Resources

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19th Annual Meeting

Published: May 16, 2004

Date: Conference: May 11 – 16, 2004 Hosted by: American Museum of Natural History New York, New York USA Chair: Chris Norris Workshop: Emergency Preparedness, Response & Salvage

MuseumWise: Workplace Words Defined

Published: November 16, 2003

A glossary of terms encountered in the management and preservation of collections. A project of the Documentation Committee of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Includes terms derived from 48 bibliographic references as well as numerous additions from the editors.

Collection Forum 18/1-2

Published: November 15, 2003

Abstracts: CFAbs_2003_V18N12.pdf Complete PDF: CF_181-2.pdf

18th Annual Meeting: Modern Museums – Balancing Tradition and Technology

Published: June 19, 2003

Date: Conference: June 15-19, 2003 Workshop: June 20-21, 2003 Hosted by Museum of Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA Chair: Richard Monk

17th Annual Meeting: Hazardous collections and mitigations

Published: May 13, 2002

Date: May 8-13, 2002 Location: Redpath Museum, Montreal, PQ Canada Co-hosts: Canadian Museum of Nature and the Redpath Museum, McGill University Chairs: Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ingrid Birker Workshop: Emergency Responses and Mitigation

Comparison of Temperature and Relative Humidity Dataloggers for Museum Monitoring

Published: April 16, 2002

Part of the SPNHC leaflet series.

Collection Forum 17/1-2

Published: November 15, 2001

16th Annual Meeting

Published: June 26, 2001

Location: San Francisco, California USA Date: June 21 – 26, 2001 Host: California Academy of Sciences Chair: Jean Demouth Workshop: Living Collections and Identifying Risks to Collections.

Collection Forum 15/1-2

Published: February 15, 2001

Collection Forum 16/1-2

Published: January 15, 2001

15th Annual Meeting: Maritime Natural History

Published: July 14, 2000

Date: July 10 – 14, 2000 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Sponsors: Geological Survey of Canada and the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History Coordinators: Iris Hardy and Alex Wilson Workshop: Permits

Collection Forum 14/1-2

Published: January 15, 2000

Collection Forum 13/2

Published: November 15, 1999

14th Annual Meeting: Research and Collections

Published: July 3, 1999

Hosts: Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Smithsonian Institution and SPNHC Date: June 28 – July 3, 1999 Location: Washington, DC, USA Coordinators: David von Endt, Elizabeth Merritt

Managing the Modern Herbarium

Published: July 1, 1999

This book highlights the significance and value of one of the world’s oldest and most basic elements of botanical systematics, the herbarium. It combines practical guidleines for the proper care of documented collections of preserved plants and fungi with recommendations for the responsible use in modern systematic research. Though focusing on collections of plants and…

Guide to the Identification of Common Clear Plastic Films

Published: November 16, 1998

Part of the SPNHC leaflet series.

Collection Forum 4/2

Published: November 15, 1998

13th Annual Meeting: Collections on the Move: Strategies For The New Millennium

Published: May 30, 1998

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date: May 25 – May 30, 1998 Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada Coordinator: Lisa Barty Co-Chairs: Frannie Blondheim, Leslie Latta-Guthrie Workshop: Moving Collections Special Interest Group Reports: Anthropology, Botany, Conservation, Geology, Paleontology, Zoology