[NHCOLL-L:4025] NSC Alliance Survey: The Economy and Collections

[Robert Gropp]

As we are all aware, our national and international financial markets 
are in turmoil. These conditions, among others, are impacting our 
federal, state and local budgets, as well as our donor base. The 
Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance) is working to 
identify and begin to quantify how these economic conditions will 
impact natural science collections. Thus, a short, online survey has 
been developed to gather data that will help the NSC Alliance craft 
appropriate public policy recommendations and resources or guidance 
for natural science collections.

The survey is only 10 questions long and should not require more than 
10 minutes to complete. Answering the questions is not likely to 
require extensive research or digging through files and stacks of 
documents. All answers will remain confidential and no individual 
institutional data will be released.

We ask that each institution complete a survey. We recommend that the 
institutional representative to the NSC Alliance complete the survey 
or direct it to the attention of the appropriate staff person.

The survey is at: 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bB1eZMd8MyduhgCvLemJfg_3d_3d

Please complete the survey by 12:00 PM eastern time on Thursday, 30 
October 2008.

If you know of colleagues at natural science collections that are not 
members of the NSC Alliance, please share this request with them and 
encourage them to complete the survey.

It is our plan to repeat the survey in 2009 so that we may begin to 
gather information about budget trends at our nation's natural 
science collections.

If you have any questions or would like to provide us with 
supplemental narratives describing how the current budget environment 
is impacting your institution (and how you are working to respond to 
these conditions), please contact Robert Gropp at rgropp at aibs.org or 
202-628-1500 x 250.

Thank you for your assistance with this important effort.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Mares, Ph.D
President, NSC Alliance









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Robert Gropp, Ph.D.
Director, Public Policy Office
American Institute of Biological Sciences
1444 I (Eye) Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-628-1500 x 250
Fax: 202-628-1509
Web site: www.aibs.org




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