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Report on the 2016 BHL Annual meetings, London

In conjunction with the BHL Day event at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, BHL partner representatives got down to work. The combined 2016 BHL Joint Meeting was co-hosted by Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 12-15 April 2016. The first order of business was the 7th Global Meeting which took place on 12 April 2016 at the Natural History Museum. Representatives from all BHL’s global partners (with the exception of BHL México) were in attendance. A key outcome of this meeting was to merge the existing Global BHL group into the BHL as the newly formed BHL Global Committee (BGC).

May 10, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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Biodiversity Heritage Library staff attend the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA

A number of BHL staff attended the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in an unseasonably warm Boston, MA during the run of the conference, January 8-12, 2016.

January 26, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum visit the BHL Secretariat Offices

The BHL Secretariat was honored to be visited by Mgr. Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Dr. Dostál shared information about the digitization work being done at the museum, particularly around the works of Mendel. Special thanks to Tomoko Steen, BHL Member representative from the Library of Congress, who introduced Dr. Dostál to Program Director Martin Kalfatovic and also joined us for our meeting.

December 28, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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Report from GBIF 22 (Antananarivo, Madagascar, October 2015)

From the TDWG and BHL Africa Workshop, BHL Director Martin Kalfatovic traveled to Madagascar for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 22nd Meeting. He met up with Constance Rinaldo (BHL Vice Chair and librarian at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard).

November 30, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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BHL receives the Internet Archive’s Internet Heroes award at the 2015 Library Leaders’ Forum

The Biodiversity Heritage Library was honored to receive the Internet Archive’s Internet Heroes award at the 2015 Library Leaders’ Forum in San Francisco, 21-23 October 2015. Hosted by Brewster Kahle and Wendy Hanamura, the Leaders’ Forum was attended by Internet Archive partners from across the world of cultural heritage institutions.

November 9, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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BHL members attend the 4th International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives

Global Biodiversity Heritage Library members participated in the Fourth International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives at the University of Ghana in Accra. The conference, 27-28 May 2015, was attended by representatives from across Africa, the United States, and Europe. ICADLA: The conference opened with welcome from Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor (University of Ghana) and the Felix Kwakye Ofosu (Deputy Minister of Communication).

June 17, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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Anniversary of the first organizational meeting for the BHL

On June 12, 2006, representatives from the first ten partners of the just forming Biodiversity Heritage Library met in Washington at the Smithsonian Institution to plan for the formation of the BHL. Representatives from the Smithsonian Libraries; the Missouri Botanical Garden; the Natural History Museum (London); the Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library; the American Museum of Natural History; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and the Field Museum attended the meeting.

June 12, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C., BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”

All posts by Martin R. Kalfatovic

Report on the 2016 BHL Annual meetings, London

Biodiversity Heritage Library staff attend the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA

Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum visit the BHL Secretariat Offices

Report from GBIF 22 (Antananarivo, Madagascar, October 2015)

BHL receives the Internet Archive’s Internet Heroes award at the 2015 Library Leaders’ Forum

BHL members attend the 4th International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives

Anniversary of the first organizational meeting for the BHL

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