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2013 BHL Institutional Council Meeting

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The seventh annual BHL Institutional Council Meeting occurred at the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library (MBL-WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, on May 6-7, 2013.

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May 11, 2013byMichelle Strizever
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New Grant Helps The Field Museum Digitize Rare and Interesting Books!

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One of the BHL partner institutions, The Field Museum Library, was recently awarded a small grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to contribute titles to the growing BHL corpus. The proposal entitled “Empowering Biodiversity Research,” allowed The Field Museum Library to contribute 34 new titles to the BHL.

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April 30, 2013byChristine Giannoni
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Making the BHL-Africa a Reality: The BHL-Africa Launch and Workshop

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On April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa officially launched. BHL-Africa’s mission is to provide open access to the valuable biodiversity literature found within African libraries and institutions. The African consortium is hard at work identifying partners throughout the continent to sign an MOU and commit to working towards this noble objective.

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April 24, 2013byGrace Costantino
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Some BHL services will be unavailable during planned outages 16-17 April 2013

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BHL image files are hosted by the Internet Archive (IA). The IA will be upgrading their power 16-17 April 2013. This will result in planned outages to the system. These outages will affect BHL’s ability to serve page images, generate PDFs, and downloads of certain file types.Searching and browsing BHL metadata will not be affected by this outage.Please be aware that in addition to the planned outages listed below, there may be residual and temporary outages around planned downtime.Scheduled downtimes:In the event of any additional major outages, please monitor this site for more information.Sorry for the inconvenience that this will cause our BHL users, but in the end this will provide better service.

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April 15, 2013byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL Africa Officially Launches!

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We’re so excited to announce that today, Monday, April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa has officially launched!

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April 15, 2013byGrace Costantino
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Announces Partnership with Digital Public Library of America

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America. The DPLA pilot project, which combines and centralizes links to the collections of participating cultural institutions, launches April 18 in Boston.

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April 9, 2013byGrace Costantino
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Decoding the Ocean’s Treasures One Tag at a Time

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There are approximately 32,000 species of fish, representing the greatest species diversity of any vertebrate group. Mollusks, with around 85,000 extant species, constitute the largest marine phylum and about 23% of all named marine organisms. Crustaceans, with about 67,000 described species, are arthropods that range in size from .004 inches (Stygotantulus stocki) to over 12.5 feet (Japanese Spider Crab). The diverse algae group includes unicellular and multicellular organisms, such as seaweeds, dinoflagellates, red, green, brown, yellow and golden algae, and diatoms, to name a few.

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April 3, 2013byGrace Costantino
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