[NHCOLL-L:1443] Permitting Panel Coming Up

[Roberta Faul-Zeitler]

January 29, 2002

Dear NHCOLL Subscribers:

We want to alert you that four federal permit-granting agencies will be
getting together to do a joint program at the June 2002 Annual Meeting of
the Natural Science Collections Alliance at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington DC. (June 7-8; opening reception June 6)

Representatives from US Fish & Wildlife Service, NOAA, APHIS (USDA) and
National Park Service are working together to create an integrated
presentation  covering all major treaties, acts and do a general permitting
overview; followed by a question/answer session; and then "open hours" in
our exhibit area where they will have individual agency displays and time to
talk with you one on one. The agency folks are all excited about having this
"air time" to spend with you.

A second major part of the program is a Collection Metrics program
co-chaired by Sally Shelton and Cheryl Bright, to address collection
management in a time of shrinking financial resources and increased costs.
The session will focus on setting goals, priorities, and quantifiable
methods that measure progress in attaining goals.

Other collections-oriented sessions will address: the collections that
underpin genetic, genomic, and proteomic research, economic botany,
osteological collections, and herbaria.

Our full program will be on our web site within a few days. To visit go to:
http://www.ascoll.org/annualmeeting/2002/2002annlmtg.htm

It is NOT too late to submit ideas for posters or mini-displays.

We look forward to hearing from you --

Bobbie

Roberta Faul-Zeitler
Executive Director
Natural Science Collections Alliance
1725 K Street NW, Suite 601
Washington DC 20006
Tel. (202) 835-9050
FAX (202) 835-7334
Email: faulzeitler at nscalliance.org
Formerly the Association of Systematics Collections