Collection Service Activities Support for the Field Museum Herbarium

9407152狄龙博物馆里的百科全书式的收藏仍然是现代系统植物学研究的中心。随着分析方法变得更加复杂，社区使用注释良好、系统和按地理位置组织的代金券收集将继续扩大。菲尔德博物馆的植物收藏包括200多万株开花植物，代表了具有世界代表性的生物多样性样本。这些收集的大部分（64.5%）来自拉丁美洲，特别是墨西哥、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、哥斯达黎加、秘鲁和巴西。随着新热带地区生物多样性丧失的速度继续加快，这些收集的信息在保护工作中越来越有价值。自成立以来，菲尔德博物馆的植物部门一直为植物界提供重要的以收藏为基础的服务。尤其重要的是一个庞大的贷款计划，目前每年有3 -4万张出借和进借材料。贷款的选择、维修、包装和发票是一项极其劳动密集型的操作。确保对来自科学界的借阅请求给予不间断和持续的及时关注。该项目将提供一名全职的藏品助理，专门协助标本借出项目，包括运送/接收贷款，包装/拆包，熏蒸传入的贷款材料，生成和更新发票和计算机记录，归档贷款。

9407152 Dillon Encyclopedic collections housed in museums continue to be central to modern research in systematic botany. As methods of analysis become more sophisticated, the community's use of well-annotated, systematically and geographically organized voucher collections will continue to expand. The botanical collections at Field Museum include over 2 million flowering plant accessions and represent a sampling of biodiversity with worldwide representation. The bulk of these collections (64.5%) are from Latin American, and particularly Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru and Brazil, and as the pace of biodiversity loss in the Neotropics continues to accelerate, the information provided by these collections is increasingly valuable in conservation efforts. Since its inception, Field Museum's Department of Botany has maintained significant collection-based services to the botanical community. Especially important is a massive loan program with a current volume of 30-40,000 sheets per year in outgoing and incoming material. The selection, repair, packaging, and invoicing of loans is an extremely labor-intensive operation. To insure the uninterrupted and consistently prompt attentions to loan requests from the scientific community. This project will provide a full-time Collections Assistant devoted to assisting with the specimen loan program, including shipping/receiving loans, packing/unpacking loans, fumigating incoming loan material, generating and updating invoices and computer records, filing loans.