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BHL Surpasses 40 Million Pages!
May we have a drum roll please.......The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that we have just surpassed 40 million pages in our online collection!That's 40 million pages of open...
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Things That Go Burp In the Night
A Tribute to the Nighthawk and "Whip-poor-will" by Rick Wright Imagine away the accumulated knowledge of the past 250 years. Forget that there is such a thing as a field guide. Let google vanish from...
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Is it Hoppy Hour yet?
For this week's BHL Book of the Week, I'd like to highlight a book that is all about one of my favorite plant species, Humulus lupulus, better known as hops. In 1909, Herbert Myrick published: The hop;...
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BHL Australia Volunteers Receive Award
BHL Australia volunteers receive recognition award. Heidi Victoria (Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts portfolio, center) presents the award to Joe Coleman (Digitisation Manager, left) and volunteer...
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BHL Use Case: Facilitating the Study of Mollusca in southern Africa
Imagine that you live in a developing country and you're studying a rare species of Mollusca. You need to verify the identity of a species you uncovered while performing some field work, but to do so...
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BHL staff attend the 6th Annual Global Plant Initiative meeting
A number of BHL staff attended the 6th Annual Global Plant Initiative (GPI) meeting (January 7-11, 2013) in Panama City, Panama. Hosted by the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute, the meeting...
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Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Wonder and Awe
Dutch Apothecary Albertus Seba and his famous natural history collectionContrary to what one might think, a curiosity cabinet is not a piece of furniture, rather it is an entire room(s) dedicated to...
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BHL at ALA Midwinter 2013!
Every year, approximately 10,000 librarians gather together in one place to network, learn about emerging library trends and technological developments, and share their knowledge and expertise with...
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Wallace, Darwin, and Evolution: The Real Story
Book of the Week: The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace Portrait of Wallace at NHM. Restored to celebrate Wallace100.In 1858, Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoologypublished...
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Natural Histories: Exploring Rare Books and Scientific Illustration
A Walrus in Historiae AnimaliumHave you ever wanted to browse the stacks of a rare book library? To explore the pages of Gessner’s sixteenth century masterpiece Historiae Animalium and ask an expert...
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Happening NOW! Latin American Orchid Exhibition
Click here for Full Event DetailsDid you know that orchids are the national flower of Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela? Or that an estimated 25,000 species live...
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Fulfilling our Outreach Strategy: BHL and Field Books at ALA Midwinter 2013
Left to Right: Grace Costantino, Carolyn Sheffield, Bianca CrowleyOn Friday, January 25-Monday, January 28, 2013, BHL hosted a booth in conjunction with the Smithsonian Archive’s Field Book Project at...
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Internship Opportunity!
New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von LinnaeusBe a Marketing Intern for BHL! Are you a library student or recent graduate? Do you love biodiversity, writing, and old books? Love to blog,...
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Our Little Town
By Rick Wright, BHL Guest BloggerAlexander WilsonIt’s almost a year now since we moved to Bloomfield, and I’m still not over my disappointment at our new New Jersey home’s failure to honor its most...
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Internship Opportunity: Paid BHL Virtual Reference Internship
Masdevallia veitchianaHere at BHL, we have partners all over the world, and we try to coordinate our scanning efforts with our partner libraries to ensure that critical content is scanned with maximum...
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Happy Darwin Day!
Charles Darwin by George Richmond. Cambridge University Library.Today in 1809, Charles Darwin, remembered for his theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection (which was so eloquently outlined in...
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Voilà! Evolution by Means of Natural Selection
Exploring Darwin's Journey Towards the Theory of Evolution, Part 2 (View Part 1)Today, we continue our exploration into the manuscripts that tell the story of Darwin's journey towards the theory of...
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Say What?!
Sometimes I come across items in the BHL collection that elicit an immediate response. In this case it was, "Look at all those ears!"Ears indeed. In 1912 Johan Erik Vesti Boas published his Ohrknorpel...
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New BHL Steering Committee Members!
Trochilidae from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur.The Library of Congress announced its membership to the Biodiversity Heritage Library today. The fifteenth partner of the BHL, the Library of Congress...
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The Digital Specimen, Field Book, and Publication Trifecta
The Field Book Project (FBP) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) are pleased to bring you a joint blog series showcasing some of the best examples of digital connections between museum...
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