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Kathryn Miller sits reading a book at a small table in the NIST library.

From Bookmobiles to Big Data, How Library Scientists Make Information Accessible to All

February 21, 2024

Kathryn Miller

During Women’s History Month, a NIST librarian looks back at the librarian who brought us the bookmobile — back when it brought books by horse and buggy.

A grid of 12 obviously old photos individuals' face from their shoulder up. In each photo is a four-digit code for that person

The Pandemic Poet and Other Tales From a NIST ‘Genealogy’ Project

April 28, 2021

Keith Martin

One of my work-from-home projects was getting to know the staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, then called the National Bureau of Standards, or NBS) in 1918. Quite an interesting bunch. Among them was a chemist turned pandemic poet; one of the earliest known Asian

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