<div dir="ltr"><div>I apologize to those who rummaged through my web site fruitlessly. It is a mess I aspire to clean up. I rely on the browser's search function too much and did not provide sufficient detail in my previous message. The note here: <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html</a>� <br>
is Winker, K., and J. J. Withrow. 2013. Small collections make a big impact. Nature 493:480.<br><br>And the direct link to the methods we used to make the profile is here:<br><a href="http://www.kevinwinker.org/Creation%20of%20UAM%20Birds%20Google%20Scholar%20profile.pdf">www.kevinwinker.org/Creation%20of%20UAM%20Birds%20Google%20Scholar%20profile.pdf</a><br>
<br></div>Best, K.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Kevin Winker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.winker@alaska.edu" target="_blank">kevin.winker@alaska.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, Ann. We consider our loan queries and traffic and the resulting publications to be a good guide to user needs. The ways in which these have been changing generally in bird collections I addressed somewhat in: <br>
<br>Winker, K. 2004. Natural history museums in a post-biodiversity era. BioScience 54:455-459.<br><br></div>We have since created a way to see how user publications themselves are being used, giving us further insight into the collection's value:<br>
<div><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html</a><br><br></div><div>(How we made the profile is available on my website: <a href="http://www.kevinwinker.org" target="_blank">www.kevinwinker.org</a>)<br>
<br></div><div>Best,<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ann Pinzl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apinzl@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">apinzl@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Greetings,</div>
<div>��� We here in Nevada are about to undertake a survey of
actual and potential herbarium users regarding their contemporary use patterns,
needs, interests, and preferences.� We're interested in studies based on
actual�<u>user</u> <u>input</u>, not what we the curators/collection
managers consider to be the case.� While our focus is on herbaria (which
seem not to have had this kind of study made), it's very likely that such a
study done in another discipline could give us some guidance.��This
undertaking strikes me as an unusual approach to determining herbarium value. Is
it? Does anyone know of any previous surveys/studies of this sort (utilizing
user input)?</div>
<div>��� I thank you in advance.</div>
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<div>Ann Pinzl</div><span><font color="#888888">
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<div>Ann Pinzl<br>4020 Hobart Road<br>Carson City, Nevada 89703<br>phone:�
<a href="tel:775-883-0463" value="+17758830463" target="_blank">775-883-0463</a><br>fax:�� <a href="tel:425-871-9817" value="+14258719817" target="_blank">425-871-9817</a></div></font></span></div>
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