Happy holidays in 2008! All through 2008, the Smithsonian Libraries has been celebrating the 40th (Ruby) anniversary of the year (1968) that Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley created the Smithsonian more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
Today's scheduled lecture by Clay Shirky in NMNH's Kerby Room will be postponed due to a family emergency. We apologize for the inconvenience and will announce a new date and more »
In the town of Ujiji in what is now Tanzania, Henry Morton Stanley, sent by a New York newspaper to track down the missing Dr. David Livingstone, finally found the more »
Clay Shirky Finding Content as a Social Problem ~POSTPONED~ The lecture has been postponed. Please check back for new date and time!this lecture will also be recorded and the video more »
R. David Lankes Not Done Yet: Charting a New Course for Librarianship November 3, 2008 10:00-Noon, Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Room 3027 ~~the lecture will also be webcast live ~~ more »
Roy Tennant Libraries in a Networked World October 23, 2008 10:00-Noon, Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Room 3027 ~~the lecture will also be webcast live ~~ http://www.sil.si.edu/lectures_40th_Tennant.html Roy Tennant is an more »
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is pleased to announce its participation in Library Thing. This free online service was originally created to help people catalog their own books more easily and more »