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Month: September 2012

Keep ‘em or Weed ‘em? A Reference Weeding Summer Intern Project

NMAH Reading Room

This post was written by Colette Leung, a 2012 summer intern at the Smithsonian National American History Library (NMAH Library).

Hello!  My name is Colette, and this summer 2012, I had the opportunity to work as one of the National Museum of American History Library’s summer interns.  I am currently working towards my Master’s in Library and Information Science, as well as a second Master of Arts in Humanities Computing, both at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.  I have a lot of interest in observing how digital technology and print books are shaping libraries, and although I have been lucky enough to work on many different digital projects, I was very excited to start working on working on this internship that is offered through the Alberta-Smithsonian Internship Program.

Artists’ Books at AA/PG: Kara Walker’s Pop-up

Kara Walker Freedom: A Fable
Kara Walker Freedom: A Fable

Many of the artists’ books in the Smithsonian American Art & Portrait Gallery Library’s collection tell stories—from personal struggles with addiction, to pictorial descriptions of how to create a human salad, to universal stories of historical conflicts, such as Kara Walker’s book “Freedom: A Fable.”