Wii Boxing: Parr v. Kalfatovic - the movie

Wii Boxing: Parr v. Kalfatovic - the movie
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Wii boxing at the EOL meeting in Woods Hole. EOL component members engage in constructive play at the Bioinformatics Center.

Flora and Fauna

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Lady bug and honeysuckle

On the beach: South Beach

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Here's a photo on the shore at South Beach. I'm actually here for a conference (WebWise) and not just beachcombing!

Wouldn't it be great to have an way to look up information about the life you see as you walk along the beach or even in your own backyard?

Well, we're on the way there! The Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversitylibrary.org - the pages of which are integrated into EOL) are on the way to making this possible.

The EOL launched it's first 30,000 or so species pages in late February and the majority of these are from marine species. So, next time your on the beach, bring your smart gadget and find out more about what you're seeing!

If we can't laugh ...

at ourselves ... we can laugh at anteater experts:

Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters

BHL presentation at National Agriculture Library

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries staff members Martin Kalfatovic and Suzanne Pilsk gave a presentation on BHL to staff from the National Agriculture Library, the USDA Agriculture Research Service, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and others.

• The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. National Agriculture Library: Issues and Answers Seminar. January 30, 2008. Beltsville, MD.

Whiteboarding ...

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Building the Biodiversity Heritage Library one whiteboard at a time! (Fedora meeting at the Moore Foundation)

ALA Midwinter Gathering

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Staff from member institutions of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Open Content Alliance, and the Boston Library Consortium got together during ALA Midwinter (Philadelphia) at the Omni Hotel for some informal discussion. Attending were staff from Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), Williams, Brandeis, U Mass-Amherst, Boston Library Consortium, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Academy of Natural Sciences, FLICC/FEDLINK, and LuraTech.