From amast at fsu.edu Mon Nov 3 09:29:05 2025 From: amast at fsu.edu (Austin Mast) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 14:29:05 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] FSU Evolutionary Genetics Job Posting Message-ID: <66544E97-479B-4055-A9C7-FA73F675FADE@fsu.edu> Hi, everyone! We just started advertising for an Evolutionary Geneticist, and it?s open to applicants using statistical, theoretical, or empirical (lab or field) approaches in any system. Further details are in the Science Careers ad at https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/assistant-professor-evolutionary-genetics/ Questions can be sent to the search committee chair, Scott Burgess, at evolution at bio.fsu.edu . I encourage those who describe their work as evolutionary genetics to seriously consider applying. FSU is a great place to work, in my experience, and the Florida Panhandle is an amazing place to be a biologist! Austin Austin Mast ? Professor ? Department of Biological Science ? 319 Stadium Drive ? Florida State University ? 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This is the third offering of this course, which explores strategies for engaging the public in collections digitization projects. We?re also excited to announce our newly redesigned Digitization Academy website! The enhanced site provides new ways to connect with our courses. Each of our digitization-focused courses now has a dedicated page featuring objectives, a sample syllabus, and details of the experts who contribute to our panels. Learn more and apply at the all new digtizationacademy.org! Please consider sharing this announcement with others who may be interested. Best regards, Kalina + the Digitization Academy Team ?---- Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Course application: https://forms.gle/GPTeyCs722x2WKh76 Course page: https://digitizationacademy.org/course/public-participation-in-digitization-of-biodiversity-collections This free, online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing. The aim of the course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public participation in digitization workflow, (4) identify and implement quality management strategies, (5) identify common participant motivations and strategies to recruit and engage participants in a project, including events, games, and online forums, (6) and perform evaluation of a public participation in digitization project. This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as student technicians, collections managers, curators, affiliated educators, or administrators. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need prior knowledge of public participation in science, only a desire to use it as part of their future research or digitization activities. The course will occur from December 15?18 (Monday?Thursday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm Eastern. Participants can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment. The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US are welcome to apply. Kalina Jakymec iDigBio Workforce Development Manager Florida State University digitizationacademy.org | idigbio.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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FMUIP organizers will present the history and components of the program and how it can be replicated in other institutions. November 6, 2025 | 2:00?4:00 PM ET Florida Museum Undergraduate Internship Program: A Model for Supporting Museum Interns This session explores the successful museum internship program at the Florida Museum that connects undergraduates with hands-on experiences in digitization, collections work, fieldwork, and lab research. The program emphasizes mentorship, professional growth, and intra-institutional collaboration?offering ideas for creating or adapting similar programs at other institutions. This is an excellent model for attracting student digitizers to collections and museums to supplement digitization activities. To register or catch up on past webinar recordings, explore upcoming sessions, and find additional resources, visit the series wiki page (scroll down to the Overview & Organizers section for the registration link). https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series Gil Gil Nelson, PhD Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA) Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emily.braker at colorado.edu Mon Nov 3 18:00:37 2025 From: emily.braker at colorado.edu (Emily M. Braker) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 23:00:37 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Survey: Perspectives on Biodiversity Collections Metadata - last call! Message-ID: Dear All, Apologies for the cross-posting. Please consider filling out the collections metadata survey linked below if you haven't done so already. The survey will close mid-November. Cheers, Emily Emily Braker Vertebrate Collections Manager, Zoology Section University of Colorado Museum of Natural History 265 UCB, Bruce Curtis Building Boulder, CO 80309-0218 Phone: 303-492-8466 https://www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/research-collections/vertebrates ----------------- Dear Collection Managers, Greetings! As collection managers you are critical agents in providing your perspectives on curation activities and reuse. The following survey assesses your curation background, perspectives on metadata, and informs the building of a machine-actionable research data cyberinfrastructure to increase data reuse. This study is being conducted by researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. If you choose to participate, you will follow the link: Biocollections Managers The survey landing page will have more details. I know your time is valuable, but by taking around 20 minutes to participate in this study, you will provide the field with data to inform the understanding of the curation of biocollections. There are not foreseeable risks greater than those encountered in everyday life involved with participating in this research. You will be asked questions about job tasks related to managing collections. Your responses will be linked by a unique identifier for any analysis and no direct identifiers will be collected; however, all findings will be reported in the aggregate and any indirect identifiers will be removed prior to analysis through de-identification and anonymization. I greatly appreciate your contribution to the study. Thank you. Sincerely, Bradley Wade Bishop, PhD Associate Professor 1345 Circle Park Dr. Room 454 Communications Bldg. Knoxville, TN 37996 865-974-2775 wade.bishop at utk.edu CONTACT INFORMATION If you have questions at any time about the study or you experience problems, you may contact Bradley Wade Bishop wade.bishop at utk.edu or 865-974-2775 (office). If you have any questions or concerns regarding your rights as a subject in this study, you may also contact: Institutional Review Board Phone: 865-974-7697 Email: utkirb at utk.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.smith at reading.ac.uk Wed Nov 5 04:18:15 2025 From: claire.smith at reading.ac.uk (Claire Smith) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 09:18:15 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Restoring a damaged transparent specimen Message-ID: Hi everyone, With apologies for cross-posting, I'm looking for some advice about working with a damaged specimen. It's a newborn monkey that was originally an alizarin transparency, prepared by the Spalteholz technique (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0940-9602(01)80020-0), with our catalogue listing the preservative as "Methyl salicylate 5: benzyl benzoate 4". In 2008 it was apparently in poor condition with crystal deposition, and it was transferred into 100% glycerol. Currently, a lipid layer has formed at the top of the fluid, which is also cloudy - presumably also with suspended lipids. The tissue is no longer transparent. My questions are: Is it possible to make the tissues transparent again? (If so, how?!) Is it best to keep the specimen in glycerol, but dilute it to a more appropriate concentration? Many thanks, Claire ******* Survey: Fluid Preservation Methods in Biological Collections https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/reading/fluid-preservation-methods-in-biological-collections ******* Claire Smith (she/her), AFHEA Graduate Teaching Assistant: Tuesdays and Wednesdays PhD Researcher: Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays Cole Museum of Zoology University of Reading claire.smith at reading.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/in/wetconservatrix Social media: @wetconservatrix -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Wed Nov 5 04:38:08 2025 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 09:38:08 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Restoring a damaged transparent specimen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1D57F46B-06BE-4AFC-A779-0B093A956178@btinternet.com> Hi Claire, Are you sure that this is lipid that has leached out? This could be a gradual reaction of an aliphatic compound (glycerol) reacting with residues of M Benzoate and Meth Sal. The problem with transparencies that are in mixtures of aromatic clearing agents that they too, will gradually interreact over time causing the crystalline growth I would need to see a pic of it as it is now and preferably before this reaction occurred, off-list. With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian. www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 5 Nov 2025, at 09:18, Claire Smith wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > With apologies for cross-posting, I'm looking for some advice about working with a damaged specimen. > > It's a newborn monkey that was originally an alizarin transparency, prepared by the Spalteholz technique (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0940-9602(01)80020-0), with our catalogue listing the preservative as "Methyl salicylate 5: benzyl benzoate 4". > > In 2008 it was apparently in poor condition with crystal deposition, and it was transferred into 100% glycerol. > > Currently, a lipid layer has formed at the top of the fluid, which is also cloudy - presumably also with suspended lipids. > The tissue is no longer transparent. > > My questions are: > > Is it possible to make the tissues transparent again? (If so, how?!) > Is it best to keep the specimen in glycerol, but dilute it to a more appropriate concentration? > > > Many thanks, > Claire > ******* > Survey: Fluid Preservation Methods in Biological Collections > https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/reading/fluid-preservation-methods-in-biological-collections > ******* > Claire Smith (she/her), AFHEA > Graduate Teaching Assistant: Tuesdays and Wednesdays > PhD Researcher: Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays > > Cole Museum of Zoology > University of Reading > > claire.smith at reading.ac.uk > www.linkedin.com/in/wetconservatrix > Social media: @wetconservatrix > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. From info at naturhistorische-konservierung.de Wed Nov 5 04:52:46 2025 From: info at naturhistorische-konservierung.de (Fabian Neisskenwirth) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 10:52:46 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Restoring a damaged transparent specimen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4d3056e8-9491-4a9f-b448-ac9be37ef860@naturhistorische-konservierung.de> Dear Claire, I've been working a lot with Spalteholz specimens lately. I'm a bit surprised that it was transferred it to glycerol, since none of the chemicals (methyl salicylate nor benzyl benzoate)?are really miscible with than medium (glycerol). Bedsides that as in ethanol, there is no real absolute glycerol solution. It will always absorb some water. And there is the whole issue. The Spalteholz chemicals are absolutely water repellent. In the official methodology you actually go from "absolute" ethanol to benzene in two different baths, to extract all of the water content from the specimen. From there you go to the?methyl salicylate. The whole method is based on optical properties of the medium. So yes, in theory you should be able to make the whole clearing possible again. This depends on the state of preservation of the specimen. I would be careful with the assumption that your deposits are lipids. It is more likely that through the wrong transfer something has interfered with the whole mixture between glycerol and the?methyl salicylate. It could have formed some kind of emulsion. A picture could help to clarify. I recommend you to read Spalteholz's publication, if there is some kind of translation (maybe some translation tool might help). Its really interesting and explains very clearly how the whole methodology works. This could answer your second question. I hope this help a bit. All the best! Am 05.11.25 um 10:18 schrieb Claire Smith: > Hi everyone, > > ?With apologies for cross-posting, I'm looking for some advice about > working with a damaged specimen. > > It's a newborn monkey that was originally an alizarin transparency, > prepared by the Spalteholz technique > (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0940-9602(01)80020-0 > ), with our catalogue > listing the preservative as "Methyl salicylate 5: benzyl benzoate 4". > > In 2008 it was apparently in poor condition with crystal deposition, > and it was transferred into 100% glycerol. > > Currently, a lipid layer has formed at the top of the fluid, which is > also cloudy - presumably also with suspended lipids. > The tissue is no longer transparent. > > My questions are: > > Is it possible to make the tissues transparent again? (If so, how?!) > Is it best to keep the specimen in glycerol, but dilute it to a more > appropriate concentration? > > > Many thanks, > > Claire > > ******* > > *Survey: Fluid Preservation Methods in Biological Collections* > > _https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/reading/fluid-preservation-methods-in-biological-collections_ > > ******* > > *Claire Smith *(she/her), AFHEA > > *Graduate Teaching Assistant: *Tuesdays and Wednesdays > > *PhD Researcher: *Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays > > * > * > > *Cole Museum of Zoology* > > University of Reading > > > _claire.smith at reading.ac.uk_ > > _www.linkedin.com/in/wetconservatrix > _ > Social media: @wetconservatrix > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- *Fabian Neisskenwirth* Restaurator/Pr?parator Waterfohrstr. 20 DE-45139 Essen Tel: +49 (0) 1573 2778729 www.naturhistorische-konservierung.