[Nhcoll-l] users of natural history collections

[Kevin Winker]

I apologize to those who rummaged through my web site fruitlessly. It is a
mess I aspire to clean up. I rely on the browser's search function too much
and did not provide sufficient detail in my previous message. The note
here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html
is Winker, K., and J. J. Withrow. 2013. Small collections make a big
impact. Nature 493:480.

And the direct link to the methods we used to make the profile is here:
www.kevinwinker.org/Creation%20of%20UAM%20Birds%20Google%20Scholar%20profile.pdf

Best, K.


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Kevin Winker <kevin.winker at alaska.edu>wrote:

> Hi, Ann. We consider our loan queries and traffic and the resulting
> publications to be a good guide to user needs. The ways in which these have
> been changing generally in bird collections I addressed somewhat in:
>
> Winker, K. 2004. Natural history museums in a post-biodiversity era.
> BioScience 54:455-459.
>
> We have since created a way to see how user publications themselves are
> being used, giving us further insight into the collection's value:
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html
>
> (How we made the profile is available on my website: www.kevinwinker.org)
>
> Best,
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ann Pinzl <apinzl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> **
>>  Greetings,
>>     We here in Nevada are about to undertake a survey of actual and
>> potential herbarium users regarding their contemporary use patterns, needs,
>> interests, and preferences.  We're interested in studies based on actual
>> *user* *input*, not what we the curators/collection managers consider to
>> be the case.  While our focus is on herbaria (which seem not to have had
>> this kind of study made), it's very likely that such a study done in
>> another discipline could give us some guidance.  This undertaking strikes
>> me as an unusual approach to determining herbarium value. Is it? Does
>> anyone know of any previous surveys/studies of this sort (utilizing user
>> input)?
>>     I thank you in advance.
>>
>> Ann Pinzl
>>
>>
>> Ann Pinzl
>> 4020 Hobart Road
>> Carson City, Nevada 89703
>> phone:  775-883-0463
>> fax:   425-871-9817
>>
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>
> --
> Kevin Winker
> University of Alaska Museum
> 907 Yukon Drive
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
>



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Kevin Winker
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775
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