September 28, 2008
Garden’s Writer’s Association conference links
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 LibrarianLos Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic GardenGarden 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 LibrariesArnold 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://files.arboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=getcatheadlines&Catagory=Library
Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle
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.orgwww.worldcat.org