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Logo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 47337 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ajvandam at alcomon.com Wed Nov 5 05:03:46 2025 From: ajvandam at alcomon.com (Andries J. van Dam) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:03:46 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Restoring a damaged transparent specimen Message-ID: Dear Claire, Glycerol is a trihydroxy sugar alcohol with a highly polar surface area that mixes very well with water and therefore has no affinity to low-polar aromatic oils like methyl salicylate and benzyl benzoate. They simply do not mix. If you want to properly transfer it to glycerol you first must remove the oils in the tissue by transferring the specimen through acetone baths which could create other unwanted morphological changes to the tissue. To my opinion, it would be best to transfer it back to the original fluid being according to the catalogue a mixture of methyl salicylate / benzyl benzoate (5:4). Kind regards, Dries -- Andries J. van Dam (director) Alcomon Company Leliestraat 54 2313BH Leiden Netherlands Tel: +31615676299 E-mail: ajvandam at alcomon.com Website: http://www.alcomon.com Van: Nhcoll-l namens Claire Smith Datum: woensdag 5 november 2025 om 10:18 Aan: Natural History Collections Listserv Onderwerp: [Nhcoll-l] Restoring a damaged transparent specimen Hi everyone, With apologies for cross-posting, I'm looking for some advice about working with a damaged specimen. It's a newborn monkey that was originally an alizarin transparency, prepared by the Spalteholz technique (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0940-9602(01)80020-0), with our catalogue listing the preservative as "Methyl salicylate 5: benzyl benzoate 4". In 2008 it was apparently in poor condition with crystal deposition, and it was transferred into 100% glycerol. Currently, a lipid layer has formed at the top of the fluid, which is also cloudy - presumably also with suspended lipids. The tissue is no longer transparent. My questions are: Is it possible to make the tissues transparent again? (If so, how?!) Is it best to keep the specimen in glycerol, but dilute it to a more appropriate concentration? Many thanks, Claire ******* Survey: Fluid Preservation Methods in Biological Collections https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/reading/fluid-preservation-methods-in-biological-collections ******* Claire Smith (she/her), AFHEA Graduate Teaching Assistant: Tuesdays and Wednesdays PhD Researcher: Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays Cole Museum of Zoology University of Reading claire.smith at reading.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/in/wetconservatrix Social media: @wetconservatrix _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Heather Ouellette Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? External. Hello all, Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed information about the collecting localities. This is a unique collection, but I'm not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to anyone? Heather Ouellette Research Collections Manager FAU Harbor Branch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jessica.bazeley at yale.edu Wed Nov 5 13:10:01 2025 From: jessica.bazeley at yale.edu (Utrup, Jessica) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 18:10:01 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: GRSciColl might be a good spot to get this started (https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/). You can enter general information about the collection and contact information. It's a low lift to make the collection discoverable. ~Jessica From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Callomon,Paul Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:55 PM To: Heather Ouellette ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? I'd be interested to see what folks say, as we have just such a collection here at the Academy too. Apparently sand collecting was a thing among the jet set once. One use some of the samples have been put to was in a study of rheology (resistance) related to the hairs and spines on terrestrial crustacean legs. Sand of various grain sizes was used to see whether having such things on their appendages enabled crabs to run faster uphill. I never saw the results, though... Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Heather Ouellette Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? External. Hello all, Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed information about the collecting localities. This is a unique collection, but I'm not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to anyone? Heather Ouellette Research Collections Manager FAU Harbor Branch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ewommack at uwyo.edu Wed Nov 5 13:10:53 2025 From: ewommack at uwyo.edu (Elizabeth Wommack) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 18:10:53 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Heather, The Arctos database has several mineral and geological collections. You might try contacting the Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum (https://trinitygeologicalmuseum.com/), or check out the Arctos collections page: https://arctos.database.museum/home.cfm I will say when I worked at Haleakala National Park, people still were collecting sand when they visited sites, but it was more as a tourist souvenir. cheers, Beth Elizabeth Wommack, PhD Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 ewommack@uwyo.edu pronouns: she, her, herself www.uwymv.org UWYMV Collection Use Policy [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wzeBAm3ZshQCDFzQ5wkSAIelZLntGMwLQ0l3OaxGfoFH4PEQ-tYzlg1s7X9ScKxz1dFEGIXS8] ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Callomon,Paul Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 10:54 To: Heather Ouellette ; Natural History Collections Listserv Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? ? This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. I?d be interested to see what folks say, as we have just such a collection here at the Academy too. Apparently sand collecting was a thing among the jet set once. One use some of the samples have been put to was in a study of rheology (resistance) related to the hairs and spines on terrestrial crustacean legs. Sand of various grain sizes was used to see whether having such things on their appendages enabled crabs to run faster uphill. I never saw the results, though? Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Heather Ouellette Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? External. Hello all, Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed information about the collecting localities. This is a unique collection, but I?m not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? 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Skibinski Collections Manager Paleontological Research Institution 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca, New York 14850 (607) 273-6623 ext. 128 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Heather Ouellette Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? Hello all, Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed information about the collecting localities. This is a unique collection, but I'm not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to anyone? 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When researches wanting samples that might be comparable to Martian soils contacted me, all I had for them was a sad story. James Bryant SOJOURN Science - Nature - Education Santa Fe, NM https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bryant-0598a940/ On Nov 5, 2025, at 11:10 AM, Utrup, Jessica > wrote: GRSciColl might be a good spot to get this started (https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/). You can enter general information about the collection and contact information. It?s a low lift to make the collection discoverable. ~Jessica From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Callomon,Paul Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:55 PM To: Heather Ouellette >; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? I?d be interested to see what folks say, as we have just such a collection here at the Academy too. Apparently sand collecting was a thing among the jet set once. One use some of the samples have been put to was in a study of rheology (resistance) related to the hairs and spines on terrestrial crustacean legs. Sand of various grain sizes was used to see whether having such things on their appendages enabled crabs to run faster uphill. I never saw the results, though? Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Heather Ouellette Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? External. Hello all, Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed information about the collecting localities. This is a unique collection, but I?m not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to anyone? Heather Ouellette Research Collections Manager FAU Harbor Branch _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liathappleton at gmail.com Wed Nov 5 15:33:29 2025 From: liathappleton at gmail.com (Liath Appleton) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 14:33:29 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Heather, we store all our rocks and minerals data in Specify, along with our invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany specimens. Our fossil data is sent to GBIF, and our other geology data is sent to SESAR https://www.geosamples.org/ All of our specimens can also be searched together via our Specify web portal. It's not a perfectly streamlined workflow, and many of our geology samples (including sand) are not yet databased, but it does work well enough for us to keep moving forward. ---Liath Liath Appleton Collections Manager Non-Vertebrate Paleontology Lab University of Texas at Austin Bldg PRC122 - campus mail code R8500 10100 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78758 SPNHC Connection Editor (newsletter at spnhc.org) SPNHC Web Manager (webmaster at spnhc.org) www.spnhc.org On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 1:34?PM James and Judy Bryant wrote: > Heather/All: > > Are there perhaps publications linked to this collection? Is there a name > of a primary researcher connected to the samples? > Such collections often have enormous research and interpretation > potential, yet it's hard to protect them from de-accession or discard. > I faced a predicament regarding a collection made from many places, > including the dry valleys of Antarctica. As I recall out of 50 or so > samples, in years prior most were discarded so that the jars could be > reused. The only survivor was a jar of multicolored sand from the Valley of > 10 Thousand Smokes! When researches wanting samples that might be > comparable to Martian soils contacted me, all I had for them was a sad > story. > > James Bryant > SOJOURN Science - Nature - Education > Santa Fe, NM > https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bryant-0598a940/ > > On Nov 5, 2025, at 11:10 AM, Utrup, Jessica > wrote: > > GRSciColl might be a good spot to get this started ( > https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/). You can enter general > information about the collection and contact information. It?s a low lift > to make the collection discoverable. > ~Jessica > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of * > Callomon,Paul > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:55 PM > *To:* Heather Ouellette ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? > > I?d be interested to see what folks say, as we have just such a collection > here at the Academy too. Apparently sand collecting was a thing among the > jet set once. > One use some of the samples have been put to was in a study of rheology > (resistance) related to the hairs and spines on terrestrial crustacean > legs. Sand of various grain sizes was used to see whether having such > things on their appendages enabled crabs to run faster uphill. I never saw > the results, though? > > *Paul Callomon* > *Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates* > ------------------------------ > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia* > *callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170* > *President of the American Malacological Society for 2027* > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of *Heather > Ouellette > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:39 PM > *To:* Natural History Collections Listserv > *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database? > > > *External.* > Hello all, > Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor > Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. > All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple > individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most of them have detailed > information about the collecting localities. > > This is a unique collection, but I?m not sure how to share this collection > and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology > databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to > anyone? > > Heather Ouellette > Research Collections Manager > FAU Harbor Branch > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drowsey at smm.org Wed Nov 5 17:22:55 2025 From: drowsey at smm.org (Dakota Rowsey) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 16:22:55 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Use of Krowtann for tanning hides in museum collections? Message-ID: Hello NHCollers, More of a question for US members since the Krowtann doesn't ship outside of the country, to my knowledge. Our museum has a bunch of hides that need to be tanned and not a lot of money to dedicate to getting them tanned by a third party. I received a recommendation from a local taxidermist about using Krowtann for tanning hides, though she said she had only used it on small mammals and has larger mammals tanned by a third party. I was wondering if anyone has used Krowtann to tan museum specimen hides and if it worked out well (for small and/or large mammals) or whether it is too good to be true? We have some salted hides that have been frozen for decades and I'd love to finally get them tanned. Also, a bit of a tangent, but are there any other MAMMAL-L refugees out there who are aware of whether a replacement for that listserv has been created? Sincerely, Dakota -- *Dakota M. 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I've written about this tension and what it means for how we think about visitor technology: https://thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/how-were-building-museum-technology-that-gets-out-of-the-way/ The argument centers on why audio-first approaches preserve visual attention in ways that screen-based interpretation cannot, and why the "technology that disappears" principle matters more than feature richness. Would be interested in perspectives from colleagues working in collections with diverse audiences and interpretation needs. *Sincerely / Med Venlig Hilsen* Thor Martin Baerug https://walkietalk.ie/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dear colleagues, There's a viral photo of visitors on their phones in the Louvre's Grande Galerie that's sparked the usual "phones are ruining museums" discourse. But I think it actually illustrates a fundamental design problem in how we've approached digital interpretation. After two decades building digital technology products, I've come to believe we miscalculated the core problem. It was never about access to information - it was about attention as a finite resource. I've written about this tension and what it means for how we think about visitor technology: https://thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/how-were-building-museum-technology-that-gets-out-of-the-way/ The argument centers on why audio-first approaches preserve visual attention in ways that screen-based interpretation cannot, and why the "technology that disappears" principle matters more than feature richness. 