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DPLAFEST and NDSR Symposium

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Posted on May 4, 2017 by BHL NDSR Cohort This post is brought to you by the BHL NDSR Cohort. I, Alicia, introduce our conference packed month of April. Next, Ariadne recaps our DPLAFest presentation followed by Pam’s overview of our NDSR Symposium panel...

Who was Ruth Turner?

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[written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] Ruth Dixon Turner (1914-2000) was one of the foremost marine scientists of the 20th century. She taught at Harvard but carried out research all over the world, working...

Notes from William Brewster: Puzzling out Bird Sounds

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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. “The conditions which govern the singing of birds are a constant puzzle to me,”...

BHL at the GBIF 25th Governing Board Annual Meeting

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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...

Notes from William Brewster: Ornithologists in the Courtroom

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In March 1886, one deacade before the Massachusetts Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds had organized, William Brewster wrote three letters to fellow ornithologist George Sennett, describing an early attempt to pass bird protection legislation in...

Notes from William Brewster: Trials in Wildlife Photography

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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. In the mid-1890s, Brewster’s journals increasingly reference using new methods...

THE ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN WIKIDATA AND WIKICITE

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The other week I participated in WikiCite 2017, a conference, summit, and hackathon event organized for members of the Wikimedia community to discuss ideas and projects surrounding the concept of adding structured bibliographic metadata to Wikidata to...

WHY TRANSCRIBE?

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Digitization is not a new activity for libraries and cultural heritage institutions, and indeed has become a critical tool for preserving and providing access to archival collections including rare books, manuscripts, and photographs. The potential...

Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL)

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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...