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Building Connections and New Possibilities for BHL at TDWG 2026 and GBIF GB33
Across September and October, the international biodiversity informatics community gathered in Oslo, Norway, for the annual conference of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG 2026) and the 33rd...
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Collections as data: Transcribing the ornithological observations of Walter...
Walter Faxon’s ornithological field journals contain thousands of bird observations spanning more than three decades. Now digitized and transcribed using AI-assisted tools, these handwritten records...
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Discovering Carrie B. Aaron Through Projects and Partnerships
When a handwritten entomological notebook by Carrie B. Aaron was digitized for BHL, it opened a window onto the life and work of a little-known woman in the natural sciences. Briana Giasullo explores...
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Extinct Species Descriptions: the most precious treasure in BHL
On Australia’s National Threatened Species Day, Nicole Kearney explores extinct species descriptions in BHL and the precious record they preserve of animals lost, threatened, and sometimes rediscovered.
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Rejected to Accepted: E.A.W. Zimmermann’s Geographische Geschichte des...
When Field Museum librarian Elizabeth McKinley investigated a rare eighteenth-century work by E.A.W. Zimmermann, she uncovered a fascinating story of scientific revision, zoological nomenclature, and a...
View ArticleBHL Welcomes Two New Members to Its Executive Committee
BHL is delighted to welcome Amanda Boczar and Leora Siegel to two newly created positions on its Executive Committee, bringing new capacity, experience, and perspectives to help guide BHL through its...
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Pioneers of Illinois Natural History: Stephen A. Forbes and Charles Robertson
Stephen A. Forbes and Charles Robertson were pioneering scientists whose groundbreaking research continues to influence our understanding of the natural world. Forbes advanced the fields of biology and...
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Together, We Saved BHL. Now We Need to Sustain It.
Together, the BHL community helped secure our independent future. Now we are inviting supporters to become BHL Sustainers and help provide the dependable monthly support needed to keep biodiversity...
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Not Just Words on a Page: Tasmania’s History in the Papers and Proceedings
In 1849, the first volume of the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land launched a tradition of advancing knowledge that continues to this day. Established in 1843, the...
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Connecting Biodiversity Knowledge: Senckenberg Joins the Biodiversity...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library welcomes Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung as its newest Member. Dr. Jana Hoffmann reflects on how Senckenberg’s specialized libraries will help connect...
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Collaboration and Dedication: Digitizing Legacy Publications of the Asiatic...
Back in June of 2010, the founding institutions of BHL began a major digitization project that would span the work of 11 years, 9 institutions, 19 people, 40 tickets within BHL’s issue tracking system,...
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The Treasure Between the Covers: Making BHL’s Articles Discoverable and Citable
For BHL’s content to be truly useful, individual articles need to be discoverable, citable, and connected to the wider scholarly record. Rod Page explores how BioStor has helped uncover more than...
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BHL Servers are Moving!
The big day is here! BHL's Tech Team is starting the three-week process of moving BHL's technical infrastructure from the Smithsonian data center just outside of Washington, DC, to the Field Museum in...
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Collated and Perfect: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History at the Natural...
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History is one of the most influential works of the ancient world. This post explores BHL’s 1469 Venice edition, contributed by the Natural History Museum, London — a...
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Commemorating 20 Years of BHL at the 2026 Annual Meeting
The Biodiversity Heritage Library continued our 20th anniversary celebration at our Annual Meeting in London from 27 April to 1 May. This year, founding members and 10th anniversary co-hosts, the...
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Celebrating 50 Years of a Field Naturalists Club Through its Newsletters
The Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club in Central Victoria, Australia, is celebrating its 50th year in 2026. Since its inception in March 1976, the Club has produced a monthly newsletter for members....
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Industrial and Technological Museum Economic Botany Illustrations and the Wax...
One of the most vibrant and colourful volumes available on BHL from the Museums Victoria Archives is the Economic Botany Fruit and Vegetable Specimen Register (ITM Register) created by Industrial and...
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Spending Time with Circa Instans, Now BHL’s Oldest Item
Reflections on Digitizing Medieval Medical and Botanical History Last summer, as the Archival Systems Intern for the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden, I had the privilege of...
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Osbert Salvin’s Central American Field Diary
We uncovered this lovely tome when we were relocating our Museums Victoria Library Collection in 2015-16. It was housed with our run of the Ibis, an important ornithology journal published by the...
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A Brief Bit on BHL Battling a Barrage of Bots
Over the past year, BHL has been forced to contend with the issue of AI Bot (short for robot) Crawlers and the effect of their unreasonable requests for BHL’s content. I say unreasonable because while...
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