From the Field to the Folder: Workshop on Herbarium Specimen Curation and Best Practices

CSBR的愿景是保护美国的生物收藏，通过研究带来新的发现，通过改善教育和宣传，更好地了解和欣赏生物多样性，从而改善环境和经济政策。本次研讨会旨在让STEM中代表性不足的学生、女性和个人参与进来。拟议的活动将通过针对乔治亚州和邻近州的管理学院的馆长和管理人员来扩大参与范围。该奖项将支持为收藏经理和策展人举办的讲习班的参与者费用和用品，目的是巩固格鲁吉亚植物标本馆联盟联盟的努力。讲习班将为参与者提供实践培训，了解对馆藏安全、保存和数字化至关重要的工作流程的最佳实践。除了针对格鲁吉亚境内的植物标本馆外，讲习班还寻求加强邻国的做法，并在培训活动中利用iDigBio人员的专业知识。这些活动加强了生物多样性研究的基础设施，实现了支持生物研究的馆藏（CSBR）和推进生物多样性馆藏数字化（ADBC）项目的目标。CSBR计划支持收集安全和保存，而ADBC计划通过数字化提高数百万生物标本的可见性和数据和图像访问。这些数据可供研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和一般公众使用。提高佐治亚州及周边各州自然历史藏品管理人员和策展人的能力将加强这一资源，并将学到的最佳实践作为其设施正常工作流程的一部分。

The vision of CSBR is preservation of biological collections in the U.S. that will lead to new discoveries through research and better understanding and appreciation of biodiversity through improved education and outreach, resulting in improved environmental and economic policies. This workshop seeks to engage students, women and individual from groups under-represented in STEM. The activities proposed will broaden participation by targeting curators and managers at MSIs in Georgia and adjacent states.This award will support participant costs and supplies for a workshop for collections managers and curators with the goal consolidating efforts of the Georgia Herbarium Alliance Consortium. The workshop would provide participants with hands-on training in best practices in workflows that are critical to collections security, preservation and digitization. In addition to targeting herbaria within Georgia, the workshop seeks to enhance practices in neighboring states and use expertise from iDigBio personnel in training activities. These activities strengthen the infrastructure for biodiversity research, goals of the Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR) and the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) programs. The CSBR program supports collection security and preservation while the ADBC program increase visibility and access to data and images for millions of biological specimens through digitization. These data are made available to the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Improving the ability of natural history collections managers and curators in Georgia and surrounding states will strengthen this resource and include the best practices learned as part of the normal workflow in their facilities.