In this day in history—July 15—we commemorate the anniversary of the first flight of the Boeing 707 prototype, nicknamed the "Dash 80," which took place in 1954. Its maiden flight more »
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Happy Bastille Day! Lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney, Travels through the south of France and in the interior of the provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the years 1807 and 1808, 1814, more »
L to R: Doug Dunlop, Metadata Services; Keri Thompson, Web Services; Jen Cohlman, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library Each year at the Smithsonian staff picnic on the National Mall, the Smithsonian more »
L-R: Dr. William Noel, Anne Van Camp (Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives), Nancy Gwinn (Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries), and Marcia Adams (Assistant Director for Technical Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries) Dr. Noel 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 »
Recently, the Libraries sent Polly Khater, the serials cataloging coordinator, to the 24th Annual Conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), which was held June 4-7, 2009, in more »
In April 2009, Alvin Hutchinson, Information Services Librarian, visited the Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University (SMU) to exchange ideas with the digital repository staff there. Alvin has more »