Introduction and Consortium mission and goals

[Dal...@aol.com]

Hello everyone,

 

A brief introduction: My name is Dorothy Allard; I'm a consulting botanist/ecologist. I've been working with the Pringle Herbarium since last October on developing a strategy and method for databasing our specimens. I was unable to attend your meeting last week due to a conflict. Sorry I missed it! Julie Dragon did a good job of filling me in on what you covered, and Karen Searcy and others have helped to get me on the email mailing list.

 

I think that the mission statement and goals look very good--simple, clearly worded, and concise.

 

As to the name, "Consortium of Eastern Herbaria" is quite a mouthful but "CNH" rolls off the tongue pretty easily, so it sounds good to me.

 

cheers, Dorothy

 

Dorothy J. Allard, Ph.D.
Analytical Resources LLC
1331 Waterville Mountain Road
Bakersfield, VT 05441

 

The Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria unites herbaria in
> northeastern North America to provide online access to specimen data
> housed in member institutions, with particular emphasis on collections
> from the region."
>
> "The consortium has the subsidiary goals of:
>
> -Facilitating herbarium-based biodiversity research and conservation
> activities.
>
> -Sharing knowledge on digitization and other museum informatics
> technologies.
>
> -Coordinating with other relevant regional, national, and
> international networks and organizations.
>
> -Obtaining funding to support the goals of the consortium."
>
> If there are no objections or amendments, let us aim for adopting
> these by Monday.

 

 

 

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