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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts by Nancy Gwinn

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Internet Archive scanning: Behind the scenes at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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These days with digital cameras built into your phone, most everyone has some first hand experience creating digital images. Creating the nearly 40 million page images on BHL is in many ways similar what you probably do on a daily basis with your phone – it’s really just a matter of scale in terms of the technology used for the digitization and the special care taken with the books.

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November 5, 2012byNancy Gwinn
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Another Way for You to Help BHL: Make a Donation

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Funding for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) comes from a number of sources. Over the past few years, we have been reliant on the generous support of a number of different foundations, directly or through grants to individual BHL members. These foundations include the MacArthur Foundation, the Moore Foundation, the Lounsberry Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Keck Foundation. A number of the BHL members have also received grants from the United States government, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Science Foundation.

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September 20, 2011byNancy Gwinn
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BHL four years later, growing and looking towards the future

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Four years ago today, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, along with the Encyclopedia of Life, was officially launched during an event at the National Academy of Sciences.At the time of the launch, there were just over a million pages of taxonomic literature available on the site. Today, there are now just short of 34 million pages.

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May 9, 2011byNancy Gwinn
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“How’s THAT for a tag cloud?!”

The NC State Insect Museum blog gave the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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January 24, 2008byNancy Gwinn
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BHL @ SIL Presentation

On June 25, the Smithsonian Libraries hosted over 40 librarians at the “BHL @ SIL” event held in conjunction with the American Library Association conference in Washington, DC.Links to all the talks will be available shortly.Program:Welcoming Remarks. Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries“The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life”. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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June 26, 2007byNancy Gwinn

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