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What strikes me is Carr's point that solitary, prolonged concentration is "an aberration in the great sweep of intellectual history" - it only emerged with printed books. Museums are asking for that same aberration: sustained, focused attention on objects. But we're building technology that returns visitors to what Carr calls our "natural state of distractedness." Apps that interrupt. Screens that fragment. Interfaces optimized for skimming. The challenge should never be to make museums more digital. It's preserving and supporting (including with digital tools) that "aberration" of deep attention that makes museum encounters meaningful. Appreciate the recommendation. *Sincerely / Med Venlig Hilsen* Thor Martin Baerug https://walkietalk.ie/ On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 2:39?PM Callomon,Paul wrote: > I recommend reading ?The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we > read, think and remember? by Nicholas Carr. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book) > > > > *Paul Callomon* > *Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates* > ------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia* > *callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170* > > *President of the American Malacological Society for 2027* > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of *Thor > Martin Jensen > *Sent:* Thursday, November 6, 2025 8:36 AM > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Visitor Attention as a Design Constraint in Digital > Collections > > > > *External.* > > Dear colleagues, > > There's a viral photo of visitors on their phones in the Louvre's Grande > Galerie that's sparked the usual "phones are ruining museums" discourse. > But I think it actually illustrates a fundamental design problem in how > we've approached digital interpretation. > > After two decades building digital technology products, I've come to > believe we miscalculated the core problem. It was never about access to > information - it was about attention as a finite resource. > > I've written about this tension and what it means for how we think about > visitor technology: > https://thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/how-were-building-museum-technology-that-gets-out-of-the-way/ > > The argument centers on why audio-first approaches preserve visual > attention in ways that screen-based interpretation cannot, and why the > "technology that disappears" principle matters more than feature richness. > > Would be interested in perspectives from colleagues working in collections > with diverse audiences and interpretation needs. > > *Sincerely / Med Venlig Hilsen* > > > > Thor Martin Baerug > > https://walkietalk.ie/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Tonya ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Tonya Haff Senior Collection Manager Australian National Wildlife Collection National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO Canberra, ACT 2602 Australia +61(0)419569109 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Thor Martin Jensen Sent: Friday, 7 November 2025 12:57 AM To: Callomon,Paul Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Visitor Attention as a Design Constraint in Digital Collections Some people who received this message don't often get email from thormj at gmail.com. Learn why this is important Thank you - I'll see if I can find it. I found an old NPR interview with Carr about the book that's making me rethink the entire framing. What strikes me is Carr's point that solitary, prolonged concentration is "an aberration in the great sweep of intellectual history" - it only emerged with printed books. Museums are asking for that same aberration: sustained, focused attention on objects. But we're building technology that returns visitors to what Carr calls our "natural state of distractedness." Apps that interrupt. Screens that fragment. Interfaces optimized for skimming. The challenge should never be to make museums more digital. It's preserving and supporting (including with digital tools) that "aberration" of deep attention that makes museum encounters meaningful. Appreciate the recommendation. Sincerely / Med Venlig Hilsen Thor Martin Baerug https://walkietalk.ie/ On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 2:39?PM Callomon,Paul > wrote: I recommend reading ?The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we read, think and remember? by Nicholas Carr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book) Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC4FC8.FA5A55F0][cid:image002.jpg at 01DC4FC8.FA5A55F0] From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Thor Martin Jensen Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2025 8:36 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Visitor Attention as a Design Constraint in Digital Collections External. Dear colleagues, There's a viral photo of visitors on their phones in the Louvre's Grande Galerie that's sparked the usual "phones are ruining museums" discourse. But I think it actually illustrates a fundamental design problem in how we've approached digital interpretation. After two decades building digital technology products, I've come to believe we miscalculated the core problem. It was never about access to information - it was about attention as a finite resource. I've written about this tension and what it means for how we think about visitor technology: https://thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/how-were-building-museum-technology-that-gets-out-of-the-way/ The argument centers on why audio-first approaches preserve visual attention in ways that screen-based interpretation cannot, and why the "technology that disappears" principle matters more than feature richness. 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This full-time, TEAMS exempt staff position is expected to begin Summer 2026 and will manage and support all aspects of IP research collections, conduct fieldwork, participate in public outreach, pursue external funding, and contribute to the research goals of the institution. Please follow the link below for more information and to apply. Any questions can be directed to the committee search chair, Dr. Michal Kowalewski at mkowalewski at flmnh.ufl.edu https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/537851/flmnh-collections-manager-ii-flmnh-collections-manager-iii ****************************** Verity L. 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Register here: https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence November 18, 2025 | 2:00?3:00 PM ET Ensuring Long-Term Access to Biodiversity Data: iDigBio, GBIF, and Beyond Speaker: Cat Chapman (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, iDigBio) A common question that arises, now that iDigBio is in its final year of NSF funding, is: What do I do with my future data and what happens to my current iDigBio-hosted data? The good news is that iDigBio is working closely with GBIF to ensure that all data contributed to iDigBio will be migrated to GBIF for continuous, secure, accessible, long-term availability. You heard Joe Miller?s (director of GBIF) commitment in September. In the current webinar, Cat Chapman, iDigBio?s Biodiversity Informatics Coordinator will demonstrate how to register your collection at GBIF. Cat has already worked with many of you to make this happen. For those using Symbiota or Specify, watch out for the webinars for Symbiota (December 16, 2025) and Specify (January 27, 2026). Your data comprise the most important asset created through our collective digitization efforts and must be preserved for future biodiversity research and education. We look forward to seeing you on November 18 at 2:00 p.m. ET. December 2, 2025 | 2:00?3:00 PM ET AI and Natural History Collections: Promise, Pitfalls, and Perspectives Speakers: Laura Briscoe (New York Botanical Garden) Leanna Feder (New York Botanical Garden) James Mickley (Oregon State University) Emily Sessa (New York Botanical Garden) Jordan Teisher (Missouri Botanical Garden) Kim Watson (New York Botanical Garden) Will Weaver (University of Michigan) For more than two decades, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden has been a consistent leader in botanical specimen digitization and an innovator in emerging digitization technologies, tools, and protocols. Their early work contributed to the establishment of NSF?s Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program and was among the first institutions to be funded through this highly successful program. NYBG was among the first institutions iDigBio staff visited to see large-scale digitization in action and learn about effective tools, techniques, and workflows. As the title of this webinar suggests, NYBG remains on the cutting edge of digitization practice, and we welcome their staff and colleagues to this webinar series. December 11, 2025 | 2:00?3:00 PM ET Digital Data in Systematics and Biogeographic Research (using fishes as examples) Speaker Dr. Larry Page (Curator Emeritus of Fishes, Florida Museum of Natural History) The massive and still increasing quantity of digital biodiversity specimen data that has been generated and aggregated by natural history museums and academic collections across the globe has been a boon to biodiversity researchers and their research. We are delighted to host Dr. Larry Page, founding director of iDigBio and leader in ichthyology research to recount why digital data are important to research and what makes the availability of these data essential to future research. We are also pleased to participate in achieving Larry?s long-term vision of an accessible storehouse of digital data. December 16, 2025 | 2:00?4:00 PM ET Preparing for the Future of Biodiversity Digitization & Data Access Using Symbiota Speakers: Katie Pearson (University of Kansas, Symbiota, iDigBio) Lindsay Walker (University of Kansas, Symbiota, iDigBio) Dr. Jenn Yost (California Polytechnic State University, Symbiota) Symbiota software and portals have been integral to iDigBio since the beginning of NSF?s Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program in 2011. Celebrated by collections of all sizes for its intuitive interfaces, ease of use, open source platform, and online availability, Symbiota has been critical to many collaborative digitization projects and is now used by over 1,100 collections as a collection management system. Symbiota has directed huge amounts of biodiversity data to iDigBio and GBIF and has been especially supportive of and helpful to under-resourced and smaller collections. 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URL: From prc44 at drexel.edu Mon Nov 17 10:08:20 2025 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:08:20 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Job opportunity Message-ID: From: Traci DuBose > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 9:26:50 AM To: unio at lists.fws.gov > Subject: [Unio] [EXTERNAL] McClung Museum Collections Specialist - Job Opportunity Hello fellow malacologists, Please see the following job opportunity at the McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee for a malacology collections specialist. Here is a link to the job ad and application link: https://fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/5700/ . For further information, please see the job ad and contact Becca K. Styers at rkelley7 at vols.utk.edu . Thank you for your time, Traci DuBose FMCS Secretary Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 President of the American Malacological Society for 2027 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Peter.Giere at mfn.berlin Mon Nov 17 10:26:25 2025 From: Peter.Giere at mfn.berlin (Giere, Peter) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:26:25 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] online conference "Focus on Conservation 2025 -- Routes to Resilience" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ++please excuse cross posting++ Dear all, I'd like to announce this year's conference "Focus on Conservation 2025 ? Routes to Resilience" (flyer attached), jointly organized by the Leibniz Research Network Preservation, ICOM-CC Smithsonian and Ki Culture. This online conference explores how cultural heritage professionals and institutions can build resilience in the face of the current pressures. Running from December 2-5, 2025 in an online format, attendance of this conference is free but registration is required. Please find more information below or at https://www.icom-cc.org/en/news/focus-on-conservation-2025--routes-to-resilience-online-conference-december-2025, the link for free registration is: https://forms.gle/AMQTDQB2M5Pq6zz57. With all the best wishes, Peter Giere Co-speaker Leibniz Research Network Preservation for the organizing committee (Kate Seymour, ICOM-CC; Dawn Rogala and Melissa Q. Miller, Smithsonian; Kim Kraczon, Ki Culture; Marisa Pamplona, Deutsches Museum; Piotr Swiatek, Deutsches Bergbaumuseum; Peter Giere, Museum f?r Naturkunde) FOCUS ON CONSERVATION 2025 ? ROUTES TO RESILIENCE Online Conference, December 2?5, 2025 FREE PARTICIPATION, REGISTRATION REQUIRED Museums, as stewards of cultural heritage, face increasing challenges in safeguarding their collections. Changes in our physical, societal, and economic environments all pose risks to the preservation and conservation of cultural objects and the institutions that care for them. Continuing the "Focus on Conservation" conference series, this online event will explore how cultural heritage professionals and institutions can build resilience in the face of these pressures. Focus on Conservation 2025 ? Routes to Resilience will explore strategies and approaches that strengthen the long-term sustainability of collections, conservation practices, and the institutions that support them. Over four days, the conference will examine diverse pathways to enhancing the resilience of cultural heritage. As stewards of these vital assets, museums and related institutions face increasing challenges in sustaining their core activities. This year?s gathering brings together practitioners from across disciplines and regions to share experiences, exchange ideas, and analyse the many facets of building resilience in conservation. Further Information: https://www.icom-cc.org/en/news/focus-on-conservation-2025--routes-to-resilience-online-conference-december-2025 ? Free registration: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Kalina ---- Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Course application: https://forms.gle/GPTeyCs722x2WKh76 Course page: https://digitizationacademy.org/course/public-participation-in-digitization-of-biodiversity-collections This free, online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing. The aim of the course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public participation in digitization workflow, (4) identify and implement quality management strategies, (5) identify common participant motivations and strategies to recruit and engage participants in a project, including events, games, and online forums, (6) and perform evaluation of a public participation in digitization project. This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as student technicians, collections managers, curators, affiliated educators, or administrators. