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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Emily<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We spent the last 8 years doing an inventory level catalogue across our museum and didn’t have the resources for individual specimen entries in our database for our spirit collections or for our insect collections.
We used a numbering system for ‘containers’ that in our collections may be a jar with multiple tubes, or a box with multiple insects. Numbers in a simple run of integers across all taxa (a jar may contain a mix of taxa) have a prefix referring to major collection
category:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">NC:zool.jar.1 = Natural History Division, Container : zoology . glass jar . number 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If we refer to a single tube with its own museum register number, we use the above container code as a storage location, rather than as the unique identifier for the database record. It has allowed us to manage
26,000 jars and only when we get a loan request for a single specimen do we create a detailed database record for that specimen. We do not list strings of register numbers on the outside of our jars. Some jars have number lists in the alcohol. The main place
for detailed lists is in the database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nigel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Mr Nigel T. Monaghan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Keeper,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Natural History Division,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">National Museum of Ireland – Natural History,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Group Bookings should be addressed to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Virtual Visit: See our 3D interiors at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Read: Guide to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, €5.95 from Museum Shops<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Poetry: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dead Zoo – a whole book of poetry
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Emily M. Braker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 August 2017 17:24<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Jar Numbering Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are planning to rehouse and inventory our Herpetology collection which will include implementing a container-level specimen tracking system. All catalog numbers in a jar will be linked to a unique container ID to increase
findability, especially for large taxonomic series that span multiple jars within a given geographic region.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am interested to know what other collections have done regarding a jar numbering systems (sequential? sequential within taxon? other?). Or, if you use barcodes for tracking containers, have you encountered issues with
scanning through glass? We will be adding thermal labels to each jar to replace our existing external jar tag that lists species and locality (county-level resolution). Along these lines, does anyone go so far as listing the catalog numbers of specimens stored
within the same jar on their thermal labels? We are hoping to streamline the process of searching through multiple jars and hundreds of specimens to find the distinguished few that are requested to go on loan. I’d welcome any suggestions or advice.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Emily<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Emily Braker</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Vertebrate Collections Manager, Zoology Section</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">University of Colorado Museum of Natural History</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">265 UCB, Bruce Curtis Building</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Boulder, CO 80309-0218</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Phone: 303-492-8466</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<P><FONT size=2>Taispeántas nua - <STRONG>Dearbhú na Poblachta: Éirí Amach
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Rising</STRONG><BR><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.museum.ie_1916_&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=qmN_mVIJdddsnVG42ECooOiTKqbbBYPC73Ejg89kuZg&s=Qn24-TqYFV2JpCG5LdHmYoZd87GEJ979XifxeEWX3PA&e=">http://www.museum.ie/1916/</A></FONT></P>
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