[Nhcoll-l] 1. Skeleton boxes (Mayfield, Teresa)
Smith, Jamie
jamie.smith at naturalsciences.org
Wed Mar 16 11:46:10 EDT 2016
We use All Packaging for all our trays and boxes. Our contact person is Roger Goldstein (RogerG at allpackco.com)
1515 W 9 th Street Kansas City, Missouri 64101
800.229.3711 816.842.3711 Fax: 816.842.8312
info at allpackco.com www.allpackco.com
They can make any size tray or boxes that you want. They are completely archival and we get 6 different sizes so that we can fit everything from vials to large specimens.
If you are getting smaller sizes the minimum order is 1000 trays, which we go through pretty fast.
This is the last size we ordered, so you can get an idea of the verbage:
6 x 6 x 1 ½ Tray 35pt white vat board inside and tightwrapped
Jamie M. Smith
Collections Manager, Invertebrates
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
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1. Skeleton boxes (Mayfield, Teresa)
2. Vial jar system (Alexandra Snyder)
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:47:10 +0000
From: "Mayfield, Teresa" <tmayfield at utep.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Skeleton boxes
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Some questions for the collective.
If you have recently purchased boxes for skeletal material, which vendor did you use, what product did you buy and are you happy with it?
If you have recently purchased jars and/or replacement lids for fluid storage, which vendor did you use, what product did you buy and are you happy with it?
Looking forward to any recommendations you may have.
Teresa J. Mayfield
Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79968*
Biology Bldg. #222
Office/Lab: (915) 747-5479 FAX: (915) 747-5808
E-mail: tmayfield at utep.edu
*zip code 79902 for FEDEX/UPS deliveries
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:11:45 +0000
From: Alexandra Snyder <amsnyder at unm.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Vial jar system
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These vial jar systems work for accessing individual collections (up to 40) only if each jar is assigned a unique number. In the MSB fishes database, each cataloged collection that is in a vial jar is assigned an alphanumeric, up to 40 individuals per jar. (I have an automatic numbering system built into my cataloging program that tracks the vial jar numbers so that there are no duplications for collections in 70% ethanol. The collections maintained in 5% buffered formalin and 95% ethanol are manually assigned vial jar numbers.) The attached picture shows individual vial jars labeled with unique vial jar numbers.
Regarding the comment that to look for a single collection in a vial jar is cumbersome and requires going to the fumehood I disagree with this being an issue. Anytime we pull a single collection from a vial jar, we do not do that in the collection room but rather in the lab with a specimen tray and forceps. Opening collections in the collection room (ours is strictly for archives, not for specimen examination) runs the risk of losing small specimens as well as mishaps with glass jars and alcohol.
Extremely small larvae are double vialed. Contained in many of our 8 dram vials in the system are .25 and 1 dram vials holding protolarval forms. Small wads of cotton do not seem to interfere with these samples.
Again, I have used this system for many years and found that the trade off between access and long-term conservation is not hard. The student curatorial assistants have pulled many of these collections for loans, researchers , etc. and have not found the system to be a burden.
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Alexandra M Snyder, Collections Manager-Fishes Museum of Southwestern Biology MSC03-2020 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131
PH./FAX 505.277.6005 amsnyder at unm.edu
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