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Color Our Collections

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Get your colored pencils ready!

Join us for the Color Our Collections event this week, February 1-5, 2016. Led by The New York Academy of Medicine, the event invites you to download images from library and cultural institution collections, color them, and share them on social media using the event hashtag #ColorOurCollections.

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February 1, 2016by
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New Postage Stamps Featuring Images from the NYBG Nursery & Seed Catalog Collection

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Today, January 29, 2016, the U.S. Postal Service released 10 new postage stamps featuring images from catalogs in The New York Botanical Garden’s nursery and seed catalog collection. The 10 Botanical Art Forever stamps feature illustrations from American nursery catalogs printed between 1891 and 1912. NYBG’s nursery and seed catalog collection is one of the largest and most important collections in the United States.

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January 29, 2016by
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Celebrating Mary Gunn and 100 Years of Library Excellence in South Africa

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In 2013, BHL Africa officially launched with the mission to provide open access to the valuable biodiversity literature found within African libraries and institutions. Today, eleven institutions have signed the BHL Africa MOU and, thanks to support from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, each is working to contribute content from their collections to BHL.
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January 28, 2016by
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Biodiversity Heritage Library staff attend the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA

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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.
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January 26, 2016by
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Fantastic Worlds: Exploring the Ocean through Science and Fiction

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In July 2015, BHL founding institution Smithsonian Libraries opened a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History entitled Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780-1910. The exhibit invites visitors to explore the fantastic worlds of fiction inspired by 19th century scientific discovery and invention. It features fabulous natural history books on topics ranging from marine life to geology and dinosaurs and expeditions to the polar regions and interior Africa.
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January 21, 2016by
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Happy New In-Copyright Materials!

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Welcome to 2016 and BHL’s latest batch of in-copyright content! We have 8 new titles to add to the list since our last post. Over the course of 2015, BHL secured the following:

Where possible, BHL acquires permission in the form of a signed license agreement from copyright holders to digitize post-1922 publications.

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January 20, 2016by
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New IMLS-Funded Project: Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project as one of nine National Digital Platform Projects funded in 2015 as part of the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program.
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January 15, 2016by
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