BHL Field Notes Project

Collections

Overview

The BHL Field Notes Project, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), will provide open access to field notes held by multiple institutions. The project is expected to digitize approximately 50 collections of primary material, an approximate total of over 450,000 pages scanned.

Project Period

February 2016-January 2018

Contact

Adriana Marroquin, Project Manager
marroquina[at]si[dot]edu

Participating Institutions

American Museum of Natural History
Field Museum of Natural History Library
Harvard University Botany Libraries
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Internet Archive
LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library & Center for Biodiversity Informatics
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Libraries
Yale Peabody Museum Archives

Status

Report Date: 10/31/2016
18.84% of Report Date Target Completed
Pages Digitized: 35163
Items Digitized: 1557

As of 12/15/2016
Pages Available in BHL: 8822
Items Available in BHL: 113

Related Projects

This project can be considered a sister project to the Smithsonian Field Book Project, which is currently funded in large part by the Arcadia Fund.