Tom Garnett and myself, along with our colleague Chris Freeland from the Missouri Botanical Garden, traveled to São Paulo, Brazil to attend the Workshop Coleção de Obras Raras Essencial (Workshop more »
Category: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Within the span of about a month, the Dibner Library received two separate inquiries about our lone manuscript page from the draft of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. more »
The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: Leopold Trattinnick's Die essbaren Schwamme des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates. [Edible fungi of more »
While it may not be a bicentennial, the year 2009 marks what would have been the 175th birthday of August Weismann, a German biologist and one of the founders of more »
2009 is the centennial year of the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossil in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. In 1909, Charles Walcott—the fourth secretary of the more »
On June 1st, summer intern Brett Lambert joined the Libraries’ Digital Services Division. Lambert is a candidate in the Alberta Smithsonian Internship Program (ASIP), which is a special partnership between more »
The Libraries was well represented at this year’s annual meeting of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) on May 12-15, 2009, hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden in more »