[Nhcoll-l] 2nd Natural History Collections and COVID-19 Survey: Operational Status, Economic Impacts and Plans for Reopening

[Jyotsna Pandey]

In April, the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) conducted a survey of
the natural history collections/museum community to understand how COVID-19
related economic disruptions are affecting the work of professionals
associated with such collections. We shared the results with the scientific
community, including federal program managers and policymakers, in May 2020.
<https://bcon.aibs.org/2020/05/19/covid-19-impacts-on-biodiversity-science-collections/>

This second survey follows up on and uses some questions from a recent
American Alliance of Museums request for information. This survey focuses
on collections institutions rather than individual staff, with the goal of
determining the impact of COVID-19 related economic disruptions on research
and management of collections. Our goal with this survey is to collect
responses from as many institutions as possible; thus, one response per
institution is optimal. If it is not possible to coordinate this, we would
rather have multiple responses from an institution that we can combine,
rather than no responses from an institution.

Institutions are invited to share information about their operating status
– plans to re-open, operational status and limitations, closures, staff
furloughs and Reductions in Force, program closures or terminations, and
other disruptions to institutional operations. We invite information from
all types of natural history collection holding institutions, which
includes natural history museums, natural science collections, arboreta and
herbaria, or other facilities with natural science collections.

We will share a summary of the results through a variety of venues, as we
did with the previous survey. No information that identifies individual
institutions by name is requested.

Please take the survey at
https://bcon.aibs.org/2020/08/17/2nd-natural-history-collections-and-covid-19-survey-operational-status-economic-impacts-and-plans-for-reopening/

Thank you.
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Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D.
Public Policy Manager
American Institute of Biological Sciences
950 Herndon Parkway Suite 450
Herndon, VA 20170
Phone: 202-628-1500 x 225
www.aibs.org
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