We've now uploaded the first volumes of the 'Whirrakee, the newsletter of the Bendigo Field Naturalists Club' onto BHL (1980+). Thanks to PRO Victoria for funding this important work!
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This week we're scanning the 'Whirrakee, the newsletter of the Bendigo Field Naturalists Club'. These will soon be freely accessible on BHL thx to our PRO Victoria-funded Local History Grant. Can't wait? Flick thru our growing Field Nat Collection: biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/FNC…

One of the back issues of the Castlemaine Naturalist we've just made freely accessible on @biodivlibrary features an article about us making the back issues of field naturalist publications freely accessible on BHL. #Meta cc Atlas of Living Aust PRO Victoria biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63483829

Our PRO Victoria-funded 'Capturing the history of Victoria's Field Naturalists Project' is flying along. Our Victorian Field Naturalists Collection on the BHL website now contains 1,088 volumes & 18,868 pages. Find them here: biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/FNC… cc Atlas of Living Aust

Still wondering what to give your loved one on #ValentinesDay ? Here's some inspiration from Gould 's 'Birds of Australia' via BHL Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1… #LoveInTheLibrary #LibraryLove #LibraryLove rsDay

We're so thrilled to welcome Monash University Library to BHL Australia and BHL, and to have to opportunity to work with their wonderful team and spectacular treasures.
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In 2023, we made 85,000+ pgs of Australia's biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online on BHL (20,000 more than our previous best year). Huge thanks to our incredible staff/volunteers, our funding from Atlas of Living Aust & our 48 Australian #BHLib contributors. 🙏

BHL Australia is thrilled & honoured to be one of four recipients of Wikimedia Australia's 2024 Partner Project grants. Thank you Wikimedia Australia! wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2024_Part… cc BHL Atlas of Living Aust

To celebrate the new year, here's a beautiful pair of Lyre-Birds from 'The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union' (1922) biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8990464 digitised for BHL by American Museum of Natural History (articles being added to #BHLib by BHL Australia). #SciArt

Some #HistoricSciArt to brighten your day: Fairy Wrens from vol. 2 (1902) of 'The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union': biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9170235 via BHL, digitised by American Museum of Natural History cc BirdLife Australia

In 1910, Members of the Gould League of Bird Lovers of Victoria signed this pledge' 'I hereby pledge that I will protect native birds and will not collect their eggs'. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26212882 via BHL cc Atlas of Living Aust BirdLife Australia

Last week BHL Australia staff visited RBG Victoria, where their registration staff were using BHL to identify algae specimens in their collection (Codiophyllum natalense J.E. Gray 1872): biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25172740 (contributed to #BHLib by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

The Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby was 1st described (very briefly) in the literature in 1855 by Gray (beautifully illustrated by Wolf): biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747662 via @biodivlibrary via Natural History Museum (pic from Harvard University's copy biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37027985)