[Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections Class--your input requested

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Heather

I would also suggest that you scavenge some course ideas from some of the better natural history track museum studies courses out there.  There is one here at KU and they have outlines of their course material online at:

http://museumstudies.ku.edu/overview

I have also developed a short handout for the collection tours that we give these students outlining some of the aspects they need to be aware of - see attached.  I would be happy to provide any of the materials mentioned therein if this is useful.

I would also have a look at the SPNHC organizations Collection Forum and newsletter for appropriate articles on collection based research - http://www.spnhc.org/19/publications

Hope that helps

Andy

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Andy Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
USA

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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Waller
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 7:52 AM
To: 'Heather Lerner'; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections Class--your input requested

Hi Heather,
In connection with (1) you might want to look at the publication by Cato et al:
Paisley S. Cato, Robert Waller, Llyn Sharp, John Simmons and Stephen L. Williams.  Developing Staff Resources for Managing Collections.  Virginia Museum of Natural History, Special Publication Number 4, Martinsville, 71pp., 1996.
It should still be available from the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
Rob

From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Heather Lerner
Sent: March 6, 2014 2:29 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Care & Use of Natural History Museum Collections Class--your input requested

I have the wonderful opportunity to be the director at the Joseph Moore
Museum at Earlham College. With that position, I get to teach one course
per year in "Museum Studies." My goals with the course are to first train
students in the most useful skills they will need to go on as collections
managers or curators or researchers who use collections, and second, for
students who may never work in/for a museum in the future, to convince them
of the importance of biological collections so that they will be educated
lifelong museum advocates.
Here is where I ask for *your input:*
(1) what are the *skills *you want incoming collections manager, graduate
students or curators to have?

(2) we will read an article each week in which someone has published their
research using specimens/collections as a primary source of
information/data. For example, ancient DNA, isotope, morphological studies.
What are some of the best *examples of collections-based research* you
thinkI should include?

Thanks for your input,

Heather

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Earlham College
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