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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts from September 2013

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NESCent-EOL-BHL Research Sprint

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We invite participants for an event that will pioneer the mining of the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org) to address outstanding and novel questions about the ecology and evolution of biodiversity. We aim to identify questions and data for which biologists may lack informatics skills and resources to address or analyze successfully; and symmetrically, to guide informaticians to pressing ecological and evolutionary questions.

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September 30, 2013byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL Book Highlights for International Rabbit Day

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“Promoting the protection and care of rabbits, both domestic and wild,” Saturday September 28 is International Rabbit Day and we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the Leporidae than to highlight some of our favorite literature about rabbits from the BHL collection. From our Darwin’s Library collection, a virtual reconstruction of the set of the surviving works held in Charles Darwin’s personal library, “The rabbit book” outlines the history of the rabbit, its varieties at the time, and provides instructions for their care and breeding.

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September 27, 2013byBianca Crowley
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Stormy Waters, Venomous Snakes and a Cup of Coffee: My Experience as a BHL Marketing Intern

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A blinking cursor on a blank screen. 137 million objects, 8.2 million digitized items, illustrations and photographs, artifacts and first editions, spanning 19 institutions, 9 research centers, and hundreds of years. Where to begin? It didn’t begin earlier this summer when I started working as the marketing intern at the BHL, and it didn’t begin earlier this year when I originally applied for the position. It probably didn’t even begin when I enrolled in the University of Washington’s master of library and information science iSchool. For the sake of argument, I’d say the beginning for me was when I was 6 years old and took my first trip to Washington, D.C.

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September 24, 2013byKirsten Hostetler
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Book of the Week: The Curious Cures

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Take two of these and call in the morning. Those aren’t unusual words coming from a doctor if the “two of these” refers to some aspirin or Tylenol. It’d be a little more curious if the prescription called for two stalks of mugwort, infused with wine and a dash of salt. An interesting remedy for the common malady, but not something easily procured from the corner drug store.
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September 19, 2013byKirsten Hostetler
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Book of the Week: Don’t Tread On Me

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Ophidiophobia is the irrational fear of snakes–those slithering, scaly reptiles that have been cast as the archetypal villain throughout history. Their unnatural movements and eerily flexible jaw joints do nothing to lessen their evil reputation.

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September 12, 2013byKirsten Hostetler
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BHL’s Summer Newsletter

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BHL is pleased to announce that its Summer Newsletter is now available!  As you’re enjoying the final days of summer, check out our latest newsletter to catch up on all that we’ve accomplished in the past few months.  For example, find out how our partnership with EOL has recently become a little closer, learn what our first iBook is about,   and see our latest digitization statistics.

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September 10, 2013byCarolyn Sheffield
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John Cassin’s Vireos

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It’s been going on for six weeks now, but these first days of September see the southbound migration of songbirds in full swing. And all up and down the east coast of North America, birders are taking to the field in search of little brown birds and little green birds and little greenish-brown birds. It was no different in the early autumn of 1842. On a fine September morning, the 29-year-old John Cassin set out for Bingham’s Woods, then and now—as part of today’s Fairmount Park—one of Philadelphia’s favorite birding playgrounds.

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September 6, 2013byRick Wright
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