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"The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has launched a new Digital Collections
platform, allowing anyone to access 10,000 library items and herbarium
specimens online for free.
The new collections are available for all, from children doing their homework
to academic researchers and garden lovers who want to browse some of the
outstanding botanical art made available on the platform.
The RHS digital library project was made possible with funding from the
National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.
Many of the items available through the Digital Collections are rare, fragile
or valuable so would not otherwise be accessible to the public. Currently there
are 9,542 library items including books, photographs and artworks, and 458
herbarium specimens such as pressed flowers on the platform. The RHS Lindley
Library and Herbarium teams will continue to upload items onto the platform,
ensuring the site constantly gets bigger and richer as more content is
uploaded. There will be a particular focus on uploading materials that are
unique to the RHS collections and resources that are important to researchers,
in addition to items that support exhibitions in the Old Lab at RHS Garden
Wisley."
Via Esther Schindler.
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