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Martinez, Katharine. "The Art Libraries and Research Resources of the Smithsonian Institution." Art Libraries Journal 13, no. 1 (1988): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200005484.

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The Smithsonian Institution, a public organisation established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, includes ten museums and several research bureaux. Most but not all of the associated libraries are linked through the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; they include several art libraries which contribute significantly to the overall provision of art library service to the American people but do not of themselves constitute a “national art library”. Most of the Smithsonian’s libraries enter their records in a database (SIBIS) which is accessible online via OCLC. Co-ordinated collection development has been pursued since 1984. In two areas in particular, American and African art, Smithsonian libraries aim to provide a national service.

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Patterson, Bruce D., Carl W. Dick, and Katharina Dittmar. "Roosting habits of bats affect their parasitism by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae)." Journal of Tropical Ecology 23, no. 2 (2007): 177–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467406003816.

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The Smithsonian Venezuela Project (SVP) conducted extensive surveys of mammals and ectoparasites in the 1960s. The 25 238 individuals and 130 species of bat collected by SVP hosted 36 663 streblid bat flies, representing 116 species of these ectoparasitic dipterans. Roosts of bat species differ in durability and protection, and bat flies separate from the host to pupate in the roost. We predicted higher levels of parasitism and more parasitic associates for bats roosting in more permanent structures (e.g. caves, tunnels) that would facilitate their association with hosts. We also predicted wing development of flies should correlate inversely with roost duration, restricting flightless forms to bats in permanent roosts. Ranking roosting structures by durability and protection, we sought correlations among bat species in prevalence, mean intensity and number of associated fly species. All three measures of parasitism were positively and significantly related to roosting habits: bats roosting in more permanent, enclosed structures were more likely to be infested, to carry heavier parasite loads, and to harbour more species of ectoparasitic flies. However, roosting habits were not correlated with the average wing development of bat flies. Although other factors affect parasitism rates in bats, the study provides a compelling example of both ecological and evolutionary responses of parasites to features of the host's environment.

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Chin, Cecilia H., and lldiko P. DeAngelis. "Paying for services: experiences at the Smithonsonian Institute." Art Libraries Journal 22, no. 1 (1997): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200010270.

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The Smithsonian Institution, a trust instrumentality of the United States, and the largest museum and research complex in the world, receives many outside permission requests to reproduce images in the Smithsonian Collections. Charging fees for photographic usage is a common practice in the United States, especially in art history and general museums. Beginning in 1992, the Smithonian established internal guidelines for changing such fees and for handling permission requests from outside sources. The procedures ensure that the Smithsonian recognises and respects the intellectual property rights associated with images in the collections and the terms of any pre-existing agreements. Great care is also taken to protect the Smithsonian’s name from use in any commercial context, to avoid the implication that the Institution endorses a product (or one product rather than another).

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Königsmann, Eberhard. "Karl V. Krombein: Trap-Nesting Wasps and Bees - Life Histories, Nests, and Associates. In Fallen nistende Wespen und Bienen - Biologie, Nester und Nistgenossen. VI + 570 S., 29 Taf., Smithsonian Press Washington, D.C., 1967, $12.50." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 14, no. 5 (2008): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19670140513.

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Way, Jennifer. "Narrative Failures." Anthropos 114, no. 2 (2019): 547–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2019-2-547.

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This article considers what an unstudied collection of Vietnamese handicraft owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History reveals about its collecting culture and, conversely, what the collecting culture discloses about the collection. I show how the collecting culture’s activities intersected with American State Department efforts to bring postcolonial South Vietnam into the Free World during the Cold War. Attention to the Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts’ exhibition, “Art and Archaeology of Vietnam. Asian Crossroad of Cultures,” also reveals narratives of power and knowledge associated with the collecting culture. Ultimately, these failed the collection by leaving it disregarded.

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Armbruster, W. Scott. "Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. By Douglas E Soltis, Pamela S Soltis, Peter K Endress, and , Mark W Chase. Sunderland (Massachusetts): Sinauer Associates. $59.95 (paper). xi + 370 p; ill.; taxonomic and subject indexes. ISBN: 0‐87893‐817‐6. [Originally published by Smithsonian Books, Washington DC. 2005.] 2005." Quarterly Review of Biology 81, no. 3 (2006): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/509430.

