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Unveiling a GemSmithsonian Libraries:
Martin R. KalfatovicAssociate Director
Twitter: @UDCMRK15 September 2016
30 MILLION VISITORS EACH YEAR
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ENDANGERED SPECIES
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SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery LibraryCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design LibraryFreer and Sackler Galleries LibraryHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden LibraryWarren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
Anacostia Community Museum LibraryNational Air and Space Museum LibraryNational Museum of African American History & Culture LibraryNational Museum of American History LibraryNational Postal Museum LibraryThe Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American IndianSIL Research Annex
Botany and Horticulture LibraryJohn Wesley Powell Library of AnthropologyMuseum Support Center LibraryNational Museum of Natural History LibraryNational Zoological Park LibrarySmithsonian Environmental Research Center LibraryEarl Tupper Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Dibner Library of the History of Science and TechnologyJoseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
History and Culture
Art and Design
Sciences
Special Collections
BRANCHES OF THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
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THE HEART OF THE SMITHSONIAN
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“…increase and diffusion…”
“…for the increase and diffusion of knowledge…”
The Seal of the Smithsonian Institution
SMITHSONIAN MISSION
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“…shall fund, an appropriation, not exceeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, for the gradual formation of a Library composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge.”
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JOSEPH HENRYSecretary, 1846-1878
CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE SERIES
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CHARLES COFFIN JEWETTLibrarian & Assistant Secretary, 1848-1855
EXCHANGE PUBLICATIONS ARRIVE AT SMITHSONIAN CASTLE
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARY ROOM
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FIRE!
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The Fire at the Castle - 1865
The Fire at the Capitol - 1851
SMITHSONIAN CASTLE after the fire
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARY ROOM
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SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRDSecretary, 1878-1887
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S. DILLON RIPLEYSecretary, 1964-1984
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THE 21ST CENTURY LIBRARY
Extraordinary Holdings
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NATURAL HISTORY
AVIATION AND AERONAUTICS
ANTHROPOLOGY
AMERICAN PORTRAITURE
EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DESIGN
AMERICAN, AFRICAN ART & CULTURE
ASIAN ART
TROPICAL BIOLOGY
AMERICAN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
DIBNER LIBRARY of the HISTORY OF SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
IN THE DIBNER LIBRARY STACKS
GALILEO LETTERHEVELIUS, CELESTIAL MACHINES
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
WORLDS FAIRS COLLECTION
CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1851
IN THE STACKS, CULLMAN LIBRARY
JOSEPH F. CULLMAN 3RD LIBRARY
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EARLY MUSEUMS
TRADE LITERATURE COLLECTION
A Move to Digital
1 million web visitors9 million web content downloads
Tell America’s Story
Spark Discovery
Inspire Lifelong Learning
Reach People Everywhere
Questions?
Advancing Knowledge at Home and Around the WorldDr. Nancy E. Gwinn, Director July 20, 2015
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Unveiling a GemSmithsonian Libraries:
Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn, Director
Richard Naples
And the rest of Smithsonian Libraries’
staff for assistance in this presentation
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