10 Things You Need to Know Today. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board Meeting. Washington, DC. 2 June 2014.

1. Martin R. Kalfatovic | 25 June 2014
Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board Meeting

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Website

4. Rebranding

5. Website and Blog visits: 76,643/month
Internal: 11% (7,378/month)
External 89% (69,265/month)
Fine print: includes Oct 2014 low SI use during furlough)
Does not include use of SIRIS, OneSearch, etc

6. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) floats Smthsonian
Libraries' content to the top of search

7. OneSearch one ups classic Google by providing
Smithsonian researchers with one box access to our
subscribed resources.

8. Interns

9. Smithsonian Libraries Interns
6 paid | 17X unpaid | 23 total

10. Intern open house for 60+ interns
from around the Smithsonian

11. Consulting & Visitors

12. 17 June 2014
Tour and Overview
for 8 Russian
Librarians from
across the country
17 июня 2014
Тур и обзор в
течение 8
российских
библиотекарей со
всей страны

14. 18 June 2014
Tour and Overview
for 17 Librarians
from 16 countries

15. Of Metaphors and Metadata
The Importance of Metadata for the Collections of
the Diplomatic Reception Rooms
U.S. Department of State
Advisory Committee for the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms / State Department

16. Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Just to let you know: your service is
marvelous! I found so many books I never
would be able to consult in libraries. Kind
regards from Switzerland
I would like to thank your team for bringing
this world of literature to my desk.
Currently I am using much of your 18-20th
century works to complete a rather difficult
task for an Australian Government project.
With this access the work could never be
accomplished. Many, many thanks

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$511,000 grant to
support Field Book
Project

19. New Members:
Washington University |
Singapore | University
of Illinois | New Affiliate:
Chicago Botanic
Garden

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Surpassed 43m pages
New staff: Outreach
Manager | Field Book
Cataloger | Field Book
Project Manager

21. Product Development & Licensing

23. East/West Basics

24. Gale-Cengage
Smithsonian Collections Online
Gale-Cengage project wrapping
up phase 1, ~800,000 SIL
images
Explorations on next projects:
Art, Anthropology, Science
Launches officially later this
week at American Library
Association Conference in Las
Vegas

25. Social Media

27. Instagram: 598 followers
Tumblr: 34,524 followers
Blog: 8,060 page views

28. Upcoming social media campaign around
Once There Were Billions

29. Transcription Center

31. 6 projects | 1,293 pages | 129 contributors
4 projects & 919 pages completed

32. Smithsonian Research Online+

33. Anacostia Community Museum: 2
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: 5
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: 7
Freer and Sackler Galleries: 3
Museum Conservation Institute: 12
National Air & Space Museum: 61
National Museum of African American History and Culture: 2
National Museum of African Art: 2
National Museum of American History: 8
National Museum of Natural History: 283
National Museum of the American Indian: 3
National Postal Museum: 14
National Zoological Park: 84
Smithsonian American Art Museum: 6
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: 219
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: 46
Smithsonian Institution Libraries: 8
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: 191
Total: 941
Research Output: FY 2014
82.5% from 4 research institutes/museums

34. Map and visualize researcher networks:
Example from SERC scientist

39. Cultural Heritage Library

40. • Cumulative downloads:
1,413,391
• Downloads since end
of last FY: 610,869
• Items exclusively in
CHL: 5,248

41. • 43% of collection is from
MSRL and SLRA –
general SI publications
and technology titles.
• 27% is from Art and
Design Libraries
• 22% is from History and
Culture Libraries
• 2% from Special
Collections
• 6% is from Science
Libraries (non-BHL
collections)
Contributing Libraries

42. Smithsonian Libraries
Always a focus on the customer ...

43. Looking Forward
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
Content how they want it ...

44. … wherever they are ...

45. … whoever they are ...

46. Thank You