Ernst Mayr Library

Global BHL colleagues outside of the Melbourne Museum:  Abel Packer, Connie Rinaldo, John, Jiri Frank, Ely Wallis, Simon Sherrin, Fenghong Liu, Jinzhong Cui

On 1 February 2014 (day 2) of the global BHL meeting, we headed off to Lorne, Australia to convene at the Mantra Resort.  The next two days were working days where we discussed the nitty gritty details of strategic planning, connections with EOL, & other organizations such as GBIF, the next phase of BHL services, planning the next global meeting, & planning for our presentation at VALA, Australia’s bienniel Libraries, Technology and the Future conference.

During lunch breaks and at the end of the day, we could explore the beach.

The last dinner in Lorne.

I recently returned from a trip to the global Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting in Australia.  The kick-off was “BHL Day” on 31 January 2014  in the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Australia.

Ely Wallis, Chair of gBHL organized the meeting and we had a spectacular time.   BHL Day  began with a traditional welcome from the indigenous people of Australia by Caroline Martin, Bunjilaka Manager of the museum.

As we stood in a circle, Caroline Martin (with our host Ely Wallis on left) led a traditional welcome.

Presentations from members of the gBHL nodes attending followed the welcome.  Reports were provided by BHL Classic Chair, Nancy Gwinn, BHL Australia’s Ely Wallis, BHL China’s JinzhongCui and Fenghong Liu, BHL Europe’s Jiri Frank, BHLSciELO’s Abel Packer and Fabiana Montanari Lapido and BHL Africa’s Anne-Lise Fourie.

BHLAfrica report, Anne-Lise Fourie

Staff from BHL Egypt were unable to attend.  It was illuminating to hear what the global BHL nodes are doing.  The afternoon session posed several provocative questions related to recent literature, reprint collections and archival collections leading to a fruitful discussion of new directions as well as boundaries for BHL.  Joining BHL representatives were staff and volunteers from the Melbourne Museum, Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO) and the Atlas of Living Australia. The Museum arranged a tour of the “First Peoples” exhibit, the library rare book room,and a special visit to see live insects on display for visitors.

Apes and human evolution.
By Russell H. Tuttle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013673021
QL737.P9 T86 2014

Biogeography of Australasia: a molecular analysis.
By Michael Heads, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY, USA. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. HOLLIS# 013868207
QH196.8.H43 2014

Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
[Edited by] Lawrence M. Page, Chair [and ten others]. Seventh edition. Bethesda, Maryland: American Fisheries Society, 2013. HOLLIS# 013785598
QL627,C66 2013

Conservation biology: voices from the tropics.
[Edited by] Navjot S. Sodhi (National University of Singapore), Luke Gibson (National University of Singapore), Peter H. Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden). Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2013. HOLLIS# 013905606
QH77.T78 C655 2013

Critical care management for laboratory mice and rats.
By F. Claire Hankenson. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, c2014. HOLLIS# 013905609
SF406.H36 2014

Earth observation of ecosystem services.
[Edited by] Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Carlos Marcelo Di Bella, Julieta Veronica Straschnoy. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013905611
QH541.15.B56 E34 2014

Enoplotrupes (E.) rhinoceros sp. nov. and E. (Tyrannotrupes) tyrannus subgen. nov., sp. nov. from India and Myanmar (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae).
By David Král, Vladislav Malý, and Jan Schneider.Andrésy, France :Association Magellanes,[2012]. HOLLIS# 013923827
QL596.S3 K73 2012

Evolutionary adaptation and antimalarial resistance in Plasmodium falciparum.
By Daniel Joan Park. Thesis, Ph.D., Harvard University, June, 2013. HOLLIS# 013919059
QR185.2.P37 2013

A field guide to the ants of New England.
By Aaron M. Ellison … [et al.]. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013701355
QL568.F7 F37 2012

Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia, and Gnathifera. Volume 2: Nematoda. Edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, c2012- . HOLLIS# 013626633
QL386.S36 2012 v. 2

Gene regulation.
By Gurbachan S. Miglani. Oxford, U.K.: Alpha Science International Ltd., [2013]. HOLLIS# 013905615
QH450.M54 2013

Marine ecosystem-based management.
Edited by Michael J. Fogarty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and James J. McCarthy, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. HOLLIS# 013673022
QH541.5.S3 M273 2014

Measuring ocean currents [electronic resource]: tools, technologies, and data.
By Dr. Antony Joseph. First edition. Waltham, Mass.: Elsevier, 2014. HOLLIS# 013905618
GC239.2 .J67 2013eb [e-book]

