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BHL Quarterly Newsletter (March 2021) Now Available!
Our latest quarterly newsletter is now available! From exciting news about our image collection in Flickr to an upcoming online Wikipedia Editing Workshop on women in science, don’t miss the latest...
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Women in Historical SciArt: BHL Empowers Research on Women in Scientific...
Michelle Marshall is an independent researcher and creator of Historical SciArt, a research initiative dedicated to women in historic scientific illustration. In this guest post, Marshall shares more...
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Save the Date for BHL Day 2021 on 14 April!
Save the date for a virtual BHL Day 2021 on 14 April, presented as part of our 2021 Annual Meeting! Themed "Reflections In Crises", the program will include sessions reflecting on BHL's roles in...
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Margaret S. Collins: A Legend in Termite Field Biology
Dr. Margaret S. Collins (1922-1996), a renowned expert on termite ecology and distribution, taught as a professor and administrator at Howard University, Florida A&M University, and Federal City...
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Register Today for the Virtual BHL Day 2021 on 14 April!
Registration is now open for our virtual BHL Day 2021 on 14 April, presented as part of our 2021 Annual Meeting! Themed "Reflections In Crises", the program will include sessions reflecting on BHL's...
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Join Us on 16 April 2021 for Notes from Nature: The Biodiversity Heritage...
Join us for a special closing event presented as part of the 2021 BHL Annual Meeting! Notes from Nature: The Biodiversity Heritage Collections Date and Time: Friday, 16 April 2021 @ 1130-1230 UTC...
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Graceanna Lewis: A Naturalist and Abolitionist
“To her mind the truths of science seem revealed.” That’s how Phebe A. Hanaford, author of Daughters of America (c. 1882), described naturalist Graceanna Lewis, one of the first three woman to be...
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Hidden Biodiversity: Exploring Neotropical Fungus Weevils With the Help of BHL
In the last decades of the 19th century, a monumental publication on the biodiversity of Mexico and Central America began publication—Biologia Centrali-Americana. Published in 215 parts from 1879 to...
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Language of Flowers Virtual Symposium on 30 April 2021
On 30 April 2021, join the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library and the Caxton Club for a free, virtual symposium celebrating the Language of Flowers—a popular literary trend in the 19th century...
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The Garden: A Place to Learn and Experiment
A garden is a place to rest, relax, rejuvenate. It also provides an opportunity to learn about nature. Staff at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives are also learning and developing new skills. Some of...
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Earth Day 2021: Exploring Earth’s Biodiversity through Books
Since its inaugural event on 22 April 1970, Earth Day has grown to an international annual celebration of the Earth and a movement to raise awareness about and support for environmental protection....
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The Last Heath Hen, and Other News From the Collecting Net In Woods Hole
"On Martha's Vineyard Island just across the Sound from the Marine Biological Laboratory is the home of the lone survivor of the Heath Hen. The death of this individual will also mean the death of its...
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2021 BHL Annual Meeting — Global and Virtual
Like many organizations around the world, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was compelled, for the second year in a row, to move the 2021 BHL Annual Meeting to a virtual environment. In consultation...
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What Is BHL’s New Persistent Identifier Working Group DOI’ng?
In October 2020, BHL launched a new working group with a momentous goal: to make the content on BHL persistently discoverable, citable and trackable using DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). A DOI is...
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This Bird Illustration Does Not Exist: Using Machine Learning and BHL Flickr...
I work as a web developer for the agency Cogapp, which is based in Brighton, UK. We create websites and other digital services for museums, art galleries, archives and the like, but every couple of...
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BHL Quarterly Newsletter (May 2021) Now Available!
Our latest quarterly newsletter is now available! From a recap of the 2021 BHL Annual Meeting to recordings from BHL Day 2021 and an introduction to our new Persistent Identifier Working Group, don’t...
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The Magic of the Magicicada: Exploring Brood X Through Books in BHL
On 10 May, I had my first sighting of this year’s periodical cicada in Northern Virginia. For seventeen years, three species of Magicicada, the periodical cicada (M. septendecim, M. cassinii, M....
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A Digitization Journey, a Knowledge Journey: Personal and Professional...
In preparation for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I chose to reflect on the intersections of my past and present work in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) collections, with...
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Museum für Naturkunde Explores Maria Sibylla Merian’s Legacy and Editions of...
Three hundred and seventy-four years ago on 2 April 1647, a remarkable woman was born: the artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian. In the 17th and 18th century world of male-dominated science,...
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Chronicling the History of the Former Squires of Coulsdon: Rare Book...
The Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C. is home to many rare and special books. Amongst the approximately 20,000 volumes in...
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