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need prior knowledge of public participation in science, only a desire to use it as part of their future research or digitization activities. The course will occur from December 15?18 (Monday?Thursday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm Eastern. Participants can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment. The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US are welcome to apply. Applications close Friday, November 21. Kalina Jakymec iDigBio Workforce Development Manager Florida State University digitizationacademy.org | idigbio.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can read more details about the announcement in this press release and access the full report here: https://www.getty.edu/publications/pst-art-climate-impact-report-2025/ With climate action gaining momentum in the sector despite disruptions in global interest, including the Gallery Climate Coalition Stocktake Report publishing next week, it is a great time to encourage acceleration of the good work so many museums, arts non-profits, galleries, and culture workers are taking to decarbonize the sector. To that end, we invite you to share the report, and here are links to the relevant posts on all the platforms we use at Getty: Foundation Facebook Getty Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Twitter/X Threads Thank you for your attention and support, and please don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions. 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Do you have a committee of curators and CMs that makes decisions for the whole institution? Is there a curator just for informatics/databases? How are disagreements about data stewardship mediated? I'm very curious to hear what other institutions do, and how stakeholders feel about it. I know this can be a touchy subject, so feel free to respond to me off list if you like. On the flip side, if you have a system that works particularly well, let everyone hear about it! Also -- if anyone knows of any literature or best practices docs RE data stewardship of this sort, send it along! -Nate -- [The Ohio State University] Nathaniel F. Shoobs Curator of Mollusks College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 614-688-1342 (Office) mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our data manager, Tomislav Urban, is responsible for troubleshooting, communicating with the Specify folks, updating software, setting up and maintaining IPTs, customizing forms, etc. He does this separately for each of the collections. He is actually employed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center associated with our university and different clients pay portions of his salary to claim part of his time. Thus we have a single individual who is the living link between our various sets of collections data. Be well, GY George Yatskievych, Ph.D. Botanist, Curator: Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin Main Bldg Rm 127, 110 Inner Campus Dr, Stop F0404, Austin, TX 78712-1711 U.S.A. Tel. 512-471-5904; george.yatskievych at austin.utexas.edu From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Shoobs, Nate Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:16 PM To: Natural History Collections Listserv Subject: [Nhcoll-l] How does your museum govern shared biodiversity infrastructure? Hey all, I'm curious to hear how other institutions manage collections data and shared digital infrastructure, like IPTs, database software, servers, etc. Is your data and infrastructure all managed centrally by IT, with software decisions made centrally as well? Or does each collection determine what database software to use and pay its own way? Do you have a committee of curators and CMs that makes decisions for the whole institution? Is there a curator just for informatics/databases? How are disagreements about data stewardship mediated? I'm very curious to hear what other institutions do, and how stakeholders feel about it. I know this can be a touchy subject, so feel free to respond to me off list if you like. On the flip side, if you have a system that works particularly well, let everyone hear about it! Also -- if anyone knows of any literature or best practices docs RE data stewardship of this sort, send it along! -Nate -- [The Ohio State University] Nathaniel F. Shoobs Curator of Mollusks College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 614-688-1342 (Office) mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 3607 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From rundel at ucla.edu Tue Nov 18 13:57:18 2025 From: rundel at ucla.edu (PHILIP RUNDEL) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:57:18 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Nhcoll-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 4G Philip W. Rundel Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California (UCLA) Los Angeles CA 90095 rundel at biology.ucla.edu 310 971-6340 cell On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:18?PM wrote: > Send Nhcoll-l mailing list submissions to > nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nhcoll-l-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nhcoll-l-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Nhcoll-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NHMD collections portal (Tom Schi?tte) > 2. Next Week: 6th Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research > Conference (Nelson,Gil) > 3. BERLIN Declaration on Biodiversity loss - call to co-sign > (Dirk Neumann) > 4. Entomology Collection Manager position announcement - KU > Biodiversity Institute (Schlenker, Lori Bryn) > 5. Job - Collections Manager of Invertebrate Paleontology, > Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Austin Hendy) > 6. Re: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > (Watters, Jessa L.) > 7. Re: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > (Katrina Derieg) > 8. Re: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > (Bentley, Andrew Charles) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 08:55:55 +0000 > From: Tom Schi?tte > To: "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" > Cc: Anders Drud Jordan > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] NHMD collections portal > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all NhColl readers, > > Last year the Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD) implemented a new > virtual collections portal, https://collections.snm.ku.dk/en. > > The portal is designed to service both the international, scientific users > and the Danish public. It is based on information from our Specify database > and channeled through GBIF, meaning that all NHMD data are also available > and searchable on GBIF.org. The NHMD portal, however, is arranged > differently including deep zoom in photos, IUCN status, maps and trivial > names. > > We would very much like NhColl users to have a look at the portal and give > us your feed back, positive and negative. We are up and running with the > first version, but we would like to have response on what to > improve/clarify/change/add in our future development. > > Please send any answers/input to: > > Tom Schi?tte, TSchioette at snm.ku.dk and > Anders Drud Jordan, adjordan at snm.ku.dk. > > Good luck and best wishes > > Tom > > Tom Schi?tte > > Collection manager, Echinodermata & Mollusca > Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoology) > Universitetsparken 15 > DK 2100 Copenhagen OE > > +45 35 32 10 48 > TSchioette at snm.ku.dk > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220519/ae5af8c7/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 21:53:24 +0000 > From: "Nelson,Gil" > To: "IDIGBIOIT-L at LISTS.UFL.EDU" , > "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" , > "ECOLOG-L at community.esa.org" , > "ECN-L at LISTSERV.UNL.EDU" , > "NATSCA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" , > "MAMMAL-L at SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU" , > "obfs-mail-list at ucdavis.edu" > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Next Week: 6th Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity > Research Conference > Message-ID: > < > BN6PR2201MB1507E26C2F6A5B9F6BA06496EED09 at BN6PR2201MB1507.namprd22.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > [Eventbrite] > > > A Message from the Host: > > Thank you to everyone who registered for this year's Sixth Annual Digital > Data conference hosted virtually by the Field Museum! > > We are delighted by the overwhelming interest this conference has > generated. This is destined to be another fantastic event. > > > > A few helpful hints for navigating the conference next week: > > - The conference wiki page ( > https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/6th_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Field_Museum > < > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__clicks.eventbrite.com_f_a_Szmrkjt8ArtEAn5Fh7CEmQ-7E-7E_AAQxAQA-7E_RgRkZ9ktP0RXaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWRpZ2Jpby5vcmcvd2lraS9pbmRleC5waHAvNnRoX0FubnVhbF9EaWdpdGFsX0RhdGFfQ29uZmVyZW5jZSxfRmllbGRfTXVzZXVtVwNzcGNCCmKGraWGYmYXF1VSHWduZWxzb25AZmxvcmlkYW11c2V1bS51ZmwuZWR1WAQAAAAA&d=DwMFaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=-DeN3HZj0Hb0vKtqmNM6xJyvWlG-EW6_J4YBXE1_ai4&m=EhhO665HTY9SazBgmynglIzg64TIfiXlDFkwCJbhSgkDoHl2z0Gb9pwnfrNYuNie&s=AEKKb-Xo5PnIebfyWiyTYoM1YnTbszjH9q514Z5KmLQ&e=>) > will be your guide to the conference and will house all the Zoom links for > viewing the conference live. > > - From the wiki, a quick ?registration? will let you into the session, > we?re hoping to not bombard people with links to everything, so please just > ?register? for the Zoom webinar sessions that you?re interested in > attending. > > - After you submit your name and email (in an effort to reduce > bot/Zoombomber discovery and allow for participant tracking), you?ll be > taken directly to the webinar. > > - You will not need to switch ?rooms? if you?re hoping to join > presentations by people in the same session (e.g. Concurrent Session 6), > but you?ll need to switch to a different Zoom ?room? if you want to jump > from Concurrent Session 1 over to Concurrent Session 2. > > - If you cannot attend the concurrent sessions live, pre-recorded > presentations will be linked to the each oral presentation before the start > of the conference. > > - Plenary sessions will be recorded and later posted on the wiki page. > > - Please submit your questions for each speaker using the Q&A feature in > Zoom, we won?t be focusing on the chat for questions to direct to the > speaker, that?s for you to communicate with one another! > > > > Socializing in Kumospace > > We will hosting informal meeting space at > https://www.kumospace.com/digidata< > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__clicks.eventbrite.com_f_a_m4JPZ3yFQV3gBjHIV-5Fn7LQ-7E-7E_AAQxAQA-7E_RgRkZ9ktP0QiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua3Vtb3NwYWNlLmNvbS9kaWdpZGF0YVcDc3BjQgpihq2lhmJmFxdVUh1nbmVsc29uQGZsb3JpZGFtdXNldW0udWZsLmVkdVgEAAAAAA-7E-7E&d=DwMFaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=-DeN3HZj0Hb0vKtqmNM6xJyvWlG-EW6_J4YBXE1_ai4&m=EhhO665HTY9SazBgmynglIzg64TIfiXlDFkwCJbhSgkDoHl2z0Gb9pwnfrNYuNie&s=RWImWedjRa1oxXyeHeGfDMRd_4kprBnMt_8EdsDx5Gk&e=>. > Rooms will be open for the duration for the conference to utilize during > breaks, poster sessions, and after the evening collection tours. We hope > you will all join us for this fun opportunity to network and socialize! > > > > > > Virtual Tours of the Field Museum?s collections > Join us Monday and Tuesday evening for digital collection tours hosted by > Field museum staff and collaborating institutions. > > Monday Tours: > - Selections of Linne's works from the Rare Book Room and Biodiversity > Heritage Library (BHL) > - Fossil Invertebrates > - Critical Curation for a Critical Collection: Insights into miniature > forests - the liverwort of the esteemed botanist R. M. 