Past Events

Smithsonian Libraries, Coast to Coast: San Diego hosted by Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board members Amy Valeiras and Elizabeth Oliver

Save the date for the next lecture in our Smithsonian Libraries 50th Anniversary series: Silk, Salvage, and Special Collections: The History of Lessing J. Rosenwald’s Graphic Arts Donations

A collaboration with Smithsonian Libraries, Smithsonian Associates, and the National Museum of American History to present an evening tasting beers from Brewery Ommegang and finding their garden ingredients. 

Plazi uncovers vast troves of data and citations contained in the published record. Donato Agosti will discuss some of the first findings from the project in both human and machine readable formats at TreatmentBank, Biodiversity Literature Repository and the fledgling Openbiodiv biodiversity knowledge management system. 

Save the date! Please join the Smithsonian Libraries for a talk with Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden as part of our Information Matters and 50th Anniversary Lecture Series.

We are taking your favorite lunchtime getaway where we exlpore libraries and make a craft and brinigng it outdoors to explore the Folklife Festival in our yearly Outdoor Recess! See the rules below on how to participate. Everyone is welcome!

Join us as Dr. Jennifer Atkinson and Dr. Robert S. Emmett explore the garden's unique role in American history and literature, including ways it has shaped U.S. culture and the arts, social justice movements, environmental advocacy, and other public and private visions of the good life.

Join your Smithsonian Libraries friends and colleagues at our 50th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration!

Smithsonian Gardens and Smithsonian Libraries want YOU to join us at a Garden Party for Victory!

Our libraries hold many treasures that are unique in all the world, but few are as heavily annotated as the Cullman’s 1491 edition of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia. 

Celebrating the Success of the Smithsonian's Capital Campaign. To be held in Washington, DC.

Steve Berry: In Conversation with Maggie Linton Steve Berry Author, The Bishop’s Pawn Maggie Linton Radio host The conversation will be followed by a book sale and signing.

Join the Smithsonian Libraries for an extra special Adopt-a-Book evening in celebration of the Libraries' 50th Anniversary.

Writing Dillon Ripley: From Archive to Book. A talk with Roger D. Stone and Stephen T. Moskey.

Calling all coloring enthusiasts! #ColorOurCollections is back for 2018 and we have a brand new coloring packet!