Bee-coming a virtual library

Last spring, Mann Library launched its newest online collection of
historical literature with The Hive and the Honeybee, a growing digital
collection of volumes from the renowned  Everett Phillips Beekeeping
collection at Mann Library.

Prof. Phillips founded Cornell's apiculture collection, one of the
largest and most comprehensive beekeeping libraries in the world with
the support of New York State beekeepers in the 1920s.  For the past
few years, U.S. beekeepers have taken this support one big step further
by raising money to help digitize the most important books in the
Phillips collection and place them online where they can be used by
beekeepers, apiculturists, entomologists, biologists and any interested
person in the world.  Particularly effective in getting the word out
about the Hive & Honey Bee initiative were two generous challenges:
the first announced by the Eastern Apicultural Society in early 2003
and a second by the Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association in spring 2004.
Each challenge promised to match all gifts on a 1:1 basis up to $1000.
Beekeepers across the country--from Maine to Tennessee and
Oregon--responded enthusiastically.

By August 2003 they had fully met the EAS challenge, and by December
2004 the TBBA challenge was complete as well. Thanks to this support
and gifts that continue to come from American beekeepers, the Hive &
Honeybee Collection will continue to grow. The next set of books will
be added to the collection in spring 2005.

To find out more or to browse this growing collection go to
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/.

We are looking for an individuals or organization that might be
interested in continuing this Challenge so that we may provide more
beekeeping books to the world beekeeping community.  We are slowly but
surely  fulfilling  Phillips goal of providing beekeepers with an
"accessible storehouse of our knowledge of bees and beekeeping".


This is the next set of  books being prepared for digitization with a
Target of Spring 2005 for mounting to the internet.

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  Alley, Henry.  Thirty years among the bees ... Salem, Mass., Salem
press, 1891.

  Cowan, T. W. (Thomas William), 1840-1926. Wax craft, all about
beeswax; its history, production, adulteration, and commercial value
with 17 plates and 37 figures on art paper.   London, S. Low, Marston &
co., ltd. [etc.] 1908.

  Harbison, John S.  The bee-keeper's directory; or, The theory and
practice of bee culture, in all its departments, the result of
eighteen years personal study of their habits and instincts. With an
introductory essay by O. C. Wheeler ...  San Francisco, H. H. Bancroft
and company, 1861.

 Benton, Frank.   The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture
Washington, Govt. print. off., 1899.

  Cowan, T. W. (Thomas William), 1840-1926. British bee-keeper's guide
book to the management of bees in moveable comb hives and the use of
the  extractor.  London : Houlston, 1881.

  Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. Bee-breeding in the West.   Cincinnati :
E. Lucas, 1841.

  Ballantine, William.  A practical treatise on bee culture.  Sago,
Ohio. Bloomfield, 1884.

  Bevan, Edward, 1770-1860. The honey bee, its natural history,
physiology, and management.   London, Van Voorst, 1827.

  Kidder, K. P.  Kidder's guide to apiarian science, being a practical
treatise, in every department of bee culture and bee management.
Embracing the natural history of the bee ... the anatomy and physiology
of the different species  of bees that constitute a colony, &c
Burlington, Vt., S. B. Nichols; Chicago, R. Blanchard, 1858.

   King, N. H.  The bee-keeper's text-book with alphabetical index,
being a complete reference book on all practical subjects connected
with the culture of the honey bee in both common and movable-comb
hives, giving minute  directions for the management of bees in every
month of the year, and illustrating the nucleus system of  swarming and
Italian queen rearing. Cleveland. Viets & Savage. 1864.
  or
 King, Albert J.  The new bee-keepers' text-book  New York, King,
1878.  24th ed., 52d thousand. Being a thorough revision of the old
text book, by N. H. & H. A. King. Enlarged and  illustrated.



Mike Griggs

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