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Things with > this one are a bit different, yesterday, there was a high ranking public > meeting with, among others, the Minister of Environment in Germany, Mrs. > Steffi Lemke from the Green Party, and the directors of the Natural History > museums and Leibniz Institutes in Frankfurt, Clement Tockner (Senckenberg), > the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bernhard > Misof (i.e. the newly fused Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, and the Museum > of Nature, Hamburg), and the Museum f?r Naturkunde in Berlin, Johannes > Vogel. > > > The English version of the declaration is attached, it calls political > leaders 30 years after the before the 1992 Rio Convention on Biodiversity > for ambitious action to comabt biodiversity loss. This declaration comes > shortly before the CBD-preparatory meeting in Nairobi in June, and before > the G7 summit in Germany end of June. Apparently, as a result of the > CBD-preparatory in Geneva in March, key CBD countries wish to water down > the indicators for the monitoring of biodiversity, with the IUCN Red List > being currently considered as only 'scientific' indicators. > > > It would surely be good if this declaration would broad support not only > from German scientists, but also international attention. > > > This link guides you to the website, if > you wish to sign. The Website currently is available only in German, I am > afraid. When scrolling down, you will find a big blue bar, asking you to > sign in German ("Sie m?chten diese Erkl?rung auch unterzeichnen?" - see > screenshot) > > [cid:part1.yxt17Hsc.NBCqwrDW at leibniz-lib.de] > > You would only need to enter your sure and last name in the first field, > followed by your institution, and your email (see second screen shot), > klick the "Einverstanden" button, and hit the blackish "Absenden" field > below. > > [cid:part2.au02SrdH.TveC51qE at leibniz-lib.de] > > Would surely be good if some would sign and if this petition would receive > wide attention. Sadly no presents other then "attention" offered in return, > except for hopefully raising the bar a bit for policy makers... > > > > With best wishes > Dirk > > > > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Betreff: WG: DRINGEND - BERLINER ERKL?RUNG - Wissenschaftliche > Mitunterzeichner*innen gesucht! > Datum: Fri, 20 May 2022 10:19:38 +0200 > Von: Vorzimmer secretary at leibniz-lib.de> > > > > > ________________________________ > Von: SGN Generaldirektion generaldirektion at senckenberg.de>> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2022 15:04 > An: SGN Generaldirektion > Betreff: DRINGEND - BERLINER ERKL?RUNG - Wissenschaftliche > Mitunterzeichner*innen gesucht! > > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > liebe Kolleg*innen, > > die drei Naturforschungsmuseen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft haben aus > aktuellem Anlass, dem Internationalen Tag der Erhaltung der Artenvielfalt > am 22.5.2022, die so genannte Berliner Erkl?rung verfasst. Dieses > Positionspapier kommt von Seiten der Wissenschaft und richtet sich im > Vorfeld des Weltnaturgipfels im August in Kunming an die Politik und > fordert konkrete, mutige und konsequente Schritte, um die Zwillingskrisen > Klimawandel und R?ckgang der biologischen Vielfalt schnellstm?glich und > effektiv einzud?mmen. > > Die Berliner Erkl?rung erh?lt umso mehr Gewicht und Sichtbarkeit, desto > mehr Wissenschaftler*innen sie unterst?tzen und mittragen. Wir w?rden uns > daher sehr freuen, wenn Sie die Erkl?rung unter diesem Link mitzeichnen ( > http://berliner-erklaerung.eu/ ) . > > Leiten Sie diesen Aufruf gerne an Ihre eigenen wissenschaftlichen > Netzwerke weiter, um dieses wichtige Anliegen zu verbreiten. > > Die Berliner Erkl?rung finden Sie als Anhang zu dieser Mail in deutscher > und englischer Sprache. > > Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? Es ist h?chste Zeit zu handeln, > > Ihr > > Klement Tockner > > > -- > Stiftung Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversit?tswandels > Postanschrift: Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany > > > Stiftung des ?ffentlichen Rechts; > Generaldirektion: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof (Generaldirektor), Adrian > Gr?ter (Kaufm. 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Tasks include preservation and curation > of the physical collection; the management of data, records, and > transactions of the collection; the maintenance and development of the > collection's specimen-level database in Specify; and facilitation of the > use of the collection by University faculty, staff, students and the > external research community. In addition, the Collection Manager trains and > oversees graduate and undergraduate students as well as other grant-funded > personnel in collections work-flow operations such as specimen preparation > and digitization. This full-time, state-funded position reports to the > Biodiversity Institute Assistant Director for Collections and Facilities. > > For additional information and to apply, go to: > employment.ku.edu/staff/22225BR > > > A complete application will include a letter of application addressing > qualifications, a CV, a statement of collection management philosophy, > names and contact information for three references, and representative > publications (optional). Salary range starting at $45,000 contingent upon > qualifications. Initial review of applications begins July 18, 2022. > Job Description > 1. Collection management, conservation, and divisional operations (45%) > > * Ensure long-term integrity and preservation of collection and > collection-storage environment. > > * Maintain and improve collection-care protocols. > > * Continue to develop and maintain Specify collection database. > > * Maintain and organize records of collection activity, use, and > status for annual reports, grant submittals, and other documentation. > > * Process specimen loans, exchanges, and gifts; oversee specimens > moving into and out of the collection; maintain appropriate records of such > activities. > > * Collaborate with curators to plan and implement divisional > goals, priorities, and programs. > > * Collaborate with other museum collection managers to achieve > high quality collections care and economy of scale in all > collections-related activities. > > * Assist and supervise users of the collection, including > students, and help to train them as appropriate. > > * Respond to inquiries from scientists, governmental and > consulting agencies, the public, and other users. > > * Participate in the museum's public programming by providing > information and specimens and assisting in exhibit design; assist in museum > public functions. > > 2. Collection strategic development, improvement, and acquisition (20%) > * Organize and prepare documentation necessary for specimen > accession, including national and international permits and associated > documentation. > * Oversee the preparation and staging of newly accessioned > specimens, and the digital capture of associated data for their integration > into the collection and collection database, respectively. > * Foster research use of the collection by qualified researchers. > * Improve the curatorial state of the collection as research use > suggests and time permits. > * Participate in acquisition of specimens by facilitating gifts > and exchanges, and by occasional fieldwork and expeditions as approved by > the curators. > > 3. Supervision (20%) > * Train and supervise graduate student curatorial assistant(s). > * Hire, train, and supervise undergraduate assistants. > * Train and supervise volunteers working in the collection. > > 4. Professional development (10%) > * Work closely with the entire BI collection management staff to > ensure consistency of practice. > * Participate in collection-management training and development > through professional societies. > * Undertake research in area of expertise when not in conflict > with collection management duties. > * Participate in relevant professional societies and workshops. > > 5. Other Divisional and Institutional duties as appropriate (5%) > > > Required qualifications: > > 1. Master's degree or other advanced degree in biology, entomology, > museum studies or related field from an accredited university. > 2. Working knowledge of the taxonomy and identification of insects. > 3. Demonstrable knowledge of care and management of natural history > collections, with a special emphasis on preventative conservation and > collection-storage environments. > 4. Familiarity with biodiversity informatics, including relational > databases (e.g., Specify), web-based applications, and distributed networks. > > Preferred qualifications: > > 1. Previous collection-management experience in a natural history > collection, with a special emphasis on entomological collections. > 2. Expertise in one or more taxa that constitute divisional strengths > and programmatic priorities. > 3. Working knowledge of specimen photography and associated equipment. > 4. Experience supervising and training students and volunteers. > > Position requirements: > Ability to lift up to 25 pounds and utilize ladders to reach cabinets and > shelves with or without accommodations. This position is required to work > on-site. > > KU is an EO/AAE. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for > employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national > origin, disability, genetic information or protected Veteran status. > http://policy.ku.edu/IOA/nondiscrimination > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/add50b16/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 09:02:13 -0700 > From: Austin Hendy > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Job - Collections Manager of Invertebrate > Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear colleagues > > The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County invites applications for > a regular, full-time Collections Manager position. Review of applications > will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To apply > please follow the link here > https://nhm.org/careers-our-museums/careers-natural-history-museum < > https://nhm.org/careers-our-museums/careers-natural-history-museum> for > Collection Manager - Invertebrate Paleontology. > > ________________________________ > Austin Hendy > Curator > Invertebrate Paleontology > Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County > 900 Exposition Blvd > Los Angeles, CA 90007 > > > > Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology > Regular Full-Time > Los Angeles, CA, US > > The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC) seeks a Collections > Manager of Invertebrate Paleontology (IP). NHMLAC?s IP collection consists > of approximately 450,000 lots and about 6-7 million fossil specimens that > span the Phanerozoic, but with strengths in Cretaceous and Cenozoic marine > invertebrates (particularly mollusks) of western North America. NHMLAC > was the first museum in L.A. to open its doors 109 years ago and is poised > for an exciting new era as it plans for the future. Having recently > completed a new strategic framework, the Natural History Museums of Los > Angeles County?including NHM at Exposition Park, La Brea Tar Pits and > museum in mid-Wilshire, and the William S. Hart Museum in Newhall?is > looking forward to new collections and research initiatives, building > projects and campaigns, exhibitions, community outreach, and innovative > audience engagement. > > The Collections Manager will oversee the day-to-day operations of the IP > collection, including processing loans and acquisitions, maintaining and > improving database records, conserving and organizing specimens, managing > physical improvements and digitization projects, facilitating the use of > the collection by researchers, and supporting the needs of other NHMLAC > department. The Collections Manager will also train and supervise > volunteers, students, and other personnel; this position is directly > supervised by the Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. The primary work > location for this position is the IP collection facility in Carson, CA, but > some time will be spent at the main NHMLAC building in Exposition Park. > > The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County values and endeavors to > support diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within its organization > and communities. Candidates who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person > of Color (BIPOC), neurodiverse, a woman, a person with a disability, a > veteran, and/or a part of the LGBTQAI+ community are welcome and encouraged > to apply. We are especially interested in candidates whose background and > experience have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to engage and > include culturally diverse audiences in museums and in science. It is an > exciting time as we embark on new journeys of becoming a museum of, for, > and with L.A. > > RESPONSIBILITIES: > > ? Cares for the Invertebrate Paleontology collection on a > day-?to-?day basis, including organizing and conserving specimens, > preparing and processing loans and acquisitions, and facilitating > collection visits. Proposes, develops, and implements plans for collection > growth and improvement. > > ? Provides documentation for the collection, including cataloging, > entering/updating database records, inventorying, and enhancing > documentation through digitization. Responds to requests for information > about the collection and shares collection records through external > repositories. > > ? Participates in education and other public program activities of > the Museum including but not limited to collection tours, supporting > exhibitions, and participation in public museum events. Handles inquiries > from the public and researchers. > > ? Stays current with trends and techniques in collections > management, collection-based research, conservation, digitization, > biodiversity informatics, government regulations, and documentation > relevant to the management of the IP collection. May lead or participate in > ongoing or original research related to the collection. > > ? Trains, supervises, and manages collections personnel, including > interns, students and volunteers. > > REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: > > ? 3-5 years experience in the collection, organization, care > and/or conservation of natural history specimens/collections; relevant > experience may have been gained through work as a student or professional. > We expect qualified applicants will have either a substantial history of > museum work or a bachelor?s or graduate degree in a related field and some > museum work experience, but we encourage applicants in their cover letters > to explain how their particular combination of education and experience > qualifies them for the position. > ? Working knowledge of invertebrate taxonomy, geology, and the > organization and management of invertebrate paleontology collections. > ? Experience with database software and common principles of > biodiversity informatics. > ? Experience writing reports, grants, professional correspondence, > and/or procedure manuals. > ? Experience effectively presenting information to and responding > to questions from individuals or groups of managers, scientists, and the > general public. > > OTHER INFORMATION > > The primary location for this job is at NHMLA?s Invertebrate Paleontology > Collections & Research facility in Carson, CA. Travel to the central NHM > location in Exposition Park in Los Angeles will sometimes be required. Some > offsite travel will be required. > > Applicants and employees are invited to identify reasonable accommodations > that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the > position they seek or occupy. The incumbent must be able to perform this > job safely, with reasonable accommodation if necessary, without endangering > the health or safety of him/herself or others. > > Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the > position is filled. Submit a current CV, a cover letter describing how > your experience, knowledge, and interest qualify you for this position, and > the names and contact information of three professional references through > the Museum?s employment site at > https://nhm.org/careers-our-museums/careers-natural-history-museum < > https://nhm.org/careers-our-museums/careers-natural-history-museum>. > > The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is an Equal Opportunity > Employer. Please contact jobs at nhm.org for any > application inquiries. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/f3ae232e/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 19:21:34 +0000 > From: "Watters, Jessa L." > To: Mary Sollows , > "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL > LIC. > Message-ID: > < > SA2PR03MB5723634687F71701E32B0DD2A2D79 at SA2PR03MB5723.namprd03.