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The Smithsonian Institution Libraries: A Snapshot

Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps Librarians

Marcia Adamsadamsm@si.edu

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

Air & Space Museum Butterfly Natural History Museum

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