The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Program Director's Report: September 2012. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Staff and Technical Meeting. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA. 27 September 2012.

1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Program Director's Report: September 2012
Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Staff and Technical Meeting
27 September 2012 | Museum of Comparative Zoology | Cambridge, MA

2. The Wherefore of BHL
The cultivation of
natural science cannot
be efficiently carried
on without reference
to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al
(1847)

3. The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

4. Ch-ch-cha-changes

5. BHL Founding Director
Tom Garnett retires, March 2012

6. Chris Freeland, architect
of the BHL and founding
Technical Director
leaves the Missouri
Botanical Garden, July
2012

7. BHL Executive Committee, 2007-2011
Cathy Norton | Graham Higley | Connie Rinaldo

8. BHL Executive Committee, 2011-
Nancy Gwinn | Connie Rinaldo | Susan Fraser

9. New BHL Governance Structure
Executive Committee
- Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary
- Program Director (ex officio)
- Technical Director (ex officio)
Steering Committee
- Direct monetary support of BHL central activities
- 10 institutions (subset of the Institutional Council)
Institutional Council
- Interested institutions who sign participation agreement
- 14 institutions

10. Secretariat and Technical Staff
August 2011 Director
Program Technical Director
Program Manager Programmer
Collections Coordinator Data Analyst

11. BHL Funding
Steering Committee dues
MacArthur carryover (partly restricted)
JRS and Lounsbery grants (meetings)
Moore, NSF, NEH grants (restricted)
Donations
Other grants (restricted)
Member subvention (restricted)
Smithsonian Federal funds (restricted)

13. BHL Member Participation Staff FTE
16.22 FTE from the 14
member institutions
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

14. 68% Staff 32% Other
Summary Contributions

15. In-kind Participation Contributions
Staff $980K
Other $470K
Scanning $923K
Internal Grants $422K
External Grants $505K

16. 39,536,784 pages
107,931 items
56,769 titles
September 2012

17. Internet Archive FedScan Contract
Locations
 Washington, DC
 Boston
 San Francisco
 New Jersey
 Fort Wayne, IN
 London
 Urbana-Champaign
 Others

18. Scanning Operations: Macaw

19. Items Added: Past 12 Months
Cornell ingest | Dec 2011
14,458
Average: 1,204 / month

20. User Statistics: 2007 - 2012
Visitors: 3,628,088
Page Views: 17,604,395
New vs. Returning: 48.88% vs. 50.12%
112,584 visitors | March 2012
2012
2007

21. 233233 Countries
Users in countries

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23. May I compliment you on this splendid service? The
Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal
variability of climate and vector-borne disease in
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27. 3 Global BHL Meeting: Berlin 2012
rd

28. Global BHL Steering Committee
August 2011
Chair Vice Chair Secretary

29. 233233 Countries
Users in countries

30. BHL Africa
Thanks to the
generosity of the JRS
Foundation, an initial
meeting with potential
African BHL participants
was held in Chicago
(Nov 2011).
10 librarians,
researchers, and
informaticians traveled
to attend the Life and
Literature meeting and a
follow on planning
meeting for BHL Africa.

31. June 2012
Over 30 librarians,
scientists, informaticians
gathered in Cape Town,
South Africa to start the
formation of the BHL
Africa node; funded by
JRS Foundation

32. Anne-Lise Fourie Ashah Owano
Assistant Director Resource Centre Manager
SANBI Libraries National Museums of Kenya

33. Facebook
Total Post Views: 245,095
Audience Growth (Total new people who like our page): 338
Audience Engagement (Total post interactions): 1,620
Total Monthly active Users by End of Q1, FY12: 1,273
Total Page Likes: 1,871
Blog
Total Visits: 4,868
Unique Visitors: 3,540
Twitter @ BioDivLibrary
Total Followers: 1,951

35. 2,567,169 total views | 45,222 images (Sep. 2012)

39. More Outreach

40. BHL & EOL Booth
American Library Association Meeting
Dallas, TX, January 2012

41. 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

43. Thanks … Questions and Discussion