[Nhcoll-l] moving an herbarium collection

[Alan Harvey]

Greetings (and apologies for cross-posting),

Can anyone provide any insights as to how best to move an herbarium
collection? Our Biology department is slated to move into a new building on
the opposite side of campus this summer. This move includes our 80-cabinet
herbarium collection, which will be moving from the hallways of the
Math-Physics Building to an excellent dedicated space in the new building.
As exciting as this is, I confess to being a bit intimidated by the process
of moving this material.

Having the university's moving gang rough-house this fragile material is of
course out of the question. The initial thought was to consolidate the
specimens to free up a half dozen or so empty cabinets, move them over,
then pack up and move enough specimens to fill those cabinets, and repeat
this until everything's moved. Clearly a long, slow process! Recently our
chair has suggested that we might be able to hire a company to help; at
present I don't know anything about this company re: their experience with
moving collections (if any such company exists!).

Although there are, as always, time and money issues, the most important
issue is making sure we don't end up with a crumbled mess in the new digs!

Thanks in advance for any insights.

Cheers,

Alan

-- 
Alan Harvey
Professor of Biology and Curator of the Herbarium
President, Georgia Entomological Society
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8042
(912) 478-5784
fax (912) 478-0845
http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/bio-home/harvey/index.html
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