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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

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My Life as a BHL Staffer: Jacqueline Chapman

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Have you ever spotted an error in the BHL? Have you ever experienced technical difficulties with downloading digital files from our website? Have you ever looked for an article, journal, or title in our collections and been disappointed to find that it wasn’t in BHL’s collections? Have you ever wanted to thank BHL staff for a particular article, feature, or service? Have you ever had an idea for how the BHL could improve?
If you have, I hope you have taken advantage of our Feedback system and sent your corrections, suggestions, and questions on to us!
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August 21, 2013byJacqueline Chapman
BHL News, Blog Reel

New Grant Helps The Field Museum Digitize Rare and Interesting Books!

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One of the BHL partner institutions, The Field Museum Library, was recently awarded a small grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to contribute titles to the growing BHL corpus. The proposal entitled “Empowering Biodiversity Research,” allowed The Field Museum Library to contribute 34 new titles to the BHL.

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April 30, 2013byChristine Giannoni
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BHL and Our Users: Mathew Louis & BHL Illustrations

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This week we feature one of our users that has taken a particular interest in BHL for the purpose of images, using BHL to strengthen the collection of scientific illustrations found on his website. As our users have long shown a specific interest in the images associated with BHL content, we expect that this post, and the work of our featured user, Mathew Louis, will prove to be particularly interesting to our user community.

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April 26, 2011byGrace Costantino
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Sparking Conversations with Our Users: You Talk and We Listen

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Here at BHL, we want to do a better job of connecting with our users. We want to interact with you, know what you think, what you would like to see, and have you contribute to the biodiversity conversation that shapes the development and progress of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The recent debut of our new series on this blog, focusing on our users and how they use BHL for their work, is an example of our passion to get to know you, our users, more, and interact in new ways with you. However, the blog is not the only way we hope to accomplish this.

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February 22, 2011byGrace Costantino
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Book of the Week: BHL Requests

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Last summer, 2010, we implemented a scanning request form by which our user community can request titles to be scanned and added to our ever-growing online collection. The feature was a runaway success, with 787 requests received to date. As we work to fulfill these requests, we thought it might be nice to highlight just a few of the rare item requests we’ve scanned thus far.

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January 14, 2011byGrace Costantino
BHL News, Blog Reel, Tech Updates

New Feature: User-Submitted Requests for Scanning!

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So, many of you participated in our BHL User Survey 2010, and we greatly appreciate your contributions! One of the most prevalent themes throughout the range of responses that we received was that our users want to be able to submit requests for scanning. So, you spoke; we listened. Introducing the new scanning request form on BHL!

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June 22, 2010byGrace Costantino

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