[NHCOLL-L:1554] University of Iowa Herbarium: A New Web Site

[Diana Horton]

The University of Iowa Herbarium announces a new web site:

http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/herbarium

Collections tend to be obscure institutional resources of which not only 
the public, but also the university community, are generally unaware, and 
the value of which is overlooked.  Therefore, this web site is designed to 
be useful to professionals, but also to serve as an educational and 
outreach tool for the university community and the people of Iowa.  In 
addition to providing basic information on herbaria, collections, and their 
uses, its purpose is to highlight the multifaceted resource this Herbarium 
represents; the pivotal role of this collection in the historical 
development of the Biological Sciences at this University; and the 
practical application of plant collections' data as documentation for 
endangered species legislation.  The web site includes an interactive 
database of all state listings of endangered and threatened plant species 
from 1977 to the present.


Diana Horton
Director and Curator, University of Iowa Herbarium
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences