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Coming Soon! A New and Improved Biodiversity Heritage Library
Sneak Peek! The soon-to-be-released BHL homepage!The BHL team has been hard at work for the past year developing a new user interface (which will become live on March 18, 2013!) based on usability...
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Dr. Tomoko Steen: Library of Congress Representative to BHL
Dr. Tomoko Steen at the Easter Island Head, National Museum of Natural HistoryTwo weeks ago, we announced that the Library of Congress has joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library, at the Steering...
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Celebrating Women's History Month: Jeanne Baret, the Man who was a Woman
Notable Women in Natural Historyin iTunes U. Illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian from Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensiumMarch is Women's History Month, and BHL is celebrating by highlighting women...
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BHL Image Collection on EOL!
The Floral Magazine, v. 6, pl. 342.The Biodiversity Heritage Library now has its own collection of images in the Encyclopedia of Life! This collection is comprised of images that have been tagged with...
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A Consortium that Scans Together, Bands Together
Over the years, the BHL consortium has grown from its initial core of 10 members to now 15 member institutions across the United States and the United Kingdom. Find out more about who we are with this...
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Announcing the New Biodiversity Heritage Library!
The Homepage of the New BHL! Click image to enlarge.Today the Biodiversity Heritage Library released a new user interface, including an updated website design, improved book navigation, and...
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Shaping Public Perception of Africa: David Livingstone
Happy Birthday, David Livingstone! David Livingstone. Missionary Travels."Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"Most of us have heard that famous phrase, uttered by Henry Morton Stanley of the New York Herald...
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The Woman Naturalist: Mary Anning
Portrait of Mary Anning with her dog Tray and the Golden Cap outcrop in the background, Natural History Museum, London. This painting was owned by her brother Joseph, and presented to the museum in...
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BHL Named a 2013 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate!
Image from: http://www.cwhonors.org/2013/honorsprogram2013.htmIDG’s Computerworld Honors Program announced on March 19, 2013 The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as a 2013 Laureate. The annual award...
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BHL hosts our 1st UMich Alt. Spring Break Intern: Irina Zeylikovich
Irina ZeylikovichI knew I was going to have a good University of Michigan School of Information Alternative Spring Break when my project mentor, Bianca Crowley, told me to meet at the Easter Island...
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The Icing on the Cake: Signing the BHL MOU with Library of Congress
On February 22, 2013, we announced that the Library of Congress (LoC) had become the fifteenth member of BHL! As a Steering Committee member, Library of Congress will help us further build the BHL...
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Decoding the Ocean's Treasures One Tag at a Time
Tagging BHL Marine Images at the SmithsonianThere are approximately 32,000 species of fish, representing the greatest species diversity of any vertebrate group. Mollusks, with around 85,000 extant...
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The Expedition Documentation Trifecta: Biological Survey of Panama
This is the second in a 4 part joint blog series by the Field Book Project (FBP) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), showcasing examples of digital connections between museum specimens, field...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Announces Partnership with Digital Public...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America. The DPLA pilot project, which combines and centralizes...
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Seals? Seal Lions? Walruses? Do you know your fin-footed mammals?
Pier 39 Sea LionsOn a trip in the fall of 2012 to San Francisco to attend the Internet Archives' Leaders' Forum, a couple of us paid a visit to Pier 39 to visit the semi-aquatic mammals that hang out...
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BHL Africa Officially Launches!
We're so excited to announce that today, Monday, April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa has officially launched!Today's launch ceremony (hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) at the...
View ArticleSome BHL services will be unavailable during planned outages 16-17 April 2013
BHL image files are hosted by the Internet Archive (IA). The IA will be upgrading their power 16-17 April 2013. This will result in planned outages to the system. These outages will affect BHL's...
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Tarsiers, Evolutionary Biology, and a Woman Named Frieda
Philippine Tarsier. Säugethiere vom Celebes- und Philippinen-Archipel (1896).Tarsiers are a family of small primates that today are found only in the islands of Southeast Asia. Among the species in the...
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Making the BHL-Africa a Reality: The BHL-Africa Launch and Workshop
BHL-Africa logo at Pretoria National Botanical GardenOn April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa officially launched. BHL-Africa's mission is to provide open access to the valuable biodiversity literature found...
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Guess Whose 228th Birthday is Today?
John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon (1785-1851). Oil on linen. It's time to take a break from work and celebrate John James Audubon’s Birthday with the BHL! This was the man who is best...
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