Digital & Discovery @ Smithsonian Libraries 2013. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board Meeting. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia. 21 May 2013.

2. William Henry Holmes, Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, ca. 1905

3. Smithsonian Libraries, Natural History Main Library, ca. 2013

5. COLLECTIONS SERVICES
PRESERVATION DIGITIZATION

6. Web Services | Digital Library

8. Mass digitization of Smithsonian Libraries collections aligns
with the overall Smithsonian digitization strategy and remains a
center of excellence for rapid digitization at the SI

9. Not just Biodiversity … The Cultural Heritage Library:
Nearly 5,000 items
The Catholic Sioux Herald (very fragile and unique)
Dibner Heralds of Science
Upcott scrapbook of Aeronautica & Aeronautical sheet music
Rare materials from the Cooper-Hewitt NDM Library
AnthroNotes
Smithsonian Budget Books & Congressional Hearings

10. SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES CULTURAL HERITAGE LIBRARY

12. SMITHSONIAN RESEARCH ONLINE (SRO)

13. To the extent feasible and consistent
with law; agency mission; resource
constraints; U.S. national, homeland,
and economic security; and the
objectives listed below, the results of
unclassified research that are published
in peer-reviewed publications directly
arising from Federal funding should be
stored for long-term preservation and
publicly accessible to search, retrieve,
and analyze in ways that maximize the
impact and accountability of the Federal
research investment.
OSTP Memo, February 2013

14. Intern season! 21 interns so far | 7 paid internships | increased
collaboration with Office of Fellowships and Internships

15. Experimenting with
iTunes U for
educational outreach

16. Product Development and Licensing

17. Smithsonian
Enterprises
Image Licensing
$11,384.50
$16,393.64
Exploring Libraries’
content in new Gale
Cengage online products.
Official launch event late
June 2013

18. This is metadata … then …

19. … and now …
New systems helps move our data to higher standards and more
user-friendly descriptions. We do the work so our customers don't
have to!

20. Professor Jewett has devised a plan of facilitating the publication of catalogues of libraries,
which bids fair to be of much importance to the literature of the country. This plan has been
submitted for examination to a commission of gentlemen well acquainted with the subject, and
has received from them a very favorable report recommending its adoption.
- Joseph Henry, 1851

21. A radical library discovery tool …

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24. LIBRARY CATALOG
CUSTOMERS
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

25. CUSTOMERS
Print Books &
Journals in
Smithsonian
Libraries'
collections
Databases &
Electronic
Journals including
Smithsonian
resources
Other Internet
Resources
including the
Biodiversity
Heritage Library
DISCOVERY SERVICE

26. CUSTOMERS
Print Books &
Journals in
Smithsonian
Libraries'
collections
Databases &
Electronic
Journals including
Smithsonian
resources
Other Internet
Resources
including the
Biodiversity
Heritage Library
DISCOVERY SERVICE

28. BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

29. 40,882,939 pages
114,336 items
60,200 titles
15 June 2013
Content Growth
2007-2013

30. I am thrilled with what I have been able to find
re: archaic mammary embryology some of
which I had been hoping to find at the National
Library of Medicine, and to get it through your
program was a huge advantage. Last night I
believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all
of which are essential to a review paper* I am
completing.
Olav T. Oftedal PhD
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
* “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al.
Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)

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

32. A New Global Partnership
$55,000 Internal grant to catalog postal collection journals
addition of postal history files to the Smithsonian's Collections
Search

34. The worth and
importance of the
Institution is not to
be estimated by
what it accumulates
within the walls of its
building, but by what
it sends forth to the
world.
Joseph Henry, 1853

35. Thank you!