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Introducing Carolyn Sheffield, the New BHL Program Manager!
We are pleased to announce that Carolyn Sheffield has joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as the new Program Manager!Carolyn comes to BHL with a wealth of experience in project planning, grants...
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Taxidermy: The Artistry of Preserving Bodies
Thanks to reality television shows like “Oddities” on the Science Channel, “Immortalized” on AMC, and “American Stuffers” on Animal Planet, there has been a resurgence in the popularity of taxidermy....
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Impressions from afar: an account of our Fourth Annual Global BHL Meeting
More than a month ago, on May 27 and 28, we took the opportunity to have our Global BHL Meeting in Fez, Morocco, because some of us were on our way to ICADLA-3, the 3rd International Conference on...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library at the American Library Association Annual...
The American Library Association 2013 Annual Meeting occurred in Chicago, IL, June 27-July2. BHL hosted both a poster and a presentation as part of the conference.ALA Poster SessionsThe BHL poster,...
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A Special American Insect: The Magicicada septendecim
By now, you’ve probably heard the buzz about Magicicada septendecim: a type of cicada that only appears every 17 years in unimaginably large numbers. Periodical cicadas like the Magicicada septendecim...
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For the Love of Cats: Harrison Weir's Extraordinary Dedication to the Cat
Harrison Weir, President of the National Cat Club, Judge at the first cat show in London, and all-around cat lover and enthusiast.This book of the week, an 1889 work entitled, Our Cats and All About...
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How BHL Helps Users Delve into the Wonderful World of Lepidoptera!
Today, we present an example of how BHL is being utilized to expand an award-winning database on the insect order Lepidoptera! Generic Names of Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species...
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Happy Birthday, Beatrix Potter! (A Book of the Week about Rabbits)
In celebration of Beatrix Potter's birthday on July 28th, 1866, today's book of the week explores rabbits: The Rabbit, by James Edmund Harting, with a Chapter on Cookery, by Alexander Innes Shand....
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The Description de l'Égypte: The Savants of Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign
by Jean-Constantin Protain (courtesy of Linda Hall library)The ExpeditionWhere were they going? That is what the majority of the 44,000 soldiers and sailors on 400 French ships must have been thinking...
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Sharing information on the Biodiversity Heritage Library at the SMBE 2013...
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2013 Annual Conference occurred in Chicago, IL, July 7-12. Tomoko Steen, of the Library of Congress, promoted BHL to conference attendees, including...
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BHL Life: My Experience as a BHL Marketing Intern
Me! (Laurel Byrnes, Marketing Intern at the Smithsonian Biodiversity Heritage Library)My interest in the Smithsonian Institution, as an entity, began a long time ago when I was a young girl. I came to...
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Book of the Week: Adventures on the North Sea
The North Sea—at least according to Walter Wood—was awash in blood and fish. Thus, the title of this week’s Book of the Week “North Sea fishers and fighters,” equates men drawn to the sea for the...
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BHL at the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists,...
The IAALD 2013 World Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists was hosted by Mann Library, Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, July 21 – 24, 2013. BHL presented a...
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Happy Birthday to John Torrey!
It’s hard to imagine how the wild, western terrain of the United States looked just 200 years ago—try to replace the suburban communities, bright lights, interconnected highways, and towering buildings...
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BHL at Summer Teacher Institutes
This summer, the Library of Congress hosted five-day Summer Teacher Institutes in Washington, DC. As part of the most recent Institute, BHL shared an exhibit table on Science and Technology with the...
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My Life as a BHL Staffer
Have you ever spotted an error in the BHL? Have you ever experienced technical difficulties with downloading digital files from our website? Have you ever looked for an article, journal, or title in...
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From BHL User to Virtual Reference Intern
Me and a new friend at the 2013 CBHL Meeting, MSU Children's Garden. Photo by Bill Musser.Like most people who go for a library science degree, I was a kid who loved libraries and books, often checking...
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BHL’s Venture into New Territory
We really love trying new things and using new tools to help provide more access to the literature contained in BHL. From Flickr to iTunes U, we are constantly working at meeting our vision of...
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Alexander Wilson and the Catbird
A tiny corner of green in a bustling city landscape, the cemetery of Philadelphia’s Gloria Dei Church is the resting place of Alexander Wilson, who died 200 years ago today at the age of 47, his great...
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BHL's Latest News!
Latest BHL Quarterly ReportWondering what BHL has been working on lately? Check out our latest quarterly report which details our production statistics and showcases some of our most recent exciting...
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