Librarian Travels

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...

During 14-17 March 2017, the Biodiversity Heritage Library held its Annual Meetings in Singapore, hosted by the National Library Board. The meetings were attended by 24 BHL partner representatives from nine countries. 2017 BHL Annual Meeting Group photo...

Official Photo by Denisse Vargas The 2016 TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards meeting was held at the Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) in San Carlos, Costa Rica. Hotels and other activities were in La Fortuna, about a 45...

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Straight from the SLA Convention I took the Train to Maine to attend the New England Science Boot Camp for librarians at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Boot Camp is an intensive two and a half days covering various science topics in depth with other...

The third global Biodiversity Heritage Library meeting took place in Berlin, Germany on June 7-8, 2012, hosted by Henning Scholz at the Museum fur Naturkunde. We covered many important issues during these two days. Representatives attended from the BHL...

The final day of my trip to Melbourne was a trip to the 17th Biennial Conference and Exhibition for the Australian Libraries, Technology and the Future organization, VALA. The Biodiversity Heritage Library presented a panel discussion " Scanning Locally...

On 1 February 2014 (day 2) of the global BHL meeting, we headed off to Lorne, Australia to convene at the Mantra Resort. The next two days were working days where we discussed the nitty gritty details of strategic planning, connections with EOL, & other...

I recently returned from a trip to the global Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting in Australia. The kick-off was "BHL Day" on 31 January 2014 in the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Australia. Ely Wallis, Chair of gBHL organized the meeting and we had a...

While attending the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting in Florence, Italy in late October, I was able to spend an afternoon at the Villa I Tatti, a Harvard Center that is considered to be "the foremost research institution in the world for...