March is designated as Women’s History Month. This is the time when schools, museums and libraries focus on programs that showcase the numerous achievements and accomplishments of women throughout history.
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The Libraries would like to highlight some more new and diverse titles that have been added recently to the National Museum of American History Library.
It is recruiting season for the Libraries’ internship and Resident Scholar programs! We are also excited to announce a new photography internship for the Director’s Office.
The AA/PG Library staff is proud to have such treasures in our collection. Even so, it clearly remains to be seen how many other treasures are hiding in the stacks quietly waiting to be discovered.
For anyone wishing to read some of Longfellow’s work, the AA/PG Library has several options. A reader searching for a simple, brief sampling can find a very manageable solution in the book Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This small work has only sixty pages and contains sixteen poems, including “Excelsior” and “The Village Blacksmith.” Another book, The Song of Hiawatha, is available for more ambitious readers. The poem is found in its entirety in this slightly more bulky volume, as are many illustrations.
Emmanuelle Couvert has joined the Libraries’ book conservation lab for a three month internship. She is a 4th year student in the book conservation program at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris.