John Cole starting the Great Library lecture by Nancy Gwinn of @SILibraries at the Cosmos Club

Nancy Gwinn, Director of Smithsonian Libraries, gave the Cosmos Club 'Great Libraries" talk this year on 2 October 2013. It was a great evening with a number of library luminaries in the audience. Gwinn spoke, naturally, on the topic of Smithsonian Libraries. She also covered the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the relationship between the Smithsonian Libraries and the Library of Congress.

More photos here and below the jump.

Good night Ifrane, from my room at Al Akhawayn University

Wrapping up work on preparation for the BHL panel at the 3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries in Ifrane, Morocco