digitization in support of services @ smithsonian libraries (march)
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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…BHLSingaporeis#14
14 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 Newest Affiliate:
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Problems of Mass Digitization of Library Materials
42,498,407 pages 130,484 volumes 71,945 titles
4 February 2014
Content Growth 2007-2014
Mass digitization of Smithsonian Libraries collections aligns with the overall Smithsonian digitization strategy and remains a
center of excellence for rapid digitization at the SI
Problems of Library Metadata
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 233 Countries
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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
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. Last night I believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a review paper* I am completing. Olav T. Oftedal PhD Smithsonian Environmental Research Center .alet,Oftedalby”GlandMammarytheofEvo-Devo“*Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)
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)
Smithsonian Transcription Center - BETA
The current item being transcribed isWilliamUpcott’sscrapbookofearly aeronautica, which documents some of the earliest ballooning experiments and aerial voyages, with items dating back to 1783 and the birth of ballooning. The scrapbook is 324 pages and is currently 43 % transcribed (138 pages completed) with 35 contributing volunteers working on it. The scrapbook is a good example of an item representing world culture, and is held in the NASM Ramsey rare book collection.
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
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