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Information Matters Lecture: Education and Training Across the Digital Curation Spectrum

Erin Rushing
June 2, 2017
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Join us Thursday, June 15th at 2pm ET in the S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall for a discussion on preparing the workforce for digital curation with Margaret Hedstrom. Dr. Hedstrom, the Robert M. Warner Collegiate Professor of Information Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, will speak on her work in the field and as recent chair of the Committee on Future Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements for Digital Curation for the National Research Council.

 

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Cooper Hewitt Pro-Seminar Series: Ornamente by Bruno Mauder

Elizabeth Broman
May 26, 2017
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Cooper Hewitt Pro-Seminar Series: Ornamente by Bruno MauderOrnamente by Bruno Mauder
Ornamente, by Bruno Mauder. (L:) Titlepage. (R:) Plate 5.
Ornamente, by Bruno Mauder. (L:) Titlepage. (R:) Plate 5

 

Studying Design

All incoming students in The New School Parsons History of Design and Curatorial Studies (MA) Masters’ Degree Program at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum take an object and research based class called Pro-Seminar.

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The Fix – Preparing an Exhibition Takes a Village

Vanessa Haight Smith
May 4, 2017
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The Preservation Department of the Smithsonian Libraries (SIL) has been preparing materials for the past year for the upcoming exhibition in the SIL Gallery, National Museum of American History, Cultivating America’s Gardens.  Drawn mainly from the collections of the Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens, it is a cooperative curatorial effort of both units.

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Opening this week: Cultivating America’s Gardens

Liz O'Brien
May 1, 2017
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C. Ribsam & Sons trade card. Courtesy of Smithsonian Gardens.

Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Gardens will present a new exhibition, “Cultivating America’s Gardens,” at the National Museum of American History May 4 through August 2018.

Amateurs and professionals, young and old, schoolchildren and scientists—Americans of every sort—have put their backs into gardening for a variety of motives: beauty, food, science and prestige. Americans garden to feed themselves and their families and to create a sense of place and beauty in their backyards and beyond. National parks, public parks and gardens and the individual plots of earth that people cultivate are all examples of their deep connections to the natural world. American garden making has evolved over time, shaped by history, social attitudes, the environment and new ideas.

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