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Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum visit the BHL Secretariat Offices

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The BHL Secretariat was honored to be visited by Mgr. Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Dr. Dostál shared information about the digitization work being done at the museum, particularly around the works of Mendel. Special thanks to Tomoko Steen, BHL Member representative from the Library of Congress, who introduced Dr. Dostál to Program Director Martin Kalfatovic and also joined us for our meeting.

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December 28, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Geoffrey Mwachala from the National Museum of Kenya visits BHL at Smithsonian Libraries

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Dr. Geoffrey Mwachala, Director, Research and Collection at the National Museum of Kenya, stopped to visit Martin Kalfatovic and Nancy Gwinn while in Washington on other biodiversity and museum collections business at the Smithsonian. While at Smithsonian Libraries, he was able to visit the scanning facility in the National Museum of Natural History and see some of the BHL digitization operations in action. Dr. Mwachala is a strong supporter of BHL Africa and the expansion of biodiversity knowledge.

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January 7, 2014byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre visit BHL

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A team from the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC), Åslaug Viken and Askild Olsen, visted with BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic on October 18, 2012.NBIC recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Encyclopedia of Life to create a Norwegian EOL.Viken and Olsen were very interested in the processes and workflows of BHL. They noted that there are many treasures in Norwegian libraries that once made available online will enrich the knowledge of global biodiversity.- Martin Kalfatovic, BHL Program Director
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October 22, 2012byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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