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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

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Join us for Seeds in the Stacks!

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Join us for Seeds in the Stacks, a Facebook Live tour at the USDA National Agricultural Library! We’ll go behind-the-scenes to explore selections from the Library’s collection of over 200,000 seed and nursery catalogs.

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October 30, 2017byGrace Costantino
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Facebook Live Event 24 March: Celebrating Gesner

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Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) was a Swiss naturalist whose Historia Animalium is considered the starting point of modern zoology. 26 March is the anniversary of his birth, and institutions around the world will celebrate #GesnerDay by highlighting his publications and contributions on social media.

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March 15, 2017byGrace Costantino
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Taming the Wild Social Media Animals: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger… Oh My!

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As the daughter of a children’s librarian and library branch manager, I grew up in public libraries and have become passionate about the important role a library plays within a community. This has led me down the path of becoming a librarian myself. Originally from California, I’m now living on the east coast and attending graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing my passion for this institution. This coming year is my last year of school for a dual Master degree program in Library Science and Public Administration.

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July 30, 2015byMaria Chiochios
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Internship Opportunity!

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Be a Marketing Intern for BHL! Are you a library student or recent graduate? Do you love biodiversity, writing, and old books? Love to blog, tweet, and post on Facebook? Then our new internship opportunity, hosted through the Smithsonian Libraries, is perfect for you! Learn more and apply today!

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February 5, 2013byGrace Costantino
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BHL Surpasses 40 Million Pages!

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May we have a drum roll please…….The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that we have just surpassed 40 million pages in our online collection!That’s 40 million pages of open access biodiversity literature that was previously available only in the collections of a few select libraries around the world. Making this literature freely available removes these boundaries to access, thus increasing the efficiency of scientific research and discovery of the natural world for anyone with an Internet connection.
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December 26, 2012byMichelle Strizever
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A Walk Down History Lane: Introducing the New BHL Facebook Timeline

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In 1516, Conrad Gessner was born. His work Historiae Animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In 1707, Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Modern Taxonomy, was born. In 1735, his monumental publication, Systema Naturae, forever changed the scientific world.

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March 30, 2012byGrace Costantino
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Post Life & Literature: Themes and Outcomes

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If you happened to be living under a rock for the past two weeks and missed our blog posts, tweets, and posts on Facebook, you might have missed the fact that last week was the Life and Literature Conference, an event hosted by BHL with the express purpose of generating conversations about the priorities for biodiversity literature digitization, particularly as it pertains to BHL, for the next 4-5 years.

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November 22, 2011byMichelle Strizever
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