BHL Spring 2014 Newsletter

The last several months have been an intense and exciting period of growth and expansion for BHL. Not only has the steady growth of collections continued but BHL as an organization has been growing as well. In the first two quarters of fiscal year 2014, three new Members and one new Affiliate joined BHL-Central. BHL’s global presence is expanding as well with one of those new Members also participating as a global node.

To learn more about each of the new BHL Members and Affiliate and what BHL has been up to across the globe, check out BHL’s latest newsletter and quarterly report. Covering both Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of Fiscal Year 2014, the latest report also includes updates on BHL meetings and collaborations as well as collections, usage, and financial updates.

Enjoy!

BHL Quarterly Report, Q1 and Q2, FY2014

BHL Quarterly Report, Q4 FY13

If you’re reading this blog, you probably already know that BHL provides free and open access to millions of pages of biodiversity literature.  But did you also know that BHL is working to change the nature of biodiversity research through digitization?

In addition to the over 2 million pages scanned by BHL participating libraries in the past twelve months, BHL also co-launched the NESCent-EOL-BHL research sprint which will support research projects seeking answers to important biodiversity and ecological questions through mining BHL and EOL; received an IMLS National Leadership Grant for enhancing full text searching and indexing in BHL through purposeful gaming; organized a social media campaign around unsung biodiversity hero Alfred Russel Wallace; and hosted five interns to build social media, marketing, and reference skills in the next generation of librarians.

Learn all about these developments, and see how our project is performing in the latest BHL Quarterly Report and Newsletter!  Stay up to date in the future by subscribing to our quarterly newsletters.

We know you’ll be impressed at the ways we’re inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge!

BHL Fall 2013 Newsletter

BHL is pleased to announce that its Summer Newsletter is now available!

As you’re enjoying the final days of summer, check out our latest newsletter to catch up on all that we’ve accomplished in the past few months.  For example, find out how our partnership with EOL has recently become a little closer, learn what our first iBook is about,   and see our latest digitization statistics. Also included is a very big thank you to our summer interns for all of their contributions!

Stay up to date in the future by subscribing to our quarterly newsletters.

Summer 2013 BHL Newsletter

Latest BHL Quarterly Report

If you think all we do is digitize books, get ready to be surprised! Besides adding over 700,000 new pages of open access biodiversity literature to our collection in 2013 alone, we’ve launched a new website, celebrated the birth of another regional node – BHL-Africa, grown our consortium by adding the Library of Congress as our 15th member library, published two new iTunes U collections, received two prestigious awards, and hosted our seventh Annual Institutional Council Meeting, just to name a few things!

Learn all about these developments, and see how our project is performing, in the latest BHL Quarterly Report and Newsletter! Stay up to date in the future by subscribing to our quarterly newsletters.

We know you’ll be impressed at the ways we’re inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge!

Spring 2013 BHL Newsletter

Want to keep up with all the latest BHL project updates? Then subscribe to our quarterly newsletter! It’s full of great information about all the fun things BHL is doing. The Fall 2012 Newsletter (excerpt below) highlights the 2012 BHL Staff and Technical Meeting; our new Technical Director, William Ulate, and the formation of the Technical Advisory Group; BHL’s Shark Week campaign; and BHL at ESA 2012 and ALA Midwinter 2013.

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Newsletters will be archived on our public wiki.

Want to keep up with all the latest BHL project updates? Then subscribe to our quarterly newsletter! It’s full of great information about all the fun things BHL is doing. The Spring 2012 newsletter (excerpt below) highlights the retirement of BHL’s founding director, Tom Garnett, our recent iTunes U collections, our NEH grant to support improved access to BHL images, and our shared booth with EOL at the American Libraries Association midwinter meeting.

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Newsletters will be archived on our public wiki.