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The Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot
Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps Librarians
Marcia [email protected]
June 25, 2010
Where is the Smithsonian?
Who we are
19 Museums & Galleries
9 Research Centers
18 Archives
1 Library system (20 branches)
1 Zoo
137.2 Million Objects
2 Million Digital Images
13 Million Digital Records
Smithsonian Collections
Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot
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 loanMetadata/CatalogingPreservationDigital ServicesAdministrationDevelopment
109 Staff
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
SIL– The Profile
1,793,668 million volumes
4,929 journal subscriptions
3,054 electronic journals & databases
238,051 collection imageson website
13,038 non-Smithsonian library users
Library Spaces
National Air and Space Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
SmithsonianEnvironmentalResearchCenter
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Book Conservation Laboratory
50,000 Rare Books and Manuscripts
Digital Imaging Center
Historical Trade Literature--450,000 items—27,000 companies
Distinctive Collections
““Obviously I am spending Obviously I am spending TOOOOO much time in TOOOOO much time in your terrific collection.”your terrific collection.”
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
Collaboration Projects
1. Development of a comprehensive digitization and access program for unencumbered photographic collections.
2. Creation of an internal single point of access to all Smithsonian collections information for staff.
Flickr Commons
1900+ Images
Opened June 7, 2008
Collaborators
3 Archives
SI Libraries
6 Museums
2 Research Centers
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!”
Most Popular
802 people call this photo a favorite
Viewed 37,853 times
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
http://collections.si.edu
Today’s Collections Search Center
4.6 million records with 445,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources
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)
SEARCH TERM: BUTTERFLY
1 OF 829 PAGES
SEARCH TERM: BUTTERFLY
Smithsonian American Art Museum Butterfly Smithsonian Archives
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…..
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Library: Butterfly
Smithsonian 2.0DIGITIZATION
A Smithsonian Priority
MISSION Provide open access to
biodiversity literature forscientists, researchers,students and publicworld-wide
GOALS Digitize the core
published literature ofbiodiversity
Collaborate with the global taxonomic community,rights holders and others
“The cultivation of natural science cannotbe efficiently carried onwithout reference to anextensive library.”
C. Darwin et al 1847
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
Biodiversity Heritage Library
New Members:
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
BHL – Europe
Discussions underway with China and Australia
Serve as the Secretariat Host the BHL Program Director Manage the funds
The Biodiversity Heritage Library -- the largest collaboration yet undertaken by Smithsonian Libraries.
Biodiversity
What is Biodiversity?
Genetic variability within species
Diversity of species Ecosystems and
landscapes
Biodiversity Tools
Specimen collections Databases Publications Observations ‘Gray’ literature Index cards Field notebooks
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
Taxonomic Literature
BHL Focus: Literature
BHL Focus: Literature
How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s
• Smithsonian publications
• Entomology collection
• Marine mammals
• Fishes
• Selected special collections materials
• Filling in behind other libraries
SIL – BHL Scanning
Scribe MachineCustom built by the Internet ArchiveHuman-operated3,500 pages per 8-hour shift per day
Washington, DC
• 1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries
• 10 Scribe FedScan facility at Library of Congress
The BHL Portal!
BHL 2.0
• BHL Bloghttp://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com
• Twitterwww.twitter.com/biodivlibrary
• Flickrwww.flickr.com/groups/bhl
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)
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InformaticsMarine Biological Laboratory
Missouri Botanical Garden
Species Pages & SecretariatSmithsonian
Education and OutreachSmithsonian & Harvard
Synthesis CenterField Museum
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
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
A Global Library for Life
SIL links
• SIL Blog http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/
• Twitterhttp://twitter.com/SILibraries
• Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/
• Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/SmithsonianLibraries?ref=ts
Nancy Gwinn, Director, SIL
Tom Garnett, Project Director, BHL
Martin Kalfatovic, Assist. Director, Digital Services, SIL
Thanks
“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