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- Not a Known Carcinogen: Health and Safety Considerations of New and
Innovative Treatments-
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Authors: Kerith Koss Schrager, Anne Kingery-Schwartz, Julie Sobelman
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
When considering the use of new and innovative materials in the treatment and handling of museum objects, there are many issues concerning health and safety, particularly when the toxicity of these new materials is unknown. However, issues related to exposure of toxic materials are not just related to new innovations; health and safety information is incomplete for most of the materials already used in collection care. Many topics covered in this article apply to any chemical/material to which museum personnel may be exposed. The discussion is divided into three parts: (1) an explanation of why museum workers, particularly conservators, are a unique exposure population when it comes to health and safety concerns; (2) a specific chemical case study (cyclododecane) describing how to approach materials with limited safety information; and (3) practical protocols to protect workers and the public. To gain a better understanding of how to approach these challenges, a summary of related literature, interviews, and survey responses on this topic are provided.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-05-06T09:28:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167575
- Arctic Specimens in the Zoological Collections at the Natural History
Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (NHMO)-
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Authors: Lars Erik Johannessen, Arild Johnsen, Thore Koppetsch, Jan Terje Lifjeld, Michael Matschiner, Geir E. E. Søli, Kjetil Lysne Voje
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
In the NHMO zoological collections, specimens from the Arctic include about 9,000 mammals and 7,100 birds, whereas the Insect Collection holds about 105,000 specimens plus more than hundred jars with unsorted material. The Fish Collection contains approximately 1,400 specimens, while the Herptile Collection (amphibians & reptiles) holds only thirty-one specimens of three taxa. Many of these specimens originate from expeditions to E Greenland, N Canada, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Finnmark, and NE Siberia in the period 1898 to 1966. Furthermore, the DNA Bank has about 5,600 tissue and extracted DNA samples, mostly sampled from wild animals during the last decades but also from specimens in the voucher collections. Most of the Arctic specimens have been digitized and are available in online data portals like GBIF, except for the Insect Collection, where only the type material and about 30 percent of the total specimens are digitized.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-05-04T05:40:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167574
- Collections of Arctic Plants, Lichens, and Fungi in the Natural History
Museum, University of Oslo, Norway-
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Authors: Charlotte Sletten Bjorå, Mika Bendiksby, Bjørn Petter Løfall, Lars Erik Johannesen, Einar Timdal
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The Arctic has been, and is, an area of focus for the botanical and fungal (lichenized fungi included) collections at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. These collections house more than 233,000 unique Arctic specimens, the oldest dating back more than two centuries. The vascular plants account for 63 percent, lichens 30 percent, and fungi 7 percent. The Arctic collections have a circumpolar representation with emphasis on mainland Norway (48 percent) and Svalbard (13 percent), followed by Arctic America (10 percent), Greenland (9 percent), and Arctic Russia (8 percent). The Oslo herbarium and fungarium house collections from important polar expeditions like Fram-2, Gjøa, and Maud, but also of many expeditions where collecting biological specimens was the main purpose. The number of new collections was highest in the decades 1930 to 1939 and 2000 to 2009 with each around 35,000 new specimens. In the 1990s, a DNA Bank was established for DNA extracts and tissue samples, and it houses today 22,879 Arctic accessions of fungi, lichens, and plants. In times of climatic change and a tense geopolitical situation, the herbarium and fungarium at NHM-Oslo represent an invaluable source for biological information about the Arctic. We welcome the use of our collections for research-, nature management-, and teaching purposes.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-05-02T07:53:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231171737
- Managing Mental Health in Cultural Heritage Emergency Response:
Occupational Safety and Operational Resilience-
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Authors: Rebecca Kennedy, Nora Lockshin
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The period following an emergency that has negatively affected a cultural institution can cause adverse mental health consequences, ranging from shame to grief regarding the status of the collection or how the response was handled. A continuous high stress environment, anxiety from overwork in an uncertain situation, and inability to detach or rest can lead to behavioral health issues. Response to pressure can lead to taking shortcuts or non-compliance with personal safety and lead to further harm to collections. Any of these reactions can be overwhelming and can lead to further neglect of health, safety, and security on the work site, in a demotivating spiral that can affect recovery and successful outcomes for all concerned. This paper covers concepts such as the psychosocial Phases of Disaster, terms used to identify experiences, validate emotional responses, and for incorporating behavioral mental health into collections emergencies training and operations. Case studies and resources for managing mental health including skills and tools to recognize the early signs of stress, encourage communication, avoid or handle triggers, and defuse situations, to help mitigate these problems and lay a foundation for positive outcomes are provided.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:18:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160314
