DCSIMG
Navigation Menu+

Smithsonian Libraries Open Their Doors To Interns and Fellows

Posted on June 12, 2014 by in The OFI Blog

 

MichelleFast

OFI Intern Michelle Fast with Martha the passenger pigeon

On Tuesday, June 10, Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) hosted an open house at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Visitors were able to attend a presentation about the many research tools available at the libraries, learn about the digitization process at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, view rare books, explore the library, and fold paper passenger pigeons.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is in the process of creating digital accounts of their collection so that it is entirely searchable online.

Learn more about the paper pigeons and the Fold the Flock project here.

Emma

OFI Intern Emma Auburn explores the library

oldbooks

Library visitors view rare books from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
http://www.smithsonianofi.com/blog/2014/06/12/smithsonian-libraries-open-their-doors-to-interns-and-fellows/
www.smithsonianofi.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-18
26019
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:4477KB6SZTF5X4JMOBPXE7IMMFAZEI7I
<urn:uuid:d7c55e1e-3522-41fa-af60-49676ff45d79>
2016-05-02T05:53:59Z
50.87.182.145
sha1:EW6RZGIU4D43INSKU57DZKWLNUU2RXUU
<urn:uuid:fd1c1055-39d4-4bdb-bd8c-8a5e982e5cf6>
http://www.smithsonianofi.com/blog/2014/06/12/smithsonian-libraries-open-their-doors-to-interns-and-fellows/
response
<urn:uuid:1b3108a9-9636-42d1-a0f1-d8b3ac9499ac>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf