Reiko Yoshimura in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library.
When I was in library school, one concept I remember being covered was the subject-based query versus the known-item query. These were used to represent two basic but very different types of library usage and required of librarians different search and related skills....
My favorite chronicler of natural and cultural histories in early America is Englishman John Josselyn. He was a curious and good-humored observer of the 17th-century inhabitants of northern New England, both indigenous and colonists, and their ways. Josselyn was particularly interested in local, medicinal uses of plants. Of what he referred to as “bill...
The Smithsonian Libraries invites you to the 2018 Dibner Library Lecture, featuring Dr. Bruce Fye:
Medical book collecting and scholarship: A recovering bibliomaniac shares his perspective
Thursday, December 6th, 2018, 5 pm
National Museum of Natural History
Q?rius Theater, Ground Floor
W. Bruce Fye, MD, MA
Emeritus Professor of Medicine...
