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CATALOGING AND ACCESS AT
THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES Reality and Possibilities
July 30 2012
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
ABOUT SIL J
uly
30
20
12
ABOUT SIL
Reports to Deputy Under Secretary for
Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
20 libraries
Total volumes over 2 million
40000 rare books 10000 manuscripts
About 95 staff
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN
httpwwwsilsieduPDFFocus_on_Servicepdf
Service emphasis
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 1 COLLABORATING ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for
connecting collaborating and exploring across
disciplines and information boundaries
STRATEGY 11 SIL connects users to
people information and programs
STRATEGY 12 SIL exchanges information
and fosters interdisciplinary research
nationally and internationally
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
ABOUT SIL J
uly
30
20
12
ABOUT SIL
Reports to Deputy Under Secretary for
Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
20 libraries
Total volumes over 2 million
40000 rare books 10000 manuscripts
About 95 staff
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN
httpwwwsilsieduPDFFocus_on_Servicepdf
Service emphasis
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 1 COLLABORATING ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for
connecting collaborating and exploring across
disciplines and information boundaries
STRATEGY 11 SIL connects users to
people information and programs
STRATEGY 12 SIL exchanges information
and fosters interdisciplinary research
nationally and internationally
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
ABOUT SIL
Reports to Deputy Under Secretary for
Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
20 libraries
Total volumes over 2 million
40000 rare books 10000 manuscripts
About 95 staff
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN
httpwwwsilsieduPDFFocus_on_Servicepdf
Service emphasis
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 1 COLLABORATING ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for
connecting collaborating and exploring across
disciplines and information boundaries
STRATEGY 11 SIL connects users to
people information and programs
STRATEGY 12 SIL exchanges information
and fosters interdisciplinary research
nationally and internationally
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN
httpwwwsilsieduPDFFocus_on_Servicepdf
Service emphasis
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 1 COLLABORATING ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for
connecting collaborating and exploring across
disciplines and information boundaries
STRATEGY 11 SIL connects users to
people information and programs
STRATEGY 12 SIL exchanges information
and fosters interdisciplinary research
nationally and internationally
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 1 COLLABORATING ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for
connecting collaborating and exploring across
disciplines and information boundaries
STRATEGY 11 SIL connects users to
people information and programs
STRATEGY 12 SIL exchanges information
and fosters interdisciplinary research
nationally and internationally
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars researchers scientists and the larger world of learners
STRATEGY 21 SIL builds partnerships with other individuals and departments in the Institution who are developing an SI-wide digitization strategy
STRATEGY 22 SIL increases awareness of SIL content and expertise through rapid prototyping of discovery tools and new technologies
STRATEGY 23 SIL builds sustains protects and shares world class collections making decisions about acquisitions and preservation of print and digital collections informed by a deepening understanding of usersrsquo current and future needs
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS STRATEGIC PLAN CONT
GOAL 3 CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs serving users where they live and work
STRATEGY 31 SIL looks to user generated evidence for its decision-making framework
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoTraditional catalogingrdquo
Standards
AACR2
AAT
CONSER
LCSH LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
MARC21
NACO
Tools
MacroExpress
MarcEdit
OCLC
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
ldquoMetadatardquo
Standards
AAT
Dublin Core
MARCXML
MODS
RIS (RefWorks)
Tools
DSpace
RefWorks
SIRSIDYNIX Horizon
Zotero
Excel
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
SIL Catalog
httpsiris-librariessieduipac20ipacjspprofile=
Smithsonian Research Online
SRO is a set of services to the research community
both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
the program assists in capturing the research output
of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to
Institutional management as well as scientists and
historians world-wide
httpresearchsiedu
Smithsonian Digital Repository
httpsi-pddrsiedudspace
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Art and Artist Files The Smithsonian Institution Libraries artists files are an exceptional resource
for art historical research Often these files are the only obtainable sources of information on emerging regional and local artists Until now the files were largely unavailable to those who did not travel to Washington DC In 2004 several efforts were combined to produce a searchable database of artist names as the first step toward universal accessibility to these valuable file
httpwwwsilsiedudigitalcollectionsart-designartandartistfiles
Galaxy of Images The Smithsonian Institution Librariesrsquo New Media Office provides reproductions
from preexisting digital files or new digital photography of material from its collections to students academics and creative professionals in publishing design broadcast and other media This collection currently contains 1745 bookscollections and 15778 images
httpwwwsilsieduimagegalaxy
Trade Catalogs The trade literature collection of the Smithsonian is internationally known as an
important source for the history of American business technology marketing consumption and design Manufacturers issued trade catalogs to promote and sell their products The present collection contains more than 500000 catalogs technical manuals advertising brochures price lists company histories and related materials representing more than 30000 companies The Smithsonian Libraries acquires trade literature through gifts and purchases
httpwwwsilsiedutradeliteratureindexcfm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SILrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity
held in their collections and to make that
literature available for open access and
responsible use as a part of a global
ldquobiodiversity commonsrdquo BHL also serves as
the foundational literature component of the
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
httpbiodiversitylibraryorg
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SIrsquoS CATALOGS AND DATABASES
Natural History Collections Museum collection records
httpwwwmnhsiedurcdbcollection_db_policy1html
The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
(NMNH) captures electronic data about its collections to
enhance access to and ability to do research on its collections
meet the Smithsonianrsquos mission and stewardship responsibility
to preserve its collections and the information inherent in them
enhance informational integrity and value of collections as the
foundation for research exhibitions publications and
educational programs
facilitate legal physical and intellectual control over collections
and
improve public access to the collections
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Natural History will make data in the following fields
freely available on the ldquoNatural History Webrdquo for collections that have been
electronically recorded with certain exceptions (see below)
Catalogue number (USNM number)
Name (for biological and paleontological specimens this includes at least the scientific
name (binomial) and author(s) and may also include year published identifier and year
identified for rocks minerals gems etc the name(s) and sometimes the chemical
