Collection Service Activities Support for the Field Museum Herbarium

对实地博物馆植物标本馆的收藏服务活动支持

• 批准号: 9407152
• 负责人: Michael Dillon
• 金额: $ 12.96万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-01 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9407152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collection; Service; Activities; Support; Field

9407152 Dillon Encyclopedic collections housed in museums continue to be central to modern research in systematic botany. As methods of analysis become more sophisticated, the community's use of well-annotated, systematically and geographically organized voucher collections will continue to expand. The botanical collections at Field Museum include over 2 million flowering plant accessions and represent a sampling of biodiversity with worldwide representation. The bulk of these collections (64.5%) are from Latin American, and particularly Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru and Brazil, and as the pace of biodiversity loss in the Neotropics continues to accelerate, the information provided by these collections is increasingly valuable in conservation efforts. Since its inception, Field Museum's Department of Botany has maintained significant collection-based services to the botanical community. Especially important is a massive loan program with a current volume of 30-40,000 sheets per year in outgoing and incoming material. The selection, repair, packaging, and invoicing of loans is an extremely labor-intensive operation. To insure the uninterrupted and consistently prompt attentions to loan requests from the scientific community. This project will provide a full-time Collections Assistant devoted to assisting with the specimen loan program, including shipping/receiving loans, packing/unpacking loans, fumigating incoming loan material, generating and updating invoices and computer records, filing loans.

9407152 博物馆中的狄龙百科全书馆藏仍然是现代系统植物学研究的核心。 随着分析方法变得更加复杂，社区对注释良好、系统地和地理上组织的凭证集合的使用将继续扩大。 菲尔德博物馆的植物藏品包括超过 200 万种开花植物，代表了具有全球代表性的生物多样性样本。 这些藏品大部分 (64.5%) 来自拉丁美洲，特别是墨西哥、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、哥斯达黎加、秘鲁和巴西，随着新热带地区生物多样性丧失的步伐不断加快，这些藏品提供的信息在保护工作中越来越有价值。 自成立以来，菲尔德博物馆植物学部一直为植物界提供重要的基于收藏的服务。 尤其重要的是大规模的贷款计划，目前每年的出库和进库材料数量为 30-40,000 张。 贷款的选择、修理、包装和开具发票是一项极其劳动密集型的操作。 确保不间断地持续及时关注科学界的贷款请求。 该项目将提供一名全职催收助理，专门协助样本贷款计划，包括运输/接收贷款、打包/拆包贷款、熏蒸收到的贷款材料、生成和更新发票和计算机记录、提交贷款。