- Fossils From the Arctic in the Collections of the Natural History Museum
in Oslo, Norway-
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Authors: Hans Arne Nakrem, Franz-Josef Lindemann, Jørn Harald Hurum, Øyvind Hammer
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The fossils from the Arctic in the palaeontological collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo (NHMO), Norway, cover most taxonomic groups and stratigraphic ages. They have proved useful in many research projects by adding important data, or by being the sole basis for these projects. The collections are well curated and most parts of them are registered in computer databases. Museum collections like those at the NHMO help to document the evolution of organismal groups in the (present-day) Arctic, and the palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological conditions they lived under. They are a resource for science by keeping records of fossils and rocks from remote locations, some of them with restricted access today (e.g., Novaya Zemlya, Russia). Not least they also document the history of scientific exploration and collecting culture over time. The history of exploration and appropriation of land in the Arctic, where many areas were considered to be “no man’s land” until the early twentieth century, is reflected in the collections, as is the building of a national Norwegian identity through polar expeditions in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:16:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159039
- Arctic Quaternary Mammal Collections in the Museums of Yakutsk (Yakutia,
East Siberia, Russia)-
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Authors: Gennady Boeskorov, Marina Shchelchkova
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Many Ice Age fossil mammals remains are found in Yakutia, which occupies most of Eastern Siberia. In the city of Yakutsk, various museum and scientific institutions hold collections and exhibits of Quaternary mammals collected at different times in different locations in the Arctic zone of Yakutia. These collections mostly represents the Late Pleistocene Mammoth Fauna, and are housed in the Emelyan Yarosslavsky’s Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North, the Mammoth Museum, the Geological Museum of Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Department of the Mammoth Fauna study, Academy of Sciences of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. These collections include woolly mammoth skeletons, other fragments of mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and horse carcasses, whole carcasses of steppe bison, cave lion cubs, and other fossil mammals, many bones and teeth of various mammals of the Mammoth Fauna. The study of these fossil mammal remains allow identification of features of their anatomy and morphology, as well as reconstruction of the ecological conditions at the time they were alive.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:15:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159028
- A Short Research Guide on Arctic Historical Bryozoan Collections and a Few
Associated Biocoenosis at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy
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Authors: Valentina I. Gontar
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Russian bryozoans and other invertebrate biocenosis material collected in the Arctic Ocean over a period of more than 250 years, and the corresponding literature citing them, are deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This paper provides a general description and historical quantitative information about the Historical Bryozoan Collection kept in this Russian institute. Access to species-level data is available via the data portal (www.zin.ru). The quantitative distribution of benthos, specifically bryozoans, in the Russian Arctic seas remained nearly unexplored until recent times. The first systematic quantitative studies were conducted by the Zoological Institute in the Laptev Sea, in its southeastern part, on the New Siberian Shoal in 1973; the Chaun Bay of the East Siberian Sea in 1986; and near Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt of the Chukchi Sea in 1976.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:14:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159042
- Digitization of the Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium as a Unique
Research Infrastructure to Study Arctic Climate Change and Inform Nature
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Authors: Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Denmark represents the largest collection of botanical specimens from Greenland and includes some of the oldest known specimens collected in the Arctic, as well as voucher specimens collected over time from important botanical expeditions. High-resolution digital images for all specimens in this collection have recently been obtained and accompanying specimen label data have been transcribed. Digitizing this invaluable botanical collection from Greenland allows us to make nearly 170,000 Arctic plant specimens available online to researchers, amateur botanists, nature managers and advisers, as well as the general public. Improved access to this museum collection will facilitate global change research and nature management in Greenland’s rapidly changing Arctic environment and will help promote the value of digitizing Arctic specimens maintained in natural history collections worldwide. Current and potential applications of Arctic herbarium material in climate change studies, and the biases and limitations of such herbarium material for these studies are discussed.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:12:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159027
