Small Collections

This wiki supports the Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Small Collections in Biodiversity Digitization Workshop to be held at Central Michigan University, 7-10 April 2014.

Agenda and Logistics

• Draft Agenda
• Attendee List
• Workshop Logistics

Collaborative Notes Documents

• Collaborative Notes document

Workshop Recordings

Tuesday April 8, 2014

• Day1 8am-12pm
• Day1 12:45pm - 2:15pm
• Day1 4-4:30pm

Wednesday April 9, 2014

PowerPoints and Presentations

TUESDAY, 8 APRIL 2014

• Introduction to CollectionsWeb (Karen Powers)
• Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Small Collections in Biodiversity Digitization (Anna K. Monfils)
• Introduction to iDigBio (Gil Nelson)
• Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (Andrew Bentley)
• Small Collection Perspective: What Made Me Commit to Digitization? (Tim Evans)
• Successfully managing small collections: What has and has not changed in 10 years (Neil Snow)
• Curating a Natural History Collection while succeeding in Academia (Lucinda A. McDade)

Lightning rounds: Challenges to small collections recruitment and retention

• Challenges to small collections recruitment and retention (Richard Carter)
• Bite-sized digi-projects (Tiffany Adrain)
• Challenges and Successes at the University of Iowa (Cindy Opitz)
• South Carolina State Museum (David Cicimurri)
• Biological Field/Research Stations (Gil Nelson)
• Hillsdale College Herbarium (Ranessa L. Cooper)
• Oregon State Arthropod Collection (Chris Marshall)
• Oregon State (Brian Sidlauskas)
• Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology and Herbarium (Kurt Galbreath)

Lightning rounds: Challenges for large collections reaching out to small collections

• Michigan Small Herbarium Initiative (Rich Rabeler)
• California Consortium of Herbaria (Lucinda McDade)
• TORCH (Wayne Elisens)
• Challenges for large collections reaching out to small collections (Gabriela M. Hogue)
• New York Botanical Garden (Kimberly Watson)
• Can you do this be the end of the week? (Katja Seltmann)
• Engaging Small Collections— Aligning Motivations (Austin Mast)

WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL 2014
Future of Funding for the Curation and Digitization of Small Collections

Alternative funding discoveries

• Alternative funding discoveries (Richard Carter)
• Finding Funding for Specimen Digitization (Laurie Hannah)

What are students learning in collections? - Lightning rounds

• Herbaria as Microcosms of Science(Abigail Hollingsworth)
• Developing Cross-Disciplined Skills (Sascha Seide)
• Multi-directional Mentorship (Erica Krimmel)
• Students in Collections: Take Home Messages (Hillary Karbowski)

Broadening Participation

• Broadening Diversity in the Biological Sciences: The Role of Small Collections (Gil Nelson & Gabriella Hogue)

Remote Participation Link

• Participate remotely via AdobeConnect