[Nhcoll-l] Due Date: Call for abstracts, Small Collections Symposium, SPNHC 2014

[Gil Nelson]

This is a re-announcement, this time with a deadline. iDigBio and SCNet 
are sponsoring the symposium described below at SPNHC 2014.

Please submit abstracts by *5 May 2014* using the submission form at: 
http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium
*
*Original announcement of 4 March (with thanks to those who have already 
responded!):*
SPNHC 2014 Small Collections Symposium **
**Call for Presentation Abstracts*

We are pleased to announce that iDigBio <https://www.idigbio.org/> and 
the Small Collections Network (SCNet <http://scnet.acis.ufl.edu/>) are 
organizing a symposium at SPNHC 2014 
<http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/> entitled 
*Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Small Collections in Digitization 
Initiatives: A Call From the Small Collections Network (SCNet)*. The 
symposium is scheduled for Wednesday, 25 June and will focus on 
strategies for recruiting, retaining, and sustaining small collections 
within local, regional, national, and international digitization 
initiatives. The program will include a report of findings from a 
community survey of small collections as well as outcomes from the small 
collections workshop 
<https://www.idigbio.org/content/small-collections-workshop> to be held 
at Central Michigan University USA, 7-10 April. Those who would like to 
contribute to this symposium are invited to submit a presentation 
abstract addressing one or more of the following themes, or an alternate 
theme. Talks are anticipated to be 20 minutes long, inclusive of 5 
minutes for questions. Our goal is to create an international dialog 
centered on issues related to curating, digitizing, and managing small 
collections.

Currently envisioned themes include:
1. the importance of small collections data to national networks of 
biodiversity data  repositories,
2. data-driven research underscoring the significance and contributions 
of small collections to biodiversity research and/or to the training of 
undergraduate and graduate students,
3. the role of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in sustaining 
and growing small collections,
4. recommended or best practices for initiating and sustaining 
digitization in small collections,
5. current initiatives targeted at the support of small collections,
6. the role of larger collections in sustaining smaller collections,
7. issues, challenges, and methods for resurrecting orphaned 
collections, and
8. the role SCNet might play in sustaining small collections.

Proposals and abstracts may be submitted at: 
http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium.
For further information, contact the organizers of this symposium: *Gil 
Nelson* (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu <mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>) or *Anna 
Monfils* (monfi1ak at cmich.edu <mailto:monfi1ak at cmich.edu>).

Follow Gil Nelson on Twitter @idiggilnelson.

-- 
Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information

Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu
Twitter: @idiggilnelson

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