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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Technical Development Year in Review
Building a More Resilient BHL
Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future
Meet Tiago, BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence
BHL Datasets Now Openly Accessible
on the Amazon Web Services Cloud
Where possible, BHL acquires permission in the form of a signed license agreement from copyright holders to digitize post-1922 publications.
Today is National Bird Day, a day to celebrate and raise awareness about birds. We’re celebrating by highlighting one of the rare ornithology titles in the BHL collection: A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers (1868-71) by Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The work contains 120 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after famous Dutch bird illustrator Johannes Gerardus Keulemans.
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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.”
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