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Connect-Summer-2014.Pdf SUMMER 2014 INSIDE: VANISHED BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA CONNECTSMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S CORNER .............................................................................................4 FEATURES ....................................................................................................................5 !e Importance of Conserving Books ..............................................................5 Brilliant Watercolors Light Up the Dibner Library ........................................6 18th Dibner Library Lecture Manuscript Published .......................................7 Artwork Culled From the Collections Proves !at No One Will Ever Be As Fashionable As the French ......................................8 EXHIBITIONS ..............................................................................................................10 Once !ere Were Billions: A New Exhibit Puts Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, on Display ...............................................10 !e Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement ...................12 A Chat with the Libraries’ Exhibitions Guru ...................................................13 !e Lost Bird Project ...........................................................................................14 Fold the Flock .......................................................................................................15 WOMEN OF THE SMITHSONIAN: HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS ........16 Jane Wadden Turner, Smithsonian Librarian and Pioneer .............................16 Women in Research .............................................................................................17 TRADE LITERATURE ................................................................................................18 Trade Lit: 100+ Years of American Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturing History ................................................................................18 STAFF ON THE MOVE ..............................................................................................20 Founding Librarian Appointed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture .......................................20 Polly Khater Named Assistant Director for Discovery Services ....................20 A Fond Farewell! ..................................................................................................21 Libraries Shares Research ...................................................................................21 Passing of the Torch .............................................................................................21 EVENTS ........................................................................................................................22 FROM OUR LIBRARIES ............................................................................................24 National Postal Museum Library: Philatelic Literature Review ....................24 Biodiversity Heritage Library .............................................................................25 GIFTS .............................................................................................................................26 !e Rollyn Osterweis Krichbaum Memorial Program Fund for the Public Understanding of African Art and Culture ...................26 Notable Gi"s .........................................................................................................26 Cover: Martha, the last passenger pigeon (Donald E. 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