[Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections Class--your input requested

[Robert Waller]

Hi Heather,

In connection with (1) you might want to look at the publication by Cato et
al:

Paisley S. Cato, Robert Waller, Llyn Sharp, John Simmons and Stephen L.
Williams.  Developing Staff Resources for Managing Collections.  Virginia
Museum of Natural History, Special Publication Number 4, Martinsville,
71pp., 1996.

It should still be available from the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

Rob

 

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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections
Class--your input requested

 

I have the wonderful opportunity to be the director at the Joseph Moore
Museum at Earlham College. With that position, I get to teach one course
per year in "Museum Studies." My goals with the course are to first train
students in the most useful skills they will need to go on as collections
managers or curators or researchers who use collections, and second, for
students who may never work in/for a museum in the future, to convince them
of the importance of biological collections so that they will be educated
lifelong museum advocates.

Here is where I ask for *your input:*
(1) what are the *skills *you want incoming collections manager, graduate

students or curators to have?

(2) we will read an article each week in which someone has published their
research using specimens/collections as a primary source of
information/data. For example, ancient DNA, isotope, morphological studies.

What are some of the best *examples of collections-based research* you

thinkI should include?

Thanks for your input,

Heather

 

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