IXe Congrès Ornithologique international, Rouen, 9 au 13 mai 1938.
Compte rendu publié par Jean Delacour. Rouen: Secrétariat du Congrès Hotel des Sociétés Savantes, 1938. HOLLIS# 013918950
QL671.I7 1938

New records of Trox Fabricus for Northeast China (Coleoptera, Trogidae).
Li Jingke, Xueping Zang, Lin Lin & Meixiang Gao, Lirong Huang.Andrésy, France: Association Magellanes, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013923738
QL596.S3 J45 2013

The Panorpidae from North Korea and Northeast China (Mecoptera, Panorpidae).
By Li Jingke, Zhang Xue-Ping, Lin Lin, Gao Meixiang. Andrésy, France: Association Magellanes, [2012]. HOLLIS# 013923870
QL598.7.P3 J45 2012

Population ecology: first principles.
By John H. Vandermeer, Deborah E. Goldberg. Second edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013905620
QH352.V36 2013

Sacred relics: pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America.
By Teresa Barnett. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013807498
[e-book]

Sexual selection: perspectives and models from the Neotropics.
Edited by Regina H. Macedo, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, Glauco Machado, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. London; Waltham, MA: Academic Press/Elsevier, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013905623
QL761.S48 2014

Systems biology: functional strategies of living organisms.
By Leszek Konieczny, Irena Roterman-Konieczna, Paweł Spólnik. New York: Springer, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013868233
QH313.K65 2014

Animals in the ancient world from A to Z.
By Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014. HOLLIS# 013814859
QL355.K58 2013

Avian urban ecology: behavioural and physiological adaptations.
Edited by Diego Gil and Henrik Brumm. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. HOLLIS# 013868010
QL698.95.A85 2014

Biology and conservation of martens, sables, and fishers: a new synthesis.
Edited by Keith B. Aubry … [et al.]. Ithaca: Comstock Pub. Associates, 2012. HOLLIS# 013894643
QL737.C25 B516 2012

Cladistic history of cichlid fishes and reproductive strategies of the American genera Acarichthys, Biotodoma and Geophagus. Volume 1.
By Frederick Paul Cichocki. Thesis, Ph. D., Univ. of Michigan, 1976. HOLLIS# 013726944
QL638.C55 C53 1976 v. 1 [gift of Karsten Hartel]

Conserving biological diversity in our national forests.
By Elliott A. Norse … [et al.]; prepared by the Ecological Society of America for the Wilderness Society. [Washington, D.C.]: Wilderness Society, c1986. HOLLIS# 009765177
QH76.C66 1986

Dominion of bears: living with wildlife in Alaska.
By Sherry Simpson. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013868208
QL737.C27 S564 2013

Dragon songs: love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations.
By Vladimir Dinets. First edition. New York: Arcade Publishing, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013868211
QL666.C925 D54 2013

Introduction to the skeleton of hummingbirds (Aves: Apodiformes, Trochilidae) in functional and phylogenetic contexts.
By Richard L. Zusi. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists’ Union, 2013. HOLLIS# 013898849
QL696.T6 Z88 2013

Kronika zoologického poznávání.
[By] Zbyněk Roček. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2013. HOLLIS# 013905290
QL15.R637 2013

Marine biology: function, biodiversity, ecology.
By Jeffrey S. Levinton, Stony Brook University. Fourth edition. New York: Oxford University Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013868217
QH91.L427 2014

Marine pollution and human health.
Editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, c2011. HOLLIS# 013807807
GC1085.M37 2011

Mites of freshwater mollusks.
By Dale D. Edwards and Malcolm F. Vidrine; foreword by Ronald V. Dimock; design/art work by Van Reed. Eunice, La.: Malcolm F. Vidrine, 2013. HOLLIS# 013894620
QL458.15.A33 E39 2013

Monitoring biodiversity: lessons from a trans-Andean megaproject = Monitoreo de biodiversidad: lecciones de un megaproyecto transandino.
Edited by Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Grace P. Servat. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013868219
QH77.P4 M66 2013
Mutualistic networks.
By Jordi Bascompte and Pedro Jordano. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013898776
QH548.3.B37 2014

Organic chemical toxicology of fishes.
Edited by Keith B. Tierney, Anthony P. Farrell, Colin J. Brauner. Fish physiology, v. 33. Amsterdam: Academic Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013899337
SH174.O73 2014

