In the town of Ujiji in what is now Tanzania, Henry Morton Stanley, sent by a New York newspaper to track down the missing Dr. David Livingstone, finally found the more »
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The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is pleased to announce its participation in Library Thing. This free online service was originally created to help people catalog their own books more easily and more »
Their museum may not be open yet, but the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is already reaching out to a national community by holding events such more »
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 »
The Smithsonian joins the Flickr Commons project on June 16! The Smithsonian Libraries provided a selection of photographic portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. more »
2008-05-29-dscn3908Originally uploaded by martin_kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries’ staff visited the new Pennsy Drive facility near Landover, Maryland on May 29. The Pennsy Drive facility will house the Book Conservation Lab, the 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 »