“[The library is] such a good place for lonely kids to go,” said Miller. “I love the library. It’s just such a place of unquestioned peace.”

It’s that deep, unwavering affinity that brought the self-identified introvert into a room of book lovers. “I have been looking forward to this for so long,” she told Midwinter Meeting attendees. “It was the single event where I was like, ‘Duh, I will do this.’”

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.