Phylogenomics: a primer.
By Rob DeSalle, Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld. New York: Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013669141
QH367.5.D47 2013

A rapid biological assessment of the upper Palumeu River watershed (Grensgebergte and Kasikasima), southeastern Suriname.
Editors, Leeanne E. Alonso and Trond H. Larsen. Arlington, VA: Conservation International, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013868229
QH125.6.R37 2013

Techniques for virtual palaeontology.
By Mark D. Sutton, Imran A. Rahman, Russell J. Garwood. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014. HOLLIS# 013897724
QE721.2.M63 S88 2014eb [e-book]

Treatise on zoology–anatomy, taxonomy, biology. The gregarines: the early branching Apicomplexa.
Edited by I. Desportes and J. Schrével. Leiden: Brill, 2013. HOLLIS# 013867311
QL368.G8 T69 2013 v. 1-2

Wildlife of Australia.
Iain Campbell and Sam Woods. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013734733
QL606.58.A8 C36 2013 [e-book]

Advances in environmental research. Volume 23.
Justin A. Daniels, editor. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012. HOLLIS# 013878359
GE140.A38 2012eb [e-book]

Australian bird names: a complete guide.
By Ian Fraser and Jeannie Gray. Collingwood, VIC: CSIRO Publishing, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013868958
QL693.F63 2013

Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Volume 1, introduction and family Lamiinae.
By Adam Ślipiński. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. HOLLIS# 013792658
QL596.C4 S55 2013 v. 1

The birds of New Hampshire.
By Allan R. Keith & Robert P. Fox. [New Hampshire]: [Nuttall Ornithological Club], 2013. HOLLIS# 013894460
QL684.N6 K45 2013

Catalogus fossilium Austriae : ein systematisches Verzeichnis aller auf österreichischem Gebiet festgestellten Fossilien. Band 3, Pisces. Schriftleitung, Werner E. Piller. Wien: Verlag der Österreichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001- . HOLLIS# 013883856
Ref. QE755.A8 C3 2001 Bd. 3

Dodo: the bird behind the legend.
By Alan Grihault. Cassis, Mauritius: Imprimerie & Papeterie Commerciale, 2005. HOLLIS# 010206434
QL696.C67 G75 2005

The evolution of breathing mechanisms in the archosauria.
By Leon Philip Antonius Maria Claessens. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2005. HOLLIS# 009844643
QE861.C52 2005 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Evolutionary biology and conservation of titis, sakis and uacaris.
Edited by Liza M. Veiga, Adrian A. Barnett, Stephen F. Ferrari, Marilyn A. Norconk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013752364
QL737.P959 E96 2013eb [e-book]

The eyelash geckos: care, breeding and natural history.
Hermann Seufer, Yuri Kaverkin, Andreas Kirschner (edit.); in collaboration with Jon Boone, Thomas Ernst and Tino Holfert; [translation of the German original, Katrin Koch]. Karlsruhe: Kirschner & Seufer, ©2005. HOLLIS# 013871464
QL666.L245 L5313 2005

Function and evolution of the hind limb in Triassic Archosaurian reptiles.
By Corwin Scott Sullivan. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2007. HOLLIS# 012950114
QE861.S75 2007 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Functional genomics in aquaculture.
Edited by Marco Saroglia and Zhanjiang (John) Liu. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell: World Aquaculture Society, 2012. HOLLIS# 013878377
SH155.5.F86 2012eb [e-book]

Gene transfer to plants.
I. Potrykus, G. Spangenberg (eds.). Berlin; New York: Springer, c1995.
HOLLIS# 013871480
QK981.5.G45 1995

Mammals of Colorado.
By David M. Armstrong, James P. Fitzgerald, and Carron A. Meaney. 2nd ed. [Denver]: Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, c2011. HOLLIS# 013878379
QL719.C6 F58 2011eb [e-book]

Mosquitoes of the southeastern United States.
By Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013868965
QL536.B87 2013

Musculoskeletal design in macropodoid marsupials: acceleration mechanics, body size, and habitat use.
By Craig Patrick McGowan. Thesis, Ph. D., 2006, Harvard University. 2006. HOLLIS# 011412362
QL737.M35 M35 2006 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Nematodes: morphology, functions and management strategies.
Fausto Boeri and Jordan A. Chung, editors. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, c2012. HOLLIS# 013878381
QL391.N4 N3787 2012eb [e-book]

Nonpasserines: shorebirds through woodpeckers.
By Al Sandilands; with illustrations by Ross James. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010. HOLLIS# 013878367
QL685.5.O6 S26 2010eb [e-book]

