2014 BHL Program Director's Report. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2014 BHL Annual Meeting. New York Botanical Garden. New York, NY. 10 March 2014

3. The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006
"Yet another physical difficulty is the task of assembling the library…"
J.M. Aldrich (1927)

4. Members … University of Illinois #16
16 Members
• American Museum of Natural History
• California Academy of Sciences Library
• Cornell University Library
• Harvard University Botany Libraries
• Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology
• Library of Congress
• Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• National Library Board (Singapore)
• Natural History Museum, London
• The New York Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• United States Geological Survey Libraries
• Washington University of St. Louis
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

5. Affiliates

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

7. BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

9. 2013 BHL Member In-kind Staff FTE & Costs (incomplete)
15.801 FTE from the 15 member institutions
$1,374,717 staff and other costs
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

10. 2013 BHL Central Support
Secretariat and Technical Services
Direct Staff Costs $582,954.91
Other Costs $165,425.87
Total $748,380.78
Internal Subvention (scanning) $0.00
External Subvention (scanning) $449,641.00
Internal Subvention (non-scanning) $129,007.68
External Subvention (non-scanning) $64,480.00
Donations $0.00
Dues
Funds Received $643,128.68
FTE 6.14

11. • SI Womens Committee
Smithsonian Libraries
• JRS Foundation
The Field Museum / SANBI
• Closeout of MacArthur Funding
• Sloan Planning Grant
Smithsonian Libraries
• NEH Grant
Missouri Botanical Garden
• Digging into Data
Missouri Botanical Garden

12. Giving to BHL: 2011 - 2014
Gifts to the BHL since July 2011: 98
Individual donors to BHL since July 2011: 85
Total BHL giving since July 2011: $20,265.72
FY2011
6 gifts
Total giving: $287.24
Average gift amount: $47.87
•FY2012
•15 gifts
•Total giving: $8,668
•Average gift amount: $51.38
FY2013
37 gifts
total giving: $7,916.36
Average gift amount: $81.01
•FY2014 (YTD)
•40 gifts
•Total giving: $3,564.12
•Average gift amount: $89.10

13. Giving to BHL: 2011 - 2014
Gifts to the BHL since July 2011: 98
Individual donors to BHL since July 2011: 85
Total BHL giving since July 2011: $20,265.72
FY2011
6 gifts
Total giving: $287.24
Average gift amount: $47.87
•FY2012
•15 gifts
•Total giving: $8,668
•Average gift amount: $51.38
FY2013
37 gifts
total giving: $7,916.36
Average gift amount: $81.01
•FY2014 (YTD)
•40 gifts
•Total giving: $3,564.12
•Average gift amount: $89.10

14. Fundraising Plans
Continue to build our pipeline of
annual donors
Continue to use social media for
“soft asks” repurposing
text/themes of appeals
Work with the Smithsonian’s
Office of Foundation Relations
to put together major gift
($100K-500K) proposals to
several foundations

15. Fundraising Plans
Continue to work with Arcadia
Fund on pending collaborative
$1M proposal (NMNH, Libraries
& Smithsonian Archives)
“Documenting 200 years of
Environmental Change in South
America”
Launch short video (1 min) in an
appeal
Develop a way to recognize
donors on BHL website

16. Fundraising Plans
Use the long video as a BHL
overview for Foundations and
major donors
Create one page proposals
outlining 5K, 10K, 25K and 50K
funding opportunities
Develop an impact menu for
larger asks 100K, 250K, 500K
and $1M (for 100K we could
do…with 250K we could do…)

17. • AUSTRALIA (3 donors)
• BRAZIL (3 donors)
• CANADA (5 donors)
• CHINA
• CZECH REPUBLIC
• EL SALVADOR
• FINLAND
• FRANCE
• GERMANY
• ITALY (6 donors)
• JAMAICA
• JAPAN (4 donors)
• LUXEMBOURG
• MEXICO
• MONGOLIA
• RUSSIAN FEDERATION
• SINGAPORE (2 donors)
• SOUTH AFRICA
• SPAIN
• SWITZERLAND
• TAIWAN
• UNITED KINGDOM (6 donors)
• UNITED STATES

18. 2007
2014
146,798 visitors | November 2012
User Statistics: 2013 – 2014 (March)
Unique Visitors: 664,645
Page Views: 3,741,640
New vs. Returning: 54.94% vs. 45.06%

19. 233 countriesUsers in 245 Countries

20. 87,594 mobile visits (32% iPad)
March 2013 – March 2014
35,231 mobile visits (45% iPad
March 2012 – March 2013

21. 24+ million total views | 87K + images (Feb 14)

23. Field Notes and Archival Materials

24. Seed & Nursery Catalogs

25. Scanning Operations: Macaw

26. JSTOR Plants Meeting, Panama City, Panama,
6-11 January 2013
Third Phenotype Ontology Research Coordination Network
Annual Summit
meeting, Durham, NC, 25-27 February 2013
Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC,
15 February 2013
I Annotate: Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA,
10-12 April 2013
BHL Africa Launch, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-18 April 2013
3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and
Archives.
Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. 30 May 2013.
4th Global BHL Meeting. Fes, Morocco. 27 May 2013
International Relations Round Table, American Library
Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 28 June 2013
2013 TDWG Annual Conference, Florence, Italy, October 28
November 1, 2013
EOL/BHL NESCent Research Spring, 4 February 2014
VALA 2014, Melbourne, 3-6 February 2014
Global BHL Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 31 January –
2 February 2014

27. BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

30. Febuary 2014: London: Internet Archive; Natural History
Museum, British Library, Smithsonian/UK Trust,
Royal Philatelic Society, RBG, Kew

31. Global BHL Steering Committee
August 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair
Biodiversity Heritage
Library
Global Goverance

34. 36,928 visits from
social media to BHL
in 2013
13,400 visits from BHL’s
own blog, Facebook, and
Twitter accounts

36. 42,824,596 pages
132,793 items
73,438 titles
7 March 2014
Content Growth
2007-2014

37. … and now including segments
117,979 “segments”

38. Increase agreements
with publishers of in
copyright materials
US Titles: 249
UK Titles: 69
TOTAL TITLES: 318
US Licensors: 92
UK Licensors: 41
TOTAL LICENSORS: 133
October 2013

39. Awards
2013 ComputerWorld Award
2013 Council of Botanical and
Horticulture Libraries
2011 Thackray Medal by the Society for
the History of Natural History
2010 ALCTS award for outstanding
collaboration

41. I am thrilled with what I have been able to find
re: archaic mammary embryology some of
which I had been hoping to find at the
National Library of Medicine, and to get it
through your program was a huge advantage.
Last night I believe I requested and received
11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a
review paper* I am completing.
Olav T. Oftedal PhD
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
* “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al.
Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)

42. Community / Partnership / Science / Content

43. Thank you all!