Critical Upgrades to Specimen Storage and Computerization for the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection

自1935年以来，俄勒冈州立大学鱼类学收藏（OSUIC）的25万份标本为鱼类生物多样性和保护研究提供了支持。近年来，由于缺乏扩展空间，过时的卡片编目系统和资金不足，阻碍了OSUIC的发展，并使全球的研究人员无法轻松访问该馆藏。该项目将通过以下方式解决这些问题：1)安装移动紧凑型书架，这将使书架空间增加43%；2)创建一个在线、远程访问的馆藏数据库。这些关键的升级将使OSUIC能够存档新的标本，并确保它在未来几十年内继续作为太平洋西北地区及其他地区鱼类研究中心。除了升级馆藏的基础设施外，该项目还将让大学预科学生在动手探索单元中接触一些最壮观的OSUIC标本，为本科生和研究生提供培训和经济支持，并开发一个新的在线鱼类系统课程。在这门课程中，400多个物种标本的照片将生成一个虚拟教学集合，从而复制目前校园提供的实验室密集型体验。最终，该项目将大大改善学生、科学家和公众对生物多样性图书馆信息的在线访问，而到目前为止，这个图书馆只能闭门向学者开放。

The quarter million specimens in the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection (OSUIC) have supported research on fish biodiversity and conservation since 1935. Recently a lack of expansion space, an outdated card-based cataloging system and insufficient finances have stymied the OSUIC's growth and prevented researchers around the globe from accessing the collection's holdings easily. This project will solve these problems by 1) installing mobile compact shelving that will increase shelf space by 43% and 2) creating an online, remotely accessible collection database. These critical upgrades will allow the OSUIC to archive new specimens and ensure that it continues to serve as a center for research on fishes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond for decades to come.In addition to upgrading the collection's infrastructure, this project will engage precollege students with some of the most spectacular OSUIC specimens in hands-on Discovery Units, provide training and financial support to undergraduate and graduate students, and develop a new online Systematics of Fishes course. In that course, photographs of specimens of more than 400 species will generate a virtual teaching collection, thereby replicating the laboratory-intensive experience of the current on-campus offering. By its conclusion, the project will offer students, scientists and the public vastly improved online access to information in a biodiversity library that has until now been accessible only to scholars behind closed doors.