Ontogeneticheskai͡a sistematika i novai͡a modelʹ ėvoli͡ut͡sii Bilateria.
By A.V. Martynov. [Ontogenetic systematics and a new model of Bilateria evolution]. Moskva: T-vo nauch. izd.KMK., 2011. HOLLIS# 013881587
QL406.7.M37 2011

The unfeathered bird.
By Katrina van Grouw. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013. HOLLIS# 013878384
QL697.V26 2013eb [e-book]

Warbler Guide.
By Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle; drawings by Catherine Hamilton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013. HOLLIS# 013878385
QL696.P2438 S73 2013eb [e-book]

Wild cultures: a comparison between chimpanzee and human cultures.
By Christophe Boesch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013635094
QL737.P96 B5955 2012eb [e-book]

Wildlife science: linking ecological theory and management applications.
Edited by Timothy E. Fulbright and David G. Hewitt. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2007. HOLLIS# 013878386
QH541.W449 2007eb [e-book]

Wildlife search and rescue: a guide for first responders.
By Rebecca Dmytryk. Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. HOLLIS# 013878388
QL83.2.D58 2012eb [e-book]

August Weismann (1834-1914) und die theoretische Biologie des 19. Jahrhunderts: Urkunden, Berichte und Analysen.
Herausgegeben von Klaus Sander. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 1984. HOLLIS# 013868986
QH31.W42 A8 1985

Baltasis gandras Lietuvoje: lizdų atlasas.
[By] Mindaugas Dagys, Daiva Vaitkuvienė. Vilnius: Gamtos tyrimų centras, 2013. HOLLIS# 013863950
QL696.C535 D24 2013

Beastly London: a history of animals in the city.
By Hannah Velten. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. HOLLIS# 013844176
SF53.V45 2013eb [e-book]

A beginner’s guide to diatoms.
[By] Jacob John. [Ruggel, Liechtenstein]: A. R. G. Gantner Verlag, [2012]. HOLLIS# 013847081
QK569.D54 J64 2012

The birds of Africa. Volume 8, the Malagasy region.
Color plates by Martin Woodcock. London; New York: Academic Press, 1982-2013. HOLLIS# 001042897
QL692.A1 B72 1982 v. 8

Guide to the butterflies of the Palearctic Region. Volume 3, Nymphalidae, part 6, subfamily Limenitidinae.
Editor: G. C. Bozano. Milano: Onmes Artes; 1999- . HOLLIS# 009115949
QL546.G84 1999 v. 3, pt. 6

Molecular genetic characterization of animal genetic resources.
Rome: Commission on Genetic resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. HOLLIS# 013323196
SF105.3.M64 2011

Ornitologia italiana: identificazione, distribuzione, consistenza e movimenti degli uccelli italiani. Volume 8, Sturnidae – Fringillidae.
By Pierandrea Brichetti, Giancarlo Fracasso; disegni di Silvia Gandini. Bologna: Alberto Perdisa editore, c2003 – . HOLLIS# 012816896
QL690.I8 B75 2003 v. 8

Physiology of the cladocera.
By Nikolai N. Smirnov, D.Sc., Institute of Ecology, Moscow, Russia; with additional contributions. Amsterdam: Elsevier, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013868224
QL444.B83 S65 2014eb [e-book]

Second International Cone Meeting.
Pierre Miramand, Directeur de publication. La Rochelle: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 2013. HOLLIS# 013800868
QL430.5.C75 S33 2012

70 jahre Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: 1943-2013.
[By] Daniel Weβelhöft und Oliver Matuschek. Braunschweig: Appelhans Verlag, 2013. HOLLIS# 013870877
Q49.W47 2013

Tidal wetlands primer: an introduction to their ecology, natural history, status, and conservation.
By Ralph W. Tiner. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013853265
QH87.3.T57 2013

A voyage across the Americas: the journey of Henri de Büren, 1852-1853. Adaptation by Jean-François Buren ; edited by August Cosentino. Pregny-Geneva, Switzerland: Editions de Penthes, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013868030
E27.B87 2013

While attending the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting in Florence, Italy in late October, I was able to spend an afternoon at the Villa I Tatti, a Harvard Center that is considered to be “the foremost research institution in the world for Italian Renaissance art, history, literature, and music.” Scholars of the Italian Renaissance, have an opportunity to spend a full year here on a post-doctoral Fellowship or return for shorter periods as Visiting Fellows.  The Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (opened in 1961) is not open to the public as it is a research facility but tours can be arranged by request for those with a special interest in the topic or ties to Harvard. Other key features are the working farm and a historic Italianate garden designed by Cecil Pinsent.

