Reorganization of the Collections of the Paleontological Research Institute

美国古生物研究所（PRI）和康奈尔大学（CU）的无脊椎动物化石和近代软体动物联合收藏了近200万件标本，其中无脊椎动物化石类型和图形标本在美国排名第五，是古生物学和系统学研究和教育的重要潜在资源。然而，潜在用户几乎完全无法访问这些集合。1992年9月，PRI开始了一项人员和设施的改造计划，其中包括重组和对其藏品的初步盘点。因此，这些藏品现在可供工作人员和游客使用。然而，它们仍然没有得到充分的安置和管理。CU最近收集的软体动物是相当好的策划和盘点，但不适当地安置在一个偏僻的位置。科罗拉多大学收集的无脊椎动物化石管理不善，大部分都没有记录，而且安置在一个偏僻的地方，设施不足，没有任何管理人员。资金将用于支持PRI和CU的无脊椎动物化石和近代软体动物收藏的完全重组的第一阶段，包括移动CU的设施，以及大约一半的现有PRI收藏。这将使这些重要的收藏得到适当的管理和照顾，使它们能够充分提供给研究和教育团体，并为最终的计算机化做好准备。

9407364 Allmon The combined collections of invertebrate fossils and Recent mollusks of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and Cornell University (CU) contain almost two million specimens, including the fifth largest collection of invertebrate fossil type and figured specimens in the United States, and constitute a major potential resource for research and education in paleontology and systematics. These collections, however, have been almost completely inaccessible to potential users. In September 1992, PRI embarked on a program of renovation of staff and facilities that included reorganization and preliminary inventory of its collections. As result, these collections are now usable by staff and visitors. Yet they are still inadequately housed and curated. The CU collection of Recent mollusks is fairly well curated and inventoried, but inadequately housed in an out-of -the-way location. The CU collection of invertebrate fossils is poorly curated, largely univentoried, and housed in inadequate facilities without any curatorial staff in an out-of-the-way location. Funds will be used to support the first phase of a complete reorganization of the PRI and CU collections of invertebrate fossils and Recent mollusks, involving moving the CU facilities, together with approximately half of the existing PRI collections. This will allow these important collections to be curated properly and cared for in a way that will make them fully available to the research and educational communities, and that will prepare them for eventual computerization.