- Paleontological Aspects of Austrian Arctic Endeavors
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Authors: Mathias Harzhauser, Anna E. Weinmann, Martin Krenn, Oleg Mandic
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
We present a journey through the history of the Austrian Arctic collections stored in Geological-Paleontological Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW). The NHMW-material was mainly acquired during four expeditions. The first was an Isbjørn expedition designed as a test cruise by Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht in 1871. One year later, there was a second Isbjørn expedition under the command of Count Johann Wilczek. In 1873, Richard von Drasche, an industrial magnate with geological expertise, organized a private trip to eastern Spitzbergen (Svalbard). The fourth one was from 1872 to 1874, when Payer and Weyprecht led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition on the ship Admiral Tegetthoff. The latter, which almost ended in a catastrophe, discovered Franz-Josef-Land. After these expeditions, Austria took part in the First International Polar Year (1882–1883), with its own research station at Jan Mayen. There are numerous types provided by these expeditions that make this collection and its archival material an important source for the geological history of the Arctic region.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:11:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159037
- Toxic Tomes: Understanding the Use and Risks of Heavy Metals in
Nineteenth-Century Bookcloth-
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Authors: Melissa Tedone, Rosie Grayburn
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The Poison Book Project is an ongoing investigation into the use of heavy metal pigments in nineteenth-century bookbinding cloth and the risks associated with handling books bound in such cloth. A spectrum of pigment colors and toxicities are briefly explored. The most toxic heavy metals identified in bookcloth include arsenic, chromium, lead, and mercury, with arsenic being the most acutely toxic. The primary methods of analysis used by project researchers are X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy; however, non-instrumental identification methods for confirming the presence of arsenic are also considered. Bookcloth production techniques evolved over the course of the century and may influence the friability of finished bookcloth. Considerations about the varying friability of differently colored bookcloths inform handling advice.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:08:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159040
- Navigating Change and Safety with Mercury in an Installation by Rebecca
Horn-
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Authors: Emily Hamilton, Jeff Sotek, Steve Poletski
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The Hydra-Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde (1988) by Rebecca Horn was created with a significant volume of mercury as part of a multi-component installation. This work was acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 1990 and was examined prior to exhibition in 2017 to 2018. The mercury developed black accretions that were considered visually problematic. Concerns surrounding the health and safety of conservation treatment and exhibition were raised and the museum partnered with Amec Foster Wheeler (now WSP USA) to develop appropriate handling, treatment, and storage procedures. SFMOMA conservation and curatorial staff were in dialog with the artist’s studio throughout this process and this collaborative process was essential in deciding how to exhibit this work moving forward.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:07:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159035
- The Arctic Paleontological Collections in the V.I. Vernadsky State
Geological Museum (Moscow, Russia)-
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Authors: Iraida Alexandrovna Starodubtseva, Irina Leonidovna Soroka
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The collection of the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SGM RAS) is over 260 years old, and during this period it has constantly expanded. The first Arctic collections, mainly invertebrates, entered the museum in the middle of the twentieth century. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the type collections from the Russian Arctic began to be actively developed in the museum holdings. Arctic collections of the SGM RAS are represented mainly by Jurassic and Cretaceous cephalopods and bivalves, but also by some crinoids and several parts of ichthyosaur skeleton from the New Siberian Islands, Svalbard, Taimyr, northern Siberia, and Franz Josef Land.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T12:04:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159025
- Introduction to the Focus Issue: Natural History Collections Come in from
the Cold-
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Authors: Consuelo Sendino, Svetlana Nikolaeva
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Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-21T11:56:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160483
- Mollusks from Arctic Region at the National Museum of Natural Sciences
Collections (MNCN-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)-
