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Happy Birthday to to Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day in 1809.
Did you know that the author most known for ravens also wrote about shells? He wrote the preface and introduction to "The conchologist’s first book" in 1839. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2FUvlj1
Find the book in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/2QYl7Eu
Laura Holloway Langford first wrote "The Ladies of the White House" in 1869 to address a gap in biographical coverage of the nation's First Ladies, which were limited to mostly "descriptions of personal appearances on public occasion".
"The Ladies of the White House" was a commercial success. This 1882 edition was updated to include every First Lady from Martha Washington to Lucretia Garfield.
Find it in our Digital Library: https://s.si.edu/3iqs1OY
"Heart and Soul" (2011), written by and illustrated with paintings by Kadir Nelson, includes a dynamic illustration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Nelson's work is one of many illustrated children’s books on African American history and culture collected for our Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum Library.
Learn more in our online exhibition "Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect": https://s.si.edu/2H21g2Z
Benjamin Franklin was born on this day in 1706.
Franklin began his experiments on electricity in the 1740s and communicated his results to correspondents in Great Britain. In 1751, these various letters were compiled into a book, "Experiments and observations on electricity". The letters described Franklin's work on lighting strikes and lightning rods, and also discussed his positive and negative theory of electrical fluid.
Read it in our Digital Library: https://s.si.edu/3bHxGyU
🐉 It's Appreciate A Dragon Day and it would seem that someone in the 17th century appreciated them a whole heck of a lot.
These four examples are from "Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri" by Johannes Jonstonus, available in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/2LB9Fiq
Learn more about mythical creatures, and how many may have been inspired by fossils, on the Biodiversity Heritage Library blog: :https://s.si.edu/3nJllg9
We present: a visual representation of our dedication to New Year’s resolutions, through the month of January. How are your resolutions going this year?
This image comes from “La cavalerie françoise et italienne” (1620), a horse training book based on military methods, by Pierre de La Noue. Find it in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/391kDpb
We’re giving you the special opportunity to learn more about our new organization and to “Meet the Archives” of Smithsonian Institution Archives! Joining us are Ellen Alers, Reference Team Leader, Tammy Peters, Chief Archivist, and Jennifer Wright, Archives and Information Management Team Leader. They will share about what can be found in our archival collections, how we collect these materials, and how people all over the world can access these records for all kinds of purposes.
⏰ In ONE HOUR (5pm ET) ,you can join us for a Facebook Live to get to know our colleagues at Smithsonian Institution Archives
Have questions about the records that built our Institution? Join us Live here on Facebook to ask.
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The 2021 astronomical forecast is full of eclipses, planetary conjunctions and meteor showers.
Get prepped with a few amateur astronomy books in our Digital Library: https://s.si.edu/3bBf2bZ
🖼️: Eclipse of the Moon from "The beauty of the heavens" (1842) by Charles Blunt: https://s.si.edu/2odVkcY
🤝 For our next Facebook Live event, we’re getting to know our colleagues at Smithsonian Institution Archives !
📺 Join us January 14th at 5 pm ET as we learn about their collections and work: https://fb.me/e/bnbqBoqzB
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Kala Bagai was one of the first South Asian women to arrive in San Francisco in 1915. She became an advocate for South Asian American’s rights, fighting for citizenship.
Find Bagai and other extraordinary women in "Women in America", our latest educational resource: https://library.si.edu/WomenInAmerica
Reaching out to an archives for the first time can be intimidating. Fortunately, the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Reference Team is welcoming, encouraging, knowledgeable, and well-prepared to investigate whatever your curiosity may be. The five archivists on the team field thousands of questions each year.
Learn about their work and the types of topics they dive into → s.si.edu/ReferenceTeam
Want to ask them for yourself? Join us here on Facebook Thursday, January 14th at 5pm: https://fb.me/e/bnbqBoqzB
#MeetTheArchives
Twelfth Night, Epiphany, Three Kings Day, el Día de los Reyes Magos. Celebrations on January 6, twelve days after Christmas, have as many names as traditions. Some use it to celebrate the arrival of the Magi, some use it to guide when their holiday decorations are put away.
Dennison’s Christmas Book from 1923 suggests a festive party where a bean and pea in to a cake. The guests who find the hidden legumes are crowned King and Queen
Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2LnTowL
For #NationalBirdDay, we're highlighting Daniel Elliot's "The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America" (1869).
