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July 12, 2009

In case you missed it...

(L-R): Dr. William Noel, Anne Van Camp (Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives), Nancy Gwinn (Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries), and Marcia Adams (Assistant Director for Technical Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries)L-R: Dr. William Noel, Anne Van Camp (Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives), Nancy Gwinn (Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries), and Marcia Adams (Assistant Director for Technical Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries)

Dr. Noel Archived!

If you missed Dr. William Noel’s June 29 lecture, “Deciphering the Archimedes Palimpsest and Creating Digital Manuscripts,” please tune in on our archived webcast! Libraries Director Nancy Gwinn introduces Noel’s lecture, which is the first segment of the Libraries’ 2009 series of speakers to address the Smithsonian Institution on the future of libraries, museums and archives in a digital world.

The lecture was attended by over 70 people, so thanks to all of you who came out to the event!

William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, lectured on the conservation, imaging and scholarship of the Archimedes Palimpsest, a privately owned codex that has been revealed to contain unique texts not only of Archimedes of Syracuse, but also of Hyperides, an Athenian orator from the fourth century BC, and of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle’s categories. Dr. Noel discussed the history of the book and the history of the project, its digital presentation on the web, and other manuscript imaging projects currently underway at the Walters Art Museum.

Other Libraries webcasts in this series, and on diverse topics, are also available.—Liz O'Brien

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