New Insect Cabinetry for the Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center

在詹姆斯·S·阿什博士的指导下，堪萨斯大学获得了一笔拨款，用于部分支持改善堪萨斯大学昆虫研究收藏的设施和储存环境。借助这一奖项，昆士兰大学自然历史博物馆和生物多样性研究中心昆虫学部将用现代化、节省空间的橱柜和新抽屉取代不合格的橱柜和抽屉。目前，一半以上的藏品储存在较老的绿色橱柜中，这些橱柜设计于20世纪40年代的S，没有有效的密封来排除博物馆害虫，许多都已经严重生锈，而且它们没有有效地利用空间。此外，这些旧柜子中约20%的昆虫抽屉本身就很旧，设计拙劣，扭曲和破裂，以至于不能正确密封，使其中的标本容易受到虫害和损坏。古昆虫学收藏，也是在住房不足的情况下。该司最近采用了Donald和Madge Baker收藏，但缺乏足够的住房。在此项目期间，我们将1)用69个新橱柜替换不符合标准的绿色橱柜；2)用带有足够密封的新的现代抽屉取代不符合标准的抽屉；3)将4,500件古昆虫学标本收藏循环到新的住房中；以及4)重新安置Baker收藏。完成后，昆虫学部收藏的所有固定标本和重要的古昆虫学收藏品将被存放在极好的、节省空间、便于研究的现代昆虫橱柜中，里面有全橡胶垫圈密封以防止害虫入侵的现代昆虫橱柜，以及现代适当密封的玻璃顶部抽屉。该项目的重点是加强设施；结果将是一个大大改善的存储环境，使收藏品达到现代的、统一的存储标准。在这个时候重新安置这些世界级的收藏品对于保持和加强它们的研究完整性，以及提供最先进的、长期的保护和防止虫害、灰尘、湿度和光线的保护至关重要。重新安置还将为未来的收藏增长节省大量空间。该项目的广泛意义和长期价值将体现在极大地改善研究和教育的长期稳定性和可获得性，使尽可能广泛的用户群体，包括世界各地的科学家、学生、公共政策制定者和感兴趣的公众，以及对研究生和本科生进行藏品管理和藏品使用方面的培训。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Kansas under the direction of Dr. James S Ashe for partial support of enhancing the facilities and storage environment of the research collection of insects at the University of Kansas. With the help of this award, the Division of Entomology of the KU Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center will replace substandard cabinetry and drawers with modern, space-efficient cabinets and new drawers. Currently more than half the collection is stored in older green cabinets, designed in the 1940's, that do not have effective seals for excluding museum pests, and many are extensively rusted, and they do not use space efficiently. Further, approximately 20% of the insect drawers in these older cabinets are themselves very old, of poor design, and warped and cracked so that they do not seal properly, making the specimens in them vulnerable to pest infestation and damage. The paleoentomology collection, is also in inadequate housing. The Division recently adopted the Donald and Madge Baker collection but it lacks adequate housing.During this project we will 1) replace substandard green cabinets with 69 new cabinets; 2) replace substandard drawers with new, modern drawers with adequate seals; 3) recurate the 4,500 specimen paleoentomology collection into new housing; and 4) re-house the Baker collection. Upon completion, all pinned specimens, and the important paleoentomology collection, in the collection of the Division of Entomology will be housed in excellent, space-efficient, research accessible, modern insect cabinets with full rubber-gasket seals that prevent entry of pests, and in modern appropriately sealed glass-topped drawers. This project is focused on enhancement of facilities; the results will be a much-improved storage environment that will bring the collection to a modern, uniform standard of storage. Re-housing these World-class collections at this time is critical to maintaining and enhancing their research integrity, and in providing state-of-the-art, long-term conservation and protection from pests, dust, humidity and light. The re-housing will also result in substantial space savings for future collection growth. The broader significance and long-term merits of this project will be realized in vastly-improved, long-term, stability and accessibility for research and education to the broadest possible user community including scientists throughout the world, students, public policy makers and the interested public, and in training of graduate and undergraduate students in aspects of collection management and collection usage.