digitization
Color Our Collections for 2022
Calling all coloring enthusiasts! #ColorOurCollections is back for 2022 and we have ten new coloring pages just for you. Whether you want to bring polychromatic glory to old black-and-white photos or scribble in vintage fashion plates, you’ll find a little something for everyone in our new packet. Download it now!
Fannie Farmer Knew Her Pies
A 19th Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover
Between 1849 and 1851, Johan George Heck published his encyclopedia Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexicon and the work continues to offer valuable insight into life in the 19th-century.
Creating the Transcription Cleanup Tool
During my time in the Kathryn Turner Diversity and Technology Internship, I worked with my mentor to create a program/software that would take completed projects from the Smithsonian Transcription Center and clean up the data even further. However, I first had to begin with understanding what I was ‘cleaning up’.
Digital Library FAQ
Frequently asked questions about our Digital Library
Bone To Book–
Natural History is more than just bones and fossils in a museum drawer…
Studying natural history is about discovering objects in the natural world and translating their meaning into scientific knowledge. Whales—From Bone to Book, a Smithsonian Libraries exhibition located in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, traces the fascinating journey of how Smithsonian scientists study the largest and most intelligent mammals on the planet: whales.
Cultural Heritage Library
Cultural Heritage Library
Digital Library and Digitization
Provides high quality digitization, project management, and curation services to develop and maintain our online book and image collections. The Department supports exhibitions, advancment, education, scholarly communications, and other projects and programs across the Libraries and the Instituion.
