The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an open access repository of literature about biodiversity and the natural world contributed to by hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives from across the world. Based in Washington DC at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives the global consortium works together to digitise and make accessible natural history literature for researchers, students and the general public.

Auckland Museum became a partner of the Biodiversity Heritage Library in 2018, and in 2019 received funding from the Lotteries Grants Board to further support this work and a wider aim to establish the Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Heritage Library, working with external partners across the country to contribute Aotearoa New Zealand literature available to the global “biodiversity community”.

Learn more at www.aucklandmuseum.com/bhl or browse digitised content at www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/AWMM#/titles