Elliot, who was an ornithologist and a founder of American Museum of Natural History , provided text. The beautiful illustrations were by Elliot himself, as well as Joseph Wolf, Edwin Sheppard and others. It includes species not previously found in works by either Alexander Wilson or John James Audubon
Find our copy in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/2LmpSHI
Let’s continue to #MeetTheArchives with Smithsonian Institution Archives Digital Services Division.
The team is responsible for digitization, digital asset management, accessioning born-digital records and email accounts, web development, photography, & social media. Did you know they archive the email records of retiring Smithsonian employees and the Institution’s many social media accounts?
Read about their work → s.si.edu/DigitalServices
Interesting in meeting our archivists? Tune in on January 14th for "At Home with the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives: Meet the Archives": https://fb.me/e/bnbqBoqzB
✍️One New Year's Resolution we can always support? Read more!
📚Our digitized books in Biodiversity Heritage Library & our Digital Library can help. Find thousands of free, downloadable titles in a variety of subjects.
📖Not sure where to start? Here are a few staff faves to get you browsing: https://s.si.edu/38LlU3D
Happy National Science Fiction Day 🚀
One of the most famous examples from the 19th century is Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865). Verne’s writing combined elements of both the science and fiction of the time. This beautiful cover is from an 1874 edition in our National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Library.
Learn more about Verne's role in the creation of the science fiction genre in our online exhibition, "Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1780-1910": https://library.si.edu/exhibition/fantastic-worlds
🐧 On this day in 1908, Ernest Shackleton and crew set off aboard the Nimrod as the British Antarctic Expedition. It was the first of three successful trips to the Antarctic led by Shackleton. This illustrations depicts an autumn sunset with penguins.
Read Shackleton's account, "The heart of the Antarctic" (1909) in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/3aP5YQn
Rabbit🐰, rabbit🐰, rabbit🐰!
Supposedly, if your first words of a new month are about bunnies, you'll bring yourself good luck. In 2021, we're not taking any chances. Happy New Year🎉!
If nothing else, this assortment of bunnies is a darn cute way to ring in the New Year 🥕
All bunnies via Biodiversity Heritage Library:
https://s.si.edu/2WGeZ65
https://s.si.edu/3awLkV3
https://s.si.edu/34C6vkM
So what if you're overdressed for the living room?
2020 has been a crazy year and we hope you find a special way to ring in the new one! These elegant gowns by Worth may provide some last minute inspiration.
Found in our digital copy of the 1922 Gazette du Bon Ton: https://s.si.edu/2QsRKqL #NYE
Run out of holiday movies to watch this week? Smithsonian Institution Archives shares a few of ours! Learn about the recently digitized series "Here at the Smithsonian":
For the first time, we’re sharing short video features from the series
✨ Here at the Smithsonian ✨
Produced from 1982 to 1989, these videos were aired during commercial newscasts in order to circulate information about Smithsonian happenings. 🎥: s.si.edu/2WW05Zo
Our face this week when someone asks what day it is.
I wanna say . . . Decembrary?
Find this "long-armed gibbon" and more oddly illustrated animals in "Musei Leveriani Explicatio" (1792) in Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://s.si.edu/2KIrNGq
If you have a question related to Smithsonian history, Smithsonian Institution Archives Institutional History Division likely has your answer.
Led by Dr. Pamela Henson, historian for the history of the Institution since 1974, the small, but mighty team manages an oral history program and provides reference services to fellows, scholars, and Smithsonian staff. Additionally, the Division produces publications, bibliographies, chronologies, image databases, research guides, and exhibits around the Smithsonian.
Dive into some of their work → siarchives.si.edu/history
#MeetTheArchives
For the Christmas holiday and a merry #FloralFriday, a lovely amaryllis bloom from "The floral magazine" (1872) in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/34ySwfH
When grown as a houseplant, the bulbs usually flower around Christmas, making them synonymous with the holiday. Celebrate with more amaryllis examples on our blog: https://s.si.edu/3arCwjg
Ho Ho Didya Know: Many of Santa's attributes were formed by the classic Clement Moore story first published as “A Visit from St. Nicholas” in 1823. Moore is responsible for not only naming Santa’s reindeer but also the visual idea of the jolly old elf himself.
This 1901 edition of "The Night Before Christmas" is held by our Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library: https://s.si.edu/3h8elaH
Excited for the latest adventures of Wonder Woman? Meet the writer who helped bring early stories of Diana Prince to life - Joye Kelly.
Kelly was a former student of Wonder Woman creator, Dr. William Marston Moulton, impressing him with answers to a psychology test. She worked with Moulton for six months to create positive stories, drafted in detailed scripts.
