Smithsonian Digital Resources
- · The National Portrait Gallery’s “America’s Presidents” App for iPad offers hundreds of facts about each President’s achievements, including family life, pets, and personality. http://www.americaspresidentsapp.com/
- · An online exhibition on “Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life” is available at http://americanhistory.si.edu/lincoln/introduction
- · The National Postal Museum interactive Web portal Arago has virtual exhibits on people with disabilities, women http://arago.si.edu/flash/?s1=6, and the African-American experience, http://arago.si.edu/flash/?s1=6
The Smithsonian is embarked on a major digitization campaign to make collections available anywhere in the world. Efforts include the already existing Collections Search Center catalog/database, the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and a new licensing agreement with Gale Cenage to create searchable databases of digitized content from the museum and research complex for libraries and researchers
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