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Authors: Mª Dolores Bragado Álvarez, de Andres Cobeta Francisco Javier
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The Mollusca Collection of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN, CSIC, Madrid) contains some specimens from the Arctic Circle, exactly thirty-eight lots including historical collections, which may provide insights to climate change research. Some of these collections refer to those of the Head of the Scientific Commission of the Pacific, the mariner and naturalist Patricio Paz y Membiela (accessioned in 1873), and the malacologists Joaquín González Hidalgo and Florentino Azpeitia (accessioned in 1913 and 1934 respectively). Recently there has been a donation from the collector and diplomat Javier Conde de Saro which was accessioned in the MNCN in 2011 and a collection of the curator of the Mollusca Collection, Rafael Araujo, of 2010. These specimens belong to twenty-six species (fifteen marine and three freshwater gastropods; six marine and one freshwater bivalves; and one polyplacophoran) from places such as Kola Peninsula, Greenland, and Novaya Zembla; and Russian Arctic waters. All of these specimens have been databased and are an important contribution to global research as mollusk are heavily affected by temperature changes and ocean acidification.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-17T11:01:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167578
- Focus Issue: Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit: A Review of Hazard
Identification and Risk Mitigation 2016–2021-
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Authors: Catharine Hawks, Tara D. Kennedy, Kathryn Makos, Anne Marigza, Melissa Miller, Samantha Snell
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-13T11:08:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167576
- Can’t Touch That: Safety, Preservation, and Collection Management
Assessments of an Education Collection-
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Authors: Kelsey Falquero, Catharine Hawks, Deborah Hull-Walski, Kathryn Makos, Lisa Palmer
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Q'rius is an interactive learning venue at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) designed specifically for teen audience. The space gives visitors a chance to interact with the museum collection items. These are acquired education collections, belonging to the Office of Education and Outreach (E&O). The collections in Q'rius include 6,000 specimens representing the Museum’s seven disciplines—anthropology, botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, mineral sciences, paleobiology, and vertebrate zoology. A collaborative survey team was set up to assess collection items before their rehousing and storage in the publicly accessible Collections Zone. The result was a risk rating system, developed to minimize the risks to our visitors and to our collections. This system allows collections staff to make housing recommendations that ensures the safety of NMNH’s visitors and the preservation of E&O’s publicly accessible collection. The team implemented rankings by using color-coded labels, similar to the universal traffic stoplight system, to indicate whether the public can handle specimens directly (green), handle with assistance from a trained volunteer (yellow), or view only through barriers (red).
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-04-03T09:23:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231164476
- Fragments of Frankliniana: The Conservation of Arctic Exploration-Related
Paper-
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Authors: Amanda Gould
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Most of the paper retrieved from the Arctic has been from sites where cairns were erected or where caches of stores were deposited by nineteenth and early twentieth century explorers. This article describes the investigation and conservation treatment of the contents of one artifact, a metal canister, left in the Canadian Arctic as early as 1850 by parties in search of the missing Franklin Expedition. Retrieved from an Arctic island beach one hundred years later, it was deposited with not one, but two Canadian national collecting institutions. Having rested mostly unexamined for over fifty years, preparations for the exhibition Death in the Ice, The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition in 2015 renewed interest in the artifact and its contents, now known to have been the subject of multiple relocations and rediscoveries in the realms of not only Arctic exploration but also museum and archives practice.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-30T01:06:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160455
- The GEUS Palynology, Nannofossil, and Microfossil Arctic Slide Collection
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Authors: Henrik Nøhr-Hansen, Stefan Piasecki, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Sofie Lindström, Emma Sheldon, Karen Dybkjær, Annette Ryge, Charlotte Olsen, Peter Alsen, John Boserup
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Since 1976 more than 25,000 Arctic sediment samples have been processed for their palynological, nannofossil, or microfossil content at the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) and the Geological Survey of Denmark (DGU); both institutes are now merged into the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). The samples represent nearly all ages from the Neoproterozoic to the Neogene, though dominated by the Mesozoic. A large proportion of the samples were processed for palynomorphs. Up to ten slides have been produced for each palynological sample and usually one slide is produced for each nannofossil and microfossil sample, making the GEUS collection one of the largest Arctic slide collections with more than 200,000 slides. All type specimens and some specimens illustrated in publications listed here have been assigned MGUH numbers (Museum Geologica Universitas Hafniensis) and are housed in the type collection of the Geological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, now part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-25T06:53:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159038
