Biodiversity Heritage Library

Biodiversity Heritage Library, the digitization component of the Encyclopedia of Life, which is a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries and research institutions organized to digitize, serve and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity

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In a noteworthy collaborative effort, Biodiversity Heritage Library has fulfilled a scholarly need by

providing open access to a large corpus of historical materials on biodiversity within the biological,

ecological, and environmental sciences. Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of 12 major

natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries and research institutions in the United States and

United Kingdom, organized materials to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity, making them available to scholars and researchers globally. The ability to locate, identify, retrieve the

materials, and most importantly, to locate identify specific organisms by their scientific names is seamless yet shows a high level of sophistication within its digital interface. It is extremely valuable to the collection

development process.

Awards Won

Title Year
Outstanding Collaboration Citation

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This Outstanding Collaboration Citation recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services, or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections.
 2010 - Co-Winner(s)

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