Curatorial Improvements to the Entomological Collection, Bernice P. Bishop Museum

9423814米勒主教博物馆的节肢动物收藏品是一个独特的标本集合，主要来自太平洋及其源头地区。在过去的40年里，这些收藏品经历了巨大的增长，超过1300万件标本几乎完全是通过基于项目的收集增加的。这些收藏品现在跻身于美国三大昆虫学收藏品之列。该项目将完成对1986年开始的收藏品的改进，安装60%的压实机系统，并将分散的收藏品集中在一层楼内。第二阶段包括将鞘翅目、双翅目和鳞翅目的馆藏水平提高到可借出的单位。该项目将完成其余藏品的馆藏水平的提升，重点放在膜翅目、异翅目、同翅目、直翅目和较小的目和组(Mallophaga和Thrchotera)，以及包括螨亚纲。来访的科学家将把藏品管理到可借出的单位(史密森博物馆3级)。在专家来访之前，毕晓普的技术人员将整合团队并对标本进行预分类。在专家访问期间，一名技术人员将帮助专家并完成专家离开后的任何剩余任务。这一策略节省了访问者的时间，并提供了更高效的访问。另一个已经奏效的资金扩张策略，也是建议在这里使用的一个，就是利用旅行计划搭乘火奴鲁鲁之行。在某些情况下，杰出的策展人能够通过根据旅行计划安排参观时间来处理藏品，例如，为他们的旅行提供火奴鲁鲁段的支持。拟议项目的完成具有长期的成本效益，因为工作人员和游客将不必在多个抽屉中筛选标本，以寻找他们感兴趣的小组成员。精简馆藏管理任务。随着时间的推移，随着研究材料的归还，整个收藏将成为一个更强大的参考收藏，从而允许更快和更好的识别。组织得当的收集工作为利用计算机进行管理以及传播和处理与标本有关的数据奠定了基础。所有这些都有助于更好地记录和了解该地区的生物多样性。

9423814 Miller The Bishop Museum arthropod collections are a unique assemblage of specimens mainly from the Pacific and its source areas. The collections experienced enormous growth in the last 40 years as over 13 million specimens were added almost entirely by project-based collecting. The collections now rank among the three largest entomological collections in the U.S.. This project will complete the improvements to collections begun in 1986 with the installation of 60% of a compactor system and consolidation of the scattered collections onto a single floor. A second phase included the elevation of curatorial levels to loanable units for the Coleoptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera. This project will complete the elevation of curatorial levels for the remainder of the collection, focusing on the Hymenoptera, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Orthopteroidea and the smaller orders and groups (Mallophaga and Thrchoptera), and including the subclasses Acari. Visiting scientists will curate the collections to loanable units (Smithsonian curatiorial level 3). Before the visit of the specialist, the technical staff of Bishop will consolidate the group and presort the specimens. During the specialist's visit a technician will help the specialist as well as complete any tasks remaining after the specialist leaves. This strategy saves the visitor's time and provides for a more efficient visit. Another fund-extending strategy that has worked will and one also proposed for use here, is taking advantage of travel schedules to piggyback a Honolulu visit. In some cases, exceptional curators were able to work on the collections by timing their visits with their travel schedules, supporting a Honolulu leg to their trip, for example. The completion of the proposed project has long term cost benefits as staff and visitors will not have to sift through multiple drawers of specimens looking for members of the group of their interest. Collections management tasks will be streamlined. Over time, as the studied m aterials are returned, the collection as a whole will become a much stronger reference collection permitting speedier and better identifications. Properly organized collections set the stage for the use of computers in their management and for the dissemination and manipulation of data associated with the specimens. All leading to much better documentation and understanding of the biodiversity of the region.