extensive is this survey of the Libraries’

holdings, that the exhibition will be

divided into a rotation of three 

different displays over a period of 18

months. Among the show’s highlights

are rare books published before the

invention of the printing press, works

by adventurous explorers like South

Pole navigator James Cook and pilot

Charles Lindbergh, scientific pioneers

such as Galileo Galilei and Isaac

Newton, and artists such as Albrecht

Dürer and Walter Crane. Pop-up and 

Having made its successful debut at

Manhattan’s prestigious Grolier Club in

May 2001 under the title Voyages: A

Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition, a new 

version, renamed Odyssey in Print:

Adventures in Smithsonian Libraries, opened

to the public on May 16, 2002, in the

Smithsonian Libraries Gallery in the

National Museum of American

History, Behring Center. On display are

more than 100 examples of the

Libraries’ most visually alluring and

historically valuable works, organized in

three segments: ‘Journeys Over Land

and Sea ,’ ‘Journeys of the Mind,’ and

‘Journeys of the Imagination.’ So 

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and Benefactors

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IN THIS ISSUE

1 Odyssey in Print comes to 

Washington, D.C.

2 Letter from the Director

by Nancy E. Gwinn

3 ‘Galaxy of Knowledge,’ A Digital 

Portal to the Collection

3 The Technology Behind Digital 

Editions

4 Board Member Profiles

5 2002 Baird Society Benefactors 

Dinner

6 New and Award-winning Staff

Publications

7 Dibner Resident Scholars

DEPARTMENTS

2 From the Director’s Office 

3 From the New Media Office 

4 Development Watch

by Gwen Leighty and Dale Miller

6 Libraries News Digest

7 Special Collections

Parting Shots

8 What’s New at SIL

After a successful debut in New York City,

Odyssey comes home to Washington, D.C. 

At the May 15 Odyssey in Print opening reception, Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small spoke about the genesis of the

Institution and the contributions the Libraries has consistently made to the Institution’s growth and continued development. 

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In March, Rhoda Ratner retired

from SIL after nearly 25 years of

service. Known Smithsonian-wide for

her adventurous sojourns to unusual 

locations, her keen fashion sense, and

her passion for trade literature, Rhoda

was an inspirational and enriching 

figure in the SIL community. She began

her SIL career as the librarian in the

Museum Reference Center and later

moved to the American History Library,

where she became Head of the History

and Culture Department. Most recently,

she served as SIL’s

Interim Assistant

Director for Research

Services. 

While at

American History,

Rhoda developed

vital connections

with curatorial staff

and worked to make

the library a hub of

scholarly activity

within the museum.

Meanwhile, she 

pursued her greatest love, SIL’s superb

trade literature collection. Thanks to

Rhoda’s avid collecting, the collection,

which currently numbers over 300,000

catalogs from over 30,000 companies,

along with a wealth of other related

ephemera, is America’s largest. Highly respected for her pragmatism and organizational acumen,

Rhoda will be deeply missed by both

SIL and by those who have worked with

her so closely over the last quarter 

century.

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from the director’s office

Letter from the Director

It’s a hot day in July as I write this. The

Smithsonian Folklife Festival, this year featuring

The Silk Road, is being dismantled out on the

Mall. Many of our staff are taking hard-earned

vacations. They need them, for the Libraries has

accomplished a lot this year with much more to

come.

Elsewhere in this issue is a story on the

“Galaxy of Knowledge,” SIL’s portal to the

Libraries’ collections and services. This 

completely redesigned website has far more 

content and can now be easily accessed with

superb navigational tools. What an amazing

change from our early attempts five years ago to

use the Internet as a major vehicle to reach out

to a broader public! At that time we produced

a planning document that outlined what we thought it would take in terms of

staff and resources to add this dimension to our services. It seemed overwhelming.

As in many new enterprises, we had to learn and train ourselves, locating staff

from across the Libraries with the interest to forge ahead in this new world, while

hiring just one new staff member to bring in new technical skills. A recent 

reorganization consolidated this fragmented effort into a New Media Office,

equipped now with experienced personnel who can produce sophisticated products

that are well-designed, visually appealing, and easy to navigate and use. It’s still

small, but so embedded in our superstructure that we’ve almost

Readers may recognize Sherry Kelley

as a leader in cataloguing management,

who, with her staff, is responsible for

advances made in metatagging data for

easy retrieval by researchers and for the

careful, orderly integration of acquisitions into the collection. In March,

Sherry joined the Director’s Office staff

as Assistant Director, Technical Services

and Administration. She now oversees

administrative services, such as human

resources, procurement, contracts, 

statistics and performance measures,

and accounting as well as acquisitions,

cataloguing, and preservation. 

