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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, in partnership with the Natural Sciences Collections Association and the Geology Curators Group, are honored to be hosting the 29th Annual Meeting for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) from Sunday, June 22 to Friday, June 27, 2014 in Cardiff. The conference will be held at Cardiff Millennium Centre located in Cardiff Bay, Europe’s largest waterfront development and in Cardiff City Centre at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN>Registration is now open</span></b><span lang=EN> – </span><a href="https://www.regonline.co.uk/spnhc2014">https://www.regonline.co.uk/spnhc2014</a><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>We are working on an exciting programme - <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/">http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/</a> - and the theme of SPNHC 2014 is <b>Historic Collections: A Resource for the Future</b>. We also have other activities and events planned including fieldtrips, workshops, tours of the museum collections, icebreaker and of course the banquet. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>The Workshop for this conference will be’ Legal aspects of shipping preserved animals and tissues’ - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30765/Shipping_workshop_SPNHC-2014.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Special sessions include;<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=square><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Historical special collections. Collections are at the heart of what we do. This session will be a celebration of our historic collections, and the role they continue to play in a modern world.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>A special ‘mini symposia’ from iDigBio and the Small Collections Network (SCNet) ‘Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Small Collections in Biodiversity Digitization Initiatives’. </span><span lang=EN>For more information on theme please <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30587/iDigBio-Symposium_SPNHC2014.pdf">http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30587/iDigBio-Symposium_SPNHC2014.pdf</a></span><span lang=EN-US> (Session confirmed for Wednesday).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Access and outreach to Natural History Collections – <span lang=EN-US>The museum world is changing. Just in the last 30 years, the museum community has seen a shift in their public audience base from passive observers to active participants. How can/do we respond to these challenges?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Historical insect collections. The re-curation and conservation of historic entomological collections is a minefield of damaging good intentions. If you’ve ever asked yourself “what’s so important about pins?” then you need to be at this session.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Managing Archives & Special Collections in Natural History Museums.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>University Museums dedicated session – such museums have long played an important role in the development of natural history collections. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Conservation – museum conservation in the natural sciences has come a long way in the last 25 years.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Advocacy special session coordinated by NatSCA. We are in challenging times financially and politically. So how do we make our relevance to society clear to our funding bodies? (Confirmed for Thursday).<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>A special session of the Emerging Professionals Group – an opportunity for established professionals to get together with emerging professionals.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Special interest groups including ‘<span lang=EN>iDigBio Working Groups and SPNHC SIGs: Collaborating to further digitization efforts’ and the ‘sustainability of preservation environments’.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>The popular ‘Democamp’ returns, providing an opportunity for the practical demonstration of software, equipment and techniques. </span><span lang=EN>For further details and information on submissions for the Democamp - <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30586/SPNHC2014DemoCamp-call-for-abstracts.pdf">http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30586/SPNHC2014DemoCamp-call-for-abstracts.pdf</a> .</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Abstracts for papers and posters - can be submitted via the website – <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/submissions/">http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/submissions/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>We invite you to join us in the land of the Red Dragon / y Ddraig coch in June 2014!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Best wishes / dymuniadau gorau,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>The Conference Organising team<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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