Effie Kapsalis | Smithsonian Institution Archives

Effie Kapsalis

What do you do?

I am in the Smithsonian Archives web division and help to get the Archives’ resources, stories, and collections online.

Favorite spot in DC to recommend to visitors

I always recommend the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial at night. Also, if you happen to be in town during the cherry blossoms, the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II is outstanding.

Collection Favorite

My favorite collection right now is the Science Service Collection for two reasons; first, it’s really interesting to look at what science stories made the news in the first half of the 1900s, and second, there are a number of inspiring women who were early pioneers in science whom I knew nothing about.

Blog Posts

5/22/2013 Women in Science Wednesday: Mary Alice McWhinnie

5/15/2013 Women in Science Wednesday: Anne Hagopian

5/8/2013 Women in Science Wednesday: Irène Joliot-Curie

3/29/2013 Link Love: 3/29/13

3/22/2013 Link Love: 3/22/13

3/5/2013 Celebrate Our Fifth Annual Women's History Month!

1/16/2013 Found: Two People in the Flickr Commons!

12/27/2012 6 Questions Answered at the Archives

12/6/2012 New Field Book Images on Flickr Commons

10/23/2012 Facebook Q&A Recap: How to Preserve Your Treasures

10/19/2012 Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair

10/2/2012 Hot Topics at the Smithsonian Institution Archives

9/27/2012 Cocktails, Cubs, & Costinika

8/31/2012 Farewell, Catherine

6/8/2012 Inside a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

10/4/2011 Smithsonian History/Map Mashup on Historypin

9/16/2011 Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

9/12/2011 The Archives New Website and Blog!

6/23/2011 Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open

4/23/2011 Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?

3/16/2011 Ecards for Women's History Month

2/9/2011 Happy Valentine's: Cards from the Archives

1/17/2011 Volunteer Appreciation: Peter Finkel

12/28/2010 Poetry in Pictures

12/8/2010 Crafting the Archives Way!

12/1/2010 The Life Behind the Smile

11/17/2010 Now that you're unstuck...

10/22/2010 How to get out of a sticky situation!

9/15/2010 Ph.D. Pioneers

8/6/2010 Link Love: 8/6/2010

8/3/2010 Please Feed the Visitors!

7/1/2010 First collective Smithsonian staff photo?!?

5/26/2010 Fishes and Frogs and Birds, OH MY!

5/10/2010 If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it...

4/9/2010 Solving the unsolved

3/25/2010 It Pays to Be Free

2/10/2010 What’s not to love about slideshows?

12/21/2009 The weather outside is frightful!

11/19/2009 click! photography changes everything: FINAL CALL FOR ENTRY

10/2/2009 Don't Miss the Common Ground This Weekend!

5/29/2009 Flickr Visitor Profile: Penny Richards

4/28/2009 Behind the Portrait: Frances Densmore and Mountain Chief

4/24/2009 Case Closed on Bird Stein Gans

4/14/2009 Smithsonian Digitization Update

4/8/2009 New Image of Supernova

4/2/2009 The Woman with the Gramophone

3/20/2009 Women in Science: What the Photos Say

3/13/2009 "Woman's Work"

3/2/2009 Call for Entries! Women’s History Month

1/2/2009 Call for Entries! History in the Making