News & Noteworthy

Fantastic Milestones

This month the Field Book Project hit two important milestones: 1) complete cataloging of the Department of Botany Field Books, totally over 1,000 field books, and 2) the 5000th item level record. The Field Book Project, in its grant to our funders the Council of Library and Information Science, initially estimated the existance of 6000 field books at the Smithsonian Institution. Read more about these fantastic milestones on our blog:

Trends in collecting: celebrating 5000 records

Botany Round-Up