[NHCOLL-L:5001] Re: valuation of collections

[Monaghan, Nigel]

There was a substantial conference that resulted in a book on every aspect of this topic:
Value & Valuation Of Natural Science Collections
Edited by J. R. Nudds and C. W. Pettitt
ISBN:	 978-1-897799-76-5	
1997 Geological Society of London
 
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/bookshop/page2376.html?page=1&perpage=5&rtnpage=184&bookshopKeyword=&authorEditor=nudds&publisher=noSelection&series=noSelection&publicationYear=all&category=&joinOperator=all&filter=&filterValue=
 
It has US, UK and other perspectives and covered things from the viewpoint of curators, administrators, auctioneers and actuaries
 
Nigel
 

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From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu on behalf of Crystal Boyd
Sent: Thu 07/10/2010 02:49
To: cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu; NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4999] Re: valuation of collections



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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