As well as the GCG Report mentioned by Mike below, folks may also be interested in the similar report for the Republic of Ireland (Parkes & Wyse Jackson, 1998, The Geological Curator 6(10): 377-388).

Cheers

Patrick
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Dr Patrick N. Wyse Jackson
Department of Geology
Trinity College
Dublin 2
IRELAND
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From: The Geological Curator's Group mailing list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Howe, Michael P.A. [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 March 2014 17:30
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Subject: Geology Near You

Hi Everyone,

Congratulations to Paolo and NatSCA for a great new resource.

The Geological Curators’ Group has had a similar although somewhat simpler system for geological collections on their website for many years: http://www.geocurator.org/colls/colls.htm . We are currently in the early stages of updating this and adding links to online databases, etc.

NatSCA members may also be interested in the GCG Report -  State and Status of Geological Collections in United Kingdom Museums: 2001 - published as part of the Geological Curator, Volume 8, No. 3 and now freely available online at: http://www.geocurator.org/arch/Curator/Vol8No3.pdf . This contains  a wealth of detailed information about UK geosciences collections.

Regards,

Mike Howe

Dr Mike Howe
Chief Curator
National Geological Repository

&  GCG Collections Officer

Phone: 0115 9363105  Email: [log in to unmask]
WSB UGN  - British Geological Survey
Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG

From: Paolo Viscardi [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 March 2014 17:09
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Subject: Natural History Near You

Hello all,

For a long time we've wanted to know where all the natural science collection in the UK and Ireland are held, to help researchers find specimens and to know where we might need to provide support to collections at risk.

Now we have a way of both showing where collections are held AND collecting better information about collections with our new Natural History Near You database.

You can see the map of collections here: http://natsca.org/uk-collections where you can search for an organisation and find out details of their collections by clicking on the map marker.

If there is no entry for a collection you can use the form beneath the map to add information and you can even edit existing information about collections that do have an entry by clicking the "Edit" button at the bottom of the text box that pops up when you click the map marker.

Changes won't be instant as they will all be checked before being made live (to stop rapscallions and ne'er-do-wells making inappropriate entries), but we will aim to update the map with the new data on a regular basis - probably weekly, but maybe daily during the early stages of the project.

This is a soft launch at this stage, while we work out any bugs that haven't shown up during testing, but we will be sharing this more widely in the near future.

So please help us put natural sciences on the map and have a go at sharing what you know!

All the best,

Paolo


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