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In his talk on the SPNHC conference in Leiden Rene Dekker, director
of NCB Naturalis, presented the vision of "integration" of natural
history collections, that is moving of large parts of collections
(inside a country or over national borders) to form specialised
sub-collections focussing on specific organismic groups or regions.<br>
<br>
Not long ago, the Amsterdam collection was integrated into
Naturalis. Soft language for the fact that the Zoological Museum in
Amsterdam was closed. Same happened with other smaller collections
in the Netherlands, e.g. geological collections, which - if I am not
completely wrong - have been evaluated regarding their "scientific
value" and have at least partly being in danger of being sold aiming
to "integrate" only valuable items of collections into Naturalis to
reduce potential storage capacity constraints there.<br>
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For me, the idea of "outsourcing" of preparations in Leiden is
alarming (even though it is not surprising), as this simply means a
massive loss of technical knowledge & skills necessary to
preserve specimens and to maintain collections. <br>
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Compared to recent decades, we are currently in the lucky situation
that there is a raised public awareness for "biodiversity research",
from which natural history collections do or could actively benefit.
One can only doubt why the management of Naturalis does not take
this chance but obviously is planning to cut their own preparation
expertise. Let's hope that this "idea" is not becoming one of these
fancy future trends more collections want to follow for budgetary or
whatever reasons ...<br>
<br>
Dirk <br>
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Am 13.06.2012 22:32, schrieb Bryant, James:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Of course “Live
Science” is wildly popular! It should be expanded,
obviously. Becky: what would be the argument at NCB against
expanding it? This is what the public wants to know, wants
to see, and wants to learn DIRECTLY about: I remember the
reports from the staff at the first phase of the Darwin
Center in London, and their docent managers said that -
more than the chance to see the collections
behind-the-scenes – the visitors enjoyed talking to the
scientists. Why would any of our institutions want to deny
our supporters (the public) these kinds of experiences? Why
couldn’t one of the principle public programs of any natural
science institution be the preparation and management of its
collections? Maybe become the basis for a formal
instructional program (the school within a museum concept)…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Desjardins, R.B.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 11, 2012 11:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Outsourcing prep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks everyone for your advice and
thoughts on this matter. I appreciate it. One issue that
has not been raised yet is that: I suspect that anyone who
knows how to do this work, and do it well, is already
associated with a museum and not willing to take on any more.
Or if they are (like the few offers I have gotten) we would
have to wait until their schedules are open, rather than be on
our time table. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Naturalis does have a “Live Science” area
where bird or mammal specimen prep is performed every day for
the public and it is wildly popular. My guess is that they
would keep this but all other prep would go. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Becky Desjardins<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NCB Naturalis <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leiden, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p>
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