Facilities and Database Improvements for the Museum of WIldlife and Fish Biology, U. C. Davis

在Douglas Kelt博士和Andrew Engilis Jr.的指导下，加州大学戴维斯分校获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持加州大学戴维斯分校野生动物和鱼类生物学博物馆（MWFB）的设施升级和鸟类和哺乳动物收藏品的管理。大学将把这笔款项用于更换目前存放哺乳动物和一些鸟类的老旧和不足的博物馆机箱。新的案例也将允许扩大收藏。使用托盘的抽屉存储系统将允许更有效地分类收集，同时最大限度地减少损坏并改善访问和组织；将完成所有骨材料的整理、改进储存和巩固；将修订皮肤、骨骼和液体保存标本的标签系统；所有的藏品都将被编目，并输入一个正在发展的计算机数据库，该数据库将通过一个在线（万维网）搜索引擎提供，该搜索引擎可从世界自然基金会的网页访问。重要的是，这些资金将使MWFB能够完成自己的收藏与从孤儿或捐赠的收藏的整合。MWFB是UCD校园内30个本科和研究生课程的重要资源，并定期为地区大学和小学提供教育需要的材料。标本也被一些机构用于培训，在加州提供了一个独特的资源，因为大多数研究收藏不允许标本用于教学需要。我们将改善系统分类学、物种分布、禽病、形态学、遗传学和相关学科研究人员的外部请求。MWFB的标本独特地记录了加州和美国西南部的生物多样性。我们预计在新温带和新热带国家和夏威夷群岛的收藏增长。在加州，MWFB已经成为一个重要的、越来越有价值的资源，这些藏品的使用一直在扩大，现在通常包括来自北美各地的请求。该博物馆最初是为了支持野生动物，鱼类和保护生物学部门的教学需求而建立的，现在已经发展成为加州第三大大学管理的收藏品。除了内部增长之外，博物馆还吸收了三个孤儿收藏品（加州大学戴维斯分校动物学收藏品，加州大学欧文分校脊椎动物收藏品和米尔斯学院收藏品）和其他收藏品（例如，来自雷耶斯角鸟类天文台和美国河社区学院（萨克拉门托，加利福尼亚州）的大量材料）。改善对MWFB材料的互联网访问将促进贷款和机构培训活动的协调。我们将通过重组收集室来改善设施的现场使用，并为合作参观Bohart昆虫博物馆和MWFB的K-12团体提供协调访问。

A grant has been awarded to the University of California - Davis under the direction of Dr. Douglas Kelt and Andrew Engilis, Jr. for partial support of upgrading facilities and completing curation of the avian and mammalian collections of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, University of California, Davis (MWFB). The University will apply these funds to the replacement of old and inadequate museum cases that currently house the mammal collection and some birds. The new cases will also allow for expansion of the collection. A drawer storage system using trays will allow more efficient compartmentalization of collections while minimizing damage and improving access and organization; curation, improved storage, and consolidation of all osteological materials will be completed; labeling systems for skins, skeletal, and liquid-preserved specimens will be revised; all collections will be inventoried and entered into a developing computer database, which will be made available through an online (World Wide Web) search engine accessible from the MWFB web page. Importantly, these funds will allow MWFB to complete the integration of its own collections with those obtained from orphaned or donated collections. The MWFB serves as a critical resource for 30 undergraduate and graduate courses on the UCD campus, and routinely loans materials for educational needs by regional universities and grade schools. Specimens also are used by several agencies for training, providing a unique resource in California as most research collections do not allow specimens to be used for instructional needs. We will improve access to outside requests by researchers that involved studies of systematics, species distribution, avian diseases, morphology, genetics, and related disciplines. Specimens housed in MWFB uniquely document the biological diversity of California and Southwestern United States. We expect collections growth in Neotemperate and Neotropical countries and the Hawaiian Islands.The MWFB has become an important and increasingly valued resource in California, and use of these collections has been expanding and now routinely includes requests from around North America. The museum was originally established to support the teaching needs of the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and has now grown to be the third largest university-managed collection in California. In addition to internal growth, the museum has absorbed three orphaned collections (the U.C. Davis Zoology collection, the U. C. Irvine vertebrate collection, and the Mills College collection) and other collections (e.g., substantial materials from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and from American River Community College (Sacramento, CA)). Improving internet access to materials in the MWFB will facilitate loans and coordination of agency training events. We will improve on site use of the facilities through reorganization of the collection room, and provide coordinated access by K-12 groups that cooperatively tour the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the MWFB.