BHL Website Experiencing Technical Difficulties 7/16/2015
UPDATE: Tech difficulties and performance issues on BHL have been mostly resolved. Another brief outage may be required later today or tonight to complete the recovery. Thanks for your patience.We are...
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Announcing Altmetric and MyTweeps on BHL!
Have you ever wanted to learn more about the books in BHL? Or maybe find out what people are saying on social media about our collections? Or perhaps you'd like to connect with other...
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The Conchologists: Searching for Seashells in 19th Century America
This post was originally published on the Inside Adams blog from the Library of Congress. See the original post here.Post by Jennifer HarbsterResearch and Reference Specialist | Library of CongressIn...
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NYBG's Flora Illustrata Wins Two Prestigious Awards
Flora Illustrata: Great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden, edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers and published by The New York Botanical Garden...
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BHL Summer Newsletter and Quarterly Report Now Available!
How does the Biodiversity Heritage Library support scientific initiatives around the world?BHL's latest quarterly report highlights many ways that our open access biodiversity resources are supporting...
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Taming the Wild Social Media Animals: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger… Oh My!
As the daughter of a children’s librarian and library branch manager, I grew up in public libraries and have become passionate about the important role a library plays within a community. This has led...
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I spy something fowl...
Connecting Field Book Observations to Scientific IllustrationsField books are important primary source materials for biodiversity research. Their pages are the first to document the thoughts,...
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The Arcadia Fund Awards Grant to Support The Field Book Project
The Smithsonian Libraries received a $511,200 grant from the Arcadia Fund for The Field Book Project to provide free, online access to the Smithsonian’s field books on biodiversity research. Over a...
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The Tarantupedia, an online encyclopaedia for the biggest spiders in the world
Tarantulas are amazing. Not only do they include the largest of all spiders, with some species reaching a legspan the size of a dinner plate, but they are arguably some of the most beautiful too. While...
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Historic Field Diaries from BHL Australia Now in BHL!
This post was originally published on the Museum Victoria Blog. See the original post here.By Nicole KearneyCoordinator | Biodiversity Heritage Library AustraliaIn November 2014, Museum Victoria...
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Beyond Shells: The Birth of Malacology
Until the late 18th century, the study of mollusks was based largely on shells. Very little research or published information existed about molluscan anatomy and soft tissues. Giuseppe Saverio Poli,...
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Brilliant and Remarkable Birds of Brazil
One of the joyous things about being a Librarian caring for special and rare collections is that you frequently find something remarkable and new to you in those collections. Add on the role of BHL...
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Smorball and Beanstalk: Games that aren’t just fun to play but help science too
As game players are growing beanstalks and leading the Eugene Mellonballers to victory, historic books are being saved from digital oblivion. In June of 2015, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)...
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Horses and the History of the Circus
The history of the modern circus is deeply rooted in horsemanship. The first modern circuses, which took place during the 18th century, were primarily demonstrations of tricks performed on a horse,...
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"What a Gem!" BHL Supports Teuthology Research
Here's a word of the day for you: Teuthology.What does it mean? It's the study of cephalopods. What are cephalopods? Well, they are a class of mollusks that include two extant subclasses: Coleoidea and...
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BHL Exhibit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In 2014, BHL welcomed the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a member. The University's Library is a campus-wide network of libraries serving programs of learning and research in many...
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Nicole Kearney from BHL Australia visits BHL at Smithsonian Libraries
As the Coordinator of BHL Australia, I’m based at Museum Victoria in Melbourne. This is a very long way from BHL headquarters in Washington DC – in both space and time. The time difference between...
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Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) Botanist, Western Australia
Guest Post by Bernice Barry. www.georgianamolloy.com. Georgiana Molloy, 1829 © Mike Rumble. With permission of Mrs Dorothy Margaret Blaasch née Richardson-Bunbury.Georgiana Molloy arrived in the Swan...
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What Makes a Citizen Science Project Successful?
BHL supports a variety of crowdsourcing, or citizen science, initiatives that allow our community to help enhance our data, making it easier for scientists, researchers, educators, students, and others...
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BHL in Africa! Workshop & TDWG
An international ensemble of biodiversity-minded professionals recently gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for two weeks of trainings and conferences. From 24-26 September, 2015, fifteen representatives from...
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