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2 May 2014
William Henry Holmes, Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, ca. 1905
Smithsonian Libraries, Natural History Main Library, ca. 2013
COLLECTIONS SERVICES
PRESERVATION DIGITIZATION
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
The Wherefore of BHL
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
Members…University of Illinois is #16
16 Members • American Museum of Natural History • BHL Singapore • 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 • Natural History Museum, London • The New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Garden, Kew • Smithsonian Institution Libraries • United States Geological Survey Libraries • Washington University of St. Louis
Affiliates
Affiliates Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia at Drexel University The Field Museum Library Natural History Museum of LA County Newest Affiliate:
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
43,479,358 pages 137,725 volumes 76,490 titles
2 May 2014
Content Growth 2007-2014
What an absolutely wonderful site. It is a treasure trove of information. Thank you!
I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.
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.
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
User Statistics: 2007 - 2013
Visitors: 3,628,088 Page Views: 17,604,395 New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
2007
2013 146,798 visitors | November 2012
233 countries Users in 245 Countries
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• Secretariat and admin costs • Technical development • Central funds for scanning etc. • Total:
– ~US$583,000 / year
• Smithsonian funding • Grants to member institutions • Annual dues (US$10,000)
from Members • Donations (~US$5,000
year/average)
INCOME
EXPENSES
Funding Sources Central Expenses
2013 BHL Member In-kind Staff FTE & Costs (incomplete)
15.801 FTE from the 15 member institutions $1,374,717 staff and other costs
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)
Fundraising Plans
Continue to build our pipeline of annual donors Continue to use social media for “softasks”repurposingtext/themesof appeals WorkwiththeSmithsonian’sOfficeof Foundation Relations to put together major gift ($100K-500K) proposals to several foundations Continue other grant opportunities for partners
Awards
2013 ComputerWorld Award 2013 Council of Botanical and
Horticulture Libraries 2011 Thackray Medal by the Society for
the History of Natural History 2010 ALCTS award for outstanding
collaboration
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
Web Services | Digital Library
Not just Biodiversity … The Cultural Heritage Library: Over 5,000 items The Catholic Sioux Herald (very fragile and unique) Dibner Heralds of Science Upcott scrapbook of Aeronautica & Aeronautical sheet music Rare materials from the Cooper-Hewitt NDM Library AnthroNotes Smithsonian Budget Books & Congressional Hearings
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES CULTURAL HERITAGE LIBRARY
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Digitization is still increasing, too
37,283 total items digitized
130,375 total items digitized
SMITHSONIAN RESEARCH ONLINE (SRO)
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AS OF TODAY…
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Second result was the Libraries!
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Expanding into New Platforms
Created official guidelines this
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Officially launched the
start of FY2013
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The worth and importance of the Institution is not to be estimated by
what it accumulates within the walls of its building, but by what it sends forth to the
world.
Joseph Henry, 1853
Thank you!