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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Apologies for cross-posting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Please see details below of a special event hosted by The Russell Society, and chaired by Roy Starkey:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Special Event – What should we do with our collections? Wednesday 19 April 20:00 BST on Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">A question that is starting to come up more and more often in conversations is “What should I do with my collection?” Today’s mineral collecting community is increasingly
grey-haired and perhaps dominated by people who began collecting in the 1960s and 1970s. As such, this population of collectors and collections represents a considerable and potentially important mineralogical resource. The same is probably equally true for
fossil collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">In a special event hosted by The Russell Society, and chaired by Roy Starkey, we will present an overview of the key factors to be considered, some of the constraints
and hurdles to be overcome, as well as opportunities and threats which may confront us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">We owe it to the specimens, and to those who came before us from whom we have benefited so much, to ensure that our collections are handled in a suitably responsible
and satisfactory manner, and that important pieces are curated and preserved together with as much curatorial data and specimen history as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Is your collection properly labelled and organised such that someone coming to it ‘cold’ would be able to understand what is what, and to be confident in dispersing
it appropriately? Do you have a catalogue? If so, is it on paper or in electronic form? If electronic, is it regularly backed-up and in a format likely to be machine readable in the future? Does someone else know how to access it, where to find passwords etc.?
Do your family members understand the importance (and perhaps financial value) of your collection? Do they know who to contact and what to do in the event of your unexpected demise? Should the collection go to a museum or university (either in its entirety
or segments of it)? Is the best route to return the specimens to the collecting fraternity via a sale or auction, or would sale to a dealer a better option?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">We’ll be addressing these questions, and a whole lot more, in discussion with a panel of experts from the Natural History Museum (London), National Museum Wales,
National Museums Northern Ireland, BGS, The Geological Curators’ Group, National Museum of Ireland and National Museums Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Please make a note of the date and join us for what is perhaps a unique opportunity to assess and to learn what you need to do to put your mineral (or fossil)
collection in order whilst there is still time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">We can accommodate a maximum of 100 participants. If you are not a member of The Russell Society and would like to join us, please email
<a href="mailto:talks@russellsoc.org">talks@russellsoc.org</a> and, subject to capacity, we’ll send you the Zoom link a couple of days prior to the talk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">It is planned to record the discussion and make it available as a resource for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Roy Starkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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