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BIODIVERSITY RESOURCES ON SOUTHEAST ASIA

GandhimathySenior Librarian, Special Collectionsclbgd@nus.edu.sg

BIODIVERSITY COLLECTIONS @NUS Libraries

PURPOSE

• To make hidden collections discoverable by researchers

• Preservation of Special collection (materials are subject to

natural deterioration)

• Develop a website that effectively promotes Library

Special Collections

WHAT IS BLSEA?

• Digital library of biodiversity literature on Southeast Asia

• Open access

• Titles from Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

(LKCNHM) and the NUS Libraries

NUS LIBRARIES DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

BLSEA (Biodiversity Library of Southeast Asia)

• Launched 18 May 2017

• 6,874 visits as of 13 May 2018

1. Singapore 6. Malaysia

2. Philippines 7. U.S.A.

3. Thailand 8. U.K.

4. Indonesia 9. Germany

5. India 10. Japan

blsea.nus.edu.sg

Visitors - Top 10 Countries

New Visits4881 (71.01%)

Returning Visits1993 (28.99%)

WHY BLSEA?“The cultivation of natural history cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library.” - Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

The Sixth Extinction

• The "normal" rate of extinction is one species every four years.

• Today, species are going extinct at a rate of FOUR per HOUR.

Source: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

WHY BLSEA?

COLLECTION CONTRIBUTORNUS Libraries• Singapore-Malaysia Collection• Science Library Collection• Rare Book Collection

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM)• Raffles Museum Collection• LKCNHM Publications

Private Donor Collection

SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA COLLECTION

The Singapore/Malaysia Collection is a valuable research collection of over 61,000 titles. The value of this collection lies in its broad and in-depth coverage of the economic, geographical, historical, political and social developments of Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an entity.

The collection is an important part of our national heritage.

RAFFLES MUSEUM COLLECTION

The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR), located at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has its origins in the Raffles Museum which was founded in 1849 as a result of an idea mooted by Sir Stamford Raffles, an eminent naturalist and founder of Singapore.

LKCNHM inherited the natural history collection from its predecessor, the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR) (established in 1998), whose collection was that of the Zoological Reference Collection (ZRC) (formally opened on 31 October 1988), which of course stems from the original Raffles Museum that was renamed the National Museum of Singapore in 1965.

RAFFLES MUSEUM COLLECTION

The library section of the Raffles Library and Museum, circa 1950s. The building on Stamford Road (which is today the National Museum of Singapore) housed the library on the ground floor and the museum on the first floor. Courtesy of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board.

TYPES OF MATERIALS

Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

COLLECTIONAs of now, BLSEA has 228 titles, 720 volumes (comprising reports, essays, field notes, catalogues, climatic records, hand drawn plates, correspondences, and data about organisms published in books and journals with some of the materials dating back to the 1830s.

Average monthly growth rate:

5,000 pages

Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen. 1839-1844

BOOK

JOURNAL TITLES

FREE SERVICES OFFERED BY BLSEA

Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/The BHL is a consortium of natural history libraries.

Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org/EOL contains as much information about each species as it has gathered to date, including taxonomy, images, details, maps and more.

Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) http://iucngisd.org/gisdGISD is managed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

OTHER RESOURCES: GENERAL SOURCES

Natural history museums are often excellent sources of information.

• Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in Singapore • Digital Nature Archives of Singapore• Natural History Museum in London• American Museum of Natural History in New York• Harvard Museum of Natural History• Marine Research Foundation, is a non-profit research foundation, Sabah, Malaysia• Natural History Museum, Thailand• National Museum of Natural History, Manila, Philippines• Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Hanoi

OTHER RESOURCES: GENERAL SOURCES

When scientists discover new species, they give them names. Sometimes the names are descriptive and these are often derived from Latin or Greek. Some of the species are named after people.

The Catalogue of Life - http://www.catalogueoflife.org/. Its purpose is to create a taxonomic hierarchy of all known species. To date it contains about 84% of all known species, around 1.6 million. Integrating global species databases, it has a Species Checklist, identifying accepted names, and Management Classification, an integrated view of taxonomic relationships. It also identifies the regions of the globe where species are found. It supports GBIF, EOL, and the IUCN Red List

ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) - http://www.itis.gov/.

