[Nhcoll-l] Question on Office Collection Ethics

Wed Apr 15 02:30:50 EDT 2015

... just to add: everything, that was collected, prepared or otherwise 
treated or worked on during official working hours / office time either 
belongs to the collection or is worked on for the collection / research 
based at the institution. This e.g. excludes any mazarations for private 
purpose during office hours or using lab or other facilities for private 
purpose unless explicitly allowed from the head of the institute

Am 14.04.2015 um 22:53 schrieb Furth, David:
> That's the norm for most institutions.  But it should be written into 
> the CMP
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> [nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] on behalf of Callomon,Paul 
> [prc44 at drexel.edu]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2015 1:02 PM
> *To:* Prondzinski, Mary Beth; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Question on Office Collection Ethics
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> Our rule has always been that you can keep a pre-existing collection 
> when you start working here, but cannot then add to it if it is in 
> your primary field. As collection manager in Malacology, for example, 
>  I cannot maintain an active shell collection, but can collect coins.
>
> *Paul Callomon*
> /Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General 
> Invertebrates/
>
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> *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia***
>
> 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
> /callomon at ansp.org <mailto:callomon at ansp.org> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 
> 215-299-1170/
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> *From:*nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu 
> [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] *On Behalf Of *Prondzinski, 
> Mary Beth
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:10 PM
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Question on Office Collection Ethics
>
> Greetings all:
>
> Here at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, we are in the final 
> throes of putting together our Collections Policy and we had some 
> questions about the section on “Standards of Conduct Relating to 
> Collections” where Faculty/Staff are concerned.  In the case of 
> personal collections:  we have a clause that says personal collections 
> cannot be maintained on Museum property without permission from the 
> Executive Director, and no museum supplies, equipment or paid staff 
> can be utilized by such.
>
> However, personal collections that are acquired during museum employ 
> (or even before), are oftentimes used for comparative or teaching 
> examples and may or may not be museum-worthy samples, or even in the 
> person’s realm of study.   The problem arises when the personal 
> collection objects  become mixed in with the museum’s collection 
> objects:  if the person should suddenly meet their demise, how does 
> one who must sort through the remaining objects know what is museum 
> collections, potential museum collections or personal collections? 
>   What sort of restriction or regulations can be implemented to 
> prevent such confusion?  How do others in academic/research 
> institutions deal with this sort of situation?  One of our staff has a 
> huge personal collection of skeletal effigies, reminiscent of “Day of 
> the Dead”, which co-mingles with the primitive human osteology 
> research collection in his office.   Another collects skulls, turtle 
> carapaces, etc. that he finds in his travels, though his research is 
> Vertebrate Paleo.
>
> Any suggestions on protocol?
>
> Thanks for your input…
>
> Mary Beth Prondzinski
>
> Museum Collections Technician
>
> Alabama Museum of Natural History
>
> University of Alabama
>
> Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, #356
>
> Box 870340
>
> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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> (205) 348-5625
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> mbprondzinski at ua.edu <mailto:mbprondzinski at ua.edu>
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