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We’ve been extraordinarily busy here at the Frost, especially since mid-July. Four grant proposals in three weeks(!), combined with design events for the new public face of the Frost, working with departing interns to wrap up projects, hosting visiting bears and scientists (Jim and Syd), and myriad other major and minor activities—I’m just stopping now to catch my breath. One of our accomplishments, the first of several I hope to document here, is a set of (in some cases rough) draft policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the Museum. Check ’em out:
I did have a dream once … alas … to establish an online entomological collections resource (a wiki, most likely, or maybe a site that employs Annotum), where people from any insect collection could post articles on how they monitored for pests, how they designed header cards, how they handled specimen loans, etc. What are the best practices? Seems like an invaluable resource for new curators of entomological collections! What are reasonable alternatives to naphthalene? How do people handle National Park Service specimens? What are peoples’ opinions about various collections software? How does one slide-mount a mite? Perhaps the Entomological Collections Network should host this kind of forum. Anyway, I digress …
Our draft policies and SOPs are now available for comment (insert => comment), and we appreciate ANY feedback (in any form). We still have a long way to go to make these policies and SOPs robust, but at least they’re available for discussion. What policies are missing? What procedures would you like to know more about?
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