A Mobile Storage System for the Vascular Herbarium of the University of Arizona (ARIZ)

亚利桑那大学的维管植物标本馆（ARIZ）目前拥有约345，000张，是该地区最大的植物标本馆。 它拥有来自亚利桑那州和墨西哥索诺拉州的最大的植物收藏，以及来自干旱的墨西哥西南部和西北部所有其他地区的重要收藏。 这是一个非常活跃的植物标本馆，无论是从基于这里的活跃研究项目，贷款和与其他机构的研究人员的互动，各级学生的使用，还是外展活动来衡量。由于其非常活跃的收集支持研究的计划，植物标本馆开始经历空间危机。 尽管有严格的收购政策，要求新加入的标本具有研究价值，建立在优势领域，而不是过度重复。 如果不增加储存能力，收藏品很快就会处于拒绝标本或以研究人员和学生无法获得标本的方式储存标本的地位，这两种方式都不适合像ARIZ这样活跃的植物标本馆。 与此同时，几乎没有额外的物理空间，这是合适的和可用的。为了缓解这一危机，该项目将提供安装一个移动的存储系统（压实机）。 压实机通过减少植物标本室（或书架、医疗记录等）的行之间的永久开放通道的数量，在其他应用中）。 该项目的总体影响将使植物标本馆的现有容量增加50%，并在近25年内继续保持目前的增长轨迹。

The vascular herbarium at the University of Arizona (ARIZ), with about 345,000 sheets at the present time, is the largest herbarium in the region. It holds the largest collection of plants from Arizona and from the state of Sonora, Mexico, and significant holdings from all other parts of the arid southwest and northwestern Mexico. It is an extremely active herbarium, whether measured in terms of active research projects that are based here, loans and interactions with researchers at other institutions, use by the students of all levels, or out-reach activities.Because of its very active program of collecting in support of research, the herbarium is beginning to experience a space crisis. This is the case despite a rigorous policy regarding acquisitions which demands that newly accessioned specimens have research value, build on areas of strength, and not represent excessive duplication. Without increasing storage capacity, the collection will soon be in the position of rejecting specimens or of storing them in a fashion that renders them inaccessible to researchers and students, neither of which is tenable for a herbarium as active as ARIZ. At the same time, there is little additional physical space readily that is both suitable and available.To alleviate this crisis, this project will provide for the installation a mobile of the storage system (compactors). Compactors substantially increase storage capacity within the same physical space by reducing the number of permanently open aisles between rows of herbarium cases (or of bookshelves, medical records, etc., in the case of other applications). The total impact of the project will enable the herbarium to increase its current capacity by 50% and to continue its present growth trajectory for nearly 25 years.