The document provides an overview of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) and its role in digitization efforts. SIL is a distributed library system consisting of 20 branches that supports the Smithsonian museums, research centers, and staff. It holds over 1.7 million volumes and provides resources to researchers worldwide through its website and projects like the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which aims to digitize literature on biodiversity. SIL leads major collaborations to make the Smithsonian's collections more accessible online through digitization and aims to send knowledge out into the world.

1. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps Librarians Marcia Adams [email_address] June 25, 2010

3. Where is the Smithsonian?

4. Who we are 19 Museums & Galleries 9 Research Centers 18 Archives 1 Library system (20 branches ) 1 Zoo

5. 137.2 Million Objects 2 Million Digital Images 13 Million Digital Records Smithsonian Collections

6. Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot

7. SIL-A Distributed Network 20 libraries in Washington, DC; Edgewater and Suitland, MD; New York City; & Republic of Panama, supported by Central Services: Acquisitions Interlibrary loan Metadata/Cataloging Preservation Digital Services Administration Development 109 Staff

8. Who Do We Serve? Smithsonian scientists, curators, historians, researchers Visiting fellows, graduate stu- dents, scholars, interns Students in affiliated academic programs Smithsonian educators and exhibition staff Smithsonian management, docents, volunteers Researchers world-wide and general public

9. SIL– The Profile 1,793,668 million volumes 4,929 journal subscriptions 3,054 electronic journals & databases 238,051 collection images on website 13,038 non-Smithsonian library users

10. Library Spaces National Air and Space Museum National Museum of the American Indian

11. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

12. Book Conservation Laboratory

13. 50,000 Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Digital Imaging Center

15. Historical Trade Literature--450,000 items—27,000 companies

16. Distinctive Collections “ Obviously I am spending TOOOOO much time in your terrific collection.”

17. Smithsonian Libraries on the Web Usage Statistics 3.5-4 million hits per month 350-450,000 visitor sessions per month 80% of users are non-Smithsonian ~ 27% growth in use each year

18. Collaboration Projects Development of a comprehensive digitization and access program for unencumbered photographic collections. Creation of an internal single point of access to all Smithsonian collections information for staff.

19. Flickr Commons 1900+ Images Opened June 7, 2008 Collaborators 3 Archives SI Libraries 6 Museums 2 Research Centers

20. Portraits of Scientists “ What a tremendous set of photographs. This was the first time I had seen the faces to go with many of those names. Thank you!”

21. Most Popular 802 people call this photo a favorite Viewed 37,853 times

22. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER http://collections.si.edu

23. Today’s Collections Search Center 4.6 million records with 445,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources

24. Today’s Collections Search Center 9 Museums (15 collections) 12 Archives (some independent, some in museums) 7 Bibliographic Databases Smithsonian Libraries Catalog *Art and Artists Files *Historical Trade Literature Image Gallery (266,300 selected images)

26. SEARCH TERM: BUTTERFLY 1 OF 829 PAGES

27. SEARCH TERM: BUTTERFLY

29. Air & Space Museum Butterfly Natural History Museum

30. Smithsonian American Art Museum Butterfly Smithsonian Archives

31. Art & History Museums: Butterfly Black butterfly [music] Composer: Ellington, Duke 1899-1974. 1 conductor score and/or parts (Published sheet music), 31 cm 12 manuscripts….. 0

32. Library: Butterfly

33. Smithsonian 2.0 DIGITIZATION A Smithsonian Priority

35. MISSION Provide open access to biodiversity literature for scientists, researchers, students and public world-wide GOALS Digitize the core published literature of biodiversity Collaborate with the global taxonomic community, rights holders and others “ The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.” C. Darwin et al 1847

36. Biodiversity Heritage Library American Museum of Natural History (New York) Field Museum (Chicago) Natural History Museum (London) Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington) Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis) New York Botanical Garden (New York) Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Botany Libraries, Harvard University Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

37. New Members: Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia) California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) BHL – Europe Discussions underway with China and Australia

38. Serve as the Secretariat Host the BHL Program Director Manage the funds The Biodiversity Heritage Library -- the largest collaboration yet undertaken by Smithsonian Libraries.

39. Biodiversity What is Biodiversity? Genetic variability within species Diversity of species Ecosystems and landscapes

40. Biodiversity Tools Specimen collections Databases Publications Observations ‘ Gray’ literature Index cards Field notebooks

41. Taxonomic Literature Taxonomic descriptions must be published for the name to be valid Publications must be available to the public through trusted sources Libraries have been the traditional place

42. BHL Focus: Literature

43. BHL Focus: Literature

44. How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

45. Smithsonian publications Entomology collection Marine mammals Fishes Selected special collections materials Filling in behind other libraries SIL – BHL Scanning

46. Scribe Machine Custom built by the Internet Archive Human-operated 3,500 pages per 8-hour shift per day

47. Washington, DC 1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries 10 Scribe FedScan facility at Library of Congress

48. The BHL Portal!

49. BHL 2.0 BHL Blog http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com Twitter www.twitter.com/biodivlibrary Flickr www.flickr.com/groups/bhl

51. Encyclopedia of Life … imagine for a moment that all the diversity of the world were finally revealed and then described, say one page to a species. The description would contain the scientific name, a photograph or drawing, a brief diagnosis, and information of where the species if found. If published in conventional book form … this Great Encyclopedia of Life would occupy 60 meters of library shelf per million species … 100 million species of organisms … would extend through 6 kilometers of shelving … E.O. Wilson (1992)

52. OH O H 2 N OH H Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory Missouri Botanical Garden Species Pages & Secretariat Smithsonian Education and Outreach Smithsonian & Harvard Synthesis Center Field Museum

53. Grants of $6 million for BHL from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant) Additional support from parent institutions Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation) Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

54. A Global Library for Life 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. Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium , March 1922

55. SIL links SIL Blog http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/ Twitter http://twitter.com/SILibraries Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SmithsonianLibraries?ref=ts

56. Thanks Nancy Gwinn, Director, SIL Tom Garnett, Project Director, BHL Martin Kalfatovic, Assist. Director, Digital Services, SIL

57. “ 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 the Smithsonian’s first Secretary, Smithsonian Annual Report, 1852 A Parting Thought