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== About ==
 
== About ==
  
The goal of the Best Practices Committee is to codify and disseminate best practices
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The purpose of the Best Practices Committee is to assemble and disseminate best practices associated with natural history collection care and to provide infrastructure that allows the development and evolution of best practices in response to innovations within the field. By initiating and hosting web-based discussion forums, organizing workshop meetings and special interest groups, initiating new sessional committees, and participating in wider community initiatives, SPNHC will continue to take the lead in promoting best practices across natural history collections care.
and to provide and enable an infrastructure for ensuring that these best practices
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do not remain static, but continue to develop and evolve in response to
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==Committee Members ==
innovations within the field. By initiating and hosting web-based discussion
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[http://www.spnhc.org/6/committees Up-to-date membership for committee.]
forums, organizing workshop meetings and special interest groups, initiating new
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sessional committees, and participating in wider community initiatives, SPNHC
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will continue to take the lead in promoting best practices across natural history
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collections care
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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
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[[:Category:Best Practices]]
[[Arsenic Testing]]
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== Committee ==
 
== Committee ==
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Leadership: two co-chairs
  
=== Committee Members ===
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Membership: At minimum, 10 members representing the diverse backgrounds and disciplines in the natural history field (including but not limited to preservation, conservation, digitization, and collections management), but size can vary depending on needs
James Macklin (Co-Chair), Tim White (Co-Chair), Jessica Cundiff, Linda S. Ford, Jean-Marc Gagnon, Fran Ritchie (EPG Liaison), Cathy Hawks, Chris Norris, Richard Rabeler, Paul Work
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Committee Goals:
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:# Assemble content associated with the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections from both society members and published resources<br>
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:# Standardize content for dissemination to society members<br>
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:# Develop technology-based ways to present and promote content to society members<br>
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:# Encourage discussion on ways to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections through technology-based platforms, social media, and SPNHC sessions and workshops at annual meetings<br>
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:# Develop partnerships with other organizations and institutions to collaborate on the development of best practices for the community<br>
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Subcommittees: Subcommittees of the Best Practices Committee include Citations, and the addition of ad hoc committees as necessary<br>
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Citations Subcommittee Purpose: To assemble and distribute relevant literature related to best practices and the history of past practices in natural history<br>
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Citations Subcommittee Leadership: one chair, who can solicit interested members<br>
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Citations Subcommittee: At minimum, 5 members, but size can vary depending on needs<br>
  
 
=== Committee Documents ===
 
=== Committee Documents ===
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[http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/cato_BP.pdf BEST PRACTICES – what does that imply?]
 
[http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/cato_BP.pdf BEST PRACTICES – what does that imply?]
  
[[File:Digitization_Workflows_wet_collections.pdf]]
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[http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/BestPracticesCommitteeLMOct2013.pdf Best Practices Committee Description from the Leadership Manual]
 
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[http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/BestPracticesCommitteeLMOct2013.pdf Best Practice Committee Description from the Leadership Manual]
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Latest revision as of 19:07, 31 January 2017

About

The purpose of the Best Practices Committee is to assemble and disseminate best practices associated with natural history collection care and to provide infrastructure that allows the development and evolution of best practices in response to innovations within the field. By initiating and hosting web-based discussion forums, organizing workshop meetings and special interest groups, initiating new sessional committees, and participating in wider community initiatives, SPNHC will continue to take the lead in promoting best practices across natural history collections care.

Committee Members

Up-to-date membership for committee.

Links

Category:Best Practices

Committee

Leadership: two co-chairs

Membership: At minimum, 10 members representing the diverse backgrounds and disciplines in the natural history field (including but not limited to preservation, conservation, digitization, and collections management), but size can vary depending on needs

Committee Goals:

  1. Assemble content associated with the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections from both society members and published resources
  2. Standardize content for dissemination to society members
  3. Develop technology-based ways to present and promote content to society members
  4. Encourage discussion on ways to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections through technology-based platforms, social media, and SPNHC sessions and workshops at annual meetings
  5. Develop partnerships with other organizations and institutions to collaborate on the development of best practices for the community

Subcommittees: Subcommittees of the Best Practices Committee include Citations, and the addition of ad hoc committees as necessary

Citations Subcommittee Purpose: To assemble and distribute relevant literature related to best practices and the history of past practices in natural history

Citations Subcommittee Leadership: one chair, who can solicit interested members

Citations Subcommittee: At minimum, 5 members, but size can vary depending on needs

Committee Documents

BEST PRACTICES – what does that imply?

Best Practices Committee Description from the Leadership Manual