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BHL Adds Two New European Affiliates

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Over the past three months, BHL has welcomed two new European Affiliates: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – Lausanne in Switzerland and the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
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October 6, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Sea Monks and Other Page Frights: Celebrate Halloween, Library and Archives Style!

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Welcome to Page Frights, a month-long social media celebration of Halloween! All this month (1-31 October), libraries and archives around the world will be sharing spooky, creepy, frightening, and otherwise Halloween-related books and images from their collections on social media with the hashtag #PageFrights.

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October 1, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Rod Page Talks Bioinformatics, Linked Data, and Primary Literature at the Smithsonian

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On 22 September, Dr. Rod Page, Professor at the University of Glasgow and creator of BioStor, gave a presentation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Library about ideas for extracting and linking data across biodiversity repositories and primary literature. The talk, entitled “The Sam Adams Talk,” covered topics including phylogenetics, geophylogeny visualizations, linking article and specimen data across repositories, annotations, the biodiversity knowledge graph, and data as source code.
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September 29, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections

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The Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections workshop was organized by Scientific Collections International (SciColl) at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, 19-21 September 2016.

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September 27, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Jesús Sánchez’s Mexican Medical Zoology

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Sánchez, Jesús. Datos para la zoología médica mexicana: arácnidos é insectos. México: Oficina Tipográfica de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1893.
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September 22, 2016byMinerva Castro Escamilla
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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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