scanning locally, collaborating globaly: the biodiversity heritage library
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Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globaly: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. VALA 2014. Melbourne, Australia. 6 February 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Scanning Locally, Collaborating GloballyThe Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian LibrariesVALA 2014 | Melbourne, Australia | 5 February 2014
Good afternoon!
صباح الخير
Bon Jour
¡Buenos días
Bom dia
Habari ya asubuhi
Goeie môre
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
The Wherefore of BHL
Members … Washington University is #14
14 Members
• American Museum of Natural History • California Academy of Sciences Library• Cornell University Library• Harvard University Botany Libraries• Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology• Library of Congress• Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library• Missouri Botanical Garden Library• Natural History Museum, London • The New York Botanical Garden• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew• Smithsonian Institution Libraries• United States Geological Survey Libraries• Washington University of St. Louis
Affiliates
Affiliates
Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia at Drexel University
The Field Museum Library
Newest Affiliate:
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Problems of Mass Digitization of Library Materials
42,498,407 pages130,484 volumes71,945 titles
4 February 2014
Content Growth2007-2014
Mass digitization of Smithsonian Libraries collections aligns with the overall Smithsonian digitization strategy and remains a
center of excellence for rapid digitization at the SI
Problems of Library Metadata
User Statistics: 2007 - 2013Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
2007
2013146,798 visitors | November 2012
233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries
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Awards● 2013 ComputerWorld Award●
● 2013 Council of Botanical and Horticulture Libraries
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● 2011 Thackray Medal by the Society for the History of Natural History
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● 2010 ALCTS award for outstanding collaboration
“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”
What an absolutely wonderful site. It is a treasure trove of information. Thank you!
May I compliment you on this splendid service? The Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal
variability of climate and vector-borne disease in British India, 1875-1940.
I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.
Looking Forward
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
Looking Forward
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
And now on to our panel
Thank you!
Grazie!Obrigado!Danke!Tack!Děkuju!Merci!Dank u!Asante!Tak!Благодарю!Köszönöm!