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Remembering Martha: A recap of our Twitterchat

Erin Rushing
September 8, 2014
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On September 2nd, 2014, the day after the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, the Smithsonian Libraries , National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) hosted a twitterchat in honor of the beloved bird. The chat featured Helen James, Curator in Charge of the Division of Birds at NMNH and Martin Kalfatovic, program director of BHL, who contributed for their respective organizations.

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Answers to our “Ask Me Anything”!

Erin Rushing
May 23, 2014
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On April 30th, in honor of Preservation Week, the Smithsonian Libraries hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) question and answer session with our book conservator, Katie Wagner.  The conversation primarily took place on our Tumblr page, from 12-2pm.  Katie answered about 30 questions, related mostly to book care and treatment, the Libraries and our collections and careers in conservation.

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Tumblr: A slightly irreverent look at the Libraries collections

Richard Naples
July 29, 2013
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Frederick Godman Insecta. Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera , 1879-1901
Frederick Godman
Insecta. Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera , 1879-1901

If you’ve spent any time deep in the heart of libraryland, then you surely have encountered ephemera, marginalia, stunningly beautiful bookplates, funny advertisements, and other semi-random stuff in the stacks that yearned to be shared, so we’re doing just that through the microblogging platform Tumblr.

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