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<div class="">In light of recent news, the SPNHC Best Practices Committee wanted to make the museum community aware of a new resource about Threatened and Orphaned Collections on the SPNHC wiki:
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http://spnhc.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Threatened_and_Orphaned_Collections</a></div>
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<div class="">The aim of this SPNHC Threatened Collections Toolkit, created by <span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Tiffany Adrain and Paula Work (SPNHC Threatened Collections Sub-committee),</span> is
to provide information about what to do if you are offered an "orphaned" collection, if your museum's collection becomes endangered, if you want to prevent a collection from becoming orphaned, or if you have to deaccession an orphaned collection.</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
<div class="">Breda Zimkus</div>
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Breda M. Zimkus, Ph.D.<br class="">
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University<br class="">
26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Tel: 617-496-4656<br class="">
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