For your picnic, barbecue, or just to drape about the house, here are some patriotic crepe paper decorations for the Fourth of July from Dennison Manufacturing Co.
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Celebrate your local letter carriers today on National Postal Worker Day.
Here are some of the newest additions to the National Museum of American History Library.
Late June new book arrivals in the Natural History Libraries — quite a cross section!
On June 28, 2011, the nation honors one of the truly larger-than-life figures in American folklore by observing Paul Bunyan Day. Paul Bunyan is a legendary lumberjack of gigantic proportions who, accompanied by a blue ox named Babe, traveled throughout the country performing incredible, though often incidental, feats.
July, the month of hot, humid days and patriotic holidays. July is also the seventh month of the year. Coincidentally, the National Air and Space Museum Library has seven new titles to share with you.
The Libraries invited Mano Marks, Senior Developer Advocate for Google’s Geo APIs, to visit Smithsonian Institution on Friday June 3rd. Mano graciously offered his time to run a hands-on demo/chat to talk about ways to visualize geographic information before he continued on to George Mason University to hold a workshop at THATCamp.