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Report on the The Biodiversity Heritage Library for the 5th Global BHL Meeting
Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian Libraries5th Global BHL Meeting
Lorne, Victoria | Australia1 February 2014
By the numbers ...
Members … Washington University is #14
14 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• 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
Newest Affiliate:
And coming soon?
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42,498,407 pages130,484 volumes71,945 titles
1 February 2014
Content Growth2007-2014
… and now including segments
92,000+ “segments”
Items AddedPast 12 Months: 7,963Previous 12 Months: 14,562
Past 12 months average: 664 / month
59,159
51,196
Increase agreementswith publishers of in copyright materials
US Titles: 249UK Titles: 69TOTAL TITLES: 318
US Licensors: 92UK Licensors: 41
TOTAL LICENSORS: 133
October 2013
2012 BHL Member In-kind Staff FTE & Costs (incomplete)
14.193 FTE from the 14 member institutions$1,239,300 staff and other costs
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)
User Statistics: 2007 - 2013Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
2007
2013146,798 visitors | November 2012
233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries
FacebookTotal Page Likes: 6,587
Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 3,095
Pinterest3,764 images & 17 collections
BlogTotal Visits:36,208 (FY13)
BHL Social MediaOctober 2013
24+ million total views | 87K + images (Feb 14)
Meetings and related ...
BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013
BHL Europe. Final Events, Berlin, 4-6 June 2012
Smithsonian Libraries and BHL, Mae Jemison Science Reading Room. Pretoria,
South Africa. 11 June 2012 [presentation]
BHL African Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, June 14-15 2012
BHL Staff and Technical Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 27-28, 2012
Internet Archive Leaders' Forum, San Francisco, CA, 24-25 October 2012 EOL Work Group Leaders Meeting. Cambridge, MA, 29-30 November 2012
JSTOR Plants Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 6-11 January 2013
Third Phenotype Ontology Research Coordination Network Annual Summit
meeting, Durham, NC, 25-27 February 2013
Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 15 February 2013
I Annotate: Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 10-12 April 2013
BHL Africa Launch, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-18 April 2013
BHL Symposium. TDWG 2013. Florence, Italy. 29 October 2013.
Digitalización de literatura de Biodiversidad: an Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. CONABIO Teleconference. 29 August 2013.
International Relations Round Table, American Library Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 28 June 2013.
3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives. Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. 30 May 2013.
4th Global BHL Meeting. Fes, Morocco. 27 May 2013.
BHL People ...
Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director
Program ManagerCollections Coordinator
Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst
Strategic Planning ...
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
Exploring new audiences ...
Since DPLA launch on 18 April 2013, it is now the #8 referrer and generates 71% of new visits
SLOAN PLANNING GRANT / SMITHSONIAN
SMITHSONIAN WOMENS COMMITTEE GRANT / SMITHSONIAN
DIGGING INTO DATA / MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
FIELD NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTION
Services ...
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Scanning Operations: Macaw
Community / Partnership / Science / Content
Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge
Thanks … Questions and Discussion