Collection Scanning Selections

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Fieldiana

Natural History Museum, London

• Major serial run publications of theirs.
• NHM publications
• pre-1860 serials starting in the Zoology library, then into the General library so there will be a variety of subjects being covered. We hope to move to post 1860 sometime in the New Year.

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We've been running a "bid as we go" (or even bid after we've gone) system so far, which of course is not ideal. You can see a list of our bids by logging in and filtering on NHM bids. I will try to get a paragraph about main proposed subject areas.

American Museum of Natural History

• We will be starting with Ornithology. Once we get started, I will not be involved in local process and will make sure that you have information about who to contact with questions.

Botany Libraries

• Kew, MOBOT, NYBG, Harvard Botany are meeting in November to discuss

New York Botanical Garden

• NYBG sent 200 monographs to the scanning pod at NYPL the week of 11/18, mainly Brazilian and Caribbean material. This is the first non-NYPL material to be scanned at the pod. A copy of our packing list is here: ia packlist 11-14-2007.xls
• As of 12/4 approximately 50 NYBG titles are available on archive.org.
• We are planning on sending another 400 monographs to NYPL the week of Dec 10th in the subject areas of mycology and cryptogams.
• We expect to bid for NYBG-published serials on the bid list in the near future.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
SI may do some Paleontology works with our non-grant funded scribe.

• Entomology
• Smithsonian published materials (not all governmental just Smithsonian (or any former names US National Museum of something or other...)

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
Barcoded || Bid || Title ||

		MCZ Publications
y	y	Breviora
y	y	Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
y	y	Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
y	y	Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
y	y	Occasional papers on mollusks
y	y	Special occasional publication/Department of Mollusks
	y	Annual report of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
		San Diego Society of Natural History Publications
y	y	Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History
y	y	Occasional Papers of the San Diego Society of Natural History
y	y	Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History
y	y	Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History
		Tulane University Museum of Natural History Publications
	y	Occasional papers of the Tulane University Museum of Natural History
y	y	Tulane Studies in Zoology
y	y	Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany
		University of Kansas Natural History Museum Publications
y	y	University of Kansas science bulletin
y	y	Miscellaneous publication, University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History
y	y	Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas
y	y	Occasional papers of the Natural History Museum, the University of Kansas
y		University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History
y	y	Monographs of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas
y	y	Special publications of the University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History
y	y	Scientific papers of the Natural History Museum, the University of Kansas
		Subject Collections
		Herpetology monographs and serials
		Ichthyology monographs and serials
		Marine Biology monographs and serials*
		*Marine Biology monographs and serials will be pulled from the following MCZ collections:
		- Coelenterates
		- Crustaceans
		- Echinoderms
		- Invertebrates
		- Mollusks
		- Porifera
		- Protozoa
		- Oceanography
		Specifically Requested Monographs
		A bibliography of the North American Hemiptera-Heteroptera
		The morphology of amphibian metamorphosis
		The salamanders of the family Plethodontidae
		Zur Ornithologie Brasiiens, Resultate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 1835, dargestellt von August von Pelzeln
		Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien von Maximilian, Prinzen zu Wied
		The birds of the Rio Madeira
		The ornithology of the Rio Purus region in western Brazil

MBLWHOI Library

• Monographs
  • Scanning pre-1923 monographs and US government publications (regardless of year) in the following call number ranges:
    • Q - Science (general), including societies, voyages, museums, collections, and history
    • QE 70-350, 640-960 - some paleobotany and paleozoology (not our entire collection in this range)
    • QH - Natural history
    • QK - Botany
    • QL - Zoology
    • QP - Physiology
    • QR - Microbiology
    • SH - Aquaculture, Fisheries
  • Please keep in mind that our collection is primarily, although not exclusively, marine focused.

We are also checking Stanford's Copyright Database for books in those call number ranges that were published in the United States between 1923 and 1963. If copyright has not been renewed, we are scanning those books as well.

We are NOT scanning materials published by any of the BHL partners.

Serials
Our collection is shelved alphabetically, and we are making a physical A-Z pass through the stacks identifying pre-1923 titles within our thematic areas: Marine Biology, and Natural History titles with significant marine related content, including Oceanography, Fisheries, Malacology and special faculty specific request areas such as embryology; Titles bid upon, which are being bar-coded and placed in the queue for scanning may be viewed at the BHL Serials Union Catalog bidding pages: http://obsidian.nhm.ac.uk/test/library/bhlseriallist/bids/


The MBLWHOI Library has a website (__http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/__) where we are posting the call number, title, author, and URL for the items that have been scanned (completed items, not picklists). It's not fancy - you have to "search in page" to find anything - and it's only updated every two weeks. The website doesn't include the approx. 1000 items that are either at the Boston Scanning Center now being scanned or on carts awaiting shipment. Nor does it include over 1000 monographs that we are planning on scanning once the fold-out, copyright, etc. issues get resolved.