On August 6, we opened up a package in our mail, and we found the original letter from 1994, along with a copy of the book! The book is a guide to the “Strange Gods, Strange Altars” exhibit at the Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo museum.
Category: Discovery Services
In the 1890s, a time before the expediency of the internet, Charles Davies Sherborn embarked upon a meticulous and expansive research project on par with the Oxford English Dictionary—only he did it single-handedly.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries has named Library and Archive Exhibitions on the Web as an "Editor's Pick" in their August 2010 issue. The review in part reads, This Smithsonian site is the best more »
This month’s featured exchange partner is Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. We have been corresponding and exchanging publications with them since 1976, when a curator from the National Museum of Natural more »
This post has been inspired by last month's wonderful post from the Smithsonian Archives, Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian, which features a wider discussion of libraries’ information management more »
The Libraries' featured exchange partner for April is our counterpart in Paris, France: the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France. We have been corresponding and exchanging with them more »