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IFLA Presentation on Expanding Access to Natural History Illustrations
By Trish Rose-SandlerData Project CoordinatorCenter for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI), Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO View the slides here.BHL was invited to give a talk at a one day session...
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Catesby's Magnificent Natural History, In Three Editions
First published illustration of a passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). Pictured with American turkey oak (Quercus laevis). Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama...
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Beyond Tunnels & Bigamy: The Scientific Contributions of the Infamous...
Harrison G. Dyar, Jr., third from right, with Entomology staff of the U.S. National Museum in 1905. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives.If you have ever heard of entomologist Harrison Dyar,...
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The New York Entomological Society
Depending on how you count, the New York Entomological Society (NYES), founded in 1892, is either the second or third oldest entomological society in the U.S. The oldest is the American Entomological...
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Page Frights Is Coming This October!
Get ready for a ghoulishly good time this October...Page Frights is coming!From 1-31 October, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world will be gearing up for Halloween by...
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BHL Welcomes Adriana Marroquin, Field Notes Project Manager
Adriana Marroquin recently joined the BHL as the Field Notes Project Manager. This isn’t Adriana’s first time with the BHL or Smithsonian Libraries. She interned for the BHL and the Smithsonian Botany...
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Jesús Sánchez's Mexican Medical Zoology
By: Minerva Castro Escamilla.Librarian. Biblioteca Conjunta de Ciencias de la Tierra,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). BHL MéxicoSánchez, Jesús. Datos para la zoología médica mexicana:...
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Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections
Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections19-21 September 2016National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MDHosted by: U.S. Department of AgricultureThe Stressors and...
View ArticleRod Page Talks Bioinformatics, Linked Data, and Primary Literature at the...
On 22 September, Dr. Rod Page, Professor at the University of Glasgow and creator of BioStor, gave a presentation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Library about ideas for...
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Sea Monks and Other Page Frights: Celebrate Halloween, Library and Archives...
Welcome to Page Frights, a month-long social media celebration of Halloween!All this month (1-31 October), libraries and archives around the world will be sharing spooky, creepy, frightening, and...
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BHL Adds Two New European Affiliates
Over the past three months, BHL has welcomed two new European Affiliates: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne in Switzerland and the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in the Czech...
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Monsters in Nature: Frightful Tales from the 19th Century
Today’s book is truly filled with Page Frights! Sea and Land: An Illustrated History of the Wonderful and Curious Things of Nature Existing Before and Since the Deluge, by James W. Buel (1849-1920),...
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The Case of the Mistaken Manakin
Since the end of the twentieth century, the genus name Dixiphia has been associated with the white-crowned manakin. A recent investigation, made possible in part thanks to BHL, demonstrated that...
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In case you missed it: New in-copyright titles added over the summer
Adding to the second quarter's successful haul, BHL secured permission for 52 titles in July, August and September. That brings 2016's total to 108 in-copyright titles thus far! As in the previous two...
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Of Dragons and Interns: Meet the Woman Who's Helping Us Add Dragons and Other...
Carolina Murcia. BHL Product Development and Marketing Intern.BHL is excited to welcome Carolina Murcia, our new Product Development and Marketing Intern!Over her eight-month internship through the...
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A Local Focus: The Native Plant Societies of the U.S.
All over North America, there are organizations that study, preserve, and promote local flora. Called by various names, these organizations fall under the umbrella term "native plant societies." While...
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Arachnophobes Beware! The Birth of Spider Nomenclature Just in Time for...
Clerck, Carl. Svenska Spindlar. 1757. Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51379398. Arachnophobia (the fear of spiders and other arachnids) is one of the most...
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Bishops in the Sea for Halloween!
The 'bishop fish'. Rondelet, Guillaume. Libri de Piscibus Marinis. 1554. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42089973. Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries. Apparently, clergymen in the 16th century had...
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BHL Program Director attends the Global Biodiversity Information Facility,...
Celso Pansera (left) and Peter Schalk (right)The Biodiversity Heritage Library participated in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's 23rd Governing Board meeting, 25-26 October 2016 in...
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BHL Recognized for Award at the DLF Forum
BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic accepts the Community/Capacity Award on behalf of the BHL consortium at the 2016 DLF Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.During an award ceremony at the Digital...
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