Critical Upgrades to Specimen Storage and Computerization for the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection

自1935年以来，俄勒冈州州立大学鱼类学收藏馆（OSUIC）的25万份标本一直支持鱼类生物多样性和保护研究。 最近，由于缺乏扩展空间、过时的卡片式编目系统和资金不足，OSUIC的发展受到阻碍，地球仪的研究人员无法轻松访问馆藏。该项目将通过以下方式解决这些问题：1）安装移动的紧凑型货架，将货架空间增加43%; 2）创建一个在线的、可远程访问的收藏数据库。这些重要的升级将使OSUIC能够存档新的标本，并确保它在未来几十年内继续作为太平洋西北部及其他地区鱼类研究的中心。除了升级收藏的基础设施外，该项目还将吸引预科学生在动手探索单元中使用一些最壮观的OSUIC标本，为本科生和研究生提供培训和财政支持，并开发一个新的在线鱼类系统学课程。在该课程中，400多个物种的标本照片将产生一个虚拟的教学集合，从而复制当前校园产品的实验室密集型体验。该项目结束时，将大大改善学生、科学家和公众在线获取生物多样性图书馆信息的能力，迄今为止，只有学者们关起门来才能访问该图书馆。

The quarter million specimens in the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection (OSUIC) have supported research on fish biodiversity and conservation since 1935. Recently a lack of expansion space, an outdated card-based cataloging system and insufficient finances have stymied the OSUIC's growth and prevented researchers around the globe from accessing the collection's holdings easily. This project will solve these problems by 1) installing mobile compact shelving that will increase shelf space by 43% and 2) creating an online, remotely accessible collection database. These critical upgrades will allow the OSUIC to archive new specimens and ensure that it continues to serve as a center for research on fishes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond for decades to come.In addition to upgrading the collection's infrastructure, this project will engage precollege students with some of the most spectacular OSUIC specimens in hands-on Discovery Units, provide training and financial support to undergraduate and graduate students, and develop a new online Systematics of Fishes course. In that course, photographs of specimens of more than 400 species will generate a virtual teaching collection, thereby replicating the laboratory-intensive experience of the current on-campus offering. By its conclusion, the project will offer students, scientists and the public vastly improved online access to information in a biodiversity library that has until now been accessible only to scholars behind closed doors.