Villa I Tatti was a gift to Harvard from Bernard and Mary Berenson whose lives and work are fascinating. The couple met at Harvard and remembrances of this time can be seen in the online exhibit:  Bernard and Mary Berenson as (Harvard) students.  Bernard Berenson established himself as an expert on Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings and made his living as an art critic and advisor.

Bernard Berenson believed that new and exciting ideas develop through deep study and conversation with others similiarly involved in research.  Thus, one of the requirements for being a fellow at the Villa I Tatti is that you join the other fellows for meals.   The Center sits in the midst of a working farm that grows olives and grapes and produces its own oil and wine.  According to the tour guide, all the products on the farm are for the sole use of those living and working at the Center.  Information about the program states that much of the most valuable scholarship since the 1970s on the Italian Renaissance has been a result of work done at the Villa I Tatti. The Berensons collected enough art to comfortably decorate (but not over-decorate) the main house.  According to the tour guide, the art works were not necessarily top quality–the Berensons often collected second tier works.

Along with the beautiful villa, garden and farm, the Berensons established an extraordinary library that is meant to  provide comprehensive coverage of Italian Renaissance scholarship, an extensive photograph collection, an archive that documents the work of the Berensons, and a music library for medieval and Renaissance music.  Currently there are more than 175,000 volumes, 250,000 photographs and subscriptions to more than 600 scholarly journals. The Biblioteca Berenson is a quite modern facility and it is easy to see how one could become immersed in research there. The library is vital to the mission of I Tatti–the books, photographs, digital images, archives, manuscripts and recordings offer interdisciplinary opportunities for studies of late medieveal and early modern Italy and also the life and times of the Berensons.  Additionally, as part of the vast Harvard Library, there is access to all of the holdings of Harvard.

A Finding Aid to the papers of Bernard and Mary Berenson held by Harvard provides more information about the Berensons.

~Connie Rinaldo

I was privileged to attend and present as part of a symposium at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting October 28-November 1, 2013. The theme for 2013 was “Virtual Communities for Biodiversity Science”, an apt theme for the global virtual Biodiversity Heritage Library.  The venue was beautiful Florence, Italy and the weather was warm.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy

Six members of the Global BHL community participated in the symposium, “Crafting the Future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for Diverse Communities’ Needs“.  My contribution to the symposium was a review of feedback the BHL has received through surveys, interviews and messages, looking for common threads and what has been resolved.The most common thread throughout the years and echoed by the 50 or so audience members is:  “Scan more!!”.

Left to right: Martin Kalfatovic, Connie Rinaldo, Trish Rose-Sandler,Lucy Waruingi, William Ulate, Jiri Frank

TDWG is a long and information-packed meeting that incorporates many topics of interest to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and librarians.  Metadata, vocabularies for taxonomy, interoperability and linked open data are common themes at TDWG  to which librarians, particularly those engaged in biological information,  can relate.  I particularly enjoyed the poster sessions.  There were 31 posters and I will highlight a few in this post.

BHL partners such as ViBRANT (http://vbrant.eu/), OpenUp (http://open-up.eu/), BioStor (http://biostor.org/), and Zookeys (http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/) and others were represented at TDWG ensuring lively discussions.  The poster “Bibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic references” (https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/339) addressed de-duplicating and parsing the components of references from a variety of sources to improve and expand literature searching.  Other posters highlighted object digitization and the TDWG Audubon Core (http://www.tdwg.org/standards/638/)metadata standard.  The Naturalis Biodiversity Center reviewed their work digitizing collection objects, including videos, (https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/395) using the Audubon Core standard for metadata.  Another poster from Belgian institutions, Agora 3D Evaluating the Digitisation of Scientific Collections, reviewed scanning technology and techniques for biological specimens to develop a set of standards and protocols for museums (https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/398).  Other posters highlighted taxonomic information such as “From Dendroeca blackburniae to Dendrceca blackburniae:  what’s in a name” https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/344 citing the need for clean, correct scientific names to support names-based architecture and ” ComTax: Community-driven Curation for Taxonomic Databases”, a project designed to support manual correction and verification of name data (http://taxoncuration.myspecies.info/). The TDWG meeting has much to offer archivists and librarians looking for the biological perspective on metadata and curation.  For the curious, you can find the uploaded presentations at the TDWG site.

