Collection Service Activities at the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

纽约植物园（NYBG）是国家系统学研究资源中心，是美国最大的植物和真菌标本库。 它是一个巨大的，积极管理和密集使用的收集超过5，600，000标本代表所有植物和真菌组，是世界范围内。 由于收藏的规模和丰富性，NYBG植物标本馆成为世界各地植物学研究的主要研究材料来源。 几乎所有对美洲和旧大陆部分地区植物的主要分类修订都包括对保存在NYBG植物标本馆的标本的检查。 纽约植物园标本馆定期借出的标本比世界上任何其他标本馆都多。 在过去的五年里，向46个国家和美国48个州的361个植物标本馆提供了232，927份标本的贷款。 平均每年发送46 585份样本（677份贷款）。 在这五年中，在调查的27种期刊中，有1098篇文章引用了NYBG标本的使用。 在同一时期，来自66个国家和美国39个州的1158名访问研究人员使用了10，644人天。 该项目将使纽约植物园标本室能够继续向植物学研究人员和其他植物信息用户提供高水平的服务。

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) a National Systematics Research Resource Center, is the country s largest repository of plant and fungal specimens. It is a vast, actively managed, and intensively use collection of more than 5,600,000 specimens representing all plant and fungal groups and is worldwide in scope. Because of the size and richness of the collection, the NYBG Herbarium serves as a primary source of research materials for botanical studies throughout the world. Virtually all major taxonomic revisions of plants of the Americas and parts of the Old World include examination of specimens deposited in the NYBG Herbarium. The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium regularly sends more specimens on loan than any other herbarium in the world. In the past five years, loans of 232,927 specimens were sent to 361 herbaria in 46 foreign countries and 48 states of the USA. An average of 46,585 specimens (677 loans) were sent each year. In these same five years, in the 27 journals surveyed, 1098 articles cite use of NYBG specimens. During this same period, 1158 visiting resea rchers from 66 foreign countries and 39 states of the USA spent 10,644 person-days using the collection. This project will enable the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium to continue its high level of service to the community of botanical researchers and other users of plant information.