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New Grant Helps The Field Museum Digitize Rare and Interesting Books!
Title Page Image, v. 3, Onze vogels in huis en tuinOne of the BHL partner institutions, The Field Museum Library, was recently awarded a small grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research...
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The Expedition Documentation Trifecta: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
This is the third 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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Documenting Scientific Knowledge One Handwritten Note at a Time
Connecting Content: The Wonderful World of Field BooksThe California Academy of Sciences and our partners (all of whom are also BHL member institutions) are in the midst of a 3 year IMLS National...
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2013 BHL Institutional Council Meeting
Attendees at the 2013 BHL Institutional Council Meeting. Back Row, Left to Right: Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director); Marty Schlabach (Mann Library, Cornell University); Judy Warnement (Harvard...
View ArticleRefining BHL: New Vision, Mission, and Goal Statements
We are pleased to announce that the BHL Steering Committee has approved new vision, mission, and goal statements for the Biodiversity Heritage Library!Vision: Inspiring discovery through free access to...
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Visual Riches of BHL Dazzle those Outside the Biodiversity Domain
Museums and the Web poster. Trish Rose-Sandler.This spring BHL staff member Trish Rose-Sandler participated in two conferences which were outside of the biodiversity community but whose attendees were...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Receives the CBHL Long Award of...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the Charles Robert Long Award of Extraordinary Merit from the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries...
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Improving the Efficiency of Scientific Research
The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Hymenoptera Anatomy OntologyKatja C. SeltmannThe realm of ontology concerns the nature of reality, determining what exists, how it fits within a hierarchy, and...
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Celebrating the International Day for Biological Diversity
Water and Biodiversity Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface. 96.5% of Earth's water is found in oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and ice caps, and 0.001% in vapor and clouds. Only 2.5%...
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The Latest News from BHL!
Latest BHL Quarterly ReportIf you think all we do is digitize books, get ready to be surprised! Besides adding over 700,000 new pages of open access biodiversity literature to our collection in 2013...
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Monsters, the Scientific Revolution, and Physica Curiosa
Schott, Gaspar. Physica Curiosa (1662).From Superstition to Scientific ReasoningThe seventeenth century was a time of great advancement for science, but it also presented a curious juxtaposition...
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Expedition Connection: National Geographic Society Yale University Peruvian...
This is the fourth 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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Celebrating Oceans and Marine Biodiversity
50 Fish from American Waters (1870-1900). Allen and Ginter. The Seafood Picture Shrimp (the most-consumed seafood in America) and other Crustaceans. Natural History of the Animal Kingdom for the Use...
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Recap of the 3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and...
We had a very good 3rd ICADLA meeting in Ifrane, Morocco. As part of the Advisory Committee, I was very pleased with the over all program (though disappointed that there was so much confusion in having...
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Wait, is that the original?
Recently, the librarians at the Smithsonian Libraries’ Botany-Horticulture Library uncovered a “mini-mystery” involving one of our titles. It started when the botanical illustrator in the Smithsonian’s...
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Celebrating Humankind's Best Friend, the Dog!
As a bone-a-fide dog lover, it gives me great pleasure to highlight Baynes and Agassiz Fuertes' beautifully illustrated "The Book of Dogs: an intimate study of mankind's best friend" as this week's...
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BHL Program Director accepts Computerworld laureate award
Martin KalfatovicAs noted in our blog post from March 22, 2013, BHL was named a 2013 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate.On June 3rd, BHL Chair Nancy Gwinn and I accepted the award on behalf of BHL...
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A Bookplate for the Birds
Swann, H. Kirke, 1871-1926. A Synopsis of the Accipitres (Diurnal Birds of Prey), Comprising Species and Subspecies Described up to 1920, with their Characters and Distribution. 2nd edition, revised...
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Botanical Research in the Asian Tropics
"If you intend to work at 40°C you need a bathrobe, a glass of cold, crispy dry, white wine and WiFi to access BHL." Dr. Eric Danell, Director, Dokmai Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand.Nestled within the...
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Death by Corset: A Nineteenth-Century Book about Fatal Women’s Fashions (and...
Normally at the BHL we examine zoology-related books in our Book of the Week posts, but this week we're entering new territory and taking a look at a comparative physiology book that examines the only...
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