Strategies to Engage

Discovering & Facilitating Engagements around Biodiversity Literature

Grace Costantino 2 June 2016 | 2016 SSP 38th Annual Meeting

Biodiversity Heritage Library

An open access digital library for biodiversity literature with 60+ participating institutions

across the globe. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Engagement-Related Goals

•  Demonstrate the value of our collections to modern-day research

•  Facilitate engagements with our collections that: – Allow our audiences to share their expertise

related to our collections – Provide ways for our audiences to enhance our

collections

Tools to Facilitate Engagement

•  The Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Mining Biodiversity Project aims to transform BHL into a next-generation social digital library to facilitate the study and discussion of biodiversity literature.

•  2 tools added to support this objective:

Altmetric on BHL Badges

Dashboard with top Books of the week.

Impact on Research

Looking Forward

•  Continue to monitor to find more use cases

•  Continue to monitor to inform outreach strategies and collections development

•  See if there’s a way to use this data to demonstrate to existing and potential partners the impact of having their content in BHL

Facilitating Discussions

Enhancing Collections

Enhancing Collections

Enhancing Collections

Looking Forward

•  Currently– sharing finds on social media

•  In the future: – How can we use this information to directly

improve our library? •  add scientific names; correct scientific names; map

synonym relationships; ingest crowdsourced transcriptions directly into BHL.

Thank You!

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Grace Costantino Outreach and Communication Manager

Biodiversity Heritage Library Smithsonian Libraries

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

costantinog@si.edu