Archive for June, 2015

Visit from Biology Institute at Exeter

Friday, June 26th, 2015

On June 24th, 2015, the library welcomed high school biology teachers from across the United States. Hosted by OEB Prof. Scott Edwards, teachers attending the Biology Institute at Exeter explored the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s Ornithology Collection, the Ernst Mayr Library and the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian, created an exhibit for them in the Special Collections reading room, featuring zoological works from the 18th and 19th centuries. An unexpected treat for the visitors was being allowed to turn the pages! Among many questions asked was: “What is the oldest book in the library?” Answer: Albertus Magnus, De animalibus libri xxvi, Mantua, 1479.   For more information on the exhibit contact mayrlib@oeb.harvard.edu.

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Seba, Albertus (1665-1736). Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio… vol. 1 (out of 4 v.), 1734-1765.

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Nozeman, Cornelius (1721-1785?). Nederlandsche vogelen; vogens hunne huishouding aert… vol. 4 (out of 5 v.), 1770-1829.

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Rothschild, Lionel Walter (1868-1937). The avifauna of Laysan and the neighboring islands… (3 v. in 2.) 1893-1900.

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Malherbe, Alf. (d. 1866). Monographie des picidées ou Histoire naturelle des picidés, picumninés… v. 4, plates (out of 4) 1861-1862.

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More Librarian Travels

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Straight from the SLA Convention I took the Train to Maine to attend the New England Science Boot Camp for librarians at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Boot Camp is an intensive two and a half days covering various science topics in depth with other science librarian specialists; this year’s subjects were Neuroscience, Marine Science and Ornithology, presented by faculty from several area colleges including Bowdoin, Tufts, the University of New England, UMass Med School and Colby. All presentations were excellent, and we learned a lot and networked with colleagues from as far away as California and Vancouver. On the last day we drew up and critiqued faculty Data Management Plans (DMPs), now required by most funding agencies. Finally we toured Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Center, met some of the students working there, visited the wet lab and heard about their research, and then spent a happy half hour dabbling about on the rocky coast examining the intertidal pools with the enthusiasm of children.

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Librarian Travels

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

June is Conference Month in Library Land. From June 13-16 I was at the SLA (Special Libraries) Annual Convention in Boston attending board meetings and sessions and received an award for helping with program planning from the Biomedical Division. One session on Evolution featured two of our faculty: Hopi Hoekstra and Jim Mallet (ably assisted by Henry Mallet) who received rave reviews from attendees for their presentations.

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Celebrating Louis Agassiz, founder of the MCZ

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library: Happy Birthday, Louis Agassiz!

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New book list, June 3, 2015

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

Ari no su no ikimono zukan = The guests of Japanese ants.
[By] M. Maruyama, T. Komatsu, S. Kudo, T. Shimada & K. Kinomura. Hatano-shi: Tōkai Daigaku Shuppankai, 2013. HOLLIS# 014236823
QL568.F7 M33 2013

August Weismann: development, heredity, and evolution.
By Frederick B. Churchill. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. HOLLIS# 014218293
QH31.W45C48 2015

Faunal diversity of Churdhar Wildlife Sanctuary Himachal Pradesh.

Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, May, 2014. HOLLIS# 014384183
QL309.F3853 2014x

Fauna of Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharastra.
Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, July, 2014. HOLLIS# 014384190
QL309.F3852 2014x

Faunal exploration of Sitamata Wildlife Sanctuary Rajasthan.
Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India. Kolkata :Zoological Survey of India, December, 2014. HOLLIS# 014384180
QL309.F3826 2014x

Fische im Süßwasser: Arten und Lebensräume.
[By] Ronald Fricke. Stuttgart: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart,2014. HOLLIS# 014384175
QL624.F73 2014x

Handbook of marine fisheries conservation and management.
Edited by R. Quentin Grafton … [et al.]. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. HOLLIS# 012316408
SH331.H27 2010

Jahresbericht: Projekte und Aktionen 2013/2014: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart.
Stuttgart : Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, 2014. HOLLIS# 014384173
QH70.G3 S72 2014x

A Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) south polar palynoflora from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
By Chris Mays. Canberra: Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 2015. HOLLIS# 014383134
QE993.M39 2015x

Noise matters: the evolution of communication.
By R. Haven Wiley. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. HOLLIS# 014218295
QP465.W55 2015

Oasis of the deep [videorecording]: cold water corals of Atlantic Canada = Oasis des profondeurs: coraux des eaux froides du Canada atlantique.
[Ottawa]: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, [2008]. HOLLIS# 014389304
QH95.8.O27 2008

Secrets of the snake charmer: snakes in the 21st century.
By John C. Murphy. New York: iUniverse Inc, 2010. HOLLIS# 014369064
QL666.O6 M87 2010x

Unser Bodensee.
By Klaus Zintz. Stuttgart: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, 2014. HOLLIS# 014384169
QH96.Z45 2014x

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