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > We bought the following machine last Fall: Honeywell PX940 > > https://www.cdwg.com/product/honeywell-px940-3-core-300-dpi-thermal-industrial-printer/5712690?pfm=srh > > It has been a total disaster and we all feel like we wasted a few thousand > dollars. Details are as follows: > > 1. Connecting it to a device was harder than it should have been (our > in-house IT could not do it without Honeywell customer service help). > 2. It prints very faintly. We have it turned up to maximum density and > it is just barely at the darkness our old Datamax was on a regular setting > (and we have been informed by Honeywell that printing at darkest setting > with cause it to die out faster?) > 3. It doesn?t seem to recognize the media we already had (supposedly > ?standard? and can fit any thermal printer). This results in us having to > open and shut the print head before every label, just to trick it into > recognizing there is media present. It also ejects/feeds about 4-5 labels > worth of media after each label. > 4. There is no built-in cutter to cut your labels for you (not sure if > that is just a model issue or none of these Honeywell ones have it; the > company seemed confused by this concept) > 5. We use FileMaker as our specimen database and our presets on labels > there print ok, but the ones in Excel do not (and we basically have to do > weird re-formatting things in Excel every time we create a new label) > > We have tried a new printhead, thinking it would fix the faintness issue > (#2), but it did not. We also requested the ?official? Honeywell media > sample thinking maybe it would start to recognize it (perhaps fixing > multiple issues in #3). They have not sent the media yet (requested over a > month ago), so I assume we will have to eventually break down and just buy > it ourselves, hoping it fixes the problem. See attached specs from the > company. > > In the meantime, as an example, I just spent ~1 hr last week printing 10 > labels? > > Jessa > > > ___________________________________________________ > Jessa Watters, M.S. > Collection Manager, Herpetology > Sam Noble Museum > 2401 Chautauqua Ave. > Norman, OK 73072 > jwatters at ou.edu > https://jessawatters.weebly.com/ > 405-325-7771 (phone) > 405-325-7699 (fax) > https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/herpetology/ > pronouns: she, her, hers > > > > From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Mary > Sollows > Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 6:55 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > Hello, > > I would like to know if anyone has experience using the following thermal > label printer for collections stored in ethanol: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, > VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC., FULL TOUCH DISPLAY, UNIVERSAL FW, ETH, USB, > SERIAL, LOW POWER BLUETOOTH, RIBBON INK IN/OUT, MEDIA CORE 3 INCH, DT AND > TT, 300 DPI, US POWER CORD. > > Our efforts to purchase a Datamax or CAB/Squix were unsuccessful last year > because of supply issues so we purchased a Honeywell option. We returned > it to Honeywell in January because it was defective and we have now been > offered the option to replace it with a slightly different model, the > HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > I am also curious if anyone knows of a museum service available to have > thermal labels printed by an external organization using the appropriate > media and SDR ribbon? I don?t want to run the risk of ?Alphabet soup? in > the jars of ethanol caused but incorrect ribbon. We need to deal with a > large backlog of labels to be printed that have been accumulating over the > past 2 years. As always, I really appreciate your advice. > > Best regards, > > Mary Sollows > Invertebrate Zoology > Department of Natural History / D?partement d?histoire naturelle > New Brunswick Museum / Mus?e du Nouveau-Brunswick > 277 Douglas Ave. > Saint John, New Brunswick > Canada E2K 1E5 > > Mary.Sollows at nbm-mnb.ca > tel: (506) 643-2365 > fax: (506) 643-2360 t was defectivt > > http://www.nbm-mnb.ca/< > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.nbm-mnb.ca/__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!56lbnZS1_foWfdh4wFFp1XbQkvZdItQGWx5EXTsbPhqk0anZvrN-h7tLM6Tg7xB1Z_PgAMJR9rsNcZULXkyQmt2dGw$ > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/6cc46089/attachment-0001.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: L3202020 (G10) FanTastock Label (1).pdf > Type: application/pdf > Size: 59665 bytes > Desc: L3202020 (G10) FanTastock Label (1).pdf > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/6cc46089/attachment-0002.pdf > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: TMX3202 ThermaMAX Resin Ribbon (1) (1).pdf > Type: application/pdf > Size: 109670 bytes > Desc: TMX3202 ThermaMAX Resin Ribbon (1) (1).pdf > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/6cc46089/attachment-0003.pdf > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 20:03:12 +0000 > From: Katrina Derieg > To: "Watters, Jessa L." , Mary Sollows > , "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" > > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL > LIC. > Message-ID: > < > MWHPR11MB15048DC4765D9BDB4911D5B5EBD79 at MWHPR11MB1504.namprd11.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I also was unable to buy a Datamax, but we ended up with a GoDEX ZX430i: > https://www.godexprinters.co.uk/industrial/zx430i > Pros: > > * Much cheaper than the Honeywell printers, even with the cutter > (which cost almost as much as the printer itself) > * Prints tiny characters very clearly > * Connecting and setting up drivers was easy > Cons: an absolute pain in the neck to use in almost every way. > > Not once have I printed a label successfully on the first try. I have to > hand feed the label paper (we use Tyvek Brillion) every time I print or > else the rollers won't grab it. I don't recommend using this medium; it > curls on the edges after some time in ethanol. Frequently, the cutter will > cut the label before it finished printing it, and then will print the > second half of the label and then claim that it is jammed (when it isn't). > I have wasted so much of that pricy Tyvek paper. When I turn the printer > off, half of the settings aren't saved, so I just have to leave the printer > on all the time unless I want to spend 30 minutes figuring out what all the > settings were before. > > I really identify with the statement: "I just spent ~1 hr last week > printing 10 labels..." because this is usually what happens to me too. I > have been putting off labeling jars because it is so frustrating to print > labels. > > I'm becoming increasingly convinced that thermal printers are not the way > to go. Seems like everyone has horror stories, regardless of the brand. > > Best of luck to you! > > Katrina Derieg > Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager > Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) > 301 Wakara Way > Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 > Email: kderieg at nhmu.utah.edu > Mobile: (801) 707-4819 | Office: (801) 587-5787 > she/her > > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Watters, > Jessa L. > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 1:22 PM > To: Mary Sollows ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > We bought the following machine last Fall: Honeywell PX940 > > https://www.cdwg.com/product/honeywell-px940-3-core-300-dpi-thermal-industrial-printer/5712690?pfm=srh > > It has been a total disaster and we all feel like we wasted a few thousand > dollars. Details are as follows: > > 1. Connecting it to a device was harder than it should have been (our > in-house IT could not do it without Honeywell customer service help). > 2. It prints very faintly. We have it turned up to maximum density and > it is just barely at the darkness our old Datamax was on a regular setting > (and we have been informed by Honeywell that printing at darkest setting > with cause it to die out faster...) > 3. It doesn't seem to recognize the media we already had (supposedly > "standard" and can fit any thermal printer). This results in us having to > open and shut the print head before every label, just to trick it into > recognizing there is media present. It also ejects/feeds about 4-5 labels > worth of media after each label. > 4. There is no built-in cutter to cut your labels for you (not sure if > that is just a model issue or none of these Honeywell ones have it; the > company seemed confused by this concept) > 5. We use FileMaker as our specimen database and our presets on labels > there print ok, but the ones in Excel do not (and we basically have to do > weird re-formatting things in Excel every time we create a new label) > > We have tried a new printhead, thinking it would fix the faintness issue > (#2), but it did not. We also requested the "official" Honeywell media > sample thinking maybe it would start to recognize it (perhaps fixing > multiple issues in #3). They have not sent the media yet (requested over a > month ago), so I assume we will have to eventually break down and just buy > it ourselves, hoping it fixes the problem. See attached specs from the > company. > > In the meantime, as an example, I just spent ~1 hr last week printing 10 > labels... > > Jessa > > > ___________________________________________________ > Jessa Watters, M.S. > Collection Manager, Herpetology > Sam Noble Museum > 2401 Chautauqua Ave. > Norman, OK 73072 > jwatters at ou.edu > https://jessawatters.weebly.com/ > 405-325-7771 (phone) > 405-325-7699 (fax) > https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/herpetology/ > pronouns: she, her, hers > > > > From: Nhcoll-l nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>> on behalf of Mary Sollows < > Mary.Sollows at nbm-mnb.ca> > Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 6:55 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu < > nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu> > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > Hello, > > I would like to know if anyone has experience using the following thermal > label printer for collections stored in ethanol: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, > VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC., FULL TOUCH DISPLAY, UNIVERSAL FW, ETH, USB, > SERIAL, LOW POWER BLUETOOTH, RIBBON INK IN/OUT, MEDIA CORE 3 INCH, DT AND > TT, 300 DPI, US POWER CORD. > > Our efforts to purchase a Datamax or CAB/Squix were unsuccessful last year > because of supply issues so we purchased a Honeywell option. We returned > it to Honeywell in January because it was defective and we have now been > offered the option to replace it with a slightly different model, the > HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > I am also curious if anyone knows of a museum service available to have > thermal labels printed by an external organization using the appropriate > media and SDR ribbon? I don't want to run the risk of "Alphabet soup" in > the jars of ethanol caused but incorrect ribbon. We need to deal with a > large backlog of labels to be printed that have been accumulating over the > past 2 years. As always, I really appreciate your advice. > > Best regards, > > Mary Sollows > Invertebrate Zoology > Department of Natural History / D?partement d'histoire naturelle > New Brunswick Museum / Mus?e du Nouveau-Brunswick > 277 Douglas Ave. > Saint John, New Brunswick > Canada E2K 1E5 > > Mary.Sollows at nbm-mnb.ca > tel: (506) 643-2365 > fax: (506) 643-2360 t was defectivt > > http://www.nbm-mnb.ca/< > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.nbm-mnb.ca/__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!56lbnZS1_foWfdh4wFFp1XbQkvZdItQGWx5EXTsbPhqk0anZvrN-h7tLM6Tg7xB1Z_PgAMJR9rsNcZULXkyQmt2dGw$ > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20220524/f23eb23a/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 20:17:13 +0000 > From: "Bentley, Andrew Charles" > To: Katrina Derieg , "Watters, Jessa L." > , Mary Sollows , > "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL > LIC. > Message-ID: > < > SN6PR01MB419105C35B40A2F9DFD237CBB2D79 at SN6PR01MB4191.prod.exchangelabs.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Katrina > > I would not be so quick to write them off so quickly. We have an old > model Datamax that has been a workhorse for us for about 10 years. Not a > day of problems in that time and e have been very happy with the longevity > of the labels produced. I suspect this may be growing pains with new > printer models (it did take us some time to find the ?sweet spot? for the > Datamax to print good quality labels at first) or bad manufacturing on the > part of Honeywell and/or GoDEX. It may also be a bad combination of ribbon > and media as his is important for good print quality. We have also been > using the attached ribbon and media supplied by Alpha Systems, who have > been the go to for museum solution thermal transfer printer needs. They > have now started supplying and recommending the CAB Squix printers as > attached since Datamax went off the market. Does anyone have any > experience with these? Are they more reliable, easier to set up and > operate? > > Last resort ? see if you can still find a Datamax I-Class Mark II > somewhere. They are really good ? > > Thanks > > Andy > A : A : A : > }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> > V V V > Andy Bentley > Ichthyology Collection Manager > University of Kansas > Biodiversity Institute > Dyche Hall > 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard > > > Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 > USA > > Tel: (785) 864-3863 > Fax: (785) 864-5335 > Email: abentley at ku.edu > ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 > http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu/< > http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu/> > A : A : A : > }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> > V V V > > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Katrina > Derieg > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 3:03 PM > To: Watters, Jessa L. ; Mary Sollows < > Mary.Sollows at nbm-mnb.ca>; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > I also was unable to buy a Datamax, but we ended up with a GoDEX ZX430i: > https://www.godexprinters.co.uk/industrial/zx430i< > https://www.godexprinters.co.uk/industrial/zx430i > > > Pros: > > * Much cheaper than the Honeywell printers, even with the cutter > (which cost almost as much as the printer itself) > * Prints tiny characters very clearly > * Connecting and setting up drivers was easy > Cons: an absolute pain in the neck to use in almost every way. > > Not once have I printed a label successfully on the first try. I have to > hand feed the label paper (we use Tyvek Brillion) every time I print or > else the rollers won?t grab it. I don?t recommend using this medium; it > curls on the edges after some time in ethanol. Frequently, the cutter will > cut the label before it finished printing it, and then will print the > second half of the label and then claim that it is jammed (when it isn?t). > I have wasted so much of that pricy Tyvek paper. When I turn the printer > off, half of the settings