A Current Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Virtual Communities for Biodiversity Science

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

Virtual Libraries for Biodiversity Science

Internet Archive Scanning

Northeast Regional Scanning Facility (Boston)

New Jersey Facility

Natural History Museum, London

Fedscan (Library of Congress)

Internet Archive (San Francisco)

Smithsonian Libraries

What is Biodiversity Content?

Selection

High-yield taxonomic materials

Unique & rare materials

Permissions titles

User requested titles & gap-fills

Discipline specific subject matter

Non-BHL member materials ingested from the Internet Archive

ACTIVE /HIGH

PRIORITY

PASSIVE /LOW

PRIORITY

Increase agreementswith publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 249UK Titles: 69TOTAL TITLES: 318

US Licensors: 92UK Licensors: 41

TOTAL LICENSORS: 133

October 2013

41,994,491 pages120,089 items63,916 titles

28 October 2013

Content Growth2007-2013

New Content Types

Field Books and other archival materials Art of LifeStand along or linked illustrations

Transcribing a Field Book

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

Digitization Workflow

Insert Smithsonian

Macaw software here

Scanning Operations: Macaw

… and now including segments

96,978 “segments”

Linking via DOIs

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

I do admire the whole BHL enterprise, wish I had been born later, or BHL earlier, so that I might have had a more active role in it.

Pat LaFolletteNatural History Museum of Los Angeles County

I am thrilled with what I have been able to find re: archaic mammary embryology some of which I had been hoping to find at the National Library of Medicine, and to get it through your program was a huge advantage. Last night I believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a review paper* I am completing.

Olav T. Oftedal PhDSmithsonian Environmental Research Center

* “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al.Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)

233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

User Statistics: 2007 - 2013Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%

2007

2013146,798 visitors | November 2012

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FacebookTotal Page Likes: 6,587

Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 3,095

Pinterest3,764 images & 17 collections

BlogTotal Visits:36,208 (FY13)

BHL Social MediaOctober 2013

18.9 million total views | 85,512 images (21 Oct 13)

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

BHL “classic” or US/UK: 15 institutions …Formed in 2006, 13 members and 2 affiliates

15 Members• Academy of Natural Sciences Library

and Archives• American Museum of Natural History

Library• California Academy of Sciences

Library• Cornell University Library• The Field Museum Library• Harvard University Botany Libraries• Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of

Comparative Zoology• Library of Congress• Marine Biological Laboratory and

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library

• Missouri Botanical Garden Library• Natural History Museum, London,

Library & Archives • The New York Botanical Garden• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library &

Archives• Smithsonian Institution Libraries• United States Geological Survey

Libraries

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally

6 global nodes: By country, region, language Each node is independent and self-organized, but work under a

set of common principles Share content as much as possible Node leaders form a Global Coordinating Committee Goal is to share a common portal where possible Goal is to develop multi-lingual portal

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

Goal 1: Relevant Content. Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

Goal 2: Tools and Services. Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

Goal 3: User Engagement. Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

Goal 4: Membership and Partnerships. Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

Goal 5: Financial Sustainability. Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.

BHL Goals

BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director

Program ManagerCollections Coordinator

Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst

Looking Forward

In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.

Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

BHL PanelTrish Rose-Sandler

Jiri Frank

Lucy Waraungi

William Ulate

Connie Rinaldo

Thank you!

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