The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Smithsonian Libraries Staff Update. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Libraries Town Meeting. 17 March 2010. Washington, DC.
4. Biodiversity Heritage Library
American Museum of
Smithsonian Institution
Natural History Libraries
Field Museum
Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew
California Academy of
Sciences
Missouri Botanical
Garden
Museum of Comparative
Zoology (Harvard)
Academy of Natural
Sciences (Philadelphia)
New York Botanical
Garden
Marine Biological
Laboratory/WHOI
Natural History Museum
(London)
Harvard Botany Libraries
10. Funding
2009
Direct Staff Costs $1,143,326.09
Other Costs $216,194.12
Total $1,359,520.21
Internal Subvention $150,140.00
External Grants received $775,000.00
Funds Received $925,140.00
FTE 17.69
11. Funding
2009
SI Libraries
Direct Staff Costs $376,385.14
Other Costs $52,000.00
Total $428,385.14
Internal Subvention $150,000.00
External Grants received $-
Funds Received $150,000.00
FTE 3.75
20. Outreach & Feedback
• Survey of users
now being
conducted
• New public “help”
wiki launched
earlier this year
• Instructional videos
for portal use being
created
21.
22. Outreach & Feedback
“BHL deserves so
much credit for all
that it has done to
benefit the
scholarly endeavor
in such a short
amount of time.”
23. Outreach & Feedback
“In turn I would like
to compliment the
whole BHL team
[for] this service,
indispensable for
taxonomists (and
wider biological
community).”
24. Outreach & Feedback
2010 ALA
Collaboration Award
“Our committee was quite
impressed with BHL's
noteworthy collaborative
effort to fulfill a scholarly
need by providing open
access to a large corpus of
historical materials on
biodiversity within the
biological, ecological and
environmental sciences.”
25. Outreach & Feedback
“Outstanding! And it is
also a great illustration of
the power of
collaboration to get
things done we could not
do alone. My
congratulations to you
and all your BHL
colleagues.”
- Sec. Wayne Clough