- Subfossil Insect Collections From the Arctic of Northeast Asia and
Northwest North America-
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Authors: Svetlana Kuzmina
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Subfossil insects (mostly beetles) are common in the Late Cenozoic terrestrial loose deposits of the Arctic. The best-studied areas are those regions that remained ice-free during the Pleistocene — in Alaska and Yukon, northeast Siberia, and west Chukotka. Tertiary subfossil insects have been found in Alaska, Yukon, Canadian Northwest Territories, and Greenland. The northernmost sites (above 75°N) are Ellesmere and Meighen Islands in Canada, Kap Kobenhavn in Greenland, and Faddeyevsky and Navaya Sibir’ Islands in Siberia. Collections from North America and Russia are housed in research institutions such as The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in Ottawa, University of Alberta (UofA) in Edmonton, Paleontological Institute (PIN) in Moscow, and Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology in Yekaterinburg; collections from Greenland are housed in the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. The collections are mainly used for research purposes, including reconstruction of past climate and environment, stratigraphy, origin of local faunas, and ecosystems of the past. A few extinct species have been described from the late Neogene and early Quaternary.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-21T05:30:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159033
- Protocols to Prevent Transmission of the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome:
Three Case Studies-
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Authors: Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The goal of the paper is to explain the risk posed by rodent contaminated materials and environments to cultural heritage professionals, to provide sound information from professional literature and reputable sources, to offer standardized protocols gleaned from these sources, and to view the protocols through case studies from three projects. By spelling out the affinity that rodents have for historic sites, museum collections, archives holdings, records repositories, library collections, and cultural heritage infrastructure it will be clear the risk is paramount. By making clear the widespread habitat of rodents that can spread viruses the case is made for wide adoption of protocols. Diverse professionals, working in conservation and allied fields, can utilize information in this paper as a starting point in planning projects to assess, handle, and treat rodent impacted items, storage areas, and sites.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-20T05:45:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160508
- Powder Struggle: How a Contaminated Rare Book Collection Led to a New
Paradigm of Collaboration at Harvard-
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Authors: John Avedian, Brenda Bernier
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
In 2015 staff in Harvard University’s Widener Library discovered an unidentified white powder in a few early twentieth-century books in Persian and Urdu languages that had been acquired four years previously from a rare book dealer in Pakistan. The powder was positively identified as the insecticides Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane(DDT), Coumaphos, and several derivatives. Later it became evident that these volumes were part of a large collection and that potentially thousands of volumes were contaminated. Various exposure assessments were followed by cleaning and reassessment which revealed that risks to persons were infinitely small. However, a bioassay revealed that the pesticide residues were still biologically active. The transparency of communication and demonstrated collaboration between Safety, Facilities, and Library personnel generated trust among staff that their health and safety were paramount. This trust was key to subsequent incidents of contaminated collections and our response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-17T05:34:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160512
- A Safer Work Environment for Stabilization of Moldy Collections
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Authors: Amber L. Tarnowski
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is an actively collecting museum, and collections stewardship preservation activities include treatment of objects affected by mold. Mold adversely impacts the physical stability and esthetic qualities of collection objects and creates unsafe conditions; providing a safe treatment environment is part of an overall risk-reduction strategy. Federal standards for working with moldy museum objects do not exist therefore disaster recovery-type practices are utilized, but it is unknown if basic isolation tents provide the safest environment for protecting those treating the objects. Prolonged use of a disaster-type isolation tent at NMAAHC proved unsatisfactory and unsafe; defining the optimal specifications and identifying applicable standards were key to designing a safer solution. Input from the museum industry and engineers, along with an examination of standards for similar hazards, impacted the overall design of an improved enclosure. Comparisons between the disaster-recovery isolation type enclosure and the new negative-pressure enclosure are compared for appropriate applications, context, and scale of different situations.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-16T10:08:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159024
