Category Archives: General

President’s Message

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the official constitution of the Society of Herbarium Curators – and what a decade it has been! As I pick up the reins from the very capable hands of Past President Alexander Krings (NCSU) for the 2014-2016 term, I wanted my incoming message not only to communicate the…
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Emerging Professionals Group

New Blog: Cracking the Collections – A group of emerging professionals in the natural history collection field got together at a Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) meeting a few years ago and decided to start a blog. It is online at: http://crackingthecollections.wordpress.com/. Although, the content includes all natural history collections, not…
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From the Newsletter Editor

Many of you are already familiar with SHC and The Vasculum, whereas others may be reading it for the first time. Either way, thank you so much for supporting our Society! Before going further, let me apologize for the July issue being a bit late, but I wanted to make sure that we included any…
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New Initiative Will Improve Access to Biological Collections, Data

WASHINGTON, DC – Scientists have launched a new national initiative to build a research and end-user community dedicated to developing a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA).  The project is an outgrowth of recent scientific meetings in which scientists have articulated a need to digitally capture biological specimens and associated data held in natural science collections…
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I am a botanist…

When I tell people that I make my living in botany, they often guess at what that means. Some have no sense for the word. Others imagine me on slow strolls through meadows, sniffing wildflowers and communing with songbirds. I also often get asked if being a botanist means that I grow marijuana. I have…
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