As you may have realised by now, I am a great fan of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. And both the organisation and us interested in garden history will welcome the news reported in the St Louis Business Journal that the Missouri Botanic Garden has been awarded a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities.
To quote the article, the funds will go toward a new project 'titled The Art of Life, (which) will help develop software tools
for automated identification and will catalog the visual information
contained within more than 100,000 volumes and 38 million pages of core
historic literature made available through the Biodiversity Heritage
Library.'
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