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BHL Welcomes Adriana Marroquin, Field Notes Project Manager

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Adriana Marroquin recently joined the BHL as the Field Notes Project Manager. This isn’t Adriana’s first time with the BHL or Smithsonian Libraries. She interned for the BHL and the Smithsonian Botany & Horticulture library after graduate school, and later worked as a library technician at the Anthropology, and American Art/Portrait Gallery libraries.

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September 20, 2016byAdriana Marroquin
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Page Frights Is Coming This October!

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Get ready for a ghoulishly good time this October…Page Frights is coming! From 1-31 October, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world will be gearing up for Halloween by sharing spooky, creepy, or otherwise frightening books and images from their collections on social media using the hashtag #PageFrights. Follow along and join the conversation on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and other social media sites.

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September 19, 2016byGrace Costantino
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IFLA Presentation on Expanding Access to Natural History Illustrations

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BHL was invited to give a talk at a one day session called “Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access.” This session was part of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress held in Columbus, Ohio from August 13-19th 2016. The talk, entitled “Expanding Access to Natural History Images: the Biodiversity Heritage Library and its Global Consortium,” focused on the ways that BHL has sought to improve access to its images, which are mostly hidden within the books and journals on its portal.
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August 30, 2016byTrish Rose-Sandler
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National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Job Postings

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We’re hiring! The vacancies for the five National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) cohort positions have been posted through Harvard University. These five residents will work on projects related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library at BHL partner institutions in Cambridge, MA, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, St. Louis , MO or Los Angeles, CA from January 2017 to December 2017.
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August 3, 2016byGrace Costantino
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BHL paper delivered at 8th Shanghai International Library Forum in Shanghai

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I had the honor of delivering an invited paper to the 8th Shanghai International Library Forum in Shanghai, China, 8 July 2016.
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July 26, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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April showers bring…new in-copyright content to BHL!

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April, May, and June were busy months for processing license agreements and adding new in-copyright titles: 35 in all, bringing our total to 56 for the first half of 2016! Many licensors outside the BHL Consortium gave permission for their content, which adds contemporary scholarship to the collection already rich in legacy literature. Below is the full list of in-copyright titles added between April 1st and June 30th, 2016.
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July 19, 2016byPatrick Randall
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BHL at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

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The 31 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) (http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/) was jointly hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum in Berlin, 20-25 June 2016. The SPNHC conference brings together representatives from natural history museums, universities, and biodiversity data aggregators and serves as a wonderful opportunity for BHL to connect with formal partner institutions, collaborators such as GBIF, as well as many BHL users.

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July 13, 2016byCarolyn Sheffield
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