The document summarizes the March 2012 meeting of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Institutional Council. It provides details on the BHL's membership, which has grown to 15 institutions. It also outlines the BHL's digital collections and technologies, noting it has over 40 million pages of content and is continuing to grow. Usage statistics show it is being used widely around the world.

2. BHL Institutional Council Meeting | March 2012
Harvard / Museum of Comparative Zoology

5. Secretariat and Technical Staff
August 2011Program Director
Program Manager
Collections Coordinator
Technical Director
Programmer
Data Analyst

7. The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

9. Now we are 15 … Library of Congress is #15
15 Members
•Academy of Natural Sciences Library and
Archives
•American Museum of Natural History
Library
•California Academy of Sciences Library
•Cornell University Library
•The Field Museum Library
•Harvard University Botany Libraries
•Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology
•Library of Congress
•Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
•Missouri Botanical Garden Library
•Natural History Museum, London, Library &
Archives
•The New York Botanical Garden
•Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library &
Archives
•Smithsonian Institution Libraries
•United States Geological Survey Libraries

10. Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment

11. Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library

12. FirewallFirewall
Images (JP2)
PDF
Coordinate-based OCR
XML metadata
BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.
BHL DBBHL DB
Internet ArchiveInternet Archive
Storage
Logic
APIsAPIs UIUI Data
Exports
Data
Exports
Access
Data Transform
Utilities
Data Transform
Utilities
GeocodingGeocoding
Name
Finding
Name
Finding

15. 40,722,203 pages
112,867 items
59,158 titles
4 May 201
Content Growth
2007-2013

16. … and now including segments
92,413 “segments”

17. Items Added
Past 12 Months: 7,963
Previous 12 Months: 14,562
Past 12 months average: 664 / month
59,159
51,196

18. Increase agreements
with publishers of in
copyright materials
US Titles: 206
UK Titles: 67
TOTAL TITLES: 273
US Licensors: 85
UK Licensors: 40
TOTAL LICENSORS: 125

19. 2012 BHL Member In-kind Staff FTE & Costs (incomplete)
14.193 FTE from the 14 member institutions
$1,239,300 staff and other costs
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

20. 2012 BHL Central Support
7.055 FTE 4.43 FTE
Technical
2.625 FTE
Secretariat
Staff
$316,053
Other
$ 78,477
Total
$394,531
Staff
$472,529
Other
$ 22,615
Total
$495,144

21. User Statistics: 2007 - 2013
Visitors: 3,628,088
Page Views: 17,604,395
New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
2007
2013
146,798 visitors | November 2012

22. 233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

23. TheMachineIsUs/ingUs
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<Volume/>
<Contributor>MBLWHOI Library</Contributor>
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But humans can
still provide spikes
9 Nov 2012

24. Exploring new audiences and services

25. Since DPLA launch on 18 April 2013, it is now the #8
referrer and generates 71% of new visits

26. 3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)

30. Scanning Operations: Macaw

31. BHL Institutional Council Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 15-16 March 2012
Digital Public Library of America Mini-Hack-a-Thon, Cambridge, MA, 4-5
April 2012
Digital Public Library of America West Plenary Meeting and Workstreams
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 26-27 April 2012
3rd Global BHL Meeting, Berlin, 7-8 June 2012
BHL Europe. Final Events, Berlin, 4-6 June 2012
Smithsonian Libraries and BHL, Mae Jemison Science Reading Room. Pretoria,
South Africa. 11 June 2012 [presentation]
BHL African Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, June 14-15 2012
BHL Staff and Technical Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 27-28, 2012
Internet Archive Leaders' Forum, San Francisco, CA, 24-25 October 2012
EOL Work Group Leaders Meeting. Cambridge, MA, 29-30 November 2012
JSTOR Plants Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 6-11 January 2013
Third Phenotype Ontology Research Coordination Network Annual Summit
meeting, Durham, NC, 25-27 February 2013
Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 15 February 2013
I Annotate: Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 10-12 April 2013
BHL Africa Launch, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-18 April 2013

32. BHL Staff Meeting | September 2012
Harvard / Museum of Comparative Zoology

33. JSTOR Global Plant Initiative
Panama City, Panama, Janua

34. 3rd
Global BHL Meeting: Berlin June 2012

35. Global BHL Steering Committee
August 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

36. Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

37. Facebook
Total Page Likes:
4,384
Twitter @ BioDivLibrary
Total Followers: 2,369
Pinterest
2,373 images & 16 collections
Blog
Total Visits: 9,096
(2Q13)
BHL Social Media
February 2013

38. Outreach

39. ALA Midwinter Meeting | Seattle, WA | January 2013
Co-sponsored with the Field Notes Project

40. Community / Partnership / Science / Content
Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge

41. Thanks … Questions and Discussion