Sherry’s move is just one of the

many changes occurring at SIL, which

include, among others, the creation of

the New Media Office within the

Information Systems Division. The

reorganization of internal machinery

was sparked by SIL’s unique and 

changing position within the

Smithsonian itself. As an internal service

provider, meeting the needs of curators

and researchers, and now increasingly, a 

public educator via its exhibitions and

Web site, SIL faces exciting challenges in

the new millennium. The speed of

technology and the competition for

resources and audience is effecting a

broadening of horizons for SIL, and

SIL is responding with increased 

efficiency, inter-organizational collaborations, and a wealth of new offerings and

innovative projects.

New Assistant Director Sherry Kelley 

At a party held in her honor, Rhoda Ratner felt the gratitude of friends and

colleagues with whom she worked during her nearly 25 years at SIL. Above,

Director Nancy E. Gwinn presents Rhoda with one of many mementoes.

Libraries Reorganizes in

Response to New Demands

Nancy E. Gwinn

Libraries Bids Rhoda Ratner a Fond Farewell

continued on page 4
Just how do rare books get from the shelf to the Internet? The process starts

in an erstwhile factory building in

Northeast Washington, which is home to

the SIL Imaging Center. Using an

adjustable book stand, so that fragile 

volumes can be opened at angles that

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Nicole Van Doren joined SIL’s

Information Systems Division in

September 2001 as the Digital

Imaging Specialist. Although 

relatively new to SIL, she has quickly

become integral to the workings of

the New Media Office and will play

a tremendous role in the look and

feel of the new Smithsonian

Libraries’Web site. Her job is crucial,

as the newly redesigned ‘Galaxy of

Knowledge’ is SIL’s chief public 

presence. 

Nicole is a Web-design 

veteran with impressive credentials.

She has worked for such organizations as Sylvan Learning Systems,

Verio Interactive and, most recently,

e-advocates, a small online advocacy

firm, where she was the creative 

director. While at e-advocates she

designed and developed web sites for

a variety of clients including Yahoo!,

the National Park Safety Campaign,

and the Stop Family Violence

Campaign whose site went on to win

the 2001 Pollie Award (the American

Association of Political Consultants’

highest award).

Nicole takes evening classes at the

Maryland Institute College of Art in

Baltimore and loves to read, journal,

and paint furniture. She lives in

Annapolis, Maryland with her 

husband, Jon and a white German

Shepherd named Zoe. 

Ranging from art to zoos, SIL collections mirror the variety and

depth of the Institution’s museum

and research centers. Likewise,

SIL’s digitization efforts range over

a diverse body of materials. With

its new Website, ‘Galaxy of

Knowledge,’ SIL can now present

its collection in a format and 

context that aids teaching, research

and exploration. SIL’s Digital Editions collec- tion features an ever-growing assortment of rare volumes from the

Dibner Library of the History of

Science and Technology and SIL’s 

natural history collections. To date

these include nine titles, notably: Tycho

Brahe’s Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica

(1602), which focuses on astronomy;

Jacques Dauphinois Besson’s Theatrum

instrumentorum et machinarum (1578), which features engineering; and Joachim

Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky’s Prodromus

in Systema Historicum Testaceorum (1795

[1801 issue]), an important work on

mollusks, of which only a dozen copies

from the new media office

‘Galaxy of Knowledge,’ a Digital Portal to the

Collections

are known. Though the primary 

audience for these editions is scientific

researchers, the lavish illustrations offer

a wide variety of cross-disciplinary

uses. 