aren?t saved, so I just have to leave the printer > on all the time unless I want to spend 30 minutes figuring out what all the > settings were before. > > I really identify with the statement: ?I just spent ~1 hr last week > printing 10 labels?? because this is usually what happens to me too. I have > been putting off labeling jars because it is so frustrating to print labels. > > I?m becoming increasingly convinced that thermal printers are not the way > to go. Seems like everyone has horror stories, regardless of the brand. > > Best of luck to you! > > Katrina Derieg > Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager > Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) > 301 Wakara Way > Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 > Email: kderieg at nhmu.utah.edu > Mobile: (801) 707-4819 | Office: (801) 587-5787 > she/her > > From: Nhcoll-l nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>> On Behalf Of Watters, Jessa L. > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 1:22 PM > To: Mary Sollows >; > nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > We bought the following machine last Fall: Honeywell PX940 > > https://www.cdwg.com/product/honeywell-px940-3-core-300-dpi-thermal-industrial-printer/5712690?pfm=srh > < > https://www.cdwg.com/product/honeywell-px940-3-core-300-dpi-thermal-industrial-printer/5712690?pfm=srh > > > > It has been a total disaster and we all feel like we wasted a few thousand > dollars. Details are as follows: > > 1. Connecting it to a device was harder than it should have been (our > in-house IT could not do it without Honeywell customer service help). > 2. It prints very faintly. We have it turned up to maximum density and > it is just barely at the darkness our old Datamax was on a regular setting > (and we have been informed by Honeywell that printing at darkest setting > with cause it to die out faster?) > 3. It doesn?t seem to recognize the media we already had (supposedly > ?standard? and can fit any thermal printer). This results in us having to > open and shut the print head before every label, just to trick it into > recognizing there is media present. It also ejects/feeds about 4-5 labels > worth of media after each label. > 4. There is no built-in cutter to cut your labels for you (not sure if > that is just a model issue or none of these Honeywell ones have it; the > company seemed confused by this concept) > 5. We use FileMaker as our specimen database and our presets on labels > there print ok, but the ones in Excel do not (and we basically have to do > weird re-formatting things in Excel every time we create a new label) > > We have tried a new printhead, thinking it would fix the faintness issue > (#2), but it did not. We also requested the ?official? Honeywell media > sample thinking maybe it would start to recognize it (perhaps fixing > multiple issues in #3). They have not sent the media yet (requested over a > month ago), so I assume we will have to eventually break down and just buy > it ourselves, hoping it fixes the problem. See attached specs from the > company. > > In the meantime, as an example, I just spent ~1 hr last week printing 10 > labels? > > Jessa > > > ___________________________________________________ > Jessa Watters, M.S. > Collection Manager, Herpetology > Sam Noble Museum > 2401 Chautauqua Ave. > Norman, OK 73072 > jwatters at ou.edu > https://jessawatters.weebly.com/< > https://jessawatters.weebly.com/ > > > 405-325-7771 (phone) > 405-325-7699 (fax) > https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/herpetology/< > https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/herpetology/ > > > pronouns: she, her, hers > > > > From: Nhcoll-l nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>> on behalf of Mary Sollows < > Mary.Sollows at nbm-mnb.ca> > Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 6:55 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu < > nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu> > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > Hello, > > I would like to know if anyone has experience using the following thermal > label printer for collections stored in ethanol: HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, > VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC., FULL TOUCH DISPLAY, UNIVERSAL FW, ETH, USB, > SERIAL, LOW POWER BLUETOOTH, RIBBON INK IN/OUT, MEDIA CORE 3 INCH, DT AND > TT, 300 DPI, US POWER CORD. > > Our efforts to purchase a Datamax or CAB/Squix were unsuccessful last year > because of supply issues so we purchased a Honeywell option. We returned > it to Honeywell in January because it was defective and we have now been > offered the option to replace it with a slightly different model, the > HONEYWELL, PX940 PRINTER, VERIFIER W/PERPETUAL LIC. > > I am also curious if anyone knows of a museum service available to have > thermal labels printed by an external organization using the appropriate > media and SDR ribbon? I don?t want to run the risk of ?Alphabet soup? in > the jars of ethanol caused but incorrect ribbon. We need to deal with a > large backlog of labels to be printed that have been accumulating over the > past 2 years. 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Both have good longevity and track record compared to traditional rubber gaskets, for replacing the gaskets on bail-top jars. If you search the NHColl archive, I believe there were some European list members who sent in manufacturers in Europe. But hopefully some others closer to you can advise! Best, Nate - Nathaniel F. Shoobs, Curator of Mollusks College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 614-688-1342 (Office) mbd.osu.edu ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:41:15 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Material of rubber seal Hi! What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? They should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History 00372 5656 9916 Lennart.?lennuk@?loodusmuuseum.?ee ? ? Hi! What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? They should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History 00372 5656 9916 Lennart.lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.neumann at leibniz-lib.de Thu Nov 20 08:51:54 2025 From: d.neumann at leibniz-lib.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:51:54 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERN] Material of rubber seal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <19d8939f-a2cf-4d1d-aa74-1029dfaabbf3@leibniz-lib.de> Hi Lennart, if you refer to Le-Perfait gaskets, the baseline should be Replacement gaskets should be made of a durable but elastic synthetic material such as neoprene or Buna-N (acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, also called nitrile). For Europe, there seems to be a vendor in Switzerland (Fabian do you have more details?) With best wishes Dirk Am 20.11.2025 um 14:41 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi! What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? They should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History 00372 5656 9916 Lennart.lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- **** Dirk Neumann Collection Manager, Hamburg Postal address: Museum of Nature Hamburg Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change Dirk Neumann Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3 20146 Hamburg +49 40 238 317 ? 628 d.neumann at leibniz-lib.de www.leibniz-lib.de -- Stiftung Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversit?tswandels Postanschrift: Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany Stiftung des ?ffentlichen Rechts; Generaldirektion: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof (Generaldirektor), Adrian Gr?ter (Kaufm. Gesch?ftsf?hrer) Sitz der Stiftung: Adenauerallee 160 in Bonn Vorsitzender des Stiftungsrates: Dr. Michael Wappelhorst -- Stiftung Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversit?tswandels Postanschrift: Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany Stiftung des ?ffentlichen Rechts; Generaldirektion: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof (Generaldirektor), Adrian Gr?ter (Kaufm. 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Institutions in the US tend > to be using either Buna-N (a kind of synthetic nitrile rubber), or ethylene > propylene diene monomer (EPDM) which is another synthetic rubber > replacement. > > Both have good longevity and track record compared to traditional rubber > gaskets, for replacing the gaskets on bail-top jars. If you search the > NHColl archive, I believe there were some European list members who sent in > manufacturers in Europe. > > But hopefully some others closer to you can advise! > Best, > Nate > > > - > *Nathaniel F. Shoobs, *Curator of Mollusks > College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal > Biology, The Ohio State University > Museum of Biological Diversity > 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 > 614-688-1342 (Office) > mbd.osu.edu > ------------------------------ > *From:* Nhcoll-l on behalf of Lennart > Lennuk > *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:41:15 AM > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Material of rubber seal > > Hi! What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? They > should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. Lennart Lennuk Head of > collections Estonian Museum of Natural History 00372 5656 9916 Lennart. > lennuk@ loodusmuuseum. ee ? ? > > Hi! > > What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? > They should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. > > > > > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > 00372 5656 9916 > > Lennart.lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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Kind regards, Dries -- Andries J. van Dam (director) Alcomon Company Leliestraat 54 2313BH Leiden Netherlands Tel: +31615676299 E-mail: ajvandam at alcomon.com Website: http://www.alcomon.com Van: Nhcoll-l namens Dirk Neumann Datum: donderdag 20 november 2025 om 14:52 Aan: Onderwerp: Re: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERN] Material of rubber seal Hi Lennart, if you refer to Le-Perfait gaskets, the baseline should be Replacement gaskets should be made of a durable but elastic synthetic material such as neoprene or Buna-N (acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, also called nitrile). For Europe, there seems to be a vendor in Switzerland (Fabian do you have more details?) With best wishes Dirk Am 20.11.2025 um 14:41 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi! What material should collection storage rubber seals are of? They should be archival quality, non-acid off-gassing. Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History 00372 5656 9916 Lennart.lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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URL: From shoobs.1 at osu.edu Thu Nov 20 10:02:09 2025 From: shoobs.1 at osu.edu (Shoobs, Nate) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:02:09 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Nina, I don?t work with vertebrates, so others may have differing opinions about wherher or not one *should?* use adhesives for this task, but I am a big fan of Paraloid b-72 as a general purpose museum adhesive. You can vary the tensile strength of it by the concentration, and it is easily reversible using acetone/ethanol. We use it to repair broken mollusk shells in our collection. You may want to swing by your institutuon?s paleo prep lab, I?m sure they have some you could experiment with! -Nate - Nathaniel F. Shoobs, Curator of Mollusks College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 614-688-1342 (Office) mbd.osu.edu ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Black, Nina Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:57:04 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. 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With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian. www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 20 Nov 2025, at 14:57, Black, Nina wrote: > > Hi All, > > Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea > > Thanks, > Nina > > Nina Black > Curatorial Assistant > Ornithology & Mammalogy > Museum of Comparative Zoology > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. From a.g.knox at abdn.ac.uk Thu Nov 20 10:12:11 2025 From: a.g.knox at abdn.ac.uk (Knox, Dr Alan G.) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:12:11 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Nina I use small bits cut from soft plastic tubing. Very easy to pop on & take off when the skin has dried. Photo attached of some of the ones I use for small passerines. Could probably be used for larger birds as well. Alan Dr Alan Knox Emeritus Head of Museums University Collections University of Aberdeen AB24 3AA From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Black, Nina Sent: 20 November 2025 14:57 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut You don't often get email from npblack at fas.harvard.edu. Learn why this is important CAUTION: External email. Ensure this message is from a trusted source and exercise caution before clicking links/opening attachments. Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea Thanks, Nina Nina Black Curatorial Assistant Ornithology & Mammalogy Museum of Comparative Zoology The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas cl?raichte ann an Alba, ?ir. SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Fran Fran Ritchie, Conservator (Objects) she/her Harpers Ferry Center Fran_Ritchie at nps.gov American Institute for Conservation Professional Associate (peer-reviewed) NPS Conserve O Grams - Museums & Collections (U.S. National Park Service) From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Shoobs, Nate Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 10:02 AM To: Black, Nina ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut This email has been received from outside of DOI - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding. Nina, I don?t work with vertebrates, so others may have differing opinions about wherher or not one *should?* use adhesives for this task, but I am a big fan of Paraloid b-72 as a general purpose museum adhesive. You can vary the tensile strength of it by the concentration, and it is easily reversible using acetone/ethanol. We use it to repair broken mollusk shells in our collection. You may want to swing by your institutuon?s paleo prep lab, I?m sure they have some you could experiment with! -Nate - Nathaniel F. Shoobs, Curator of Mollusks College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 614-688-1342 (Office) mbd.osu.edu ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l > on behalf of Black, Nina > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:57:04 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea Thanks, Nina Nina Black Curatorial Assistant Ornithology & Mammalogy Museum of Comparative Zoology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yuri.1 at osu.edu Thu Nov 20 10:30:44 2025 From: yuri.1 at osu.edu (Yuri, Tamaki) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:30:44 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That?s a brilliant idea! I hadn?t thought of that before. Tamaki [image002.png] Tamaki Yuri, Ph.D. Curator of Tetrapods Collection Museum of Biological Diversity College of Arts & Sciences Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212 yuri.1 at osu.edu / tetrapods.osu.edu Buckeyes consider the environment before printing. From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Knox, Dr Alan G. Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 10:12?AM To: Black, Nina , nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. Report Suspicious Hi Nina I use small bits cut from soft plastic tubing. Very easy to pop on & take off when the skin has dried. Photo attached of some of the ones I use for small passerines. Could probably be used for larger birds as well. Alan Dr Alan Knox Emeritus Head of Museums University Collections University of Aberdeen AB24 3AA From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Black, Nina Sent: 20 November 2025 14:57 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut You don't often get email from npblack at fas.harvard.edu. Learn why this is important CAUTION: External email. Ensure this message is from a trusted source and exercise caution before clicking links/opening attachments. Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea Thanks, Nina Nina Black Curatorial Assistant Ornithology & Mammalogy Museum of Comparative Zoology The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas cl?raichte ann an Alba, ?ir. SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 3633 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From npblack at fas.harvard.edu Thu Nov 20 13:59:03 2025 From: npblack at fas.harvard.edu (Black, Nina) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:59:03 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you all for the great suggestions, looks like we have some experimenting to do ? Nina ________________________________ From: Knox, Dr Alan G. Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 10:12 AM To: Black, Nina ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: Keeping bills shut Hi Nina I use small bits cut from soft plastic tubing. Very easy to pop on & take off when the skin has dried. Photo attached of some of the ones I use for small passerines. Could probably be used for larger birds as well. Alan Dr Alan Knox Emeritus Head of Museums University Collections University of Aberdeen AB24 3AA From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Black, Nina Sent: 20 November 2025 14:57 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut You don't often get email from npblack at fas.harvard.edu. Learn why this is important CAUTION: External email. Ensure this message is from a trusted source and exercise caution before clicking links/opening attachments. Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea Thanks, Nina Nina Black Curatorial Assistant Ornithology & Mammalogy Museum of Comparative Zoology The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas cl?raichte ann an Alba, ?ir. SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sgillette at alaska.edu Thu Nov 20 21:03:08 2025 From: sgillette at alaska.edu (Symcha Gillette) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:03:08 -0900 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In addition to tying them shut with thread, I usually use a pin to secure the bill and prevent the lower mandible from sliding backward. See attached photos. Unlike an adhesive, it's not guaranteed to always keep the bill tightly closed once the thread and pin are removed, but it generally does the job. -Symcha Gillette Research Affiliate, University of Alaska Museum On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:57 AM Black, Nina wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep > bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good > method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, > but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to > keep it closed. 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I would try some of the great non-adhesive tips shared here, so you prepare the specimens for the analytical techniques of the future. Best of luck, Mariana *Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD* *Natural History Conservator, Yale Peabody Museum* Member at Large; Associate Editor (Collection Forum), SPNHC El jue, 20 nov 2025 a las 21:03, Symcha Gillette () escribi?: > In addition to tying them shut with thread, I usually use a pin to secure > the bill and prevent the lower mandible from sliding backward. See attached > photos. Unlike an adhesive, it's not guaranteed to always keep the bill > tightly closed once the thread and pin are removed, but it generally does > the job. > > -Symcha Gillette > Research Affiliate, University of Alaska Museum > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:57 AM Black, Nina wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep >> bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good >> method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, >> but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to >> keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not >> so keen on this idea >> >> Thanks, >> Nina >> >> *Nina Black* >> Curatorial Assistant >> Ornithology & Mammalogy >> Museum of Comparative Zoology >> _______________________________________________ >> Nhcoll-l mailing list >> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >> society. 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As an > example, proteomic studies get severely impacted by the presence of > adhesives, no matter how much you dissolve them because they are still > present at the molecular level. > > I would try some of the great non-adhesive tips shared here, so you > prepare the specimens for the analytical techniques of the future. > Best of luck, > Mariana > > *Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD* > *Natural History Conservator, Yale Peabody Museum* > Member at Large; Associate Editor (Collection Forum), SPNHC > > > > > El jue, 20 nov 2025 a las 21:03, Symcha Gillette () > escribi?: > >> In addition to tying them shut with thread, I usually use a pin to secure >> the bill and prevent the lower mandible from sliding backward. See attached >> photos. Unlike an adhesive, it's not guaranteed to always keep the bill >> tightly closed once the thread and pin are removed, but it generally does >> the job. >> >> -Symcha Gillette >> Research Affiliate, University of Alaska Museum >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:57 AM Black, Nina >> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep >>> bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good >>> method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, >>> but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to >>> keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not >>> so keen on this idea >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nina >>> >>> *Nina Black* >>> Curatorial Assistant >>> Ornithology & Mammalogy >>> Museum of Comparative Zoology >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>> society. 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If anyone has recently moved a fluid collection, please share your experiences or get in touch to talk about specifics. We've watched the Florida Museum move talks given at this year's meeting, and value hearing from any collection in the US. Best, Makayla Makayla Dean | they/them Manager, Zoology Collections & DNA Lab Cincinnati Museum Center 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45203 MDean at cincymuseum (513) 287-7000 ext 7307 cincymuseum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From henicorhina at gmail.com Fri Nov 21 16:19:01 2025 From: henicorhina at gmail.com (Oscar Johnson) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:19:01 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I've been using store-bought superglue for close to a decade now, and have not noticed any significant negative effects on even the oldest specimens. My main complaint with sewing the bills shut is that putting a needle through the nares destroys the interior structure of the nares themselves, which has value for morphological studies (for example in the Rhinocryptidae). For that reason, I use string tying only on species with perforate nares. I fully acknowledge the downsides of superglues, though, especially if there are issues with longer-term damage to the ramphotheca (although most of the ramphotheca is unaffected when gluing). However, as I mentioned at the start of this message, I have not noticed any such damage in my specimens. I will note, too, that very little glue is needed, no more than a small drop near the tip of the maxilla, sufficient to hold the tip of the mandible in place for a few seconds while the glue sets. If anyone does know of a better adhesive-based solution, though, I would love to hear about it. Oscar -- Oscar Johnson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences Florida Gulf Coast University ojohnson at fgcu.edu | henicorhina at gmail.com On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 9:22?PM Mariana Di Giacomo wrote: > Hi Nina and everyone, > > I would recommend not using any glues or adhesives for this task, as no > adhesive is 100% reversible at the microscopic level. These are research > specimens and their potential could be diminished by this addition. As an > example, proteomic studies get severely impacted by the presence of > adhesives, no matter how much you dissolve them because they are still > present at the molecular level. > > I would try some of the great non-adhesive tips shared here, so you > prepare the specimens for the analytical techniques of the future. > Best of luck, > Mariana > > *Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD* > *Natural History Conservator, Yale Peabody Museum* > Member at Large; Associate Editor (Collection Forum), SPNHC > > > > > El jue, 20 nov 2025 a las 21:03, Symcha Gillette () > escribi?: > >> In addition to tying them shut with thread, I usually use a pin to secure >> the bill and prevent the lower mandible from sliding backward. See attached >> photos. Unlike an adhesive, it's not guaranteed to always keep the bill >> tightly closed once the thread and pin are removed, but it generally does >> the job. >> >> -Symcha Gillette >> Research Affiliate, University of Alaska Museum >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:57 AM Black, Nina >> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep >>> bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good >>> method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, >>> but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to >>> keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not >>> so keen on this idea >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nina >>> >>> *Nina Black* >>> Curatorial Assistant >>> Ornithology & Mammalogy >>> Museum of Comparative Zoology >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>> society. 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URL: From RDesjardins at nhmad.ae Fri Nov 21 23:39:35 2025 From: RDesjardins at nhmad.ae (Rebecca Browning Desjardins) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:39:35 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, I use small rubber bands, the kind used by kids with braces. If the bill is pointy, we secure them with a pin in the same manner Symcha mentioned. After the skin is dry, we remove the rubber band (and pin). I don't remember who suggested this, I didn't come up with it myself. But it works well and no adhesives or destroyed nares. Becky Sent from Outlook for Android Rebecca Browning Desjardins Collections Management Senior Specialist Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi / Outsource E RDesjardins at nhmad.ae ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Oscar Johnson Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2025 1:20:08 am To: npblack at fas.harvard.edu ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut I've been using store-bought superglue for close to a decade now, and have not noticed any significant negative effects on even the oldest specimens. My main complaint with sewing the bills shut is that putting a needle through the nares destroys the interior structure of the nares themselves, which has value for morphological studies (for example in the Rhinocryptidae). For that reason, I use string tying only on species with perforate nares. I fully acknowledge the downsides of superglues, though, especially if there are issues with longer-term damage to the ramphotheca (although most of the ramphotheca is unaffected when gluing). However, as I mentioned at the start of this message, I have not noticed any such damage in my specimens. I will note, too, that very little glue is needed, no more than a small drop near the tip of the maxilla, sufficient to hold the tip of the mandible in place for a few seconds while the glue sets. If anyone does know of a better adhesive-based solution, though, I would love to hear about it. Oscar -- Oscar Johnson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences Florida Gulf Coast University ojohnson at fgcu.edu | henicorhina at gmail.com On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 9:22?PM Mariana Di Giacomo > wrote: Hi Nina and everyone, I would recommend not using any glues or adhesives for this task, as no adhesive is 100% reversible at the microscopic level. These are research specimens and their potential could be diminished by this addition. As an example, proteomic studies get severely impacted by the presence of adhesives, no matter how much you dissolve them because they are still present at the molecular level. I would try some of the great non-adhesive tips shared here, so you prepare the specimens for the analytical techniques of the future. Best of luck, Mariana Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD Natural History Conservator, Yale Peabody Museum Member at Large; Associate Editor (Collection Forum), SPNHC El jue, 20 nov 2025 a las 21:03, Symcha Gillette (>) escribi?: In addition to tying them shut with thread, I usually use a pin to secure the bill and prevent the lower mandible from sliding backward. See attached photos. Unlike an adhesive, it's not guaranteed to always keep the bill tightly closed once the thread and pin are removed, but it generally does the job. -Symcha Gillette Research Affiliate, University of Alaska Museum On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:57 AM Black, Nina > wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea Thanks, Nina Nina Black Curatorial Assistant Ornithology & Mammalogy Museum of Comparative Zoology _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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