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 digital collections that are made available through the Smithsonian Collections Search Center. SIL leads the Biodiversity Heritage Library initiative to digitize literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. The project involves collaborating institutions that are working to digitize over 6 kilometers of literature on species descriptions.

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?

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

6. Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot

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.”

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!”

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

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

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

42. BHL Focus: Literature

43. BHL Focus: Literature

44. How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

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

48. The BHL Portal!

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

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