composition for anthropological specimens the object name
Original collection locality including
Country andor Ocean
State or equivalent primary political andor geographical unit within country
County or equivalent secondary political andor geographical unit within country if
available
Depth andor Elevation (if available)
Geographic coordinates (if available and sometimes rounded to the nearest degree)
Collector(s)
Collectorrsquos number (if available)
Date collected
Numbers of specimens (if appropriate)
Type Status (if appropriate)
Low resolution thumbnail photo (when available)
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NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
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SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
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2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
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2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
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2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
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2
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS CONT
httpcollectionsmnhsiedusearch
A total of 5443341 specimen records are currently available from
this facility Of these approximately 292000 represent all of the
museums available extant biological primary type specimen
records Approximately 139000 are paleobiological type specimen
records and 560 are mineral type specimen records
EMu (KE Software httpwwwkesoftwarecomemu)
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SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
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Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
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01
2
Ju
ly 3
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2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
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2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
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Ju
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
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0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
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2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
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DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
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01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
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2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
Ju
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BACK TO THE LIBRARIES hellip Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
ly 3
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2
BHL Ju
ly 3
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
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2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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0 2
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2
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Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
NMNH COLLECTION RECORDS CONT Ju
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0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
httpcollectionssiedusearchabouthtm
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0 2
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2
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picklist bidding on titles with member
libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into BHL along with scanned materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
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BHL Ju
ly 3
0 2
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2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
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0 2
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2
Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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2
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2
SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SI COLLECTIONS SEARCH CENTER
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an
online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major
collections from our museums archives libraries and
research units There are 77 million catalog records
relating to areas for Art amp Design History amp Culture
and Science amp Technology with 568100 images video
clips sound files electronic journals and other
resources
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Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
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2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
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2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
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01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Internet Archive
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Internet Archive
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Internet Archive
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Ju
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2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
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2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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ly 3
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
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Recycle
Get out there
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ly 3
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2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE DIGITIZATION PROJECT) Ju
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Internet Archive
Scanning rare requested materials in our
History and Culture Libraries
Reusing our MARC data
Exporting into Internet Archive along with scanned
materials
Linked by barcode data ndash all scanned materials must
be barcoded and linked to full bib records in SIRIS
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
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Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
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01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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0 2
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2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
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Ju
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01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
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SHAC (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY amp CULTURE
DIGITIZATION PROJECT) CONT Ju
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0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
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Ju
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0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
SPECIAL LIBRARIES amp CATALOGING
Take aways
Collaboration
Creativity
MS Excel
Flexibility
Possibilities
Recycle
Get out there
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Andō Hiroshige
Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi [Fifty-three
Stations of the Tokaido]
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Maria Sibylla Merian
Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare
Blumennahrung 1730
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
John Lloyd Stephens
Incidents of Travel in Egypt
Arabia Petraeliga and the Holy
Land 1856
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
Ju
ly 3
0 2
01
2
ENDINGS hellip
Polly Khater Discovery Services Manager
khaterpsiedu
SILrsquos catalog httpsiris-librariessiedu
SILrsquos home page httpwwwsilsiedu
SILrsquos page for researchers
httpwwwsilsieduresearch
SILrsquos blog httpbloglibrarysiedu
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