Staff – About BHL

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BHL Administration Staff

BHL Secretariat Staff

BHL Technical Team

BHL Governance Staff

BHL Administration Staff

BHL Secretariat Staff

Colleen Funkhouser

BHL Secretariat

Managing Director

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Bianca Crowley

BHL Secretariat

Digital Collections Manager

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Nicole Kearney

BHL Secretariat

Communications Director

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BHL Technical Team

Joel Richard

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Head of Web Services | BHL Technical Coordinator

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Mike Lichtenberg

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Lead Software Engineer

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Rahul Sharma

Vanderbilt University

Associate Cloud Engineer

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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

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Richard Wragg

Vice-Chair, BHL Members' Council

Library and Archives at the Natural History Museum, London

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Elisa Herrmann

Co-Secretary, BHL Members' Council

Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Museum für Naturkunde

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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 University

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Amanda Boczar

Strategic Development Officer, BHL Members' Council

University of South Florida Libraries

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Leora Siegel

Member at Large, BHL Members' Council

Chicago Botanic Garden

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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