I am attending a meeting of ICOMOS the International Council on Monuments and Sites on the island of Malta. The meeting consists of a Scientific Symposium on the topic of more »
Category: From the Director
North American Wild Flowers, Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, Plate 336: flower The Fossil Record, a newsletter put out by the Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology, includes more »
I have spent the last few days at the RLG Partnership Meeting in Boston. RLG is part of OCLC Research, and since the merger, the RLG staff and members have more »
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 »
Tomorrow is the opening of the new Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, and today I had the privilege of being in the Baird Auditorium to more »
It’s Friday, August 15, and the 2008 IFLA Congress is officially finished, but I have one more meeting, the Governing Board, tomorrow. On Wednesday, I attended the meeting hosted by more »
SIL is involved in several renovation projects–at the Cooper-Hewitt where the library is moving to new space; at NMNH where the main Natural History is also moving to new space; more »