Happy holidays in 2008! All through 2008, the Smithsonian Libraries has been celebrating the 40th (Ruby) anniversary of the year (1968) that Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley created the Smithsonian more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Back in May I posted a story about the exhibition of Botanica Magnifica in the Smithsonian Libraries’ exhibition cases in the National Museum of Natural History. Well, in this month’s more »
I am happy to announce that Alexia MacClain, SIL staff member at the National Museum of American History, was the winner of the trivia contest held at the Libraries’ 40th more »
David Elliott, Nancy Gwinn, Leslie Overstreet, and Cynthia Neal2008-06-09-dscn4174Originally uploaded by martin_kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries presented "Mark Catesby’s America: Symposium and Panel Discussion" on June 9, 2008. The symposium featured Dr. more »
ALA President, Loriene Roy, Ashinabe, Professor at the University of Texas Austin, iSchool, delivered the first in the Smithsonian libraries 40th anniversary lecture series on May 12, 2008. In covering more »
The Libraries hosted over 20 children and their families at today’s Make-A-Book activity in the National Museum of Natural History. Children were able to make books, make their own stickers, more »
This spring, six unique volumes from the Smithsonian Libraries’ collections will be featured in Botanicals, with text by SIL’s Curator of Natural History Rare Books, Leslie Oversteet. Exquisite plates from more »