Smithsonian Institution Libraries presents David S. Ferriero Democracy 2.0: A Case Study in Open Government How the National Archives' own Open Government Plan is reaching out to new audiences through social more »
Month: May 2010
Today one of the Freer/Sackler Archives volunteers brought some beautiful peonies from her garden to add colors and elegance to the newly renovated FSG library reading room. Chinese people have more »
The author Jin Yong is beloved and famed in the Chinese speaking world for his popular martial arts novels, perhaps as famous there as J.R.R. Tolkien is in the English-speaking more »
Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition illustrated . . . Earl Shinn, Walter Smith and Joseph M. Wilson. Imprint: Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, [1876-1878], p. cxlvi (vol. 3) ("Main Building more »
The Libraries’ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library is offering an opportunity for friends and supporters to connect through Amazon.com! Through the Cooper-Hewitt Library Wish List, anyone can contribute to the more »
On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope started sending images from space. The first image was of a cluster 1,350 light years from Earth, NGC 3532, in the more »
Next month the annual conference for the American Library Association comes to Washington DC. Four of the twenty branches of the Smithsonian Libraries will be having tours: the Botany-Horticulture Library, more »