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BHL Gains Works on the Diverse Plant Genus ‘Hoya’

Photograph of red flowers, in the genus Hoya.
Hoya fetuana on cover of Hoya New, v.6: issue 4, 2017. Photo by Robert Dale Kloppenburg. http://s.si.edu/2BuX7ll.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a cross-post from the Biodiversity Heritage Library's blog: see it here

Robert Dale Kloppenburg is definitely a dedicated botanist. As of January 2018 - when he celebrated his 97th birthday - he has named 234 plant species, mainly in the flowering genus Hoya, which has been his focus for close to forty years since his retirement.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library National Digital Stewardship Residents Webinars

We are pleased to announce five upcoming webinars from BHL’s NDSR residents! As many of you already know, each resident has spent the past 10 months or so working hard on individual—yet inter-related—research projects to explore how we might best improve the features and functionality of BHL to incorporate new technologies and evolving best practices for digital libraries and the larger biodiversity community.

Each resident will be delivering a webinar, reporting on the results of their research to date along with their recommendations for BHL. The topics and schedule for the...

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Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL)

This post was written by Patrick Randall, Community Manager for the IMLS-funded Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literatre (EABL) grant.

The EABL project began in the fall of 2015 and ends in January, 2018. This post discusses the goals of the grant, the role of the Ernst Mayr Library in meeting those goals, and the zoological titles that have been added to the collection of the...

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Q&A with Katie Mika

In this Q&A, Connie Rinaldo, Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, spoke with Katie Mika, the National Digital Stewardship Resident for Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations in Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners.

Who she is:

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