Collections + Services & Digital Services @ Smithsonian Libraries

Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Libraries Board Orientation | 15 OCT 2014

Digitization in Support Of Services @

Smithsonian Libraries

Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Libraries Board Orientation | 15 OCT 2014

Collections + Services & Digital Services @ Smithsonian Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries Natural History Main Library, 2013

Smithsonian Libraries | 1905 | 2013

WH Holmes Bureau of American Ethnology, ca 1905

Collections | Services

Collections | Services | Digital Services

Product Development and Licensing

Gale-Cengage

East/West Basics

Knockout

Biodiversity Heritage Library

August 2011

Biodiversity Heritage Library Secretariat

Program Director

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Collections

Coordinator

16 Members (con'td)

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• Washington University of St. Louis

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

5 Affiliates

•Academy of Natural Sciences

• The Field Museum

• Natural History Museum, LA County

• Chicago Botanic Garden

• National Agriculture Library

Biodiversity Heritage Library: 21 participants

16 Members

• American Museum of Natural History

• California Academy of Sciences Library

• Cornell University 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

• National Library Board (Singapore)

• Natural History Museum, London

• The New York Botanical Garden

• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

• Smithsonian Libraries

• United States Geological Survey Libraries

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Gone Global

44,849,057 pages

151,982 items

88,005 titles

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Content Growth

2007

2014 146,798 visitors | November 2012

Unique Visitors: 664,645 / 55,387 per month

Page Views: 3,741,640

New vs. Returning: 54.94% vs. 45.06%

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Usage 2013-2014

233 countries Users in 245 Countries

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Usage 2007-14

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May I compliment you on

this splendid service? The

Library's invaluable for my

work on seasonal variability

of climate and vector-borne

disease in British India,

1875-1940.

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Feedback

Mass digitization of Smithsonian Libraries collections aligns with

the overall Smithsonian

digitization strategy and remains a center of excellence for rapid

digitization at the Smithsonian

Digitization of Collections

Social Media and Outreach

Research Output: Smithsonian Research Online

The total number of citations added to Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) grew by 9,663 this year; this brings the grand total to 68,745. This is an increase from last year of 16.4%. The total number of full-text articles added to SRO was 964 for a total of 20,730. This is an increase of 4.9% over last year.

Research Output: Smithsonian Research Online

Anacostia Community Museum: 2

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: 5

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: 7

Freer and Sackler Galleries: 3

Museum Conservation Institute: 12

National Air & Space Museum: 61

National Museum of African American History and Culture: 2

National Museum of African Art: 2

National Museum of American History: 8

National Museum of Natural History: 283

National Museum of the American Indian: 3

National Postal Museum: 14

National Zoological Park: 84

Smithsonian American Art Museum: 6

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: 219

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: 46

Smithsonian Institution Libraries: 8

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: 191

Total: 941

82.5% from 4 research institutes/museums

Research Output: FY 2014

Research Output: Visualization of Research Net

Smithsonian Libraries’ Website: Face to the World

Digital Collections

Digital Collections

SIL scanned 1,783 items, with 879,316 pages total for BHL and 528 items, with 279,508 pages for CHL (for a total of just over 5,500 items in CHL).

SIL Contributions: 20,380 BHL items (1,901 in FY2014); 8.25m pages (919,785 in FY2014).Total BHL: 151,917 items (32,929 in FY2014); 44.82m pages (3.21m in FY2014).

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The worth and importance of the Institution ...

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... is not to be estimated by what it accumulates within the walls of its building...


… but by what it sends forth to the world.


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