Decoding the Tweet _ Practical Criticism in the Age of Hashtag.pptx
It is something wonderful
1. “It is something wonderful”
the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
a Science Library for Global Learning
Rebecca Morin
User Services Librarian
California Academy of Sciences
3. Members
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Natural History Museum (London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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24. Pay Attention to Users
Feedback
Nov. 2010 – Jan. 2011
• 370 user issues recorded
• 46% scan requests
• 62% resolved
63% of requests from 10 users
BHL Use
Oct. 2010 – Jan. 2011
• 292,304 visits
• 1,586,562 pageviews
• 137,900 unique visitors
• 207 different countries/territories
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25. “…For a student like me who is from one
of the poorest countries on earth where
there are not enough libraries and even
the existing libraries do not have enough
literature, it is something wonderful.
Thanks to those people who created it.”
Sajan Subedi
BHL User
26. Thank You!
Special Thanks To
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
Bianca Crowley, Martin Kalfatovic, Suzanne
Pilsk & everyone else at BHL
The “Connecting Content” Partners
Danielle Castronovo
rmorin@calcademy.org Twitter: @tiny_librarian
Editor's Notes
In other words, let’s think of EOL as a repository of natural history collections information. We can consider it our 21st century Wunderkammer.So, here’s the famous image of Ferrante Imperato’s 16th century cabinet (this is considered the first published image of such a thing, the genesis of the natural history museums where many of us work today)So, this is EOL– instead of a page for every species, let’s say there’s a place for every species…including some tiny dogs running around on the floor there.What we all know (and what Ferrante Imperato did as well) is that the study of these items involves more than just the objects themselvesSo, if this is EOL, Image from
Concept of EOL(a web page for every species on earth)Image from
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of 12 natural history museum and botanical garden libraries, working together to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections.
