AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL HERBARIUM:
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES
1995 / 96
Bob MAKINSON (06) 250 9466
To develop and manage scientific collections of Australian and related floras as a permanent record of Australian plant diversity, and a resource for research on those floras, and to provide high quality botanical information to a range of users.
The process of acquisition, documentation, and maintenance of geographically and taxonomically representative collections of Australian (native and introduced) and overseas flora, provides the cumulative raw data on which much botanical (particularly taxonomic) research must be based. Herbarium specimens provide the initial source material for studies of the morphological variation for delimitation of species and subspecies, and therefore also of predictive higher-level classifications. Permanent herbarium (voucher) specimens, maintained to archival standards, allow the reliable identification of plants originating from field studies, mapping of their present and past distributions, and extraction of ecological and other associated data. They also allow the constant updating of identifications in the light of new knowledge; this helps ensure that other collection components (eg living plants, photographic records) can be reliably used as a scientific and educational resource into the indefinite future. The r
Bob MAKINSON (06) 250 9466
To maintain the collections of the Australian National Herbarium (ANH), at CANB and QRS, under high standard of curation. To amalgamate CANB and Australian National Botanic Gardens (CBG) herbarium material into an integrated collection across both Canberra sites.
Ian Brooker (20%) Jo Palmer Tom Hartley (10%) Cathy Miller Bernie Hyland (20%) Kirsten Cowley Lyn Craven (10%) Joan Graham Judy West (10%) Pennie Hohnen Bryan Barlow (nominal) Maggie Sutton John Briggs (nominal) Terena Lally Kevin Thiele (10%) Marion Garratt (ANBG) Bob Makinson (ANBG; 30% active, 50% admin) Andrew Slee Heinar Streimann (ANBG; 90%) John Connors Estelle Canning (ANBG; 60%) Bruce Gray Mark Clements (ANBG; 10%) Rebel Elick David Jones (ANBG; 10%) Andrew Ford Brendan Lepschi Frank Zich Ian Telford (ANBG) Andrew Lyne (ANBG) Faye Davies (ANBG) Judith Curnow (ANBG)
Major Australian Herbaria Overseas Herbaria party to loans and exchange program
Nil
Curate, including updating names, mounting and incorporating new accessions, the research groups on which we are actively working; integrate and amalgamate the two collections; establish common curatorial and specimen flow guidelines; draft interim curation procedures manual; establish curatorial priorities for subsequent years; maintain servicing of (other) ANBG and CSIRO sections and programs.
Jo PALMER (06) 246 5523
To maintain and integrate loan and exchange procedures. To provide efficient and prompt loan servicing to other institutions
Jo Palmer Wendy Dossetor (ANBG) Helen Hadobas (ANBG) Frank Zich
ABRS $8,000
Evaluate NSW Herbarium automated program for loan and exchange management on TITAN; maintain/integrate loan and exchange procedures.
Estelle CANNING (06) 250 9463
To maintain Public Enquiries Program (in liaison with ANBG). To maintain and develop ANBG Public Access Herbarium. To receive, refer or respond to professional enquiries from other institutions. To receive, refer or respond to enquiries from other units of ANBG and CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
Estelle Canning (ANBG; 40%) Ian Telford (ANBG) Other Botanists (as relevant) Terena Lally Volunteers (PA Herb)
Nil
Agreed common specimen-flow and response-monitoring procedures for all external enquiries; set staffing arrangements for receipt of enquiries and volunteer supervision in ANBG Visitor Information Centre; maintain development of Public Access Herbarium; set performance indicators for Enquiry Service.
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