Hi Tony
Thanks for this information.
Kind regards
Mark Carnall
> Norwich Castle Museum
> Staff: 2
> Objects: 1.5 million
>
> Cheers
> tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Carnall
> Sent: 18 April 2011 13:04
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> Subject: The state of the union
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been putting together my paper for the next NatSCA news on an
> interesting thought experiment that I spoke to some of you about.
> However,
> what started as a simple thought experiment has escalated somewhat and I
> like to ask you all for some information.
>
> I'd be much obliged if you could let me know, for your institution how
> many people are responsible for collections care and management for
> natural history collections at your institution and roughly, how many
> object they are responsible for.
>
> So for example if you worked at the Wicksworth Herbarium with 4 million
> objects as a full time curator with a part time assistant you'd reply
> with:
>
> Wicksworth Herbarium
> Staff: 1.5
> Objects: 4 million
>
> I'd like this information to examine whether the way I see our subsector
> actually reflects the reality. I won't be storing the data, I'm just
> going
> to plug the numbers into a spreadsheet in a quick analysis and I'm only
> asking for the institution name so I don't count museums/department
> twice.
> Also, PLEASE DON'T EMAIL THE REST OF THE LIST email replies to
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>
> Unless, of course this data set or similar exists already in which case
> I
> wouldn't mind a gentle point in the right direction.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Mark Carnall
>
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