2008_Accomplishments

BHL Accomplishments: 2008

• Press. January, 2008. Spotlight: Biodiversity Heritage Library. BioOne News.
• Press. January 4, 2008. Tom Garnett and Martin Kalfatovic meet with reporter from Science News
• Meeting. January 10, 2008. Martin Kalfatovic and Suzanne Pilsk met with Eileen Matthias (librarian) at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia to discuss BHL topics.
• Meeting. January 11, 2008. Informal meeting of BHL and OCA members at ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia
• Meeting. January 15-17, 2008. Chris Freeland and Martin Kalfatovic met with staff at the California Academy of Sciences (Brian Fisher, curator in entomology, Larry Currie, head of the library, Aimee Morgan, archives and digital collections librarian, Stan Blum, head of research informatics, Jean Farrington, senior library information specialist) to give an overview of BHL activities (January 15, 2008); met with representatives of the Fedora Commons, PLoS, Topaz, and the Internet Archive to discuss Fedora topics (January 16, 2008); and met with Internet Archive staff to discuss technical issues (January 17, 2008).
• Tour. January 24, 2008. Two Smithsonian National Board members met with Tom Garnett, Martin Kalfatovic, and Keri Thompson to discuss BHL. A visit to the BHL Scribe scanner was also conducted.
• Presentation. January 30, 2008. Martin Kalfatovic and Suzanne Pilsk give an overview of the BHL at the National Agriculture Library to over 50 staff from NAL, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and other units.
• Tour. January 30-31, 2008. Three Korean visitors representing the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) met with staff at the New York Botanical Garden Library (January 30, 2008; John Mignault) and Smithsonian Institution Libraries (January 31, 2008; Martin Kalfatovic). The party consisted of: Choon Shil Lee (Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Sookmyung Women's University), Young-Dong Kim (Professor of Biology, Division of Life Sciences, Hallym University), and Jung Sook Lee (Librarian, NIBR).

• Grant Submission. "Retooling Special Collections Scanning in the Age of Mass Digitization", an IMLS planning grant submitted Feb. 1 by Judy Warnement and Connie Rinaldo at Harvard. Partners are The Academy of Natural Sciences (Lorena Boylan) , American Museum of Natural History (Christie Stephenson, Tom Baione), The New York Botanical Garden (Susan Fraser) , Field Museum of Natural History (Michael Godow), Internet Archive (Robert Miller, Linda Frueh), Missouri Botanical Garden (Doug Holland)
• Publicity. February 2008. "Biological Moon Shot" by Susan Milius. Science News. Feb. 2, 2008; Vol. 173, No. 5 , p. 72. Tom Garnett and Martin Kalfatovic are quote on BHL in an article about the Encyclopedia of Life.
• Publicity. February 26, 2008. EOL launch of species pages brings congruent publicity to the BHL. Numerous press outlets and blog sites discuss BHL/EOL. BHL site experiences huge surge in usage.

• Meeting. March 2008. Tom Garnett attends meeting in New Orleans
• Publicity. BHL/Smithsonian staff (Martin Kalfatovic and Gil Taylor) and EOL staff (Dawn Mason) hosted a joint BHL/EOL information table at the Smithsonian's Congressional Family Night at the National Museum of Natural History.
• Arizona State University, March 3 rd, 2008, Cathy Norton, Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Presentation. March 6-7, 2008. Cathy Norton appears on panel/gives presentation at WebWise 2008 in Miami
• Presentation. March 14, 2008. Tom Garnett will give an overview of the BHL at the NISO Digital Preservation Forum: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Resources
• Presentation. March 18, 2008. Chris Freeland and Martin Kalfatovic will give an overview of BHL (workflow, collaboration, portal development) at a meeting of the Boston Library Consortium.
• Meeting. March 19-20, 2008. BHL/EOL architecture meeting. Harvard University
• Meeting. March 21, 2008. BHL Directors' meeting. Harvard University
• Meeting. March 28, 2008. Chris Freeland and Martin Kalfatovic attended the Data Curation Education Program (UIUC) held at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Both serve (along with Tom Garnett) on the DCEP Advisory Committee
• Presentation. "Biodiversity Heritage Library". Connie Rinaldo. Harvard University, Libraries, Museums, and Instructional Technology Event, March 28, 2008. Cambridge, MA.

• Presentation. April 9-11, 2008. Connie Rinaldo demonstrates BHL at Museums and the Web in Montreal.

• TaxaToy Publication by Neil Sarkar, Ryan Schenk, and Cathy Norton (MBLWHOI Library) "Exploring historical trends using taxonomic name metadata", BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008, 8:144.
• Presentation. May 7th, Cathy Norton ,Massachusetts Library Association, EOL, BHL, Biodiversity Informatics
• Presentation. May 29th, Cathy Norton, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, MA. Taxon Finder, a Reference Tool for the Web.

• Presentation, June 17th, 2008. Cathy Norton. Special Libraries Association, Seattle, WA. Biodiversity Informatics Evolving in the biological sciences.
• Poster, June 17th, Special Libraries Association, Seattle, WA. Connie RinaldoBiodiversity Heritage Library
• Presentation.An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned. June 30, 2008. Anaheim, CA.
• Presentation.The LIBRARY Part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Suzanne C. Pilsk. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned. June 30, 2008. Anaheim, CA.

• Press. Cathy Norton and Diane Rielinger interviewed for "Science at Work" series on WCAI/WNAN (National Public Radio). Transcript and podcast
• Scanning. Smithsonian Libraries began shipment to the Internet Archive FedScan scanning center located at the Library of Congress. On July 31, 2008, the first shipment of 198 volumes arrived at FedScan.

• Presentations. IFLA. Nancy Gwinn and Connie Rinaldo
• Publication. Norton, Cathy. "The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informatics and Beyond Web 2.0." First Monday 13.8 (4 August 2008).
• Staffing. Smithsonian Libraries BHL Library Technician Grace Duke reports for duty August 18, 2008.

• Boston Scanning Center scans 3 millionth MBLWHOI page. Over 7,000 volumes from the MBLWHOI Library scanned in 18 months of scanning center operation.

• Smithsonian Magazine runs column by Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough on digitization in libraries; includes discussion of BHL. Clough, G. Wayne. "From the Castle: Life Lines." Smithsonian Magazine. October 2008: 30.

• Scanning. Smithsonian Libraries completes 565,000 pages of published materials from the SIL Entomology collection. This includes nearly 500 pre-1923 books, plus 32 journal runs (some after 1923, if permission from publisher was received).
• Meeting. "Retooling Special Collections in the Age of Mass Digitization: IMLS National Leadership Grant Planning Meeting." Harvard University
  November 20, 2008. Attended by BHL Staff members (Harvard/MCZ, Harvard/Botany, MOBOT, Smithsonian, MBLWHOI, AMNH, NYBG) and others.
• Meeting/Presentation. Chris Freeland meets/presents at LAPI meeting, Buenos Aries.
• Scanning. BHL Portal adds 10 millionth page. 23 November 2008.

• Scanning. Smithsonian Libraries scans 1 millionth BHL page. Mid-December 2008.
• Presentation. Cathy Norton, Life OnLine, New York Hall of Science December 11. 2008 at the National Arts Club