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The Ernst Mayr Library is pleased to work on collaborative projects with other institutions around the world thanks to generous funding from foundations, granting agencies and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) The BHL...

Librarian Travels: global Biodiversity Heritage Library meeting in Australia, part 2

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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...

Hello from the NDSR Residents!

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Over the next 11 months we will be collaborating as National Digital Stewardship Residents on several projects to develop recommendations and best practices for enhancing tools, curation, and content stewardship for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As...

BHL Scarlet Macaw

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The Ernst Mayr Library is a founding member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which is digitizing the legacy literature of biodiversity for open access. Learn more here and check out the BHL Blog.

Introducing the NDSR at BHL Cohort and Blog!

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This year, five NDSR residents will help us plan the next generation of BHL. You can stay up-to-date with their progress and findings on the new NDSR at BHL blog! As part of " Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations in Digital Libraries in...

BHL Gains Works on the Diverse Plant Genus ‘Hoya’

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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...

NDSR Job Posting- Closed, All Postitions Filled

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NATIONAL DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP RESIDENCY VACANCIES BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY MULTIPLE SITES JOB SUMMARY: The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) is a collaborative field experience program developed by The Library of Congress Office of...

NDSR updates

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If you want to be updated on all things #BHLNDSR , check out the blog posts at: https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/ Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners is a National Digital Stewardship Residency...

Remote Library Resources: Tips from the Ernst Mayr Library Staff

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The Ernst Mayr Library location is currently closed, but the staff are working remotely and available to help. While we cannot access our print collection we recommend the online resources below. Some repositories, such as the Biodiversity Heritage...

My Life as a BHL Staffer: Chris Carden

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I am the Metadata Librarian for the Biodiversity Heritage Library digitization project at the Ernst Mayr Library. Check out my recent post on the BHL Blog where I present an example of one of my daily activities: augmenting the resource metadata and...

National Digital Stewardship Residency vacancies

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Multiple Sites The following five project outlines are proposed: Content Analysis. This project will be an analysis of the quantity of literature underpinning the field of biodiversity, the amount of that literature in...

BHL at the 2019 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Digital Data in Biodiversity Meetings

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SPNHC and Digital Data Conferences Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director) and Connie Rinaldo (Chair of the BHL Members’ Council) attended the recent Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections(SPNHC) meeting held 25-31 May 2019 and...