Applications are now open for our Smithsonian Libraries Resident Scholar Programs for 2020. We invited interested researchers to submit their applications by January 15th, 2020. Situated at the center of more »
Author: Lilla Vekerdy
The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has received a significant book collection donated by J. Bruce Beckwith, MD, notable pediatrician, bibliographer, and book collector. more »
Our oldest bound volume in the Smithsonian Libraries is from circa 1280. It gives me a thrill every day that I can actually take off the shelf and hold in more »
Would you like to see Galileo’s hand-writing?—I asked a visiting friend who came to see highlights of the Dibner Library in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries the other day. In the more »