2012 Accomplishment

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• Platform. February 2012. BHL launch on iTunes U
  Award. Best Free Reference 2011. Library Journal. 28 February 2012.
  BHL is a collaborative effort of natural history and botanical garden libraries to digitize their collections and make them available as a global “biodiversity commons.” In 2009, the effort began to expand globally, and now BHL includes more than 53,000 titles and 102,000 volumes that can be browsed or searched, together covering more than 1,060,000 species. APIs and developer tools are available to assist in re­using content. Data files can also be exported to help libraries identify content. BHL includes such collections as the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series; Darwin Digital Library of Evolution, from the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Harvard University Botany Libraries’ Orchidaceae Type Specimen Project, Extinct Species; and books from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Great for rare scientific texts.
  
  

• Meeting. BHL IC and SC Meeting. 15-16 March 2012