[NHCOLL-L:4999] Re: valuation of collections

[Crystal Boyd]

Hi, Cindy.

It's hard to put assign dollar values to any collection, but here are some articles that might get you started on the "big picture" value of collections. Hope this helps!
-Crystal

-"The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society"
http://www.life.illinois.edu/suarez/Publications/SuarezTsutsui2004Biosci.pdf

-"The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ1-3WJDV7J-23&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F01%2F1998&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1487836792&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=f4fe9ec8bb68b24910d5d213e81f8c8c&searchtype=a

-"No way to treat a national treasure"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14119164.300--no-way-to-treat-a-natural-treasure-lack-of-funds-is-endangering-biological-collections-everywhere-says-jane-seymour-but-fears-for-the-worlds-biodiversity-might-just-save-them--.html

-"100 uses for an herbarium"
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/bot/pdfs/100_uses.pdf

-"Threatened Collections Toolkit" from the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
http://140.247.98.87/files/SPNHC%20Threatened%20Collections%20Toolkit.pdf

-And here is an example of current collections-based research that could not happen without specimens from the past. It is, of course, just one example out of many collections-based projects.
http://dbmuseblade.colorado.edu/index.html


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Crystal Boyd
Graduate Assistant, Entomology Collection
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

crystal.boyd at colorado.edu
612-247-5283
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