A Mobile Storage System for the Vascular Herbarium of the University of Arizona (ARIZ)

亚利桑那大学血管标本馆 (ARIZ) 的移动存储系统

• 批准号: 9876659
• 负责人: Lucinda McDade
• 金额: $ 13.66万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-15 至 2000-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9876659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mobile; Storage; System; Vascular; Herbarium

The vascular herbarium at the University of Arizona (ARIZ), with about 345,000 sheets at the present time, is the largest herbarium in the region. It holds the largest collection of plants from Arizona and from the state of Sonora, Mexico, and significant holdings from all other parts of the arid southwest and northwestern Mexico. It is an extremely active herbarium, whether measured in terms of active research projects that are based here, loans and interactions with researchers at other institutions, use by the students of all levels, or out-reach activities.Because of its very active program of collecting in support of research, the herbarium is beginning to experience a space crisis. This is the case despite a rigorous policy regarding acquisitions which demands that newly accessioned specimens have research value, build on areas of strength, and not represent excessive duplication. Without increasing storage capacity, the collection will soon be in the position of rejecting specimens or of storing them in a fashion that renders them inaccessible to researchers and students, neither of which is tenable for a herbarium as active as ARIZ. At the same time, there is little additional physical space readily that is both suitable and available.To alleviate this crisis, this project will provide for the installation a mobile of the storage system (compactors). Compactors substantially increase storage capacity within the same physical space by reducing the number of permanently open aisles between rows of herbarium cases (or of bookshelves, medical records, etc., in the case of other applications). The total impact of the project will enable the herbarium to increase its current capacity by 50% and to continue its present growth trajectory for nearly 25 years.

亚利桑那大学 (ARIZ) 的维管植物标本馆目前拥有约 345,000 张标本，是该地区最大的植物标本馆。 它拥有来自亚利桑那州和墨西哥索诺拉州最大的植物群，以及来自墨西哥干旱的西南部和西北部所有其他地区的大量植物。 这是一个非常活跃的植物标本馆，无论是从这里的活跃研究项目、贷款和与其他机构研究人员的互动、各级学生的使用还是外展活动来衡量。由于其非常积极的收集支持研究的计划，植物标本馆开始经历空间危机。 尽管关于收购的严格政策要求新加入的标本具有研究价值、建立在优势领域并且不代表过度重复，但情况仍然如此。 如果不增加存储容量，馆藏很快就会陷入拒绝标本或以研究人员和学生无法访问的方式存储它们的境地，这对于像 ARIZ 这样活跃的植物标本馆来说都是站不住脚的。 与此同时，几乎没有额外的物理空间可供使用。为了缓解这一危机，该项目将提供移动存储系统（压实机）的安装。 压缩器通过减少植物标本箱（或其他应用中的书架、病历等）之间永久开放的过道数量，大大增加了同一物理空间内的存储容量。 该项目的总体影响将使植物标本馆的现有容量增加 50%，并在近 25 年里继续保持目前的增长轨迹。