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Ballard, Linda-May. "Curating Intangible Cultural Heritage." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 17, no. 1 (2008): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2008.01701005.

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This article discusses a range of pragmatic issues associated with curating intangible cultural heritage, including collection, preservation, interpretation, presentation and representation. It uses as a case study work undertaken with Lough Neagh eel fishermen in preparation for and at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2007, setting this in a much wider curatorial context.

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Palmer, Lisa. "Dancing Tables: Digitizing 11,000 Film-based Slides in Ten Days." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 5, 2018): e28093. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.28093.

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How long does it take to digitize 11,000 film-based slides? Converting film to a raster graphic may take a relatively short period of time, but what is needed to prepare for the process, and then once images are digitized, what work is required to push data out for public access? And how much does the entire conversion process cost? A case study of a rapid-capture digitization project at the Smithsonian Institution will be reviewed. In early 2016, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Division of Fishes acquired 10,559 film-based slides from world-renown ichthyologist John (Jack) Randall. The first-generation slides contain images of color patterns of hundreds of fish species with locality information for each specimen written on the cardboard slide mount. When Jack began his photography in the 1960’s, his images were at the forefront of color photography for fishes. He also collected specimens in remote island archipelagos in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, thus many localities were, and continue to be, rare. The species represented on the slide are important to the scientific community, and the collection event data written on the slide mount makes the image and its metadata an invaluable package of information. Upon receipt of Jack’s significant donation, the Division of Fishes received multiple requests from ichthyologists for digital access to the slides. The Division of Fishes immediately implemented a plan to digitally capture data. With many rapid-capture projects at the Smithsonian, the objects and specimens are digitized, and then at some later point, any associated data is transcribed. The Division approached this project differently in that the Randall collection was relatively small, and Smithsonian staff, primarily interns, were available to transcribe data before image conversion. Post-production work included hiring two contractors to import images and associated metadata into NMNH’s collections management system. This presentation will review our processes before, during, and after data conversion. Workflows include transcribing handwritten data, staging and digitizing film, and importing data into the EMu client as well as using redundancies to ensure quality of data.

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Tyson, Amy M., and Azie Mira Dungey. "“Ask a Slave” and Interpreting Race on Public History’s Front Line." Public Historian 36, no. 1 (2014): 36–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2014.36.1.36.

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In this interview, Azie Mira Dungey (creator of the web series, “Ask a Slave”) and Amy M. Tyson (Associate Professor of History at DePaul University and author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines) discuss Dungey’s web series, as well as her experiences as a living history interpreter at both the Smithsonian Museum of American History and at Mount Vernon.

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Wolberg, Donald L. "Fifth notice of transfer of specimens figured by Rousseau H. Flower." Journal of Paleontology 65, no. 2 (1991): 338–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000020643.

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This notice is the fifth in a series recording the transfer of fossils described by Rousseau H. Flower (1913-1988) to the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. National Museum. During a long, productive, and colorful career, Rousseau described more than 400 new fossil taxa (Wolberg, 1988). Most of Rousseau's fossils have been maintained in the collections of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources. The fossils in this transfer were sent to Rousseau in 1952 by William J. Sando, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, who collected them during his research on the Beekmantown Group of Maryland (Sando, 1957). In 1955, Rousseau submitted a manuscript to theJournal of Paleontologyand this was published in 1956. Some controversy seems to have surrounded the publication of the paper; we have found a file of correspondence related to that publication and it is very “Roweresque” in content. In addition, Rousseau cataloged the Sando fossils into the NMBM&MR's collection, but from the associated correspondence there seems to be little doubt but that the collection was intended to be reposited in the Smithsonian.

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Books on the topic "Smithsonian Associates"

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Gesteland, Robert C. Daily log of Robert C. Gesteland: And associated archival materials : Sixth Harvard-Peabody Smithsonian Kalahari Expedition, 1957-1958. Robert C. Gesteland, 2006.

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Estwanik, Joseph J. Sportsmedicine for the combat arts. Boxergenics Press, 1996.

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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. Smithsonian Institution: Use of appropriated funds to pay Dr. Mitchell's legal fees : statement of Gary L. Kepplinger, associate general counsel, Office of General Counsel, before the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives. The Office, 1992.

