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An Update from NDSR Residents
April was a busy month for all of us residents! We attended and presented at two conferences in two different cities: first, at the 4th annual DPLAFest in Chicago and then the NDSR Symposium in...
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DPLA Reharvest of BHL Data
On April 11, 2017 the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) reharvested all BHL data for ingest into its portal at https://dp.la/.While BHL has served as a content hub for DPLA since its launch in...
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The Serendipitous Discovery of Susan Fereday: A Story about the Impact of...
By Siobhan Leachman BHL Citizen Scientist (Learn more) Twitter: @SiobhanLeachmanSelf Portrait, Susan Fereday. National Library of Australia. Source: WikiCommons.I love volunteering for the Biodiversity...
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Do Birds and Mammals Destroy Fish Populations? One 19th Century Naturalist...
By Amy Zhang and Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D.Library of CongressBelted Kingfisher. Warren, Benjamin Harry. Some Birds and Mammals which Destroy Fish and Game. Clarence M. Busch, state printer of...
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A New Scanner for Digitizing Australia’s Biodiversity Heritage
By Nicole Kearney Coordinator, BHL Australia New Zeutschel OS 16000 scanner purchased by BHL Australia. Book being digitized is: The animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier, enlarged and adapted to the...
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Eye-catching photos, drawings and clippings: a few highlights from the BHL...
By Adriana MarroquinProject Manager, BHL Field Notes ProjectThe Field Notes Project collection is now over 400 items strong! We are excited by our progress and to share these field books to the global...
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Overdue Thanks and Recognition for Rusty Russell and Lesley Parilla
This post originally appeared on the Smithsonian Field Book Project blog.Since its inception, the Field Book Project has evolved from a single project focused on cataloging Smithsonian collections into...
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BHL at XXI AETFAT 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya
Last month, the BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic and Program Manager Carolyn A. Sheffield participated in multiple events throughout different regions of Kenya to help promote BHL to existing...
View ArticleChanges Coming to the BHL API on 12 June 2017
The BHL API will be updated on 12 June 2017. The current Contributor element will be replaced with a HoldingInstitution element in the result sets of the following API...
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Promoting Scholarly Publication Data and the Biodiversity Heritage Library in...
In May 2017, while attending the XXI Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT), Smithsonian Libraries' (SIL) staff Martin R. Kalfatovic and Carolyn A....
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Promoting the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Scholarly Communications at...
Under the auspices of Scott Miller, Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support (DUSCIS) at the Smithsonian Institution and Vice-Chair of the Mpala Research Centre, I spent...
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Expanding Library Impact through Open Access Digitization
By Grace Costantino Outreach and Communication Manager Biodiversity Heritage Library Bandstand at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Photo by Martin Kalfavotic.Located in central Singapore, just minutes...
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My Experience as a BHL Product Development and Marketing Intern
By Carolina MurciaBHL Product Development and Marketing InternCarolina Murcia. BHL Product Development and Marketing Intern.I am a designer. I am an artist. I am an illustrator. I am an amateur...
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Report from the Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, University...
University of MichiganThe Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference was sponsored by iDigBio, the University of Michigan Herbarium, the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, and the...
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The Southern Cultivator
By Patrick RandallCommunity ManagerExpanding Access to Biodiversity LiteratureThe Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) collection has grown rapidly over the last year, with the addition...
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The First European Language Monographic Series on the Zoology of Japan
By: Robert Scott Young (Special Collections Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library)andConstance Rinaldo (Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library & MCZ Archives)Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard...
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Celebrating Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at 200
By Cam Sharp Jones and Virginia Mills Project OfficersThe Joseph Hooker Correspondence ProjectThe Royal Botanic Gardens, KewSir Joseph Dalton HookerOn the 30th June 1817, Joseph Dalton Hooker was born...
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A Pot of Basil in Every Household
By: Julia Blakely Special Collections Cataloger Smithsonian Libraries In Johann Prüss’ late 15th-century herbal, Ortus Sanitatis (Garden of Health), a bushy basil plant is portrayed growing in a...
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Antarctic Journal
By Cam Sharp Jones Project Officer, the Joseph Hooker Correspondence ProjectThe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew2017 marks the bicentenary of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker’s birth in the town of Halesworth in...
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The Botanical Art of Redouté
Redouté, Pierre Joseph. Les liliacees. (1802-1815). v. 2. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/299211. Digitized by Missouri Botanical Garden.The most celebrated flower painter of quite possibly...
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