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To celebrate The New York Botanical Garden’s and the Mertz Library’s 125th anniversary, this article outlines some of the Library’s newest initiatives as well as summarizes ongoing programming since the Garden’s 2001–2007: Plan for a New Era and the 2009–2015 New Strategic Plan: Into the 21 st Century.
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These are conservative estimates based on comparing our library catalog entries against titles listed, for systematics, in Stafleu and Cowen, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition, (1976) and for floras in Frodin, Guide to Standard Floras of the World, 2nd edition, (2001). Stafleu and Cowan’s Taxonomic Literature is a selected list of publications up to 1940. Of course publications in systematics continued to be produced after 1940 and the library continues to collect these. Frodin's Standard Floras does not include comprehensive coverage of local or regional floras, many of which are included in the library collections, and all entries in Frodin stop with works published to 1999.
In the standard bibliography of the publications of André and François André Michaux, Ian MacPhail (1981) provides bibliographic descriptions of all monographic work the Michaux’s, printed before the end of the 19th century. The work describes 25 titles with an additional 14 variant editions for a total of 39 entries. The Mertz Library holds 26 of those titles, more than any other library searched by using OCLC WorldCat.
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Fraser, S., Wheeler, D. The LuEsther T. Mertz Library: The evolution of a modern, digitally integrated botanical library. Brittonia 68, 348–355 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-016-9426-4
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