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Hi David The simple answer (and I hope not too blindingly obvious - grandmothers & eggs etc) I would give is that you organise the collection based on a self indexing principle based on the predominate use of the collection. If the users want a systematic collection arrange it that way, if they want a locality based collection ditto and so on. You can always add subordinate levels of classification e.g. systematic>locality>collector to make it easier for all users to locate the material of interest. Regards Paul --------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul G. Davis Registrar Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London, SW7 5BD Telephone +44 (0)20 7942 5458 Fax +44 (0)20 7942 5765 Mobile 07905 607162 e-mail [log in to unmask] www.nhm.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: The Geological Curator's Group mailing list on behalf of David Craven Sent: Tue 28/08/2007 13:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Organising Mineral Collections This is a bit of a straw poll really. We have a decent mineral collection at Bolton, and I'm shortly moving it to new storage units. At the moment it is, in theory, organised according to the Hey classification system. In practice, it's got pretty disorganised. So, in the course of moving it to the new storage, I want to re-organise it and locate specimens accordingly. Which means I'm looking for recommendations as to what system to use. Any opinions anyone cares to voice? What system do you use, and why? Thanks in advance, David Craven