[NHCOLL-L:5246] Re: question re: natural history loan support

[Bryant, James]

A far better idea, Carol: resource sharing!

James M. Bryant
Curator of Natural History
Museum Department, City of Riverside
3580 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
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From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Carol Spencer
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:11 AM
To: aspeciosus at yahoo.com
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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:5233] Re: question re: natural history loan support

Hi Mariko
We do this every year also, both for Cal Day (our big open house) and for the Herpetology, Ornithology and I think the Mammalogy courses.
As we are on the university campus, we do not charge for this,  as this is part of our mission (to educate students) and we include this in any calculations of visitors and use of our collection, mainly to justify the space that our museum uses on campus and also to exemplify how we educate students (along with other outreach and direct student training).

The Herpetology class at Berkeley does have a TA that assists us with pulling these specimens, and puts them into the freezer (for skeletal specimens) for pest control, and organizes them before giving them back to us, and then our students in curatorial put them away. You might ask the course instructors if its possible that they could provide assistance from undergrads that you oversee or provide graduate TA time for pulling and/or putting specimens away.

Good luck
Carol
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Mariko Kageyama <aspeciosus at yahoo.com<mailto:aspeciosus at yahoo.com>> wrote:
Hello,

Please pardon my cross-posting.


Our university's natural history teaching collection of vertebrates are often loaned out to support university biology courses such as mammalogy taught at a research station off campus. It is not uncommon over a hundred specimens are requested and checked out at a time. To process such loans, staff labor time and supplies needed could be significant including cost for packing and boxing all the specimens. So far we have never charged for such services to support the university's undergraduate and graduate courses offered off campus, but we started wondering if there is any other institution in a similar scenario that charges a nominal or modest course support fee for this kind of collection service based on their policy, other than recouping loan shipping costs. If you do not mind sharing your experience or opinion with us, we would appreciate it.


Mariko


Mariko Kageyama
Collections Manager, Vertebrate Zoology
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Boulder, CO








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