the Entomological Society of Iran, which is located in Tehran. The Society was established in 1968 by a group of agricultural studies more »