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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.

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.