NSCA–SPNHC Joint Meeting

Collection Stewardship: Challenges in a Changing World

13-17 May 2008

Skirvin Hilton Hotel

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

 

Join us in Oklahoma City (OKC), OK May 13-17, 2008 for the Joint Meeting of the:

Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance) and the

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)

http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/nsca-spnhc/

 

 

The meeting is in two weeks!

 

Registration—Registration is still open! See the conference website for on-line registration.

 

TORCH Meeting (A New Event Added to the Schedule)—On Saturday, May 17, from 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, a joint meeting of Herbarium Curators and the Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) will be held at Cross Hall on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman.  For more information, visit the NSCA/SPNHC conference website or the TORCH website (http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/torch/).

 

Program—The program will be posted on the website soon! Oral and poster presenters have been notified of their scheduled sessions via email. Additional information on presentation recommendations and available technology can also be found on the conference website.

 

Committee Meetings—The schedule for the board and committee meetings has been distributed to the Presidents of both societies and SPNHC Committee chairs. See the website for the complete schedule (http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/nsca-spnhc/SPNHCcommitteemeetingschedule.htm). Note that the meeting of the SPNHC Best Practices Committee is scheduled for 9:00-10:00 am Tuesday 13 May.

 

Vendor’s Luncheon—The Vendor’s Lunch is full!

 

SIGs Luncheon—There are still a few openings at the Integrated Pest Management, Student Member Roundtable, and Social Sciences Permits, Regulations, and Legal Issues tables. The other five Special Interest Groups are full!

 

Trips and Museum Tours—Field trips to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Arbuckle Mountains Geology and White Mound are still open! Still open are the Film, Q&A, and Partial Tour (a morning tour) and the afternoon session of the SNOMNH Earth/Social Sciences Tour.

All other tours are full. The Oklahoma History Center Tour has been cancelled. Check the meeting website for more information.

 

Hotel—Rooms are no longer available at the Skirvin Hilton. A contracted room block has been obtained at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel located 0.16 miles from the Skirvin (~5 minute walk). Call 1-800-325-3535 (toll free) or (405) 235-2780 to make reservations; on-line reservations are not available. Indicate the group name '2008 NSCA-SPNHC' to receive the conference rate.

 

For information about other area hotels go to: http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/nsca-spnhc/otherhotels.htm

 

Workshops—All workshops are still open but are filling up!

• Best Practices in Collection Stewardship: Writing a Collections Management Policy

• Hazardous Materials Specimen Shipping
• Lighting in Museums: Challenges of Balancing Collection Stewardship
• Technology Museum Cleaning Basics in a Changing World
• Making Sense of Making Mounts Workshop

 

Social and Banquet—Tickets are still available to dine with the dinosaurs, mingle with a mammoth, view the spectacular galleries at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History! The museum gift store, Excavations, will be open during the Social. Music during the social and banquet will be provided by internationally known guitarist Edgar Cruz. After dinner, dancing and entertainment will be to the lively music of a DJ!

 

We thank all the sponsors and vendors who will be appearing at NSCA–SPNHC 2008! For a complete listing of all of our sponsors, please see www.snomnh.ou.edu/nsca-spnhc/Sponsors.htm

 

See you in May!

Janet Braun and Marcy Revelez, Co-Chairs

 

For details about the NSCA-SPNHC 2008 meeting schedule, program, workshops, pre-conference tours, registration, hotel reservations, and other information check the conference website http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/nsca-spnhc.