TAXONOMIC RESOURCES

Species 2000 - http://www.sp2000.org/. This is a federation of taxonomists from around the world formed to create a uniform, validated index to known species. Together with ITIS, it created the Catalogue of Life.

NCBI Taxonomy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy. Classification and nomenclature for all the organisms in NCBI’s public sequence databases – around 10% of all known species. Search is generally by name. There are links to GenBank, Genetic Codes, and more.

Tree of Life - http://www.tolweb.org/tree/. Although it was an important resource for years, since the development of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) TOL has been pretty much superseded and it is no longer being updated. However, it may still have value in its coverage of long-established species and resources such as images, links, a glossary, etc.

TAXONOMIC RESOURCES

Taking notes on observations from the field is obviously importantfor anyone doing such work. Handwritten notebooks used to bethe tool of choice, and many library archives hold such treasures -and are often digitizing and transcribing them because theinformation in them can be vital for research today.

Some books on the subject available in NUS Libraries

• Field Notes on Science and Nature. Edited by Michael R. Canfield. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

• Smith, Robert Yeo. Student resource manual to accompany Ecology and field biology. New York : Harper and Row, 1990.

• Bennett, Donald Peter. Introduction to field biology. London: : Edward Arnold, 1974.

KEEPING NOTES FROM FIELD TRIPS

SINGAPORE RESOURCESBiodiversity Library of Southeast Asia (BLSEA)https://blsea.nus.edu.sgLee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM)https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/https://singapore.biodiversity.online/

National Parks, Singaporehttps://www.nparks.gov.sg/biodiversity/our-international-and-regional-links/internationalSingapore Botanic Garden (Library of Botany and Horticulture)https://www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/library-of-botany-and-horticulturehttps://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/sing

Biodiversity Portal of Singaporehttp://www.biodiversity.sg/

Wild Singaporehttp://www.wildsingapore.com

iDigBiohttps://www.idigbio.org/This is a U. S. national organization funded by the National Science Foundation. It aims to digitize data and images of millions of biological specimens.

Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH)http://shnh.org.uk/A UK-based group but with international membership that was founded in 1936 to establish a publication for papers about natural history bibliography.

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) http://www.spnhc.comSPNHC “is an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections.

NATURAL HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS

The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories or GRBiohttp://grbio.orgGRBio is a consolidated database of information about collections, including personal as well as institutional repositories.

Natural History Networkhttp://naturalhistorynetwork.org/Founded in 2007 "to promote the value of natural history by discussing and disseminating ideas and techniques in its successful practice to educators, scientists, artists writers, the media, and the public at large

NATURAL HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS

ENDANGERED SPECIESIUCN Red List - http://www.iucnredlist.org/. The Red List provides comprehensive information about the conservation of living things worldwide.

Traffic - http://www.traffic.org/. Monitors wildlife trade and promotes conservation activities. Particularly useful for keeping up with news worldwide.

U. S. Fish & Wildlife Endangered Species - http://www.fws.gov/endangered/. It’s easy to search, has an interactive map, news, and featured species.

Species Survival Plans - https://www.aza.org/species_survival_plan_programs. Any zoo or aquarium visitor is familiar with species survival plans, or SSPs. These are cooperatively managed programs overseeing population management of select species, coordinating the activities of participating members. Each SSP works under a Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) that may manage multiple programs.

Bagheera - http://www.bagheera.com/. Originally designed as part of Microsoft's Schoolhouse Project. The homepage has updates from various sources so it's a good place to keep current.

Several museums, including the Natural History Museum in London, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research Institute, have their own YouTube channels with videos, including recordings of lectures by famous scientists.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research (MBARI) (http://www.mbari.org/) also has images and videos on its own website. There is always a featured video on the homepage, and under Products you can find both the Image and Video Galleries.

The Macauley Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://macaulaylibrary.org/) has bird and animal sounds from all over the world. They have a new spectrogram player and an image library.

The Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah (http://westernsoundscape.org/) has thousands of recordings of animals in the North American west in their environments.

Bioacoustica (http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/bioacoustica) has scientific recordings of animal sounds from around the world. It is a project of the Natural History Museum in London.

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