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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts by Martin R. Kalfatovic

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Biodiversity Heritage Library receives the ALCTS Collaboration Award

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Staff from the Biodiversity Heritage Library received the Outstanding Collaboration award from ALCTS on June 27, 2010.

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June 28, 2010byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL and Vienna! BHL-Global Updates

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So, as many of you may already know, BHL has gone global – way global, with BHL-Europe and BHL-China well underway, and a memorandum of understanding has just been signed with Australia. BHL and the Bibliotecha Alexandrina (for an Arab-language BHL) have had some preliminary discussions. Many of our BHL staff are currently in Vienna, Austria working with the BHL-Europe team to discuss project details and developments.

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June 1, 2010byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL adds members in Philadelphia and San Francicso

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In May 2009, two new members were accepted into the Biodiversity Heritage Library:These two important institutions will greatly contribute to the strength of the BHL. Below is a little bit of information about our newest members. Look forward to more detailed profiles of these two libraries as well as in depth overviews of the original ten members.

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June 23, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Using the BHL Portal, Instructional Videos

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The BHL portal is constantly changing as new features are added and old ones imporoved. Still, to better help you use the BHL portal “as it is” today, some BHL member library staff have created some quick “how to” videos to assist your use of the portal.

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June 4, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL: 2 Years: 13 million pages: 12 million names: Chrismania!

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Two years ago, on May 9th, Jonathan Fanton of the MacArthur Foundation officially launched the Encyclopedia of Life and it’s key literature component, the Biodiversity Heritage Library.Though the member libraries of the BHL had been working together in various ways since 2005, the official launch at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. can be marked as the jump start to the project.

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May 9, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Tuatara in the news … and in BHL

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The Associated Press ran a story on March 20 with the headline, “Rare reptile found first time in 200 years” (see the MSNBC version).The tuatara is a member of the order Sphenodontia and important to the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes. Thought to be extinct on the main islands of New Zealand, the discovery of this hatchling is great news.

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March 21, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL on Twitter

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Yes, we might be a little slow to the game, but the BHL now has a Twitter account. Please follow us and see what worthy of 140 characters!

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March 1, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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