[Nhcoll-l] Collection policy for recognizing an affiliated researcher

[Doug Yanega]

On 2/6/15 11:13 AM, Sublett, Clayton wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Our institution has a couple of collaborators that we would like to 
> recognize as researchers affiliated with our natural history 
> collection.  Does anyone have a policy or suggestions on how your 
> institution grants or determines who can be an official affiliate of 
> the collection/museum?
>
The universities I've been associated with all have explicit policies, 
mostly purely bureaucratic, as to formal designation of affiliation 
(sometimes subdivided into even finer categories); without giving exact 
details, mostly a matter of people up to the level of the department 
chairman signing off on a series of forms, and often a letter by the 
applicant. If your institution really has no formal policy in place 
(which seems surprising if true), you have an opportunity to help 
formulate a policy at its inception, which could be great, but also 
considerably MORE effort, in the end, than dealing with an existing policy.

Peace,

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