~Connie Rinaldo

Bears of China.
By Yiqing Ma. Chengdu: Sichuan Science and Technology Press, 1994. HOLLIS# 013847097
QL737.C27 M2 1994

Blütenökologie. Bd. 1. Die Partner der Blumen.
By Hans-Joachim Flügel. Magdeburg: VerlagsKG Wolf, 2013- HOLLIS# 013853608.
QH549.5.F58 2013 Bd. 1

A contribution to the herpetology of Northern Pakistan: the amphibians and reptiles of Margalla Hills National Park and surrounding regions.
By Rafaqat Masroor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University. 2012. HOLLIS# 013776774
QL661.P18 M37 2012

Cranial sutures as tools to infer skull function in fossil fish and amphibians: an experimental approach using the extant fish Polypterus.
By Molly Jeanette Markey. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2006. HOLLIS# 011416917
QL638.P76 M27 2006 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Dai 60-kai Nihon Seitaigakkai taikai puroguramu: 2013-nen 3-gatsu 5-nichi – 9-nichi = The 60th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ 60) 60th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ 60) Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ 60).
[Kyoto, Japan]: Ecological Society of Japan, 2013. HOLLIS# 013703969
QH540.N546 2013

Dynamic stability of running over rough terrain: the role of limb posture and distal limb muscle performance.
By Monica Ann Daley. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2006. HOLLIS# 010910639
QP310.R85 D25 2006 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Evolution and development of limb reduction in the Australian skink Hemiergis (Reptilia: Scincidae).
A thesis presented by Michael David Shapiro. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2001. HOLLIS# 009333880
QL666.L28 S42 2001 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, and diversification of the Australasian hydromyinae (rodentia: muridae).
A thesis presented by Andrew William Torrance. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1997. HOLLIS# 008048096
QL737.R666 T67 1997

Fish caudal fin control mechanisms and fluid dynamics.
By Brooke Elizabeth Flammang-Lockyer. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2010. HOLLIS# 012548258
QL639.4.F52 2010 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Functional morphology and modulation of prey capture behavior in hexagrammid fishes (scorpaeniformes).
By Donna Nemeth. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1996. HOLLIS# 006725142
QL638.S42 N45 1996 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Fur; a practical treatise.
By Max Bachrach. New York, Prentice-Hall, inc., 1930. HOLLIS# 013847105
TS1061.B18 1930

Herpetofauna of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
By Marine S. Arakelyan … [et al.]; paleontological notes by David Vasilyan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, c2011. HOLLIS# 013780382
QL661.A76 H47 2011

Locomotion and mechanics of the knee joint in the laboratory rat and the primates.
By Arthur Spiess. Thesis, B.A., Harvard College, 1974. Cambridge, Mass., 1974. HOLLIS# 004691021
QP301.S74 1974 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Locomotion, posture, and comparative anatomy of Malaysian forest primates: a thesis.
Presented by John Gwynn Fleagle. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1976. HOLLIS# 004685570
QP301.F53 1976 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Lung morphology, gait analysis, and locomotor-respiratory-visceral interaction in the domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
By Rachel Susan Simons. Thesis, Ph. D. University of Utah, 1997. HOLLIS# 013846247
QP301.S45 1997 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Mechanical effects on the development and evolution of locomotor form and function.
By Nicole Danos. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2011. HOLLIS# 012943008
QL639.4.D25 2011 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Mechanics and control of vortex capture in swimming fishes.
By James Chienan Liao. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 2004. HOLLIS# 010087155
QL639.4.L42 2004 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Mechanics of pectoral fin locomotion in the surfperches (perciformes).
A thesis presented by Eliot Gilbert Drucker. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1996. HOLLIS# 007123250
QL639.4.D78 1996 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

The Princeton guide to evolution.
Jonathan B. Losos, editor in chief. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013826289
QH367.P85 2014

Quaternary geological and geomorphological maps of Fredheim and Skansbukta.
By Evangeline Sessford and Anne Hormes. Tromø: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 2013. HOLLIS# 013854477
QE281.S37 2013

Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption: Rome, 25-29 January 2010.
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: World Health Organization, 2011. HOLLIS# 013853458
TX556.5.J65 2011

Report of the third Meeting of Regional [Fishery] Body Secretariats Network: Rome, 7-8 February 2011.
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. HOLLIS# 013853438
SH328.M44 2011

