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Transcribe Field Notes by Female Naturalists with the #HerNaturalHistory Transcription Challenge

Looking for a challenge? The Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Smithsonian Transcription Center are teaming up for a #HerNaturalHistory-themed transcription challenge. Starting today (8 March), help a team of #volunpeers transcribe field notes from conservation biologist Devra Kleiman and botanist Cleofé Calderon. Dive into observations of golden lion tamarins with Kleiman, who worked at Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park from 1972 to 2001. And head to South America with Calderón to collect grasses for Smithsonian’s Department of Botany.

March 8, 2019byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

2016 BHL Annual Report

The 2016 BHL Annual Report is now available!

Find out how our collections grew and audiences engaged with our library in 2016, learn more about some exciting new projects, and explore impact stories from users across the globe. Read the report now!You can also get the latest updates from BHL in our newsletters. Explore past newsletters here and subscribe to our mailing list here.

July 19, 2017byMichelle Strizever

Blog Reel

Reflecting back on my incredible summer at Smithsonian Libraries

As the weather in Central New York is getting colder, and the winter is inevitably approaching, I can’t help but recall the humid summer of Washington, DC. Over the summer of 2016, I interned at Smithsonian Libraries. As a summer intern, I worked at the Department of Digital Programs and Initiatives on the “Cataloging across collections” project. The project was focused on metadata and cataloging. During my internship I worked on digital curation of the records in Biodiversity Heritage Library as well as cataloging field notes for the Field Book Project.

December 28, 2016byNura Agzamova

BHL News, Blog Reel

We Challenge You to #DigIntoDyar

This post originally published on the Smithsonian Libraries blog Unbound. Important entomological work. The Bahá’í faith. Secret tunnels under Washington, DC. What do all of these elements have in common? Curiously, Smithsonian scientist Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.. Dyar, Honorary Custodian of Lepidoptera at the United States National Museum (now, National Museum of Natural History) for over 30 years, was a prolific entomologist – studying sawflies, moths, butterflies and mosquitos and publishing his findings. He described hundreds of species and genera and brought new ones to light.

May 13, 2016byErin Rushing

Blog Reel, Featured Books

Happy Birthday Waldo Schmitt!

Do you know what carcinology is?

It is the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles and crabs. One of the pre-eminent carcinologists (a scientist who studies crustaceans) of the first half of the twentieth century was Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Born on this day (June 25) in 1887 in Washington, D.C., Schmitt held various positions within the United States Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian, and the United States Bureau of Fisheries throughout his career.

June 25, 2015byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Featured Books

From Early Women in Science to Ultraviolet Film: Using Art to Understand Insects

Art is an integral part of scientific investigation and documentation. Before the advent of photography, illustrations were used to capture intricate species details, habitat appearance, and even behaviors such as predation. Photography gained popularity as a visual recording method within scientific publications in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, over time increasing the efficiency and accuracy by which nature could be recorded. Scientific illustrations and photographs are an important part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

April 2, 2015byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Featured Books

True Detective: Frederick W. True’s lifelong dedication to uncovering the natural history of marine mammals

This post is a guest post by John Ososky and Nick Pyenson, originally published on the Pyenson Lab blog.

The Smithsonian Field Book Project is showcasing Frederick William True in February!

February 13, 2015byNicholas Pyenson and John Ososky

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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.”

All posts tagged with field-book-project

Transcribe Field Notes by Female Naturalists with the #HerNaturalHistory Transcription Challenge

2016 BHL Annual Report

Reflecting back on my incredible summer at Smithsonian Libraries

We Challenge You to #DigIntoDyar

Happy Birthday Waldo Schmitt!

From Early Women in Science to Ultraviolet Film: Using Art to Understand Insects

True Detective: Frederick W. True’s lifelong dedication to uncovering the natural history of marine mammals

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