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Biodiversity Heritage Library

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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.

Global Biodiversity Heritage Library

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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...

Biodiversity Heritage Library Announces Partnership with Digital Public Library of America

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Reposting from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog: Biodiversity Heritage Library Announces Partnership with Digital Public Library of America The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within...

Ernst Mayr Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Ernst Mayr Library is a founding member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their...

Librarian Travels: Global Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia, part 3

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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...

Biodiversity Heritage Library National Digital Stewardship Residents Webinars

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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...

Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa launches! (Repost from BHL blog)

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We're so excited to announce that today, Monday, April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa has officially launched! Today's launch ceremony (hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden in Pretoria, South...

Librarian Travels: Global Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting in Australia, part 1.

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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...

We Need Books to Save Biodiversity

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Today we are reposting a blog from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Thank you to Grace Costantino for sharing. This month, we’re publishing a series of blog posts outlining the importance of biodiversity literature, made available for free and open...

Librarian travels: Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)

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I was privileged to attend and present as part of a symposium at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting October 28-November 1, 2013. The theme for 2013 was “ Virtual Communities for Biodiversity Science http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/files...

BHL at Biodiversity_Next by Grace Costantino

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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...

BHL Europe

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Recently I traveled to Berlin, Germany to attend the final meeting of BHL Europe, which reached the end of its initial funding stream on April 30, 2012, and the Third Global BHL meeting (another post to come). The BHL Europe project has come a long way...