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B, Redford Donald, Shanks Hershel, and Meinhardt Jack 1956-, eds. Aspects of monotheism: How God is one : symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, October 19, 1996, sponsored by the Resident Associate Program. Biblical Archaeology Society, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Smithsonian Associates"

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Place, Jeff. "Smithsonian Folkways and the Associated Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections." In Current Research in Systematic Musicology. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02695-0_5.

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Snead, James E. "“Lost by Being Found”: The Public and the Material Past in the Nineteenth-Century United States." In Relic Hunters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736271.003.0011.

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In the flurry of activity following the Centennial Exposition, the Kentucky Mummy’s onward journey to Washington went unremarked. Her addition to the national collection was eventually acknowledged in the Smithsonian’s annual report for 1876, without further comment. Cryptic references to this item’s new status can be found in institutional memoranda over the next few years: “Dr. Rau has the mummy on exhibition in first case to the left as you enter his hall,” reads one such note. But in the wilderness of artifacts at the Smithsonian there was little space for nostalgia, and the Mummy does not seem to have attracted the notice of the Washington audience. The implicit alignment of perspectives between local antiquarians and Smithsonian scholars at the end of the 1870s—that the documentation of archaeological evidence was fundamentally tied to experience on the ground, demonstrating the need for local knowledge and widespread cooperation—did not, however, affect the trajectory of archaeological practice in the United States. The implications of the deep files in Mason’s office remained largely unremarked. The passing of this opportunity for archaeological synthesis testifies perhaps more to inadequate institutional frameworks than to conceptual shortcomings. The Smithsonian’s efforts to collect information on American antiquity in the 1870s differed only in detail and scale from the correspondence of the American Antiquarian Society in the 1810s. In both cases—and in many others launched during the intervening years—an institution sought to acquire antiquarian capital through a network of collaborators, exchanging prestige and modest access for information and associated commodities. In the context of the late nineteenth century, however, the failures of such approaches were more evident than their episodic successes, and the sense that opportunities to understand the American past had been squandered was widespread. The words of Moses Fisk, published in 1820, could describe the antiquarian enterprise of his and subsequent generations. “It is to be regretted,” he wrote, “that these ancient ruins and relicks have been exposed to so much depredation. Valuable articles are lost by being found.”

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Greg Murray, K., and Sharon Kinsman. "Plant-Animal Interactions." In Monteverde. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195095609.003.0014.

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The term “plant-animal interactions” includes a diverse array of biologically important relationships. Plant-herbivore relationships (in which an animal feeds on whole plants or parts of them) are examples of exploitation, because one species benefits from the interaction while the other suffers. Plant-pollinator and plant-seed disperser relationships (in which animals disperse pollen or seeds, usually in return for a food reward) are examples of mutualisms because they are beneficial to both parties. Another class of plant-animal mutualisms involves plants that provide nesting sites and/or food rewards to ants, which often protect the plant from herbivores or competing plants. Plantpollinator and plant-seed disperser mutualisms probably originated as cases of exploitation of plants by animals (Thompson 1982, Crepet 1983, Tiffney 1986). Many of the distinctive plant structures associated with animal-mediated pollen and seed dispersal (e.g., flowers, nectaries, attractive odors, fleshy fruit pulp, and thickened seed coats) presumably evolved to attract consumers of floral or seed resources while preventing them from digesting the pollen or seeds. mutualisms in structuring ecological communities. Competition and predator-prey interactions were more common subjects. Botanists had described the characteristics of the plant and animal players in pollination and seed dispersal mutualisms (Knuth 1906, 1908, 1909, Ridley 1930, van der Pijl 1969, Faegri and van der Pijl 1979), but these descriptive works did not fully examine plant-animal mutualisms in the context of communities. The opportunity to work in the neotropics, facilitated by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), and other institutions, attracted the attention of temperate-zone ecologists to the mutualisms that are much more conspicuous components of tropical systems than of temperate ones (Wheelwright 1988b). Plant-pollinator interactions have attracted more attention in Monteverde than plant-frugivore interactions, and plant-herbivore interactions remain conspicuously understudied. This imbalance probably reflects the interests of those who first worked at Monteverde and later returned with their own students, rather than differences in the significance of the interactions at Monteverde or elsewhere. Aside from a few studies of herbivory in particular species (e.g., Peck, “Agroecology of Prosapia,”), even basic surveys remain to be done.

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