1. National Botanic Garden of Belgium (NBGB)‏ 1826 : foundation of the scientific institution in Brussels 1870: State Botanic Garden 1973: move to Meise

3. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digitisation projects of the NBGB Funded by the NBGB Archives and library Conservation and the environment (120 participating herbaria from 40 countries)‏ API = African Plants Initiative LAPI = Latin American Plants Initiative Funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy

4. API (Africa)‏ herbarium types (vascular plants) 41 000 BW drawings (vascular plants) 1 500 watercolours (microfungi) 1 300 slides (microfungi) 2 000 LAPI (Latin America)‏ herbarium types (vascular plants) 7 600 Projects funded by The Mellon Foundation since 2003

5. Project funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy 9 Partners * Antwerp Botanic Garden * Hof ter Saksen Arboretum (Beveren)‏ * Bokrijk Arboretum * Ghent University Botanic Garden * Kalmthout Arboretum * Leuven Botanic Garden * National Botanic Garden of Belgium * Robert Lenoir Arboretum (Rendeux)‏ * Wespelaar Arboretum Belgium's living plant collections: www.plantcol.be

6. 1996 Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical Africa and America 100 pictures 2000 AETFAT Bulletin, vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) 3 500 pages 2002 Nannenga-Bremekamp's original drawings and notes on Myxomycetes more than 5 000 items 2003 Pictures of the living collections more than 20 000 items (in progress)‏ 2004 Slides of the indoor collections 5 000 slides 2004 Congo National Park Ruwengeri 38 maps (A0 format)‏ 2006 Cryptogamic literature 2 000 reprints = 50 000 pages 2007 Bulletin du Jardin Botanique 33 500 pages 2007 Systematics and Geography of Plants 3 500 pages 2007 Correspondence archives 300 items 2009 Flore du Congo belge 4 289 pages (in progress)‏ Projects funded by NBGB

7. API – LAPI BG-Base NBGB virtual herbarium / ALUKA PLANTCOL Progress www.plantcol.be Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical / CD-ROM Africa and America AETFAT Bulletin ,vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) VubisSmart CD-ROM Nannenga-Bremekamp's original drawings and notes on Myxomycetes BG-Base CD-ROM Pictures of the living collections / / Slides of the indoor collections Progress / Congo National Park Ruwengeri / DVD-ROM Cryptogamic literature EndNote Intranet Bulletin du Jardin Botanique VubisSmart JSTOR Systematics and Geography of Plants VubisSmart JSTOR (back issues) / INGENTA (recent issues)‏ Correspondence archives VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)‏ Flore du Congo belge VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)‏ Metadata Dissemination

10. Topics systematic botany floristics plant ecology history of botany ethnobotany horticulture

11. Geographic fields focussed on Central Africa and Europe (esp. Belgium)‏ publications (e.g. modern floras) from all over the world

12. Systematic groups non-vascular plants including Fungi vascular plants

13. Computerized library catalogue VUBIS start 1994 online since 2007 : http://library.br.fgov.be 95 % of the collection (except reprints)‏ 118 000 bibliographic records bibliographic records in Smart format (VubisSmart)‏ export facilities to UNIMARC, MARC21 XML, Z39.50

15. New library digitisation project Books (out of copyright)‏ Works on Belgian botany Works on Central African botany Algological works of the Van Heurck collection Original b otanical drawings & watercolours At present, discussion about technical issues (file format, technical & structural metadata)‏ Start of the project in July Operational by the end of September