This summer, BHL maintained an active presence at library and natural history conferences.  In June, Becky Morin delivered the presentation Biodiversity Heritage Library: Climbing a 40-Million Page Mountain (& Living to Tell the Tale) at the Special Libraries Association Conference in San Diego, CA. At the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, June 27-July 2, BHL hosted both a poster and a presentation as part of the conference.  Martin Kalfatovic, Diana Duncan, and Suzanne Pilsk attended the poster on behalf of the poster's authors, Gilbert Borrego and Grace Costantino.  Martin Kalfatovic and Nancy Gwinn gave a BHL presentation to a group of nearly seventy librarians at the International Relations Round Table pre-conference. Tomoko Steen of the Library of Congress promoted BHL at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2013 Annual Conference, July 7-12, also in Chicago. At the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD), Marty Schlabach and Mary Ochs of Cornell presented a poster entitled "Biodiversity Heritage Library: Supporting Research with Open Content," and authored by Constance Rinaldo, Bianca Crowley and Boris Jacob. As part of the five-day Summer Teacher Institutes hosted by the Library of Congress in August, BHL shared an exhibit table on Science and Technology with the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress.

We extend our thanks to this BHL's three summer interns:

• Laurel Byrnes, Princeton University, Marketing Intern June 2013
• Adriana Marroquin, University of Maryland College Park, Virtual Reference Intern June-August 2013
• Kirsten Hostetler, University of Washington, Marketing Intern June-August 2013.

Each has made valuable contributions to pan-BHL efforts.   Altogether, they have produced over a dozen blog posts highlighting books from the BHL collection as well as contributing content for BHL's outreach efforts via Facebook and Twitter. In addition, interns have compiled several tutorials documenting various aspects of BHL outreach and workflow tools. Finally, thanks to Adriana Marroquin's work with the new BHL Gemini coordinator, Jacqueline Chapman, the backlog of scan requests submitted by users via the BHL feedback forms has been eliminated. 

In July, Carolyn Sheffield joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as the new Program Manager.  Carolyn replaces Grace Costantino who served as Program Manager for 18 months and was an active member of BHL for a total of five years.  We are thrilled to welcome Carolyn into the BHL family while sending our warmest thanks to Grace Costantino for all of her contributions to BHL.