In the spirit of Earth Day, the Libraries is "recycling" its Earth Day post from last year. Enjoy! Straw bale building: an old technology in a new environment Reading Art Molella’s more »
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We Love Kindergartners! Today we celebrate the smart and energetic 5- and 6-year olds who brighten our day! April 21st is National Kindergarten Recognition Day, which was enacted by the more »
Many of us are not fully aware of the enormous quantity of text, images, audio and video that are being produced today in digital format. But we can begin to more »
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory of the United States, 1875-1876?, Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. more »
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip around it. Trans. by Louis Mercier and Eleanor King [De la terre more »
Originally published on the Collections Search Center (SIRIS Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) blog . . . Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry more »
The Libraries' featured exchange partner for April is our counterpart in Paris, France: the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France. We have been corresponding and exchanging with them more »