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Diving into Marine Biodiversity & Coastal Ecosystem Research

On the eastern coast of Florida, about 120 miles north of Miami, there’s a very special research center. It serves as a field station specializing in marine biodiversity and Florida ecosystems, especially that of the Indian River Lagoon – one of the most biologically-diverse estuaries in North America.

June 9, 2016byGrace Costantino

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Update: Smorball and Beanstalk Access Restored

Access to BHL’s two online games, Smorball and Beanstalk, has now been restored. Thank you for your patience. Start playing today and improve access to BHL’s books and journals by helping to correct our OCR (optical character recognition).

June 2, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Featured Books

BHL at 10 Notable Books Collection

2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. We kicked off our year-long celebrations with our #BHLat10 campaign in April, highlighting our history, growth, and milestones. As part of that campaign, we also highlighted the Top 10 Viewed and Top 10 Downloaded books in BHL. We’re continuing the celebrations with the launch of our BHL at 10 Notable Books Collection.

June 1, 2016byGrace Costantino

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The Roosevelt Wild Life Station

This is the first in a monthly series of posts highlighting contributions to the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) project, which aims to enhance BHL’s collections with content from natural history libraries, societies, and other institutions across the United States. The Roosevelt Wild Life Station (RWLS) is a research center within the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, New York.

May 26, 2016byPatrick Randall

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BHL Singapore representative and National Library Board staff visit Smithsonian Libraries

Wai Yin Pryke ( Director, National Library, National Library Board of Singapore) visited with BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic and Program Manager Carolyn Sheffield on 19 May 2016. Ms. Pryke is visiting various libraries and other institutions on an official visit to the United States. It was also an honor to have Ms. Pryke accompanied by Elaine Ng.

May 25, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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Inspiring Discovery at the 2016 BioBlitz and Biodiversity Festival in Washington, D.C.

BHL participated in BioBlitz 2016 in Washington, D.C. on 20-21 May. A BioBlitz focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. In this special edition of the BioBlitz, held in conjunction with the National Park Service’s centenary, the D.C. BioBlitz was accompanied by a two-day Biodiversity Festival on the National Mall at Constitution Gardens.

May 24, 2016byGrace Costantino

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for New Zealand Species, 29 May 2016!

Help improve Wikipedia articles about New Zealand species! On Sunday, 29 May 2016, the Friends of Te Papa will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on adding New Zealand plant and animal species to Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon will occur from 10:00-17:00 NZST at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand. You can sign up here to attend in person.

May 23, 2016byGrace Costantino

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About BHL

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 in Blog Reel

Diving into Marine Biodiversity & Coastal Ecosystem Research

Update: Smorball and Beanstalk Access Restored

BHL at 10 Notable Books Collection

The Roosevelt Wild Life Station

BHL Singapore representative and National Library Board staff visit Smithsonian Libraries

Inspiring Discovery at the 2016 BioBlitz and Biodiversity Festival in Washington, D.C.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for New Zealand Species, 29 May 2016!

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