[Nhcoll-l] Effect of Global Database Inclusion on Loan Requests

[Judith Price]

Sarah

That's a really interesting question! I can imagine folks not wanting to seem to be complaining about increased traffic, so if you get off-line responses maybe you could summarize them for the list?

Thanks
Judith

Judith C. Price
Secretary, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
Assistant Collections Manager, Invertebrates / Gestionnaire adjointe des collections invertébrés
Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la Nature
PO Box 3443 Station D / CP 3443 Succ <<D>>
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4 CANADA

Tel.613.566.4263 / Fax.613.364.4027

jprice at mus-nature.ca<mailto:jprice at mus-nature.ca>

Twitter @nature_jcp<http://twitter.com/nature_jcp>
www.nature.ca<http://www.nature.ca/> / www.spnhc.org<http://www.spnhc.org/>
Please tell us<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V2RKX2R> how we helped you today / Dites-nous<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V2RKX2R> comment nous vous avons aidé aujourd'hui.


From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah K. Huber
Sent: 2013-01-04 3:11 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Effect of Global Database Inclusion on Loan Requests


We are hoping to upload our collection database to FishNet2 in the coming months, and I was wondering if anyone has any data about the effect of inclusion in these types of global databases on loan requests. After adding a collection database to a global databse (e.g., FishNet2, HerpNET, ORNIS, etc.), did loan requests noticeably increase? If so, does anyone have any data indicating the percent increase?



Many thanks,

Sarah



Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Biology and Marine Science
Collection Manager, VIMS Ichthyology Collection
804.684.7285
skhuber at vims.edu<mailto:skhuber at vims.edu> | www.vims.edu<http://www.vims.edu>
PO Box 1346 | Rt. 1208 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062

[VimsLogo]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20130104/ad680e2b/attachment-0001.html