[Nhcoll-l] Terminology

Dean Pentcheff pentcheff at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 14:32:11 EST 2023


How about: "outreach collection" ?

Like other respondents, I thought of "teaching collection" or "education
collection", but those don't include the potential for commercial use.
Perhaps the world "outreach" is broad enough to cover all those uses.

-Dean
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On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 4:05 AM Lennart Lennuk <
Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
>
> How to name a collection that contains specimens with no data and is used
> for educational and commercial purposes?
>
> Our translator is using a word „auxiliary collection“ but I did not found
> any usage on that word.
>
>
>
> Best!
> Lennart
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