[Nhcoll-l] Unused catalog numbers

William Simpson wsimpson at fieldmuseum.org
Wed May 29 14:55:30 EDT 2024


Hi Sarah,

We used to "issue" blocks of numbers to researchers who were planning on 
putting the specimens they collected into our collections.  In practice, 
we assigned them way more numbers than they ended up needing.  I stopped 
this practice when I started managing the collection.  At this point we 
have ~9,000 vacant records.  We do not go back and try to use these, but 
we /do/ maintain them as vacant records.  Often the only data in them is 
the name of the researcher for whom they had been reserved. Otherwise, 
if they were simply missing from the database, their absence might be 
taken for lost records and lost data.

Best,

Bill

*
William F. Simpson (he)*
Head of Geological Collections
McCarter Collections Manager, Fossil Vertebrates
Gantz Family Collections Center

*Field Museum of Natural History*
1400 South DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL. 60605
(312) 665-7628
fieldmuseum.org <https://www.fieldmuseum.org>


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On 5/29/24 1:37 PM, Sarah K. Huber wrote:
>
> For various reasons, we have a few hundred catalog numbers that were 
> never assigned to collection objects. What do your collections do with 
> unused catalog numbers? I’m debating if I should use these numbers 
> when cataloging our backlog/no data specimens, or if I should just 
> ignore these numbers and never assign a collection object to them.
>
> Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. (she/her)
> Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection
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