Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.

1. Digitizing Entomology The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries 26 November 2007 A Presentation for the Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

2. 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

8. Structure of the Encyclopedia of Life Serine Molecule

9. Serine Molecule Synthesis Center Field Museum Biodiversity Heritage Library Secretariat Smithsonian Education & Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory & MOBOT

12. BHL Focus: Literature

13. BHL Focus: Literature

28. But what about ...

35. BHL & Publishers

40. Page Delivery

41. Taxonomic Intelligence

43. Discovered Bibliographies

48. 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. One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly. Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium , March 1922

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