Talk:Smithsonian Institution

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How about affiliated institutions like Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California, where the Smithsonian's Tucker automobile is parked? Ortolan88

Needs a section on the associated record label of historical and cultural recordings of world music. heidimo 15:06, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

chancellor
May want to note the chancellor is the chief justice of the supreme court (odd fact): http://www.cnn.com/interactive/law/0507/chief.justice.duties/content4.html RAccettura

Smithsonian museums template?
Might it be a good idea to create a template that lists all the different Smithsonian museums and other buildings, so that they all could appear on the museums' respective pages and allow for quick browsing?

Folkways
Where to put Smithsonian Folkways Recordings?

Smithsonian Press
In 2005 Smithsonian Press folded owing to financial and administrative ineptitude. Most authors (including me) were told nothing of the impending collapse, and some had to approach their congressmen to obtain the barest of facts. Thousands of unsold books were remaindered with no possibility of authors recovering royalties on those volumes. Clearly the regents and congress were asleep at the switch, and apparently there has been no accountability at any level. Lacking further contacts in the DC area, I cannot pursue the matter but it should be addressed in this article. How a government-funded business goes broke should make illuminating reading.

B. Tillman, May 2007


 * How is this "Smithsonian Press" different from the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press which per the web page seems to be going strong?--2606:A000:131D:4413:AD7B:3D15:F242:D462 (talk) 20:56, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

A talk by Michael Edson
An interesting talk by Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution's Director of Web and New Media Strategy

museum guide
As I understand it, the Smithsonian has a document that gives suggested usage for museums. I was told about this by a (non-Smithsoniam) museum curator regarding the units for jet engine thrust. It might be that it is only available to museum curators, but I suspect not. I am interested in it, as it might also be useful for some questions related to WP pages, though not necessarily this one. I don't even know what to call it, which complicates doing a web search. Gah4 (talk) 10:19, 19 April 2020 (UTC)