Looking Forward: The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2015-2016. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Annual Meeting, BHL Day. The Field Museum. Chicago, IL. 17 March 2015.

2. The cultivation of
natural science
cannot be
efficiently carried
on without
reference to an
extensive library
Charles Darwin, et
al (1847)

3. Inspiring discovery through free
access to biodiversity knowledge

4. 2005 London

5. 2006 Washington

6. 2007 Washington

7. 2004 Chicago

21. The Biodiversity Heritage Library
improves research methodology by
collaboratively making biodiversity
literature openly available to the
world as part of a global biodiversity
community.
Mission

24. Goals

25. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials

26. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which
facilitate discovery and improve
research efficiency of BHL content

27. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which
facilitate discovery and improve
research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the
BHL and biodiversity issues through
outreach, learning and education,
branding, and collaboration with
existing and new user communities

28. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which
facilitate discovery and improve
research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the BHL
and biodiversity issues through outreach,
learning and education, branding, and
collaboration with existing and new user
communities
Grow BHL consortia membership
and partnerships while fostering
cross-institutional collaboration
that continues to serve as a model
for digital library development

29. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which
facilitate discovery and improve
research efficiency of BHL content
Increases our success through
increased financial strength,
effective administrative support,
and organizational excellence
Increase global awareness about the BHL
and biodiversity issues through outreach,
learning and education, branding, and
collaboration with existing and new user
communities
Grow BHL consortia
membership and
partnerships while fostering
cross-institutional
collaboration that continues
to serve as a model for
digital library development

30. Build and maintain the BHL as the
largest reliable, reputable, and
responsive repository of biodiversity
literature and archival materials
Develop services and tools which
facilitate discovery and improve
research efficiency of BHL content
Increase global awareness about the BHL
and biodiversity issues through outreach,
learning and education, branding, and
collaboration with existing and new user
communities
Grow BHL consortia
membership and
partnerships while fostering
cross-institutional
collaboration that continues
to serve as a model for
digital library development
Increases our success
through increased financial
strength, effective
administrative support, and
organizational excellence

31. In any well-appointed
Natural History Library
there should be found
every book and every
edition of every book
dealing in the remotest
way with the subjects
concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn
Epilogue to Index Animalium,
March 1922

32. Inspiring discovery through free
access to biodiversity knowledge

33. Ice Coverage Great Lakes
Entire Great Lakes - 89 percent
Lake Michigan - 73 percent
28 Feb 2015

37. "Normal" extinction rates,
1 species every 4 years

38. "Normal" extinction rates,
1 species every 4 years
Today, 4 species per hour

39. Yet another physical difficulty is the
task of assembling the library and
indexes which will enable the
student to work under proper
conditions…. the beginner must
now be prepared to spend liberally,
or else must establish
himself in an institution
where a large library
exists; if he work by himself with
only a few books, he will have to
confine himself to a very
narrow specialty indeed.
'The Limitations of Taxonomy' by J.M. Aldrich, Science,
April 22, 1927, vol. LXV, no. 1686, p.381

41. Thank You!
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