Running economically: form, gait, and muscle mechanics.
By Thomas Jay Roberts. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1995. HOLLIS# 006582026
QP310.R85 R63 1995 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Strange locomotion: from humans running on their hands to lizards running on water.
By James Walter Glasheen. Thesis, Ph. D.,Harvard University, 1995. HOLLIS# 006554423
QP301.G52 1995 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Winter distribution of guillemots (Uria spp.) in the Barents Sea.
By Harald Steen, Erlend Lorentzen and Hallvard Strøm. Tromsø: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 2013. HOLLIS# 013853500
QL696.C42 S73 2013

La alondra ricotí: Chersophilus duponti.
Ed., Francisco Suárez. Madrid: Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, 2010. HOLLIS# 013799070
QL696.P214 A56 2010

Las alondras de España peninsular.
By Francisco Suárez, Israel Hervás y Jesús Herranz. Madrid: Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, 2009. HOLLIS# 013790314
QL696.P214 S82 2009

American alligator: ancient predator in the modern world.
Kelby Ouchley; all color photos are by Burg Ransom. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013808725
QL666.C925 O93 2013

American birding sketchbook.
By Michael Warren. Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013774473
QL682.W27 2012

Biographical notes of Antonie Augustus Bruijn, 1842-1890: his life as a marine officer in the Dutch Navy and lifetime as a trader in naturalia on Ternate, the Moluccas, Indonesia: observed and written by Alfred Russell Wallace and Achille Raffray.
By C.J. Heij. 1st ed. Bogor: IPB Press, 2011. HOLLIS# 013763399
DS647.T47 B784 2011

Biology of butterflyfishes.
Editors, Morgan S. Pratchett, Michael L. Berumen, B.G. Kapoor. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, [2014]. HOLLIS# 013808760
QL638.C48 B56 2014

The breeding birds of Malta.
By Joe Sultana, John J. Borg, Charles Gauci, Victor Falzon; special collab. Denis Cachia … [et al.]. Ta’ Xbiex: BirdLife Malta, 2011. HOLLIS# 013763407
QL690.M3 S85 2011

Common marine fishes of the Massachusetts coastal zone: a literature review.
By Gary Clayton … [et al.]. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Institute for Man and Environment, 1976. HOLLIS# 013807771
QL621.5.C6 1976

Construction and installation of hexagonal wooden cages for fish farming: a technical manual.
By Fabrizio Piccolotti, FAO Consultant, Rome, Italy and Alessandro Lovatelli, Aquaculture Officer, Aquaculture Branch, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome, Italy. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013. HOLLIS# 013843814
SH155.P5313 2013

Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology. Volume II. Edited by William E. Davis, Jr., Harry F. Recher and Walter E. Boles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. HOLLIS# 013829830
QL672.73.A788 C66 2012

The cranial foramina of protrogomorphous and sciuromorphous rodents; an anatomical and phylogenetic study.
By John Howard Wahlert. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1972. HOLLIS# 003170757
QL737.R6 W24 1972

Danmarks blomstertæger.
By Lars Skipper. Ollerup: Apollo Booksellers, 2013. HOLLIS# 013814447
QL522.4.D3 S54 2013

Distribution, synecology and conservation of Surinam monkeys.
By Russell A. Mittermeier. Ph. D., Harvard University, 1977. HOLLIS# 004812261
QL737.P9 M47 1977

Evolution and functional morphology of the Xiphosurida.
By Daniel Claude Fisher. Thesis, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1975. HOLLIS# 003166851
QL447.7.F47 1975

Fauna de vertebrados del Ecuador.
[By] Luis Albuja V., Ana Almendáir C., Luis Daniel Montalvo E., Freddy Cáceres F., José Luis Román C.Quito, Ecuador: Escuela Politécnica Nacional, [2012]. HOLLIS# 013788309
QH123.A52 2012

Field guide to the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of northeastern North America.
By Steven M. Paiero … [et al.]. 1st ed. [Ottawa?]: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, c2012. HOLLIS# 013819170
QL596.B8 F44 2012

Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation.
By Mark Avery. Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, c2012. HOLLIS# 013780350
QL676.57.G7 A83 2012

A functional morphological study of limb regression in some Southern African species of Scincidae (Reptilia: Sauria).
By C.J. Leonard. Thesis, Ph. D., University of Cape Town. Cape Town; 1979. HOLLIS# 013817355
QL669.L36 1979

The herpetological literature for southwestern Asia: an indexed bibliography.
By Alan E. Leviton and Steven C. Anderson. 2nd edition. San Francisco, California, USA: California Academy of Sciences, 2013. HOLLIS# 013836064
Z7996.R4 L48 2013

