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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits – School Library Journal
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits
by Kara Yorio, Oct 03, 2025 | Filed in News & Features
The all-volunteer initiative is documenting exhibits at the more than 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that museums’ contents would be subject to review and revision to align with the president’s directive.
When retired Virginia school librarian Mary Anne O’Rourke learned about a project to digitally archive the Smithsonian Institution museums, she immediately wanted to volunteer.
“I spent my career teaching children how to research and look up facts, how to know facts from distortions, and what were good sources? The Smithsonian has been our greatest source,” says O’Rourke, who was a preK–8 librarian for 11 years after being a classroom teacher and working at the Smithsonian Visitor Information Center.
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Volunteers take photos and videos of exhibits in this crowdsourced archiving endeavor. Organizers call it “Crowd to Cloud” and plan to make the information accessible to the media and public.The initiative is a response to an August letter sent by the Trump administration to the Smithsonian Institution secretary stating that exhibits were subject to review and revision in an effort to “reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.” The letter went on to say it was an effort to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives.”
After learning of the administration’s intentions, Georgetown University history professors Chandra Manning and James A. Millward wanted to take action. Inspired by Save Our Signs—which seeks to document signs and information at National Parks that may be removed by the administration—Manning and Millward sent an email to the university’s history department saying they wanted to find a way to document the Smithsonian exhibits. Upon receiving the email, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a graduate research assistant at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, immediately proposed possible ways of achieving the goal and offered to help coordinate. Not only is the dual master’s student pursuing a degree in Global, International, and Comparative History, the Smithsonian also holds a special place in her personal history.
“When I was in college, my partner and I were long distance, and we would meet up every other weekend in D.C. and go to the Smithsonian,” Dickinson Goodman says. “They are very personal to me. They’re a big part of my sense of my country, and my sense of my field, and my sense of pride in what it means to be an American—that we can produce these amazing free institutions to the public and to the world. And these institutions hold within them a huge amount of human wisdom and American and world experience that deserve to be accessible.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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In Divided Times, Picture Books Connect
“Connection is really the thing that we’re leaning into with this batch of picture books,” …
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In Divided Times, Picture Books Connect
“Connection is really the thing that we’re leaning into w…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Books #BloomsburyChildren’sBooks #collectiondevelopment #Entertainment #FreeSpiritPublishing #GroundwoodBooks #jlg #JuniorLibraryGuild #librarian #library #picturebooks #readingcategories #readinglevels #reviews #SchoolLibraries #SchoolLibraryJournal #SEL #SequoiaKidsMedia #sponsored #TuttlePublishing
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In Divided Times, Picture Books Connect
“Connection is really the thing that we’re leaning into with this batch of picture books,” …
#NewsBeep #News #Books #BloomsburyChildren’sBooks #CA #Canada #collectiondevelopment #Entertainment #FreeSpiritPublishing #GroundwoodBooks #jlg #JuniorLibraryGuild #librarian #library #picturebooks #readingcategories #readinglevels #reviews #SchoolLibraries #SchoolLibraryJournal #SEL #SequoiaKidsMedia #sponsored #TuttlePublishing
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Rory Power: Flipping the Script on Whodunit in ‘Kill Creatures’ | Stars So Far 2025
Bestselling author Rory Power’s new YA novel Kill Creatures is a tour de force of teenage friendship, crushes, and reve…
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Closed my #Pinterest account! Before I read about the EU privacy complaints re tracking, I was getting annoyed about clicking "I don't want to see this add" for AMZN and others and I kept seeing the ads.
A long time ago, I was picked to run a site for #schoollibraryjournal, but those were different times. #libraries
Cheap and Cheerful Librarian Tips
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Saving some old articles into portfolio bookmarks etc., and this 2015 #schoollibraryjournal article I wrote on #duolingo is nicely done. As in: I appreciate my editors so much!
Parts will be out of date, of course, but I standby the "necessary but not sufficient" tone.
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Jane Cowell on Twitter: "Article:https://t.co/OZSVZEXwWP - Groups Target Professional Library Conferences and Librarians Attending Them #SchoolLibraryJournal" / Twitter
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I just realized that I spoke on a panel at a #schoollibraryjournal Digital Shift event the same year that @anildash spoke! Years before #glitch
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#schoollibraryjournal just published a recap: Most Memorable #Censorship Stories of 2022 https://www.slj.com/story/publiclibraries/SLJ-Most-Memorable-Censorship-Stories-of-2022
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Love this informative website from #cornell #birds - super helpful as I plan #birdhouses. (Also, wish I had put it in that article for #schoollibraryjournal about critter cams.) https://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/