Documents that describe the policies and procedures (SOPs) of the Frost Entomological Museum are available through Penn State’s Scholarsphere repository: https://doi.org/10.18113/S15W5X
- The Insect Collectors’ Code
- Collections Management Policy
- SOP 01: Collection Organization, Environment, and Etiquette
- SOP 02: Museum Pest Management
- SOP 03: Specimen Preparation Guide
- SOP 04: Social Media
- SOP 05: Exit Protocols and Exit Clearance Procedures
- SOP 06: Loan agreement for Museum materials used in outreach
- SOP 07: Disaster Preparedness Plan
SOP 08: Lab Instruction for ENT 432- SOP 09: Capturing association data from depictions in TaxonWorks
- SOP 10: Loan Policy Statement
- SOP 11: Imaging slide-mounted specimens with Olympus compound microscope
- SOP 12: Digitizing pinned specimens with spreadsheets
- Digitization spreadsheet (for digitizing fully prepared, accessioned specimens that were never databased)
- ENT532 spreadsheet (for students of ENT 532 or new specimens to be databased)
- SOP 13: Georeferencing
- SOP 14: Outreach, tours, and more
- SOP 15: Shipping specimens
- SOP 16: Key access and responsibilities
- SOP 17: Voucher specimens
- SOP 18: Gall rearing
- SOP 19: Donation box management
- SOP 20: Ethanol-preserved specimen digitization
- SOP 21: Digitizing slides with flatbed scanner
- SOP 22: Transcribing depictions in TaxonWorks
- SOP 23: Transcribing slides in TaxonWorks
- SOP 24: Lab safety during pandemics
- SOP 25: Pitfall trapping
- SOP 26: Imaging with stereo microscope
- SOP 27: Imaging dry specimens with compound microscope
- SOP 28: Slide-mounting arthropods in Canada balsam
- SOP 29: Loan agreement for Museum equipment
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