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Join us for a Twitter Chat!
Join us this Tuesday, September 2, at 2:00 p.m. for a lively Twitter chat discussing passenger pigeons, modern extinction, and biodiversity literature. Museum curators and library staff will be on hand to answer your questions! The chat is in remembrance of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died 100 years ago on September 1, 1914. Martha is on display in our exhibition, Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America, at the National Museum of Natural History through October 2015.
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GIFs That Keeps on Giving...
Richard culls our collection via the Libraries' Books Online and Galaxy of Images to find illustrated scenarios adaptable for animation, most going back several centuries. Be sure to follow the Libraries on Tumblr, which has been described as the Libraries' "sassiest" platform! (Click these images for for the full effect!)
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Support a Premier Resource for Design
 The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library is a major resource in the United States for design and decorative arts. The Library's invaluable collection is used by students, architects, curators, theater companies, artists, film-makers, designers, gardeners, and specialists who blaze new paths in their fields. It is no wonder, then, that many ideas in the design world have origins linking to the stimulating materials we provide freely and openly to the public, and lead to influential and groundbreaking advances in numerous areas.
The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Library relies on friends and patrons for support, whether an established design mogul or a Parsons New School for Design student on the road to discovery and innovation. With help from users like you, we can reach new audiences and inspire life-long learning. 
See how your support makes a difference:
- $75 - $250 can purchase new reference books for the collection
- $250 - $500 can digitize 19th century books to make them accessible to people everywhere
- $500 - $1,000 can help with conservation treatment to preserve our most valuable treasures
- $1,000 - $4,000 can acquire historic and iconic books that make our collection so special
Help the Cooper Hewitt Design Library to continue in its mission to spark discovery and learning. Please consider making a gift so that we may continue to provide the best resources to the brightest minds.
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BHL Joins Global Biodiversity Information Facility
 The Biodiversity Heritage Library, headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries, has joined the Global Biodiversity Information Facility as an associate participant. GBIF operates through a network of global nodes to develop and maintain an open data infrastructure for sharing digital biodiversity data. As an associate participant, BHL will encourage open access and use of biodiversity data among its stakeholders and actively participate in the implementation of the GBIF Work Programme.
GBIF participants include countries, intergovernmental and international organizations, and organizations with an international scope that seek to share data under common standards, inform and implement the GBIF strategic plan, and invest in tools, services, and capacity building within biodiversity information frameworks. To date, over 90 participants have signed the GBIF memorandum of understanding.
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Adopt A Natural History of Spiders
 This is your chance to adopt Aranei, or, A Natural History of Spiders (1793) by Thomas Martyn! Martyn's Aranei translated into English Carl Clerck's Svenska spindlar/Aranei Svecici (1757), the founding text on modern scientific nomenclature for spiders, with illustrations originally published in Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Spiders (1736). Albin's meticulous drawings for his own spider book were bought by Martyn at the sale of the Dowager Duchess of Portland's collections. To adopt A Natural History of Spiders, visit our website or call 202.633.2241.
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