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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Eight of the world’s major natural history and botanical libraries are working together to develop a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature on biodiversity that they jointly hold and make it freely accessible to all on the Web. The project, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, will establish a major corpus of publications drawn from each of their collections. Much of the published literature is rare or has limited global distribution and is available in only a few select libraries.
Saturday, May 7, 2005
The world’s largest published book, according to Guinness World Records, recently was donated to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Janulis of New York. Measuring a full 5 feet by 7 feet when open and weighing 133 pounds, “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom,” by Michael Hawley, is a visually stunning photography book, capturing more than 100 images of the small Asian country’s rich landscape and culture.
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries enjoys a unique and dual role within the Institution itself. On one hand, the Libraries is an internal service provider, meeting the needs of the Institution’s curators and researchers. On the other hand, it is a public educator in its own right because of its active exhibition program and its progressive Digital Library initiative, which brings important, rare and valuable works from the Libraries’ collections to the widest audience possible through the World Wide Web.
Friday, December 20, 2002
The newest addition to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries is the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. It houses, for the first time in one place, the Smithsonian Libraries’ entire collection of approximately 10,000 rare and valuable natural history books and manuscripts. The Cullman Library, located in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, offers easy access to natural history scientists, museum curators, researchers, students and visitors.
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Smithsonian Institution Libraries will hold the 2002 Dibner Library Lecture on Tuesday, October 15 at 5 p.m. in the Carmichael Auditorium of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
