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Celebrating Careers in Libraries and Museum Day Live!

This Saturday, 12 March, the Smithsonian is coordinating a special edition of its signature Museum Day Live!

March 10, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, User Stories

Following Early Naturalists of the American West

Yellowstone National Park is famous worldwide for its vast forests, abundance of wildlife – including a wide variety of North American megafauna, and its natural landmarks like Old Faithful Geyser. The Park, which spans over 3,400 square miles, was established by Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, making it the first national park ever established. In addition to over 350 species of animals, over 1,000 plant species call the park home. [1] The first actual flora of the park was published in 1886 by a man named Frank Tweedy. [2] Tweedy was a topographical engineer born in New York City in 1854. Between 1884-85, Tweedy was in Yellowstone mapping the topography of the park for a project with the U.S. Geological Survey.

March 7, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

BHL Welcomes Two New Affiliates

The Internet Archive, a non-profit institution based in San Francisco and long-time BHL partner in digitization efforts, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the world’s premier natural history museums, based in Leiden, The Netherlands, have joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as Affiliates. These new partnerships will allow BHL to expand the breadth and depth of its online collection and strengthen the consortium’s technical expertise.

March 4, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

Celebrating Women In Science and Museum Day Live

March is Women’s History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In recognition of this celebration, the Smithsonian is coordinating a special edition of its signature Museum Day Live!

March 3, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, User Stories

Early Land Plants and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

Bryophytes are green land plants that lack true vascular tissue. They encompass mosses (Bryophyta), hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta). Bryophytes form an important component in many ecosystems, offering microhabitats for an abundance of biodiversity including single-celled eukaryotes, protozoa, and many invertebrates (Gerson 1982). They also play an important part in the global carbon budget and can support climate change research by serving as “indicators of past climate change, [validating] climate models, and as potential indicators of global warming”.

March 1, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel, Tech Updates

Planned Outage of BHL Website for Scheduled Maintenance 3/1/2016 at 6pm CST

There will be a planned outage of the BHL website for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 1 March 2016, beginning at 6pm CST and lasting approximately two hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. During the outage, you can access BHL’s content via Internet Archive.

February 29, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Featured Books

Humboldt and Bonpland’s Essai sur la géographie des plantes and its significance

Over 210 years after Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s work titled Essai sur la géographie des plantes was published, climate science, book conservation, and botanical research have converged around this 1805 work. This book was digitized and made available in 2008 by the Missouri Botanical Garden for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. In 2015, scientists published a paper detailing their findings as they retraced the path that Humboldt and Bonpland took on their ascent up the dormant volcano, Chimborazo, in Ecuador.

February 25, 2016byRandy Smith

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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.”

Welcome to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog

Celebrating Careers in Libraries and Museum Day Live!

Following Early Naturalists of the American West

BHL Welcomes Two New Affiliates

Celebrating Women In Science and Museum Day Live

Early Land Plants and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

Planned Outage of BHL Website for Scheduled Maintenance 3/1/2016 at 6pm CST

Humboldt and Bonpland’s Essai sur la géographie des plantes and its significance

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