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In Search of the White Whale: A Legend, a Fossil, a Living Mammal
In this reconstruction, a pod of Albicetus travel together through the Miocene Pacific Ocean, surfacing occasionally to breathe. Modern sperm whales are also known for forming these tight-knit groups,...
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BHL Isn’t Just For Biologists
Charles Darwin is famous for the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The theory hinges on the mutability of species, whereby the propagation of certain favorable traits within members of...
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Tired of Poinsettias? Bah, Humbug! Then into the Smithsonian Libraries
This post originally published on the Smithsonian Collections Blog. View the original post here.By Julia BlakelySpecial Collections CatalogerSmithsonian LibrariesBlooms in the Rotunda of the National...
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BHL Annual Report Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that the Fiscal Year 2015 BHL Annual Report is now available!Want to learn how our collections grew this past year, or how our audiences engaged with these collections, or...
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Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum visit the BHL Secretariat Offices
The BHL Secretariat was honored to be visited by Mgr. Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.Dr. Dostál shared information about the digitization...
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Farewell from Technical Director William Ulate
The dawn of a new year is an exciting time - a time to look forward to new possibilities and embark on new initiatives. Sometimes, however, it can also be tinged with sadness as these new beginnings...
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An Artist Steps Out of the Shadows: Using Social Media to Solve a Question of...
Over the years, we've discovered that social media is a pretty awesome way to learn more about our collections. Recently, a Twitter conversation helped us unravel the true identity of an incredible...
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Kingfishers and National Bird Day
Today is National Bird Day, a day to celebrate and raise awareness about birds.We're celebrating by highlighting one of the rare ornithology titles in the BHL collection: A monograph of the Alcedinidae...
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BHL Receives 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has selected the “Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project” for a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award. The...
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BHL: Continuing to Inspire a Love of Natural History
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter season is well underway. Cold temperatures mean that species of all kinds must face many new challenges in order to survive the next few months.Spiders are no...
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New IMLS-Funded Project: Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project as one of nine National Digital Platform Projects funded in 2015 as part of the...
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Happy New In-Copyright Materials!
Welcome to 2016 and BHL's latest batch of in-copyright content! We have 8 new titles to add to the list since our last post.Over the course of 2015, BHL secured the following:Where possible, BHL...
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Fantastic Worlds: Exploring the Ocean through Science and Fiction
In July 2015, BHL founding institution Smithsonian Libraries opened a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History entitled Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780-1910. The...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library staff attend the American Library Association...
Ronnie BroadfootA number of BHL staff attended the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in an unseasonably warm Boston, MA during the run of the conference, January 8-12,...
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Celebrating Mary Gunn and 100 Years of Library Excellence in South Africa
Compiled by:Anne-Lise FourieAssistant Director, SANBI LibrariesThe South African National Biodiversity InstituteIn 2013, BHL Africa officially launched with the mission to provide open access to the...
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New Postage Stamps Featuring Images from the NYBG Nursery & Seed Catalog...
Today, January 29, 2016, the U.S. Postal Service released 10 new postage stamps featuring images from catalogs in The New York Botanical Garden's nursery and seed catalog collection.The Botanical Art...
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Color Our Collections
Get your colored pencils ready!Join us for the Color Our Collections event this week, February 1-5, 2016. Led by The New York Academy of Medicine, the event invites you to download images from library...
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Fashion in the Natural World: Fusing Science with Art
Emile-Allain Séguy was a popular French designer throughout the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements of the 1920s. Often confused with the French entomologist Eugene Séguy who was active during the same...
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Resolving a 180 Year Old Taxonomic Mystery
Hardwicke's bloodsucker is an agamid lizard found in western and central India. It is a small, stocky, and pot-bellied lizard with a short tail that is currently recognized under the scientific name...
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Darwin's Early Love
Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist known around the world for his publication On the Origin of Species and contributions to evolutionary theory, was born on February 12, 1809. As such, February 12...
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