Report on the Biodiversity Heritage Library for the 5th Global BHL Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 5th Global BHL Meeting. Lorne, Australia. 1 February 2014.

1. Report on the The Biodiversity Heritage Library
for the 5th Global BHL Meeting
Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian Libraries
5th Global BHL Meeting
Lorne, Victoria | Australia
1 February 2014

2. By the numbers ...

3. 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

4. Affiliates
Affiliates
Academy of Natural
Sciences Philadelphia at
Drexel University
The Field Museum Library
Newest Affiliate:

5. And coming soon?
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6. Content Growth
2007-2014
42,498,407 pages
130,484 volumes
71,945 titles
1 February 201

7. 92,000+ “segments”
… and now including segments

8. Items Added
Past 12 Months:
7,963
Previous 12 Months: 14,562
59,159
Past 12 months average: 664 / month
51,196

9. Increase agreements
with publishers of in
copyright materials
US Titles: 249
UK Titles: 69
TOTAL TITLES: 318
US Licensors: 92
UK Licensors: 41
TOTAL LICENSORS: 133
October 2013

10. 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)

11. User Statistics: 2007 - 2013
Visitors: 3,628,088
Page Views: 17,604,395
New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
146,798 visitors | November 2012
2007
2013

12. 233233 Countries
countries
Users in

13. Facebook
Total Page Likes:
6,587
Pinterest
3,764 images & 17 collections
BHL Social Media
October 2013
Blog
Total Visits:36,208
(FY13)
Twitter @ BioDivLibrary
Total Followers: 3,095

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

15. Meetings and related ...

16. BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

19. 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.

20. BHL People ...

21. Secretariat and Technical Staff
August 2011 Director
Program
Program Manager
Collections Coordinator
Technical Director
Programmer
Data Analyst

22. Strategic Planning ...

23. BHL Goals
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.

24. Exploring new audiences ...

25. Since DPLA launch on 18 April 2013, it is now the #8
referrer and generates 71% of new visits

29. SLOAN PLANNING GRANT / SMITHSONIAN

30. SMITHSONIAN WOMENS COMMITTEE GRANT / SMITHSONIAN

31. DIGGING INTO DATA / MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

32. FIELD NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTION

33. Services ...

34. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Technology
Library
Science

35. Taxonomic Impediment
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks

36. Scanning Operations: Macaw

38. Community / Partnership / Science / Content
Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge

39. Thanks … Questions and Discussion