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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Heather,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In connection with (1) you might want to look at the publication by Cato et al:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It should still be available from the Virginia Museum of Natural History.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Heather Lerner<br><b>Sent:</b> March 6, 2014 2:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections Class--your input requested<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have the wonderful opportunity to be the director at the Joseph Moore<br>Museum at Earlham College. With that position, I get to teach one course<br>per year in "Museum Studies." My goals with the course are to first train<br>students in the most useful skills they will need to go on as collections<br>managers or curators or researchers who use collections, and second, for<br>students who may never work in/for a museum in the future, to convince them<br>of the importance of biological collections so that they will be educated<br>lifelong museum advocates.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here is where I ask for *your input:*<br>(1) what are the *skills *you want incoming collections manager, graduate</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>students or curators to have?<br><br>(2) we will read an article each week in which someone has published their<br>research using specimens/collections as a primary source of<br>information/data. For example, ancient DNA, isotope, morphological studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What are some of the best *examples of collections-based research* you</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>thinkI should include?<br><br>Thanks for your input,<br><br>Heather<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p>Heather<br><br>*******************************************<br><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Heather R. L. Lerner, Ph.D., M.S.</span><br><a href="http://earlham.edu/jmm" target="_blank">Joseph Moore Museum</a> Director<br>Assistant Professor of Biology<br>Earlham College<br>801 National Road West<br>Richmond IN 47374<br><br>*******************************************<br>Google Voice: 949-GENOMES<br>Email: <a href="mailto:hlerner@gmail.com" target="_blank">hlerner@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://heatherlerner.com/" target="_blank">http://heatherlerner.com/</a><br>*******************************************<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>