This document provides an overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and its efforts to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online on a global scale. It begins by introducing BHL and its mission. The body details BHL's 15 member institutions that contribute content from their collections. It also briefly describes some of BHL's international collaboration events, including launches in Africa and Germany, as well as governance bodies like the Institutional Council and Global Steering Committee that guide BHL's work. In closing, it notes that a panel discussion on BHL will follow the introductory remarks.

1. Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian Libraries
3rd
International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives
Ifrane | Morocco
29 May 02013

2. Good morning
‫الخير‬ ‫صباح‬
Bon Jour
¡Buenos días
Bom dia
Habari ya asubuhi
Goeie môre

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

5. Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library

7. Now we are 15 … Library of Congress is #15
15 Members and Affiliates
Academy of Natural Sciences Library &
Archives*
American Museum of Natural History
Library
California Academy of Sciences Library
Cornell University Library
The Field Museum Library*
Harvard University Botany Libraries
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology
Library of Congress
Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution
Library
Missouri Botanical Garden Library
Natural History Museum, London, Library
& Archives
The New York Botanical Garden
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library &
Archives
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
United States Geological Survey Libraries
* Affiliate

8. BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

10. BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

11. Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

12. Global BHL Steering Committee
August 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

14. 2nd
Global BHL Meeting | Chicago | November 2011

15. 3rd
Global BHL Meeting: Berlin June 20123rd
Global BHL Meeting | Berlin | June 2012

17. And now on to our panel