Forthcoming digital editions include additional rare titles in natural

history, over 900 portraits of scientists

and inventors, selections from the

Smithsonian’s Bureau of American

Ethnology series, nearly 1,000 items

from Smithsonian trade literature collections relating to

Meet Digital Imaging Specialist 

Nicole Van Doren

The Technology Behind Digital Editions

The new SIL Web site, ‘Galaxy of Knowledge’

Nicole Van Doren produced the new design for ‘Galaxy.’’

pose no danger to their bindings, David

Holbert and Imaging Center technicians

use a Hasselblad 35mm medium format

camera with an 80mm or 150 mm lens to

take images of at least 400 dpi. Each

super-TIFF image is then sent to a Power

Macintosh G3, where it is burned onto

CD. One volume alone may necessitate

the use of 100 or more CDs, which can

each hold only four or five pages, 

depending on the size of the files. Martin

Kalfatovic, Digital Projects Librarian and

Head of the New Media Office, oversees

the workings of the Imaging Center from

his office on the Mall and regularly 

harvests this ‘raw material,’ the high 

resolution scans, which his office will turn

into the digital editions available online.

Web designer Nicole Van Doren creates a 

visually appealing framework for 

navigating each book. It is a lengthy and

costly procedure. One page can take 

several minutes to process, and SIL relies

heavily on gifts and grants to subsidize the 

digitization of each volume or series.

However, such offerings are crucial to

making vital research materials available

on an international level, one of SIL’s

principal goals.

Technician David Holbert uses sophisticated 

scanning equipment to digitize rare and out of print

books.

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Meet the Libraries Board

Letter from the Director

Margery F. Masinter of White

Plains, New York holds a Master’s

Degree in the History of Decorative

Arts from the Cooper-Hewitt, National

Design Museum/Parsons School of

Design and is an active volunteer in

both the Cooper-Hewitt Library and

the Museum’s Drawings and Prints

Department. She is a former trustee

and past president of the Neuberger

Museum of Art and a former trustee of

the Westchester Arts Council, the

Lyman Allyn Art Museum at

Connecticut College, Grand Street

Settlement in New York City, and Snake

River Institute in Wilson, Wyoming.

She was also a Public Relations

Manager with Neiman-Marcus and a

founder/producer of the Playmakers

Theater for Children. Her husband,

Edgar M. Masinter is a retired partner

of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett in

New York City and is currently a

Managing Director at J. P. Morgan,

Chase & Co. He joined the

Smithsonian National Board in 2001. The Masinters have been among the

Libraries Board’s most generous donors

to date. A member of the Libraries’

Campaign Steering Committee, Margery

has recently completed a three-year

pledge to support activities of the

Cooper-Hewitt Library. In response to

the launch of the Libraries’ Partners in

Discovery campaign, the Masinters have

recently made a commitment to 

Margery F. Masinter

Margery Masinter

Frank J. Quirk of Alexandria,

Virginia is Chairman of the Board and

Chief Executive Officer of Macro

International Inc., a business, research

and technology consulting company he

helped to found. He has been CEO

since 1980. Since

1999, he has also

been Executive Vice

President and

Director of

Opinion Research

Corporation, and he

is a past Director of

Ameribank (1992-

1995). He received

undergraduate and

Masters of Business

Administration

degrees from

Cornell University

and is serving his

third term on the Cornell University

Council (1999-2003). Frank is also on

the Board of Directors of the

Professional Services Council, a trade

association in the Washington 

metropolitan area representing over 130

professional and technical services firms.

He and his wife Betty are very interested

in the Smithsonian Institution and have

recently established

The Frank J. and Betty

M. Quirk Endowment

at the Libraries,

income from which

will be used to support

technology activities,

programs, and 

equipment to further

the goals of the

Libraries’ New Media

Office.

Frank is an active

member of the

Libraries’ Campaign

Steering Committee.

Frank J. Quirk

Frank J. Quirk

forgotten the move from wondering

“how can we do this?” to the 

realization that the digital world has

become a routine aspect of our 

collections and services.

With the initial learning curve

behind us, SIL is leading in several

partnership projects with

Smithsonian museums. With the

assistance of curators in the

National Museum of American

History, SIL is mounting portions

of our fascinating trade literature

collection on the Internet. Sewing

machines and scientific instruments

are the first two categories, but there

will be more to come. With the

National Museum of Natural

History, SIL has embarked on

preparing a digital edition of a 63-

volume set called the Biologia CentraliAmericana, the seminal work on the

flora and fauna of Central America.

These projects will create entirely

new audiences for works that are

fragile and unavailable to most of

the population. What an exciting

business to be in!

On my desk is a saying:

“Nothing in the world can take the

place of persistence.” Our 

experience in the digital world

proves the truth of these words.

