Past Events

Date: April 14 Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History

Thursday, February 26th 11:00am-12:00pm S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall Free and open to the public  

Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Libraries Cordially invites you to attend the 21st Dibner Library Lecture  

Gone and nearly forgotten, the Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Heath Hen, Carolina Parakeet and Passenger Pigeon have left a hole in the American landscape and in our collective memory.  Moved by their stories, sculptor Todd McGrain set out to bring their vanished forms back into the world by permanent

Martha's Flight into the Future: Heresy as Hope

The film, "From Billions to None," will have the power to move minds. It will be the strongest element in the 2014 centennial effort to galvanize awareness of human-caused species declines. The trends, documented by careful research in the sea and in the wild, are overwhelming.

Free program. Suggested ages: 12 and younger.

Numbering in the billions, the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America if not the world. As late as 1860, a single flight near Toronto likely exceeded a billion birds and maybe three billion.

Open Access (OA), like every other publishing or distribution model, carries with it both benefits and costs.

Please join us for our annual Adopt-a-Book event!  Thursday, January 9, 2014, 6:00 p.m.  The Smithsonian Castle, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW

The Smithsonian Libraries is pleased to present the 20th Annual Dibner Library Lecture: 

This unique three day workshop for up to 12 people provides a theoretical and practical understanding of the history of East Asian papers (Chinese, Korean and Japanese) and their applications in Wes

Location: Library of Congress, Mumford Room

Whale Research at the SmithsonianPast, Present and FutureA symposium associated with the exhibition Whales: From Bone to Book* Thursday June 6, 201310:30 am – 5:00 pm