[Nhcoll-l] Urgent: University of Louisiana at Monroe Museum of Natural History facing imminent divestment or destruction

Wed Mar 29 09:57:17 EDT 2017

If the Facebook post can be taken at "face" value, it sounds like the
administration actively wants to destroy the collections. A German
colleague told me years ago about a museum who hired a new head who didn't
see the need for research collections. As it was told, he personally helped
toss the specimens into the dumpsters.
Louisiana isn't known for the quality of its educational system. A recent
study (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wallethub.com_edu_states-2Dwith-2Dthe-2Dbest-2Dschools_5335_&d=DwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=0v18NpK8Vglr7xqP95ajQMRdpJ5O1qPNQzsn_qn9AdY&s=sQLlOlHfpT5poqnCB8uPkF7Est2XwGKyzndZQCZo15U&e= ) puts
the state at #51 out of 51 states & DC evaluated for the quality of their
pre-college systems. Given their priorities, seems like football should win
out, although I don't know how many of this institution's players go on to
successful NFL careers.
All the best! - Barry

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Furth, David <FURTHD at si.edu> wrote:

> Great idea Chris.
> This also happened with the Paleo collections at Princeton & Yale Peabody
> stepped up and sent a team to pack & transfer them. Also the insect
> collections at Indiana (so they could expand the sex institute there) and
> Yale also went to get them before the dumpster, etc., etc.
>
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> From: Christine Johnson <cjohnson at amnh.org>
> Date: 3/29/17 16:13 (GMT+02:00)
> To: Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu>, nhcoll <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Urgent: University of Louisiana at Monroe Museum
> of Natural History facing imminent divestment or destruction
>
> Hi All,
> I've been thinking about this ever-growing problem for a while, as now and
> again you hear of orphaned/abandoned collections.
>
> What do people think of creating some kind of task force to come up with a
> list of the collections in the U.S. (iDigBio probably has most of these
> collections listed already) and reach out to them before things reach a
> crisis point? We could provide 'emergency' contact info for other
> institutions who would be willing to take the material. It may even serve
> to show the administration of the institutions that other places value the
> material and give them incentive to preserve them.
>
> Just a thought.
> Chris
>
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> From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@
> mailman.yale.edu <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>] On Behalf Of Doug
> Yanega
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:00 PM
> To: nhcoll <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Urgent: University of Louisiana at Monroe Museum
> of Natural History facing imminent divestment or destruction
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> FYI: I'm not affiliated in any way with ULM, I posted about this because
> it needs broader attention, immediately, and to see if anyone has ideas as
> to how the museum community might put pressure on the admins of ULM to
> re-think this terrible ultimatum.
>
> Peace,
>
> --
> Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
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