~ Nancy E. Gwinn

continued from page 1

continued on page 5

artist books from the CooperHewitt, National Design Museum

Library provide a glimpse of yet

another imaginative realm. 

Odyssey in Print runs until

December 2003. Enjoy a digital 

version at: 

www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/odyssey

Odyssey in Print Opens

continued from page 1
Gwinn, Director of

the Libraries, and

Marc Pachter, Acting

Director of the

National Museum of

American History,

Behring Center. Both

directors noted the

synergy between the

Smithsonian Libraries

and the Institution’s

museums with respect

to both research and

exhibition/public outreach. The Spencer

Baird Society enables the Libraries to advance

its ability to care for and enhance the nation’s

collections in support of the Smithsonian’s

mission.

Harkening back to the beginning of the

20th century, the 3rd annual Spencer Baird

Society Benefactors Dinner on April 22,

2002, featured a highly entertaining presentation on Theodore and Edith Roosevelt’s

Washington by Edmund Morris and Sylvia

Jukes Morris at the National

Museum of American History,

Behring Center. Baird Society

members and guests of the

Museum were welcomed first

with a reception held at the

exhibition The American Presidency,

A Glorious Burden. After the

reception, guests were escorted

back in time to a gold-washed

setting in the Museum’s Flag

Hall, at the entrance to the

Roosevelt-era façade of the

White House opening into

the Hall of First Ladies. 

After consuming wild mushroom salad,

herb encrusted sea bass and asparagus, and

bittersweet chocolate pecan bourbon cake

with homemade vanilla ice cream, Benefactors

and guests were treated to a rare dual talk by

the Morrises, both renowned biographers, he

of Theodore Roosevelt and she of Edith

Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Seamlessly

moving back and forth between them, the

Morrises painted a lively picture of life in

Washington during the Roosevelts’tenure in

the White House. Complete with excerpts

from their correspondence and the liberal use

of period accents and even snatches of song,

the presentation highlighted an era when all

seemed possible.

The Morrises were introduced by Nancy

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2002 Baird Society Benefactors Dinner

Members of the Smithsonian

Libraries Board have made gifts and

pledges in recent months totaling

$500,000 in support of the

Libraries’ $20 million capital 

campaign, ‘Partners in Discovery.’

Board Chair Rosemary Livingston

Ripley has pledged to support the S.

Dillon Ripley Library Endowment,

an acquisitions endowment 

established in honor of her father’s

80th birthday in 1993. Vice Chair

Brian J. Heidtke and his wife,

Darlene, have made a pledge over five

years to support the Libraries’ book

preservation program. Frank J.

Quirk and his wife Betty have made a

pledge to increase their technology

endowment, established in 2000.

Margery F. Masinter and her 

husband Edgar have made a five-year

pledge to establish an endowment

supporting the acquisition and

preservation of illustrated books in

the Libraries’ collections. And Jay W.

Freedman has made an unrestricted

five-year pledge to the campaign, the

first installment of which will be

used to help purchase a second highend camera for the Libraries’ Imaging

Center.

For information on 

supporting the Partners in

Discovery campaign, please contact Gwen Leighty, Development

Officer, at 202-786-2875 or via

email at leightyg@si.edu. 

Partners in Discovery Campaign

Receives Major Board Gifts

Acting American History Director Marc Pachter with Libraries Board members, Mr. and Mrs.

Prosser and Shirley Gifford at SIL’s annual Baird Society dinner. 

Jay W. Freedman is one of several Board members,

who have made gerenous gifts to the Libraries

Board member Dr. Beatrice Taylor and her husband, Norman O. Taylor.

establish the Margery F. and Edgar M.

Masinter Endowment for Illustrated

Books, a fund that will enable the

Libraries to acquire and preserve 

illustrated works in all subject areas of

the Libraries’ holdings. Libraries

Director Nancy E. Gwinn called this

pledge “an inspired and generous gift,

showing clearly that Margery and Edgar

Masinter understand the nature of our

museum library collections and our

need to continually enhance and protect

our books for the use of future 

generations.”

Margery Masinter

- Gwen Leighty

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libraries news digest

New and Award-Winning Staff Publications 

Odyssey in Print, a companion to the exhibition 

In May 2002, to coincide with

the opening of the exhibition An

Odyssey in Print, SIL published an

accompanying book. It features a

history of SIL, written by exhibition

curator and Assistant Director for

Reader Services and Strategic

Planning, Mary Augusta Thomas, as

well as essays by Michael Dirda of

Washington Post Book World and Storrs

Olson of the National Museum of

Natural History. A foreword by

Director Nancy E. Gwinn launches

the journey through the SIL 

collection. 

Odyssey won top honors at the

2002 Washington Book Publishers

Design Competition. Of 37 award

categories, Odyssey received two ‘First

Place’ awards, one for its interior

design and another for cover design.

Odyssey also took home the 

competition’s ‘Best of Show’ award.

In early June, the book won an

Honorable Mention in AAM’s

Publications Design Competition.

To purchase a copy of Odyssey, please contact Smithsonian

Institution Press at (800) 782-4612

or visit the Web site at:

www.sipress.si.edu

Wonder Bound will be on display in the

National Museum of Natural History,

Constitution Avenue Lobby through

October 31, 2002. Enjoy a digital version

of Wonder Bound at:

www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/wonderbound

Wonder Bound relates a fascinating museological history

The new exhibition, Wonder Bound: Rare

Books on Early Museums, a collaboration

between the National Museum of Natural

History and the Smithsonian Institution

Libraries, relates the fascinating and 

complex story that lies behind the 

development of natural history museums. 

Curated by Leslie Overstreet, Curator

of Natural History Rare Books, Wonder

Bound includes illustrations of Renaissanceera “cabinets of curiosities,” also known as

“Wunderkammern,” and features 18th and

19th century publications containing 

specific instructions for collecting and 

documenting specimens. Such pamphlets

were given to adventurers, merchants, and

sailors in hopes of their returning with new

specimens and materials for museum collections. The historical survey continues into

the present day, with illustrations of curators from the National Museum of Natural

History engaged in similar activities.

Head of SIL’s New Media Office,

Martin Kalfatovic is a prolific writer. In

addition to his regular book reviews for

Library Journal and many field-related 

articles, he has authored three books.

The first, Nile Notes of a Howadji (1992)

is a definitive bibliography of published 

literature on Egypt up to 1918. His

New Deal Fine Arts Projects (1994) has

proved to be a vital reference tool for

researchers. Most recently, American

Library Association Editions released

Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A

Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

(2002). It features a foreword by SIL’s

Diane Shaw of cataloguing services. Nile

Notes and the Guide for Libraries are 

currently available on Amazon.com.

Elizabeth Broman’s article,

“Egyptian Revival Funerary Art &

Architecture in Green-Wood Cemetery,

Brooklyn, NY,” which appeared in vol.

XVIII of Markers, Journal of the Association

for Gravestone Studies (issued by the

Association for Gravestone Studies,

2001) recently won the 2002 Art

Libraries Society of North America

(ARLIS/NA) Publication Award. The

award recognizes outstanding 

publications by individual members of

ARLIS/NA in librarianship or visual

resources curatorship, and the arts.

Elizabeth works at the Cooper-Hewitt

National Design Museum Library. 

Martin R. Kalfatovic

Crocodiles on the ceiling? Learn about ‘cabinets of

curiosities’ and other early collecting practices.

Odyssey has garnered a number of prestigious awards since its release in May 2002.

Elizabeth Broman
Author Mary Augusta Thomas of SIL and contributing essayist, Washington Post Book World critic Michael Dirda recently completed a whirlwind tour of publicity

engagements related to the release of

Odyssey in Print, the book. Below, Mary Augusta and Michael are seen resting their

hands at a recent signing event held for the

Institution’s contributing members. Parting Shots will be a regular feature of

Information and will provide a glimpse of the world in and around SIL. 

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from the special collections department

‘Galaxy of Knowledge’

Dibner Library Resident Scholars

the sewing machine industry

(1846-1960s). A new category, Art and Design, will debut with Le

Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne, a

French serial publication depicting

interior design and furnishings

published between 1839-1935.

Smithsonian

Institution

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INFORMATION is published

semi-annually to inform users and 

benefactors about SIL’s services and

programs and about issues affecting

the Libraries.

Savannah Schroll, Editor

Send all correspondence to the Editor,

SIL, at Natural History Building 22,

MRC 154, Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, DC 20560-0154.

