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Friday, April 3, 2009
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries will award grants to Dibner Library Resident Scholars and Baird Society Resident Scholars in the 2010 academic year. These competitive short­term grants are offered for one to six months to historians, librarians and bibliographers, as well as predoctoral and postdoctoral students, with an approved research project. The scholars will complete their residencies at one or more of the Smithsonian Libraries’ 20 branches for various lengths of time throughout the year.

Friday, February 20, 2009
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has unveiled exhibitions at two Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. “Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration” showcases some of the world’s greatest pieces of illustration from the Libraries’ collection of rare books and is on view until Jan. 4, 2010, at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Exhibition Gallery at the National Museum of American History. The “Art of African Exploration” will be on display until Aug. 16 in the Constitution Avenue Lobby of the National Museum of Natural History.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Metropolitan New York Library Council has given the Smithsonian Institution Libraries a $10,000 grant to digitize one of the Libraries’ most popular archives—the E.F. Caldwell and Co. collection. Caldwell and Co. was America’s premier producer of lighting and other metal objects during the turn of the 20th century through the 1940s. The archives are located in the Cooper­Hewitt National Design Museum Library in New York City. This massive digitization project will feature a database of over 35,000 Caldwell photos and drawings (http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Caldwell).

Monday, January 26, 2009
Smithsonian Institution Libraries is pleased to announce the new Head of the Special Collections Department, Lilla Vekerdy. Vekerdy has more than 20 years of experience in rare books preservation and management, most recently serving for 17 years as a rare­book librarian and course master at the Washington University School of Medicine’s Bernard Becker Medical Library in St. Louis. She will oversee the Libraries’ special collections in all 20 branches, most notably the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology in the National Museum of American History and the Joseph F.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Smithsonian Institution Libraries has awarded grants to two Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholars and three Baird Society Resident Scholars for the 2009 academic year. These competitive short­term grants are offered for one to six months to historians, librarians and bibliographers, as well as predoctoral and postdoctoral students, with an approved research project. The five scholars will complete their residencies at one or more of the Smithsonian Libraries’ 20 branches for various lengths of time throughout the year.

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