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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts tagged with digitization

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Our Experience Digitising a Rare Book for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Recently, we spent three weeks on student placement at Museums Victoria Library and were fortunate enough to be involved with the digitisation of the beautiful title The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar quadrant by Gregory M. Mathews. It was an eye-opening experience, making us aware of the patience and attention to detail that is a necessity for book digitisation.

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October 10, 2019byMarina Hunt and Brendan Bachmann
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Live Digitisation for BHL at the Long Night of Museums in Berlin

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At the Long Night of the Museums on 31 August 2019, the library of the Museum für Naturkunde presented its digitisation activities around a current project to index its Drory Library. In addition to particularly impressive books from the collection, which are already accessible in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, two books were digitised which were not yet available in BHL.

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September 19, 2019byElisa Herrmann
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Lloyd Library and Museum

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Over the course of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) project, contributing organizations have shipped material to Internet Archive scanning centers around the country. A few have scanned their own material, and a few more have used third-party commercial services. One EABL contributor did things a little differently.

Betsy Kruthoffer, Librarian and Rare Books Cataloger at the Lloyd Library and Museum, selected a number of important titles from the library’s collection that were not in BHL. After weighing various scanning options, she got in touch with the digital lab at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH), which had done good work for a Lloyd patron the previous year (and, conveniently, is located right down the street). PLCH agreed to do the scanning, with the understanding that the digitized books would also be made available in a PLCH online collection.

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October 19, 2017byPatrick Randall
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Ex. Ex. Marks the Spot: bringing together primary and secondary sources on the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842

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The United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 was authorized by Congress in 1836 to observe the Pacific Ocean and South Seas. The four-year voyage — also referred to as the Wilkes Expedition or Ex. Ex. for shorthand — covered an expansive geographic region, including the Pacific Northwest, Fiji Islands, and South America. The expedition was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the Unites States Navy, and the resulting collection is thought to be one of the largest early natural history collections, weighing in at an estimated 40 tons. The collection was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1857 and established what would eventually become the National Museum of Natural History.
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August 10, 2017byAdriana Marroquin
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George Engelmann’s Botanical Notes Can Now Be Seen!

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The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG), a partner in the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project, has spent the last year digitizing the notebooks of George Engelmann. George Engelmann assisted Henry Shaw, MBG’s founder, in establishing the Garden’s research arm and corresponding library. He arrived in Belleville, Illinois, sometime in the 1830s but soon moved to St. Louis where he set up practice as a physician.
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May 4, 2017byRandy Smith
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Notes from William Brewster: The Evolving Field of Zoology

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As a part of the Field Notes Project, the Ernst Mayr Library is digitizing the journals, correspondences and photographs of William Brewster (1851-1919), a self-trained ornithologist and specimen curator at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), the first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a co-founder and president of the American Ornithologists’ Union.  Brewster recorded a lifetime of observations on wildlife and plants, changing landscapes, and daily weather, making his notes a valuable resource for modern scientists studying ecological change.
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April 6, 2017byElizabeth Meyer
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Building Digital Field Notes Collections Together

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At Internet Archive, we are excited to provide digitization services for BHL Field Notes Project contributors from coast to coast. We will be digitizing our partners’ selected field notebooks at two of our eight North American regional digitization centers: San Francisco, CA and Princeton, NJ and providing remote services for the American Museum of Natural History.

At regional centers, Internet Archive operators upload metadata from contributing partners, capture high-quality digital images using our Scribe system, then review each image for completeness and add structural metadata as appropriate.

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March 2, 2017byElizabeth MacLeod
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