Telephone (202) 357-2240

Fax (202)786-2866

Jen E. Boyle, a Ph.D. candidate in the

Department of English and Comparative

Literature at the University of California,

Irvine, is currently working on a dissertation

titled, “Anamorphic Imagination and the

Empirical Body: Perspective and the

Embodiment of Space and Text in

Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century

Science.” At the Dibner Library, Boyle 

studied 18th-century perspective manuals

and the exchange of mathematical theories

and the technologies of perspective between

England and France.

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings obtained her

Ph.D. in the history of technology and 

science from Iowa State University in 2000.

Her project at the Dibner Library is an

expansion of her doctoral dissertation and is

titled, “American Geometry Teaching, 1750-

1850.” It explores the American approach

to geometry instruction and its indebtedness

to European methodology and thought. Her

work examines the use of Euclid’s Elements as a standard didactic text, how American textbook authors have traditionally followed

European developments in geometry 

teaching, and whether advances made abroad

should serve as models for American 

education.

Guido Giglioni is a Ph.D. candidate in

the Department of the History of Science,

Medicine, and Technology at The Johns

Hopkins University, where he is writing a

dissertation on the work and life of the

English anatomist, physician, and 

philosopher, Francis Glisson (1598-1677).

At the Dibner Library, Guido’s research

project titled, “Motion, Life, and

Perception in Early Seventeenth-Century

England,” concentrates on the authors

Francis Bacon, William Gilbert, and

William Harvey. These three figures

espoused theories of vital naturalism that

influenced Glisson and his theory of life,

which was based on the belief that there are

perceptive powers inherent in matter. 

Jen E. Boyle

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings

Guido Giglioni

Photography Credits SIL is grateful to the following people

for images provided in this issue: Harold

Dorwin for Small, p. 1; Don Hurlbert

for Gwinn and Kelley, p. 2; Savannah

Schroll for Ratner & Gwinn, p. 2;

Nicole Van Doren for ‘Galaxy’ page, p.

3; Martin Kalfatovic for Van Doren, p.

3; Jon Goell for Holbert, p. 3; Savannah

Schroll for Masinter, p. 4; Harold

Dorwin for Quirk, p. 4; Harold Dorwin

for Pachter & Giffords and Taylors, p. 5;

Savannah Schroll for Freedman, p. 5;

Don Hurlbert for Kalfatovic, p. 6; Jill

Bloomer for Broman, p. 6; OIPS staff

for Crocodiles, p. 6; Savannah Schroll

for Boyle, Hastings and Giglioni, p. 7;

Bruce Guthrie for Dirda & Thomas, 

p. 7.

- Martin R. Kalfatovic

Head, New Media Office

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Parting Shots

SIL’s Mary Augusta Thomas and Washington Post Book World critic Michael Dirda
May 16, 2002 through

December 2003 ~

An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the

Smithsonian Libraries

Curator: Mary Augusta Thomas, 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries Gallery, first floor

National Museum of American History, 

Behring Center

14th Street & Cosntitution Ave, NW

Washington, D.C. 

Through October 31, 2002 ~

Wonder Bound: Rare Books on Early Museums

Curator: Leslie Overstreet, 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Constitution Avenue Lobby, west

National Museum of Natural History

10th and Constitution Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 

Eunice Moscoso. “Irradiation Harms Books and

Gems as well as Germs.” Cox News Service. January

28, 2002. 

CNN with Aaron Brown. “Irradiated Mail.” February

4, 2002. 

Segment features interview with Book Conservator,

Eliza Gilligan.

Fox 5 Morning News, Washington, D.C. “Irradiated

Mail.” February 14, 2002.

Features interview with Book Conservator, Eliza Giligan.

Hal Stucker. “Let’s Get Digital.” Photo District News.

(March 2002). 

Ann Geracimos. “Rare Books Revealed.” Smithsonian

Magazine. (April 2002). 

Susan Menke. “Hi-res Scans Save Rare Books.”

Government Computer News. April 15, 2002.

Christian Toto. “Bytes of Memory.” Washington Times.

April 25, 2002.

Michael Menduno. “Library Preservation Issues.”

Wired Magazine. (June 2002).

Evelyn Vuko. “Smithsonian in Your Classroom.”

Washington Post. Style Plus. June 18, 2002.

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