- A Taxonomic Baseline to Monitor Retreating Arctic Biota: The Marine
Invertebrate Collection of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History
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Authors: Gudmundur Gudmundsson
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The IINH collection comprises ~5.3 million specimens of marine invertebrates, collected within 758,000 km2 of the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Iceland, which is a significant part of the greater Arctic-Boreal biogeographic boundary in the northern Atlantic. The oldest collected specimen is from 1871, but most of the specimens (4.7 million) were collected during the BIOICE project between 1991 and 2004. The program objective is to build a museum collection, reflecting the geographical distribution and morphological variation of benthic species. Over 1,390 zoological samples were collected following a stratified random sampling plan with 579 stations at a depth range of 20 to 3,000 m, and temperatures from −1°C to over +9°C. The material is sorted to about 50 higher taxonomic groups, and 3,007 benthic species, of which fifty-one are new to science. The collection offers a baseline to monitor changing biodiversity at the Arctic-Boreal boundary, with rising temperature, salinity, and acidification.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-01-13T06:12:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906221147358
- The Legacy of Welsh Botanist Jessie Gwendoline O’Callaghan (née
Insole; 1882–1932)-
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Authors: Michael Statham, Heather Pardoe, Vanessa Cunningham
First page: 3
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
This biographical paper examines the background of collections comprising illustrations of fungi and herbarium specimens attributed to Jessie O’Callaghan, held by the Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales. O’Callaghan was a privileged, wealthy woman born in the Welsh parish of Llandaff, which, in 1922, was incorporated into Cardiff, now Wales’ capital city. Upon her marriage in 1906 she moved to Ireland, but eventually settled in the English county of Surrey. Throughout her life she had an enduring interest in botany, seeking, collecting, painting, and cultivating rare plants. She shared this passion with Eleanor Vachell, the well-regarded Welsh amateur botanist, whom she had known since childhood. Entries in Eleanor’s diaries, and their letters, together with a surviving photograph album, provide fascinating insights into Jessie’s life. The paper also speculates on the fate of O’Callaghan’s collection of 595 watercolour paintings of wild flowers, loaned to the Museum by her daughter in 1932, but later returned to her.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-17T05:33:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160456
- New Life for a Legacy: The La Verne Historical Society and Inman
Conety’s 1938 International Truck-
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Authors: Benjamin Jenkins, Sherry Best
First page: 30
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
In La Verne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, residents have partnered with the town’s historical society to rebuild an important item from that organization’s collections: a 1938 International truck. Driven for decades by longtime La Verne resident Inman Conety, this automobile has logged over 900,000 miles since the early-twentieth century. As an expression of the collective identity of La Verne, the International has served the community as a recycling vehicle and supported civic pride with appearances in Fourth of July parades. The La Verne Historical Society recently launched a campaign to fund reconstruction of the vehicle, with the goal of returning it to the Fourth of July parade and affirming the truck’s status as a historical artifact with deep ties to the community. The 1938 International expresses the centrality of community support to the La Verne Historical Society’s collections.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-01-24T11:30:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906221147552
- “Impressive Miniature Scenes Full of Life and Humour”: The
Interpretation of Netsuke at the Museum Folkwang 2010 to 2021-
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Authors: Ryan Nutting
First page: 49
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Although primarily known as a modern and contemporary art museum the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany also possesses a significant anthropology collection dating from the museum’s inception which is ignored in most scholarship on the museum. Using a biography of objects approach this work analyzes the interpretation of four netsuke in the museum’s collection across three exhibitions between 2010 and 2021. By analyzing the display methods of these objects in these exhibitions, their interpretation by the museum, and utilizing theories of miniature objects I demonstrate that the small size of these objects encouraged visitors to closely examine and decode these objects. Consequently, this work provides a basis for further investigation on how museums exhibit and interpret miniature objects to construct knowledge.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-01T12:31:25Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159034
- Preservation of Audiovisual Collections at Albert Ilemobade Library,
Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria-
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Authors: Oluwole Ejiwoye Rasaki, Adeola Oyebisi Egbedokun, Akeem Adedayo Adedimeji
