The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

"Yet another physical difficulty is the task of assembling the library…"J.M. Aldrich (1927)

Members … University of Illinois #16

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 Institution Libraries• United States Geological Survey Libraries• Washington University of St. Louis• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Affiliates

Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program DirectorProgram ManagerCollections Coordinator

Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst

BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

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)

2013 BHL Central Support

Secretariat and Technical Services

Direct Staff Costs $582,954.91

Other Costs $165,425.87

Total $748,380.78

Internal Subvention (scanning) $0.00

External Subvention (scanning) $449,641.00

Internal Subvention (non-scanning) $129,007.68

External Subvention (non-scanning) $64,480.00Donations $0.00

Dues

Funds Received $643,128.68FTE 6.14

• SI Womens CommitteeSmithsonian Libraries

• JRS FoundationThe Field Museum / SANBI

• Closeout of MacArthur Funding

• Sloan Planning GrantSmithsonian Libraries

• NEH GrantMissouri Botanical Garden

• Digging into DataMissouri Botanical Garden

Giving to BHL: 2011 - 2014

Gifts to the BHL since July 2011: 98Individual donors to BHL since July 2011: 85Total BHL giving since July 2011: $20,265.72

FY20116 giftsTotal giving: $287.24Average gift amount: $47.87

•FY2012•15 gifts•Total giving: $8,668•Average gift amount: $51.38

FY201337 giftstotal giving: $7,916.36Average gift amount: $81.01

•FY2014 (YTD)•40 gifts•Total giving: $3,564.12•Average gift amount: $89.10

Giving to BHL: 2011 - 2014

Gifts to the BHL since July 2011: 98Individual donors to BHL since July 2011: 85Total BHL giving since July 2011: $20,265.72

FY20116 giftsTotal giving: $287.24Average gift amount: $47.87

•FY2012•15 gifts•Total giving: $8,668•Average gift amount: $51.38

FY201337 giftstotal giving: $7,916.36Average gift amount: $81.01

•FY2014 (YTD)•40 gifts•Total giving: $3,564.12•Average gift amount: $89.10

Fundraising PlansContinue to build our pipeline of annual donors

Continue to use social media for “soft asks” repurposing text/themes of appeals

Work with the Smithsonian’s Office of Foundation Relations to put together major gift ($100K-500K) proposals to several foundations

Fundraising PlansContinue to work with Arcadia Fund on pending collaborative $1M proposal (NMNH, Libraries & Smithsonian Archives) “Documenting 200 years of Environmental Change in South America”

Launch short video (1 min) in an appeal

Develop a way to recognize donors on BHL website

Fundraising PlansUse the long video as a BHL overview for Foundations and major donors

Create one page proposals outlining 5K, 10K, 25K and 50K funding opportunities

Develop an impact menu for larger asks 100K, 250K, 500K and $1M (for 100K we could do…with 250K we could do…)

• AUSTRALIA (3 donors)• BRAZIL (3 donors)• CANADA (5 donors)• CHINA• CZECH REPUBLIC

• EL SALVADOR• FINLAND• FRANCE• GERMANY• ITALY (6 donors)

• JAMAICA• JAPAN (4 donors)• LUXEMBOURG• MEXICO• MONGOLIA

• RUSSIAN FEDERATION• SINGAPORE (2 donors)• SOUTH AFRICA• SPAIN

• SWITZERLAND• TAIWAN• UNITED KINGDOM (6 donors)• UNITED STATES

2007

2014146,798 visitors | November 2012

User Statistics: 2013 – 2014 (March)Unique Visitors: 664,645Page Views: 3,741,640New vs. Returning: 54.94% vs. 45.06%

233 countriesUsers in 245 Countries

87,594 mobile visits (32% iPad)March 2013 – March 2014

35,231 mobile visits (45% iPad)March 2012 – March 2013

24+ million total views | 87K + images (Feb 14)

Field Notes and Archival Materials

Seed & Nursery Catalogs

Scanning Operations: Macaw

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

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

International Relations Round Table, American Library Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 28 June 2013

2013 TDWG Annual Conference, Florence, Italy, October 28 – November 1, 2013

EOL/BHL NESCent Research Spring, 4 February 2014

VALA 2014, Melbourne, 3-6 February 2014

Global BHL Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 31 January – 2 February 2014

BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

Febuary 2014: London: Internet Archive; Natural HistoryMuseum, British Library, Smithsonian/UK Trust,

Royal Philatelic Society, RBG, Kew

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Global Goverance

36,928 visits from social media to BHL in 2013

13,400 visits from BHL’s own blog, Facebook, and Twitter accounts

42,824,596 pages132,793 items73,438 titles

7 March 2014

Content Growth2007-2014

… and now including segments

117,979 “segments”

Increase agreementswith publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 249UK Titles: 69TOTAL TITLES: 318

US Licensors: 92UK Licensors: 41

TOTAL LICENSORS: 133

October 2013

Awards2013 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 PhDSmithsonian Environmental Research Center

* “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al.Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)

Community / Partnership / Science / Content

Thank you all!