looking back, looking forward: the biodiversity heritage library
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2015 BHL Staff Meeting | Washington, DC | 12-13 November
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity
Mission
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the BHL and biodiversity issues through outreach, learning and education, branding, and collaboration with existing and new user communities
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the BHL and biodiversity issues through outreach, learning and education, branding, and collaboration with existing and new user communities
Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content
Increases our success through increased financial strength, effective administrative support, and organizational excellence
Increase global awareness about the BHL and biodiversity issues through outreach, learning and education, branding, and collaboration with existing and new user communities
Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development
Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable, reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the BHL and biodiversity issues through outreach, learning and education, branding, and collaboration with existing and new user communities
Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development
Increases our success through increased financial strength, effective administrative support, and organizational excellence
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
Yet another physical difficulty is the task of assembling the library and indexes which will enable the student to work under proper conditions…. the beginner must now be prepared to spend liberally, or else must establish himself in an institution where a large library exists; if he work by himself with only a few books, he will have to confine himself to a very narrow specialty indeed.
'The Limitations of Taxonomy' by J.M. Aldrich, Science, April 22, 1927, vol. LXV, no. 1686, p.381
PEOPLESecretariat
Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic
Program Manager Carolyn Sheffield
Collections Coordinator Bianca Crowley
Outreach & Communications Grace Costantino
3.5 FTE
PEOPLETechnical Team
Technical Director William Ulate
Programmer Mike Lichtenberg
Data Analyst Trish Rose-Sandler
3 FTE
2015 Budget: Expenses: $688.5k
Secretariat Salary $344,577Travel $39,000Technical Salary* $244,425Digitization $31,000Other $29,500Meetings $21,000TOTAL $688,502
* Data analyst not counted in these figures
2015 Budget: Income: $703.3k
Smithsonian $392,577MBG Grants $114,900Donations $8,052Dues $187,837TOTAL $703,366
BHL has now grown to 16 MembersAmerican Museum of Natural History Cornell UniversityThe Field Museum of Natural HistoryHarvard University Botany LibrariesMayr Library of the Museum of Comp. Zoology
(Harvard University)Library of CongressMarine Biological Laboratory &
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionMissouri Botanical Garden LibraryBHL Singapore (National Library Board)BHL Mexico (CONABIO)Natural History Museum, London The New York Botanical GardenRoyal Botanic Garden, KewSmithsonian LibrariesUnited States Geological Survey LibrariesUniversity of Illinois
Academy of Natural Sciences Natural History Museum, LA CountyChicago Botanic GardenCalifornia Academy of SciencesNational Agriculture LibraryWashington UniversityBHL Africa
BHL has now grown to 7 Affiliates
And now has global partners throughout the world
Europe, China, Brasil, Australia, Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, Singapore, & Mexico
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