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Garden’s Writer’s Association conference links

September 27, 2008

News from the Library

Hello all,

Here are the links in the presentation I gave at the Garden Writer's Association conference. Don't forget to use a botanical or horticultural librarian!

Susan C. Eubank, Arboretum Librarian
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Garden Writers Association Annual Conference,
Portland, September 22, 2008


Very Large Botanical Garden Libraries; National Library

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

www.cbhl.net


New York Botanical Garden, LuEster T. Mertz Library

http://library.nybg.org/

Missouri Botanic Garden

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib/

National Agricultural Library

http://www.nal.usda.gov/

Large Universities with Botany or Arboretum Libraries
Arnold Arboretum Library, Harvard University

http://arboretum.harvard.edu/library/library.html

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/

Western Botanical Garden Libraries

Arboretum Library, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

http://www.arboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=getcatheadlines&Catagory=Library

Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle

http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/

Helen Crocker Russell Library, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum


http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/library/

Helen Fowler Library, Denver Botanic Gardens

http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/helen-fowler-library

Plant name sites

“IPNI” International Plant Names Index

http://www.ipni.org/index.html

“Tropicos” W3TROPICOS, Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos)

http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

“RHS Horticultural Database” Royal Horticultural Society

http://www.rhs.org.uk/databases/summary.asp

Indexes

“Plantinfo” Anderson Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, University of Minnesota Libraries

http://plantinfo.umn.edu/

Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index

From EBSCO http://www.ebsco.com/home/ $850 a year to CBHL libraries; generally available at college & universities or botanic garden libraries.

Some other useful websites

www.Efloras.org

www.worldcat.org