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