Ernst Mayr Library

As part of ongoing efforts to make the best use of the stacks space at the Ernst Mayr Library, we will be paring down our excess inventory of both Breviora and the Bulletin of the MCZ . MCZ affiliates may email mczserials@oeb.harvard.edu or drop by the...

BHL at Biodiversity Next Biodiversity_Next main conference venue, Stadsgehoorzaal, in Leiden, Netherlands. Photo Credit: Grace Costantino. In October 2019, more than 700 people from over 75 countries gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands for Biodiversity...

As Chair of the BHL Members’ Council, I had the privilege of attending the 25th Meeting of the GBIF Global Governing Board convened in Kilkenny, Ireland, 15-18 October 2018. I represent BHL in its capacity as an Associate Participant in GBIF at the...

The weekend looked promising: a lovely clear Friday night for a drive to Burlington, Vermont, USA from southern New Hampshire to attend the Northeast Natural History Conference (13-15 April 2018). What could be better than a hotel humming with botanists...

Reposted from the Services for Academic Programs blog HOLLIS got a new look over spring break! Once you get the hang of it, the new interface is pretty awesome. It incorporates many highly-requested features, such as durable urls, holdings and details all...

William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned American amateur ornithologist, serving as a co-founder of the American Ornithologists’ Union, the first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a curator at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Group photo of attendees at the 2018 BHL Annual Meeting. Photo taken in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Photo credit: Edgar Chamorro. The 2018 BHL Annual Meeting was held in Los Angeles at the Natural History Museum of Los...

This post is part of a series on the collection of ornithologist William Brewster (1851-1919) at the Ernst Mayr Library, written by Elizabeth Meyer, library project assistant. A 1907 journal entry finds Brewster weighing in on the ‘nature fakers’...

This post is part of a series on the collection of ornithologist William Brewster (1851-1919) at the Ernst Mayr Library, written by Elizabeth Meyer, library project assistant. This past weekend I went with a friend to visit October Farm, William Brewster...

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...