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Happy Butterfly and Hummingbird Day!
Butterflies are in the Papilionoidea superfamily.Who hasn’t seen the majestic beauty of a butterfly bouncing through the air or hummingbirds hovering near a feeder? If you haven’t you are surely...
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Book of the Week: Die Cephalopoden
This week we are celebrating cephlapods. Not sure what they are? Cephalopods are a group of exclusively marine mollusks that include squid, octopus and nautilus. They are closely related to snails,...
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GBIF Launches New Web Portal!
GBIF's new web portal: http://www.gbif.orgWe're very excited to share that yesterday, October 9, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) launched their new web portal as part of the 20th...
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Taxonomic research on Southeast Asian land snails
As part of our regular BHL and Our Users series, we’re pleased to introduce Barna Páll-Gergely, a PhD student in the Department of Biology at Shinshu University in Japan. Barna has had a lifelong...
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National Fossil Day : Eurypterus remipes
Do you know your state flower or bird? What about your state fossil? It is okay if you know the first two and not the third. Many don't know their state fossil. There's no better time to discover it...
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Art of Life Team Holds 2nd Face to Face Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri
Pictured left to right: Rob Guralnick, Mike Lichtenberg, Kyle Jaebker, Trish Rose-Sandler, Guarav Vaidya, Joel Richard, Doug Holland, William Ulate. Not pictured: Chris Freeland, Mike Blomberg,...
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The Collector Connection: organizations and the individual collectors who...
This is the first of a joint blog series by the Field Book Project (FBP) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), showcasing examples of digital connections between collectors, field book catalog...
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Ursus maritimus: A Shining Star in the North Pole
As part of BHL's Winter Appeal, we'll be highlighting some of the amazing species that are especially well-adapted to cold, wintery climes as well as those that often come to mind as we celebrate the...
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Basionyms, Synonyms, Authorities: Tracking the Names of Macro- and Micro...
As part of our BHL & Our Users series, we recently caught up with Dr. Roberta Cowan, a specialist in Phycology (taxonomy) and information management. Over the last 19 years, Dr. Cowan has been...
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Book of the Week: Malacozoaires, ou, Animaux mollusques
There are approximately 100,000 species of molluscs.Have you ever collected seashells from the sea shore? Ever wonder where they come from or the former inhabitants? Well, they come from Molluscs....
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Happy Holidays from BHL and Rangifer tarandus!
As part of BHL's Winter Appeal, we're highlighting some of the amazing species that are especially well-adapted to cold, wintery climes as well as those that often come to mind as we celebrate the...
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More than just a legacy: Let's look at the post-1922 literature in BHL
By Adriana Marroquin and Robin EverlyIt's no secret that the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a top-notch resource for legacy biodiversity publications. The current U.S. copyright law states...
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Hummingbirds and Harlequins
By Rick Wright Beauty can be too much for words. So it is with the charm of what many consider the loveliest of the world’s birds, the hummingbirds: Overcome by the dazzling colors of those first...
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Geoffrey Mwachala from the National Museum of Kenya visits BHL at Smithsonian...
Dr. Geoffrey Mwachalaexamining a copy of Victorian NaturalistDr. Geoffrey Mwachala, Director, Research and Collection at the National Museum of Kenya, stopped to visit Martin Kalfatovic and Nancy Gwinn...
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The Collector Connection: US Bureau of Fisheries
This is the second of a joint blog series by the Field Book Project (FBP) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), showcasing examples of digital connections between collectors, field book catalog...
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My experience as a BHL Intern
Kai Alexis Smith, Virtual Marketing Intern, Fall 2013I was the Virtual Marketing Intern at Smithsonian’s Biodiversity Heritage Library in fall 2013. I participated in this internship post graduation...
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While standing on the shoulders of giants...
Learning lessons from the CITScribe Hackathon participationTwo members of BHL's Technical Advisory Group (TAG), BHL Technical Director William Ulate from Missouri Botanical Garden and Joe deVeer, Head...
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Ringing in the New Year with thanks!
In the US, we set aside time to reflect and give thanks in November as part of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is now the start of a new year--and only the first month, not the eleventh--yet BHL already...
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Digging into Data Challenge Winners Announced
Mining Biodiversity (MiBIO): innovative computational techniques to mine BHL textsOn January 15, 2014, ten international research funders from four countries jointly announced the winners of the third...
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Happy Lunar New Year from BHL and Equus Caballus!
Album of celebrated American and English running horses. New York: Kinney Bros. [1888?]biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24788565From agriculture to transportation to war, Equus caballus has held a...
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