As a new Washington DC Tour Guide with a passion for history and a francophile, I stumbled across this video to learn more about Smithson. Not only was I so impressed by Smithson's life and this video, I wondered whether whether I would focus on Smithson in an upcoming Masters of History I am planning. However, I am not sure how much more I can add to the body of knowledge beyond what the expert historians in this video have already accomplished. In the mean time, I have purchased Heather Ewing's book, The Lost World of James Smithson. If there are other books I should look at, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!

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Thank you so much for this brilliant video!

Thanks for making this available to those of us who missed the presentation "in real time"! Really interesting.

It is amazing to get informations and to know more about this part of our history and history of the World.

Will it possible to have all these amazing books and documents related to story of slavery?

Does the Smithsonian offer preservation guides to the public, so that we may properly take care of our personal treasures as well? (which may one day be added to the Smithsonian's treasures, who knows).

So how do you preserve new books from deterioration, to keep them looking & smelling fresh and new?!

So how do you preserve new books from deterioration, to keep them looking & smelling fresh and new?!

Gracias por tener en cuenta a esta gran ilustradora 😘😘😘

Beautiful work and medium. Fascinating!

Thank you.

Wow!!! cool! how I wanted to work in a place like this! I'm passionate about pop up and I make cards to teach special children with deafness and autism among others, because they are fascinated by the magic of this art and learn better that way.

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I’m just reading a book by Melissa Ashley called The Birdman’s Wife.

I should donate some of my " artist's books"

Hi, the volume of the video is very low. Almost impossible to hear.

Great work, thank you!

How wonderful to see Carmen issuing this invitation to the Adopt-a-Book! Carmen, you look wonderful, so all must be well at your household, as it is with John and myself. Thanks for giving your time/talent to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

Wonderful and creative work happening!

Thank you...

Wonderful!!

It's beautiful !

Thank you Muchas gracias.

How fun and real at the same time

Is it possible to get video clips from this Library...? Will they share any particular item of our intrest ?

Cool! I can’t wait to read this. Thank you guys!

Ask yourselves when you talk of wealth what was wealth then is now it's simple who's taken wealth its shameful one name can bail you all out that's funny and its the reality of this dimension. Support our people. Great one man out of thin air can find your support lol that's magic. I truthfully pray you all are safe today and Now. Your voice is heard and I apologize for infringing. Awesome work. Great to know a people stay strong as the American Indian north American

Beautiful. Thank you Is this coincident that my sister my little sister called me this morning shes my half sister my father had here on the reservation and we spoke of our dreams as children 😆 shes a longhorns that's her last name I 💘 her and the native people Oh I'm really spoked now. Pike an old friend of poppas has came into my life how does this happen.My mother went into the reservation and asked to have her because her husband child is hers and that simply my matter my sister are here

I know for a fact alot of Chiefs were born on mexican land Geronino was one of them and still the mexicano. Please stop imsane mantality. Paz Inverencial

What about the mexican American wow love you guys thank you por the effect and effort you have on the mexicano i grew Up on a fort. Only the good universo knows and the dreamer im ok with it today i know in my heart im home. Today spirit lives as was then is Now and ever shall be. World without end. Paz Inverencial. To the end of suffering for All creatures. May all beings be happy.

Thank you i just received this. Thank you. Are we only 6 people searching and watching this. ?

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Fascinating behind-the-scenes on a great nexus of libraries -- hope some of the other branches would be interested in doing something similar. Just one thing, though: it would be helpful if you would add to the description the various URLs referenced in the video. Not all your viewers are going to think of jotting these down while watching, plus those of us with hearing difficulties know from experience that autogenerated captions can't always be trusted. Thanks.

If you're here because you're looking for movable book/pop up content it starts around 34 minutes in. Doesn't come at it from a paper engineering perspective though, more art and design. Perfectly fine, but i keep getting recommended it when looking for pop up book content when its not quite what im looking for. The japanese section was very interesting though, and i had no idea that e books would be expensive in comparison to print.

Wait what happens to the dragon

Staedtler's MARS is really by far the best eraser compound.

pls post Indian folk art of your collections especially th vedios done by Mr. Edriyan Bake , i want to C 100 years back Indian performing Art YAKSHAGANA .Mr Bake also a DUCH ETNOMUSICOLOGIST. ( 1899 - 1963 )

So interesting!! Thanks so much for recording this. And such charismatic speakers... would watch you talk about anything!!

here is a recap for all you 108 other people watching so far :-P 2:37 Intro Gabriella 3:04 (skip) livestream info 5:24 Intro Katie & Daniel 6:27 emergency preparedness + response function 7:50 adopt a book program 9:07 treating a book: item 1 12:58 paper repair demonstration 17:23 treating a book: item 2 21:48 sewing demonstration 28:02 viewer Q&A / Q: emergency situation 29:11 Q: training background 31:30 Q: book binding supplies 33:06 Q: paper repair 33:43 Q: time requirements 34:30 Q: workload 35:30 Q: oldest book worked on 37:56 Q: restoration criteria 38:50 Q: record-keeping / documentation 41:36 Q: book storage 43:00 Q: hiring a conservator 44:42 Q: cleaning dust 45:45 Q: conservation detail 47:25 Q: status of your adopted book 48:50 Q: outsourced vs dedicated staff 49:33 Q: covid-19 / non-transferable after ~24 hrs if someone infected sneezed directly on the book, lol 50:55 Q: favorite project / foreign language cultural knowledge 54:20 Q: collaborating conservators 55:34 Q: reversible adhesive / emergency kits 57:27 Q: recreating supplies 58:51 Q: digitization 1:00:31 closing / reach out to the team

People are so careless to pop up books, and take them for granted. If only they knew how much time and effort it really takes to make one!

I have an older paperback how-to book from Evan's Brothers of London, published in the '40s. It has part of an Evans label glued or pasted over a portion of a list of books they published back then. It appears to be adhesive-backed paper. I expect it was applied in the '50s. How would you reccomend that it be removed? The book is not particularly valuable; in fact I probably paid less than a dollar for it. Nonetheless, I'd like to make a good job of it. Thank you, Joe Ross

I have some unique pieces I would like to get checked out if interested send me a message thank u

Interesting explanation of the whole production and design process. Looks like it needs a lot of skilled and careful people to bring these projects to the bookshelves. Fascinating. Thanks for showing us.

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Exactly my interest, there 😁👌