First page: 69
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The study investigates audiovisual collections at the Albert Ilemobade Library, The Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. Condition surveying, observation, and interview were the instruments used for data collection. Condition survey was conducted on audiovisual materials in the unit to ascertain their continuing accessibility and usability. The result revealed that most of the audiovisual materials are carrier-based analog format and are inaccessible owing to unavailability and obsolete playback equipment. Technology obsolescence, improper storage environment, lack of funding, lack of commitment by library management, and lack of trained personnel in audiovisual preservation were identified challenges of audiovisual preservation in the library. The study recommends digitization of analog carrier-based audiovisual materials, adequate funding, conducive storage environment, recruitment of preservation expert, and change of attitude to preservation of information materials.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-02-27T12:20:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159036
- “Of War Tanks and Military Memorabilia”: A Look at the Conservation of
Military Collections at the Zimbabwe Military Museum (ZMM)-
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Authors: Simbarashe Shadreck Chitima, Amos Zevure
First page: 88
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
A historiography of museums since the cabinets of curiosity shows evidence that museums have been seized with the acquisition, conservation, and exhibition of collections for public consumption. National museums have, in different contexts, assumed the role of public heritage protector and educator of national history. They have also served as a vehicle for negotiating national identities. As museums seek to good care of its collections, the public’s expectation is that their heritage is in good hands when under museum administration. Sometimes, however, due to several challenges that are context specific this role has been found not to be easy. This study focuses specifically on evaluating the efficacy of conservation measures of artifacts on display employed at the Zimbabwe Military Museum (ZMM). The study employed qualitative and case study research approaches where interviews as well as observations were deployed as research instruments. The study reveals that artifacts in display cases and those in open displays are deteriorating at un-precedented levels chiefly due to lack of purpose built infrastructure, conservation equipment, policy frameworks, and staff training. Identified agents of deterioration were human factors, light, pollution, temperature and relative humidity. In addition, statues were broken, metal collections corroding, paper and photographs fading, and showing signs of discoloration as well as textile collections weakening. In sum, conservation measures employed at the ZMM are constrained hence artifacts on display are more susceptible to deterioration and destruction.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-21T06:22:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160534
- Book Review: Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement: Reckoning with the
History of Libraries and the Black and African American Experience and
Narratives of (Dis)Engagement: Exploring Black and African American
Students’ Experiences in Libraries-
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Authors: Katharine Chandler
First page: 108
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-01T12:29:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159032
- Book Review: A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of
U.S. Museums-
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Authors: Alexa Cummins
First page: 111
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-07T05:26:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160487
- Book Review: Metadatafor Digital Collections, A How-To-Do-It Manual
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Authors: Susan A. Barrett
First page: 113
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2023-03-08T01:06:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159029
- Comprehensive Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment of Elemental
Mercury at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, NJ-
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Authors: Bernard L. Fontaine
Abstract: Collections, Ahead of Print.
The Thomas A. Edison National Laboratory in West Orange, NJ was used to research and develop many inventions including experiments with a mercury oxide battery. Historical letter from Ms. Kellogg to Thomas Edison in 1884 reported the outcome of using mercury while conducting research. Preliminary test results showed spread of some contamination to artifact throughout the laboratory but the majority of the mercury was confined to a specific area of the lab. Spillage of elemental mercury in the Small Dry Cell Lab on the third floor of Building 5 leaked through the floor and ceiling on the second floor below. A comprehensive preliminary site risk assessment was conducted to evaluate the location and extent of the mercury contamination. Remediation work was conducted to remove the wood floor and ceiling but the work plan and health and safety plan for the project was inadequate. Workers were exposed to elevated levels of mercury vapor. Changes were made to reduce the risk and occupational exposure. The work was accomplished successfully without mercury poisioning after implementing more elaborate engineering and administrative controls.
Citation: Collections
PubDate: 2022-11-25T05:48:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/15501906221134764
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