April 3, 2009

NPS Staff Update

April 3, 2009

Staffing

Bianca Lipscomb, new BHL Collections Coordinator (Mac/Sloan funded)
Erin Thomas, SIL BHL Library Technician (Seidell funded)
Grace Duke, SIL BHL Library Technician (Seidell funded)

Locations where SIL is pulling books

Entomology monographs (in stacks) complete; working on serials and items charged out
Most of IZ monographs (in stacks) complete; working on serials and items charged out
VZ collections are currently being used to "fill in" from areas that AMNH, Harvard MCZ, MBLWHOI didn't do
Cullman (primarily monographs)

BHL Portal Developments

March 8-9, 2009 architecture meeting put a timeline on various improvements to the portal including an "OPAC skin"; editing of serials holdings (now underway), clean up of diacritic issues that happened in the first weeks of scanning, etc.
Article repository news

Scanning Operations (SIL)

FedScan (located at Library of Congress) ~ 200 volumes per week
NH Scribe (down the hall from the Cullman) ~ special collections, items in need of special handling or care

Other scanning (non-SIL)

Boston Public Library (Harvard MCZ and MBLWHOI)
Jersey City (AMNH and NYBG)
London (NHM)

Statistics (as of April 3, 2009):

Pages In Production

Institution	Pages
American Museum of Natural History Library	672454
Boston Public Library	404
Harvard University Herbarium	410
Harvard University, MCZ, Ernst Mayr Library	1224159
MBLWHOI Library	3890616
Missouri Botanical Garden	1099235
Natural History Museum, London	1487567
New York Botanical Garden	2147930
Smithsonian Institution Libraries	1652123
The Field Museum	172
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	306072

|| Total || 12481142 ||