NOVEMBER 2010
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From the Director
The Thackray award to the Biodiversity Heritage Library shows that blessings continue to flow in our
direction, and I hope they are also coming to you! The Libraries staff and I wish you a restful,
fruitful, and, most important, Happy Thanksgiving!
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BHL Receives John Thackray Award
The Biodiversity Heritage Library project has
been awarded the John
Thackray Medal by the
Society for the History of Natural History.
This medal was instituted in 2000 to commemorate the life and work of John Thackray, Past President of the
Society, and is awarded for a significant achievement in the history of biological and earth sciences.
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Chuck Fischer to Speak in Libraries Pop-up and Movable Books Series
The Libraries will host Chuck Fischer for a lecture,
Creating a Pop-Up Book and The Enduring Appeal of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, on
Wednesday, December 1, at 12:00 p.m. in the National Museum of American History's Carmichael Auditorium.
A book signing of Fischer's new book, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up will follow
the lecture. All are welcome to attend this event! For more information, see our pop-up
blog.
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National Museum of Natural History Centennial Celebration
On October 5, the Smithsonian Libraries staff at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) joined
our colleagues for the museum's 100th birthday celebration. We commemorated the event with
a photo and a reception. Libraries staff in NMNH includes our
Digital Services Division, Cataloging and
Acquisition Services Departments, Administrative Services, Director's Office,
Natural and Physical Sciences Libraries, the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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FUN FACTS
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The Libraries holds a first edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854) inscribed by Thoreau to Smithsonian Secretary Spencer F. Baird (1878-1887).
The Libraries holds eight editions of Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis (written in the 1st century CE) that were printed between 1450 and 1500.
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