[NHCOLL-L:2604] 20th Anniversary for SPNHC

[Tim White]

20th Anniversary for SPNHC

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is proud to 
be recognizing its 20 years of service to the Natural History Community in 
2005. SPNHC is an international association of individuals who are 
interested in the development and preservation of natural history 
collections. Within SPNHC "natural history" encompasses more than 
biological and geological topics; it also includes the fields of 
anthropology, e.g. ethnology and archaeology. SPNHC members are collection 
managers, curators, registrars, conservators, and other specialists and 
generalists involved with research, educational and exhibit collections; a 
broad range of associated values to these materials are both acknowledged 
and protected.

In these 20 years, SPNHC has led the way in providing support to the 
Natural History Community via:

1) Books: Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation 
Approach, Storage of Natural History Collections: Ideas and Practical 
Solutions (both of these have quickly become classics, and have impact 
beyond natural history fields), Managing the Modern Herbarium, and our 
latest MuseumWise: Workplace Words Defined; more are scheduled to come out 
soon.

2) An internationally respected peer reviewed journal, Collection Forum, 
which covers the diverse subject matter relevant to the needs of natural 
history collection management and preservation; book reviews are regularly 
included; visit our web-site to view two volumes and the contents of other 
previous issues.

3) Twice-yearly Newsletters, which includes an occasional series of subject 
specific Leaflets (the Leaflets and some newsletters are on our web-site 
for your inspection).

4) Annual Meetings, sometimes held in conjunction with other organizations 
such as the Natural Science Collections Alliance (previously known as the 
Association of Systematics Collections/ASC) and the International Society 
for Biological and Environmental Repositories/ISBER. Workshops are held at 
each meeting. For the first time SPNHC will be having their annual meeting 
outside North America in London, England hosted by The Natural History 
Museum June 12-18. For further information please visit 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/spnhc2005/.

5) Participation in pertinent forums relating to the Society's mission, 
e.g. Heritage Preservations Heritage Health Index, and the National Science 
Foundation funded Workshop to Produce a Decadal Vision for Taxonomy and 
Natural History Collections.

The Society's contributions were recognized by the American Institute for 
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and Heritage Preservation 
who presented SPNHC with their 2001 Award for Outstanding Commitment to the 
Preservation and Care of Collections.

Additional information about SPNHC can be located at http://www.spnhc.org/.  
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