Kelly shared her memories, and memorabilia, with us in 2015: https://s.si.edu/34yH5o0
#BecauseOfHerStory
❄️Wishing you a very happy holiday season!❄️
Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1865–1931), a pioneer in photomicrography, captured these detailed images of individual snowflakes, now in the collections of @SmithsonianArch . Learn more & find a holiday craft: https://s.si.edu/38nevHq
Lydia Maria Child's best known publication, "The Frugal Housewife", was first printed in 1829 and went through 33 editions, providing domestic guidance to a generation of American women.
But her lifetime of activism also helped advance causes like abolition and suffrage. She edited the "National Anti-Slavery Standard", wrote about women's history and pleaded for the rights of Native Americans.
Learn more about Child and her literary legacy: https://s.si.edu/2KgqgHO
(📸: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture : https://s.si.edu/2KHJ5TW)
#BecauseOfHerStory
Offering some magical light on this darkest day of Winter Solstice ✨.
"Thirty plates illustrative of natural phenomena, etc" was published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1846. In addition to the Aurora Borealis, the book also describes waterfalls, coral reefs and natural bridges with accompanying illustrations. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was founded in 1698 as an arm of the Church of England. The Society produced not only theological books but also works on popular science, travel, biography, and fiction.
Find it in our Digital Library: https://s.si.edu/2GObpAx
What happens when a high-level or long-term Smithsonian employee retires or leaves the Institution? Smithsonian Institution Archives' Archives and Information Management team is on it.
Our archivists advise Smithsonian staff on the daily management of active records, provide guidance on the disposition of records, assist in the transfer of permanent records, and manage storage for temporary records. The team is responsible for arranging these new accessions and creating finding aids for researchers.
Learn a little more about what they do: s.si.edu/ArchivesInfo
#MeetTheArchives
Abolitionist and suffragist Amy Post was born on this day in 1802. Post was a founding member of the New York Western Anti-Slavery Society, attended the Seneca Falls Convention and the cellar of her Rochester, New York home was used as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Post was also a friend of Frederick Douglass. This portrait of her is featured in "Frederick Douglass The Orator", a book in our Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum Library.
Read it online: https://s.si.edu/1bCNDAO
For the Baby Guttenberg on your gift list: a child's printing press.
Excelsior Printing Press, with its "solid, strong, rigid casting" and working parts, was listed with toys in the 1907 Herr, Thomas & Co catalog. Next to the sleds and child's tea set: https://s.si.edu/2KczhkY
🌲It's a holly jolly Floral Friday! We're enjoying some seasonal favorites from Mary Vaux Walcott's "North American wild flowers" (1925).
Find the White Spruce, American Holly and more native plants in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/2FYG0M4
Learn more about the "Smithsonian process", an unusual printing process Walcott used to illustrate her book, on our blog: https://s.si.edu/38fbzMU
📩 eConnect, our monthly email newsletter, hit inboxes last week!
🧐 Miss it? You can read a copy online: https://s.si.edu/3qUVFji
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✈️ On this day in 1903, the Wright brothers successfully took to the skies with the first machine powered air flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
How did they accomplish this feat? "The Wright Flyer: an engineering perspective", published by National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution in 1987, explains the technological achievements of the Wrights, with perspectives from five engineers.
Read it online: https://s.si.edu/2p73nrN
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Did you know that the Smithsonian Libraries has eleven different libraries focused on natural and physical sciences? They cover everything from anthropology to zoology and are staffed by a team of expert librarians who are passionate about providing services and resources to our users at the Smithsonian and around the world. Librarians from some of our science branches--Ricardo Beteta Bond and Carrie Smith (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library), Stephen Cox (Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Library) and Bonnie Felts (National Museum of Natural History Library)--share some insight into how they support scientific research, especially during this pandemic, and will answer your questions.
Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi, Acting Head Librarian at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library, and Susan Brown, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Textiles at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, talk about their co-curated exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color. Saturated explored how the sensory experience of color has been conceived by history's greatest color thinkers and used by designers to bring both order and excitement to our visual world. Inspired by the Libraries’ rich collection of rare books on color, Jen and Susan guide viewers on a virtual tour, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and surprise discoveries they made along the way.
The Smithsonian’s five art libraries house, curate, and provide access to printed and digital resources on the arts of many time periods, many cultures, and in many languages. In these libraries, you’ll find information on contemporary global art, design and decorative art from the Renaissance to the present, American art, African art, and the art of Asia and the Middle East. Librarians from some of our art branches—Anne Evenhaugen, Kathryn Phillips, and Jacqueline Protka—will share insight into how they and our libraries support research and education, especially during this pandemic, and will answer your questions.
Got a question? We can help. Last year, our staff received over 18,000 questions from researchers around the world! Read about this stat & more of our FY2019 activities in our recently released Annual Report: https://s.si.edu/2OmPGSx
Illuminated manuscripts are beautiful books, full of glittering, colorful images. But they are much more than just pretty objects; illuminated manuscripts, particularly Books of Hours, survive from the medieval and early modern period in large numbers, allowing us to get a glimpse of the lives of people in the past. And the lives of people in the past were not as boring as one might think! In particular, the margins of their manuscripts show an interest in natural history, as well as some more creative and humorous figures. Come along with Allie Alvis, our Special Collections Reference Librarian, and Dr. Kali Holder, a veterinary pathologist at the National Zoo, as they explore these marginal monsters! Have a question? Drop it in the comments and we’ll let our co-hosts know. We will be recording the session in its entirety. In case of technical difficulty or lost transmission, we will provide the recording after the session.
Is it just us or are these last days of 2019 flying faster than this spinning volvelle? 📅📅📅 Recently added to the collection of our Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, this book by Francesco Maneti was printed in 1643 and actually contains four movable volvelles (the circular, spinning feature). It was intended to help readers choose critical days (in both the favorable and unfavorable sense) for medical procedures, judicial proceedings, and undertaking navigation for dates between 1643 and 1655! Catalog record: https://s.si.edu/2M7yBez
Meet Tuffy this #MewseumMonday😻 . "The adventures of Tuffy" pop up was just added to our Cooper Hewitt Library collection. This children's book about Tuffy's high-jinks will join over 2,000 other examples of paper engineering: https://s.si.edu/30WEY8W
In Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , a mechanized (and adorable) depiction of how early land animals may have walked is on display in their new Deep Time exhibition. Learn more: https://naturalhistory.si.edu
How many museum professionals does it take to turn a book page? In the case of Audubon's double-elephant edition of “The Birds of America”, up to four! Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History staff and our book conservators team up to turn pages twice a week. See the book on view in "Objects of Wonder": s.si.edu/2WcPzL5 Can't make it to the museum to see "The Birds of America" in person? Audubon also produce a smaller (more affordable) version that combined the plates with text from "Ornithological Biography". View our copy in Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://s.si.edu/2lQyU0d
“The Life & Art of Elizabeth Gould”, part of #HerNaturalHistory
We wish you warm tidings from all of us at Smithsonian Libraries this holiday season! Within the snow globe is an image of the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle) from Hints on public architecture, containing, among other illustrations, views and plans of the Smithsonian Institution by Robert Owen (1849). Our current exhibition is featured in the video as well. Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect is now on view in the National Museum of American History through July 2020.
😍😍 Shirley Temple can keep the hippopotamus -- we want a Zebra Pegasus for Christmas! This glorious popup is based on Hermès scarf designs. It was recently added to ouCooper Hewitttt Library, which is home to almost 2,000 movable books: https://s.si.edu/2PLh3na #12DaysofCataloging
Watch author and investigative journalist James Grady wishes the Smithsonian Libraries a happy birthday and tells us why he loves libraries! Grady is a New York Times and #1 internationally best-selling author of thriller, police procedural, and espionage novels. He is most well-known for “Six Days of the Condor,” which was adapted to film as “Three Days of the Condor” starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in 1975. James Grady Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Lisa Gardner sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Lisa Gardner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including “Look for Me” and “The Neighbor,” which won the International Thriller of the Year Award. A self-described research junkie, she has transformed her interest in police procedure and criminal minds into a streak of internationally acclaimed novels, published across 30 countries. She’s also had four books become TV movies. Lisa Gardner Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Lee Child sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. Lee Child is the #1 New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers. His debut, “Killing Floor,” won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and “The Enemy” won both the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. "Jack Reacher", the 2012 film based on the 9th novel, “One Shot,” starred Tom Cruise. Of Child’s 23 Jack Reacher thrillers, 13 have reached the New York Times #1 position. All his novels have been optioned for major motion pictures, and foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. Lee Child Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Louis Bayard sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. New York Times notable author Louis Bayard’s fondness for bygone eras shines through his works, including historical mysteries “The Pale Blue Eye” and “Roosevelt's Beast” and young-adult novels, such as “Lucky Strikes.” His critically-acclaimed books have been translated into 11 languages. Bayard has been nominated for both the Edgar® and Dagger awards. He is also a nationally recognized essayist and critic whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Salon. He is on the faculty of the Yale Writers Conference. Louis Bayard Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Rita Dove sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Dove is an American poet, story writer, and script writer. In 1987, Dove’s book of poems based off the lives of her maternal grandparents, Thomas and Beulah, won the Pulitzer Prize. Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. Dove has published poetry collections including The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and On the Bus with Rosa Parks; a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday; the novel Through the Ivory Gate; essays under the title The Poet's World; and the play The Darker Face of the Earth. Rita Dove Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Margot Lee Shetterly sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Shetterly is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book "HIDDEN FIGURES: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race." She was also an executive producer of the Hidden Figures film based on the book. Shetterly is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and has received a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her work on The Human Computer Project, the organization she founded to recover the names and work of all of the women who worked as mathematicians and engineers at all of the NACA-NASA centers from 1935-1980. Margot Lee Shetterly Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Annette Gordon-Reed sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award in 2008 and the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Her many awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Humanities Medal. Her most recently published book (with Peter S. Onuf) is “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Annette Gordon-Reed Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Adriana Trigiani sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Trigiani is beloved by millions of readers around the world for her novels. Her recent book “Kiss Carlo” was a The New York Times bestseller, and her latest, “Tony’s Wife,” arrives in bookstores November 20. Trigiani’s novels have been translated to 36 languages, and she wrote and directed the film adaptation of her debut novel “Big Stone Gap.” Adriana Trigiani Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! In 2011, Katherine Neville became the first author invited to join the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board. During her tenure, she has furthered publicity, awareness, and events for the Libraries and currently serves on the Board’s 50th Anniversary Committee. Neville initiated the filming of 50 famous authors rolling out this year, along with film crew Maggie Linton and Kim Alexander, co-producers of the former Sirius XM Book Channel who have helped her record many glamorous author events for the Smithsonian Libraries. Watch as Neville sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries. Neville is a New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author whose books have been translated into 40 languages. She has been dubbed “the female” Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, and Stephen Spielberg. Her work has been reviewed and has received awards in categories as diverse as Mystery, Thriller, Historic, Romance, Science Fiction as well as classical literature. Publishers Weekly described Neville’s works as having “paved the way for books like The Da Vinci Code.” In a national poll by the noted Spanish journal, El Pais, her novel, “The Eight,” was voted one of the top ten books of all time. Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Author Steve Berry has served on the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board since 2013, heightening publicity and education initiatives. Watch as Berry sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of seventeen books, most recently “The Bishop’s Pawn,” “The Lost Order” (featuring the Smithsonian and the Libraries!), and “The 14th Colony.” His books have been translated into 40 languages with over 22,000,000 copies in 51 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. Steve Berry Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
Introducing a brand new set of Natural and Physical Sciences Subject Guides available from Smithsonian Libraries! Watch as intern Samuel Hansen describes these new tools and how you might use them.
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Brad Meltzer sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Inner Circle," "The Book of Fate," and nine other bestselling thrillers including "The Tenth Justice," "The First Counsel," "The Millionaires," and "The President’s Shadow." His newest book, "The Escape Artist," debuted at #1 on the bestseller list. In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction ("History Decoded"), Advice ("Heroes for My Son" and "Heroes for My Daughter"), Children’s Books ("I Am Amelia Earhart" and "I Am Abraham Lincoln") and even comic books ("Justice League of America"), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award. Brad Meltzer Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Jeffery Deaver sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into over twenty-five languages. He has sold 50 million books worldwide. Deaver served as the official host of the Smithsonian Libraries' 2017 Adopt-a-Book Evening at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. He also was an official spokesperson, along with authors Katherine Neville and Steve Berry, promoting the Libraries on episode eight of the Author Imprint series on PBS in 2017. Jeffery Deaver Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci is the Honorary Chair of the Libraries’ 50th Anniversary Gilded Circle. He and his wife, Michelle, were presented with the first-ever “Libraries Legend Award" by Secretary David J. Skorton at the “All That Glitters: Adopt-a-Book Evening” at the Smithsonian Castle on March 6. Watch as Baldacci sends his congrats and tells us why he loves libraries. Baldacci published his first novel, "Absolute Power," in 1996. The feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. In total, David has published 35 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. His novels are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales. David has also published six novels for younger readers. David Baldacci Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member)
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