[NHCOLL-L:3547] Barcoding

[Jon Dunnum]

Dear List,
Would like to get a feeling for the breadth of use of barcoding in NH 
collections.
Its use as an inventorying tool is clear (especially in terms of frozen 
tissue collections and situations where various parts of specimens are 
housed in different areas).  I am more interested in current usage as a 
data retrieval tool and thoughts on future applications.  Our frozen 
tissue collection is completely barcoded and a small subset of our 
mammal collection is barcoded.  Debating the continued use of barcodes 
on skin/skel specimen labels. 
Thanks much for any input.

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Jonathan L. Dunnum M.S.
Ph.D. Candidate
Senior Collection Manager
Division of Mammals
Museum of Southwestern Biology
Department of Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-9262
jldunnum at unm.edu
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