Staff – About BHL

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BHL Administration Staff

BHL Secretariat Staff

	Colleen Funkhouser Managing Director Profile
	Bianca Crowley Digital Collections Manager Profile
	Nicole Kearney Communications Director Profile

BHL Technical Team

	Joel Richard Smithsonian Libraries and Archives BHL Technical Coordinator Profile
	Mike Lichtenberg Lead Software Engineer Profile
	Rahul Sharma Vanderbilt University Associate Cloud Engineer Profile

BHL Governance Staff

Executive Committee of the Members’ Council (2024-2027)

	David Iggulden Chair, BHL Members' Council Library, Art & Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Profile
	Richard Wragg Vice-Chair, BHL Members' Council Library and Archives at the Natural History Museum, London Richard Wragg
	Elisa Herrmann Co-Secretary, BHL Members' Council Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Museum für Naturkunde Profile
	Joseph deVeer Co-Secretary, BHL Members' Council Project Manager and Museum Liaison, Ernst Mayr Library and Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard UniversityJoseph deVeer
	Amanda Boczar Strategic Development Officer, BHL Members' Council University of South Florida Libraries Profile
	Leora Siegel Member at Large, BHL Members' Council Chicago Botanic Garden Profile

Emeritus

Graham Higley, Founding Chair
Cathy Norton, Founding Vice-Chair
Constance Rinaldo, Founding Secretary
Tom Garnett, Founding Program Director
Chris Freeland, Founding Technical Director

Empowering Global Research

BHL supports research across the globe and in a variety of disciplines. Explore more BHL user testimonials.

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Having access to this literature through BHL is a treasure. Being able to show the students the original publications...speaks volumes.

Dr. Tracey Hunter-Doniger

College of Charleston

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BHL is a wonderful resource. I use a lot of old and obscure resources in my line of work, and BHL makes getting access to these sources a lot easier.

Dr. Paul D. Brinkman

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

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As a free, mobile archive for natural history literature, BHL is ideal for 21st century research, which can happen on the field, in a museum, or at a coffee shop, as long as there’s internet connectivity.

Dr. Nicholas Pyenson

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an amazing resource for visual artists! Any artist interested in learning about natural history and science would consider these rare resources invaluable.

Emily Williams, MFA

Troy University

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BHL is doing a wonderful service for researchers like me, who work with limited resources in developing countries like India. BHL has had a big, positive impact on my research.

Dr. Varad B. Giri

National Centre for Biological Sciences

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BHL is an incredible resource. It provides access to material that is otherwise hard to get and enables me to undertake detailed searches of these sources.

Dr. Karen Sayer

Leeds Trinity University