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Friday, April 4, 2014
resource of the week: Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a collaborative effort of natural history and botanical garden libraries to digitze their collections and make them available. BHL now includes more than 50,000 titles and 100,000 volumes that can be browsed or searched, together covering more than 1 million species. BHL includes collections from Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History (NY), and the Smithsonian. -Excerpted from Best Free Reference, Library Journal, 03/01/12.