Botanical Libraries • Collections • Databases • Catalogues • Archives • Electronic Resources: March 2014

Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library

The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library is a specialized research collection devoted to the study of woody plants. In addition to horticulture, major collections held by the Arnold Arboretum Library in Jamaica Plain (JP) include North Temperate zone floras, dendrology, plant taxonomy, forestry, landscape design, garden history, cultural landscape studies, and plant pathology. The collections contain more than 40,000 volumes, 30,000 photographs, and an archive that documents the Arboretum's history and is a repository for other 19th, 20th, and 21st century horticultural and botanical collections.

Digital Library of the Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC) • Madrid

The Digital Library of the Royal Botanic Garden (CSIC) is an online information resource about botanical bibliography. It wants to be the reference botany digital library of the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Macaronesia, North Africa, Mediterranean region and Latin America publications; and also to provide the largest possible collection of essential works, journals, and other botanical works (historical, floristic, taxonomic, etc.; both cryptogams and phanerogams). It wants to be a work tool for researchers, environmental technicians, teachers, historians, amateurs, etc., providing facsimile images of the bibliographic sources about biodiversity plant, history of botany, etc.; providing also detailed bibliographic records and detailed descriptions of contents and pagination of the publications.

Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture • San Francisco Botanical Garden

The Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, established in 1972, is northern California's most comprehensive horticultural library. The library houses approximately 27,000 volumes and 350 plant and garden periodicals. The library collections cover all aspects of horticulture including gardening, garden design, botanical art, ethnobotany and pest management, with an emphasis on plants grown in Mediterranean and other mild temperate climates. The library also features a 1,600-volume children's botanical library, Sunday children's story time programs and botanical art exhibitions.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.

Hunt Institute's Library (HIBD)

The Library identifies, acquires, conserves, catalogues, and otherwise provides access to published materials relating to botany and its history, with an emphasis on systematics. Known for its collection of historical works on botany, the Library is a non-circulating research collection consulted by the Institute's staff, visiting scholars and the public. The collection features 30,150 book and serial titles that date from the late 1400s and focus on the development of botany as a science and includes modern taxonomic monographs, floristic works and serial titles in the plant sciences.

Kew Library, Art & Archives

One of the most important botanical reference sources in the world, Library, Art & Archives contains more than half a million items, including books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters and manuscripts, periodicals, biographies and maps. During the 160 years of the library's history (it came into being through the bequest of the library of William Arnold Bromfield in 1852), material has been acquired by gift, purchase and exchange. Over 90 languages are represented, making the library a global resource for plant science, research and conservation. An extension to the Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives was completed in 2010 and provides much-needed additional and secure storage for our collections, as well as a dedicated reading room for visitors to Library, Art & Archives.

Lenhardt Plant Science Library • Chicago Botanic Garden

Today, the collections of the Lenhardt Library hold approximately 125,000 volumes including books, periodicals, rare books, special collections, videos, DVDs, slides, nursery catalogs, and the archives of the Chicago Horticultural Society. The Lenhardt Library strives to provide plant science resources and accurate information to users by collecting, organizing, preserving, and sharing subject-specific materials for current and future use, while supporting all objectives of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Mertz Library

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is one of the world's largest and most important botanical and horticultural research libraries, with over one million accessioned items (books, journals, original art and illustration, seed and nursery catalogs, architectural plans of glass houses, scientific reprints, and photographs) and over 4,800 linear feet of archival materials. The Library serves as both a research and a public library and as both a scholarly resource and a general plant information service. It offers a wide array of reference resources, print and electronic, and the help of an informed staff to anyone visiting the Library through the Internet or in person.

The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) is the leading professional organization in the field of botanical and horticultural information services. The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) believes in the critical importance of collecting, preserving, and making accessible the accumulated knowledge about plants for present and future generations. Therefore, CBHL provides an organizational framework and an active forum for institutions and individuals concerned with fostering the advancement of botanical and horticultural information and information services.

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