Smithsonian Libraries & The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2004 - 2012

BHL Institutional Council Meeting15 March 02012 | Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityMartin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries & BHL Pre-historyUS Exploring Expedition, 2003

Smithsonian Libraries & BHL Pre-historyBiologia Centrali-American, 2004

Smithsonian Libraries & BHL: 2006

Scanning Operations: Statistics

2004-2012/Feb

5,603 Titles14,599 Items5,851,496 Pages19,623,943 Names found

Smithsonian Libraries: “Orange Bag”~25,000 pages not yet in BHL

Institutional Funding Atherton Seidell Endowment

$1.7 million / over 5 years Increase to Federal appropriations

$125,000 / year ($200,000 FY 2012) Internal “pool” funds

$100,000 / over 2 years

Dedicated & Funded StaffAugust 2011

Bianca CrowleyCollections Coordinator

Grace CostantinoProgram Manager

Erin ThomasBHL Librarian

Gilbert BorregoLibrary Technician

August 2011

Stefaan HurtsImaging Specialist

Dedicated & Funded Staff

“Merely” Dedicated StaffAugust 2011AdministrationNancy GwinnMarcia Adams (ret.)Martin Kalfatovic

MetadataSuzanne PilskBess MissellDiane ShawHarriet GrayJulia Blakely (contract)

Special CollectionsLeslie OverstreetDaria Wingreen-Mason

Information TechnologyKeri ThompsonJoel RichardErin Rushing

Natural & Physical SciencesGil Taylor

Robin EverlyCourtney Shaw (ret.)

Book ConservationVanessa Smith

Katie WagnerEliza Gilligan (former)

DigitizationDavid HolbertConrad Ziyad

Stef Hurts

FinancesKathy Hill

Laudine Creighton (ret.)Claudia Edge

Sharon Glenn-Burroughs

SIL BHL TaskforceAugust 2011AdministrationNancy GwinnMarcia Adams (ret.)Martin Kalfatovic

MetadataSuzanne PilskBess MissellDiane ShawHarriet GrayJulia Blakely (contract)

Special CollectionsLeslie OverstreetDaria Wingreen-Mason

Information TechnologyKeri ThompsonJoel RichardErin Rushing

Natural & Physical SciencesGil Taylor

Robin EverlyCourtney Shaw (ret.)

Book ConservationVanessa Smith

Katie WagnerEliza Gilligan (former)

DigitizationDavid HolbertConrad Ziyad

Stef Hurts

FinancesKathy Hill

Laudine Creighton (ret.)Claudia Edge

Sharon Glenn-Burroughs

In Kind Contributions: CY 2011Direct Staff Contributions 5.3 FTE $408,164

Other Costs (equipment, shipping, travel, etc.) $242,948

Funding Received (internal, grants, etc.) $537,607

Scanning Operations: PennSILEquipment

Phase I BC 100

StaffDavid HolbertImaging Specialist

Stefaan HurtsImaging Specialist

Scanning Operations: NMNHEquipment

Internet Archive Scribe

StaffDaniel EuperatInternet Archive

Scanning Operations: FedScanEquipment

12 Internet Archive Scribes

1 large van

Many book carts

Whole lotta shrink wrap

Scanning Operations: Macaw

Supplemental Projects: Index Animalium

Supplemental Projects: TL-2

Supplemental Projects: Field Notes

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. One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly. Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find; it is not enough to copy from a previous author; he must verify each reference itself from the original.

Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library

Charles Darwin, et al (1847)Darwin, C. R. et al. 1847. Copy of Memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury [Lord John Russell], respecting the Management of the British Museum. Parliamentary Papers, Accounts and Papers 1847, paper number (268), volume XXXIV.253 (13 April): 1-3. [Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online]

Looking Forward

Supplemental ProjectsThanks!