Historischer Brutvogelatlas: die Verbreitung der Schweizer Brutvögel seit 1950 = Atlas historique des oiseaux nicheurs: la répartition des oiseaux nicheurs de Suisse depuis 1950.
By Peter Knaus … [et al.]. Sempach: Schweizerische Vogelwarte, 2011. HOLLIS# 013763382
QL690.S9 H47 2011

Invertebrates: classification, evolution and biodiversity.
Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, editor. New York: Nova Bomedical, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013808885
QL362.I59 2013

Khishchnye ptit͡sy Belorusskogo Poozerʹi͡a: monografii͡a.
By V.V. Ivanovskiĭ. Vitebsk: Vitebskiĭ gos. universitet im. P.M. Masherova, 2012. HOLLIS# 013795761
QL677.78.I82 2012

Locomotion and locomotor evolution in monotremes.
By Peter Andrew Pridmore. Thesis, MS, Monash University, 1978. HOLLIS# 013817354
QL737.M7 P74 1978

A natural resources inventory atlas for Plymouth County.
By Jon Rodiek; John H. Noyes. Amherst, Mass.: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Massachusetts, 1973. HOLLIS# 003389233
GB126.M4 R6 1973

Oenothera: contributions of a plant to biology.
By C. Harte. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, c1994. HOLLIS# 004436425
QH470.O35 H37 1994

Patterns of molecular evolution and epistasis on a genomic and genic scale.
By Pan-Pan Jiang. Thesis, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2013. HOLLIS# 013808701
QH371.J42 2013

Peces, crustáceos y moluscos registrados en el sector del Atlántico sudoccidental comprendido entre 34° S y 55° S, con indicación de las especies de interés pesquero = fishes, crustaceans and molluscs of the southwest Atlantic, between 34°S and 55°S, with indication of important fishing species.
Editato por María Berta Cousseau. Mar del Plata, R. Argentina: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero – INIDEP, 2010. HOLLIS# 013806138
SH213.77.P33 2010

Polyploidy and Genome Evolution.
Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, editors. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2012. HOLLIS# 013817514
QH461.P65 2012

Ptit͡sy Okskogo zapovednika i sopredelʹnykh territoriĭ: biologii͡a, chislennostʹ, okhrana.
[By] I.M. Sapetina … [et al]. Moscow: TSentrohotkontrol, 2005-2011. HOLLIS# 013762452
QL690.R9 P7463 2005 Pts. 1-2

Saturniidae mundi = Saturniid moths of the world: based on the collections of the Natural History Museum in London (British Museum (Natural History)). Part 2.
By Bernard D’Abrera. Keltern, Germany: Automeris Press, in association with Hill House, c1995- . HOLLIS# 008252814
QL561.S2 D32 1995 pt. 2

Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding.
By the Committee on Standard English and Scientific Names, Brian I. Crother (Committee chair). Seventh edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2012. HOLLIS# 013785736
QL651.S62 2012

Sea urchins: biology and ecology.
Edited by John M. Lawrence, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. Third edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013. HOLLIS# 013808924
QL384.E2 S44 2013

Seal secrets: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
By Sue Sayer. Penzance: Alison Hodge, 2012. HOLLIS# 013807832
QL737.P64 S29 2012

Strategic plan.
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. [Iowa City, IA: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2013]. HOLLIS# 013806145
QH61.S63 2013

A study of the marine resources of Bass River.
By John R. Curley … [et al.]. [Boston]: The Division, 1975. HOLLIS# 013807769
SH222.M4 M6 1975

A Study of the marine resources of the Taunton River and Mount Hope Bay.
By John R. Curley … [et al.]. [Boston]: Division of Marine Fisheries, Dept. of Natural Resources, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1974. HOLLIS# 002967373
SH221.5.N4 S78 1974

Vicuña: the queen of the Andes.
[Edited by] Loro Piana; photographs by Bruna Rotunno; [translation, Anna Carruthers]. Milan: Skira, 2013. HOLLIS# 013808983
QL737.U54 V43 2013

Wildlife in Italy.
Authors, Francesco Maria Angelici … [et. al.]. 1st English ed. Milano: Touring Club Italinano, c2004. HOLLIS# 013836266
QH152.W45 2004

Zoología: vertebrados.
By Luis Albuja V., Carmen Merizalde P. Quito, Ecuador: Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, 2012. HOLLIS# 013788316
QL605.A3 A53 2012