Reference Request
Finding Aids to Records of Professional Societies in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 23-092
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
Records, 1992-2022
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections |
| Title: | Records |
| Dates: | 1992-2022 |
| Quantity: | 2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 23-092 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of materials concerning Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) annual meetings, publications and committees. Particularly well documented is the loan of the SPNHC Supplies and Materials for Museum Collections traveling display to a variety of institutions and meetings. Publications documented include SPNHC Connection and Collection Forum. People represented in the collection include Cynthia A. Ramotnik, Linda Hollenberg, and Carol Lynn Kelloff. Materials include correspondence, loan agreements, lists, meeting minutes, conference programs and abstracts, newsletters, serials, books, presentations, website records, color photographs and slides, clippings, and other related materials documenting SPNHC activities. Some materials are in digital format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of materials concerning Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) annual meetings, publications and committees. Particularly well documented is the loan of the SPNHC Supplies and Materials for Museum Collections traveling display to a variety of institutions and meetings. Publications documented include SPNHC Connection and Collection Forum. People represented in the collection include Cynthia A. Ramotnik, Linda Hollenberg, and Carol Lynn Kelloff. Materials include correspondence, loan agreements, lists, meeting minutes, conference programs and abstracts, newsletters, serials, books, presentations, website records, color photographs and slides, clippings, and other related materials documenting SPNHC activities. Some materials are in digital format.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2038; Transferring office; 7/11/1990 Agreement of Transfer; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Collection Forum (Serial)
- Hollenberg, Linda
- Kelloff, Carol Lynn, 1954-
- Ramotnik, Cynthia A.
- SPNHC Connection (Newsletter)
Subject
- Congresses and conventions
- Museums -- Collection management
- Natural history -- Catalogs and collections
- Preservation of materials
- Professional associations
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 23-092, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Records
Container List
Box 1
Records of Cynthia A. Ramotnik - The following folders consist of the Loan Agreements from various institutions and meetings for the SPNHC Supplies and Materials for Museum Collections traveling display. The traveling display was provided by the Resources Committee.
1992 - Madrid: List of contents of box 1 and 2; list for box 3 missing. No loan agreement.
1993 - Sternberg Museum, Hays, Kansas (Kansas Museums Association): Loan agreement, photos [by Cathy Dwigans (?)], correspondence, list of display items
1994 - Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada (Nevada Museum Association): Loan agreement, correspondence
1994 - San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California: Loan agreement, correspondence
1994 - Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii: No loan agreement, correspondence
1995 - Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada: Loan agreement, correspondence, list of display items, photos of display
1996 - American Institute for Conservation (AIC) (meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence, list of display items, photos
1996 - The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois (The American Malacological Union meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
1996 - University of Iowa Collections Coalition: Loan agreement, correspondence
1996 - Texas Memorial Museum: display requested but not loaned: Correspondence
1996 - Samples of cover letters for traveling display
1998 - Revised "Museum Supplies and Material" Loan Agreement
1998 - Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - Museum Association of Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - RC-AAM Marketplace, Los Angeles, California: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - Collection Care Workshop, Nome, Alaska: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - American Society of Mammalogists, Blacksburg, Virginia: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - Partnerships in Paleontology, Rapid City, South Dakota: Loan agreement, correspondence
1998 - Partnership Opps. Federally-Associates of Collections, San Diego, California (2nd Conference): Loan agreement, correspondence, list of materials
1999 - Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C. (Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection annual meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
1999 - Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri (International Botanical Congress meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
1999 - New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Mountain-Plains Museum Association and New Mexico Association of Museums joint annual meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence, display loan cancelled
2000 - Regional Council of Historic Agencies (Annual Meetings and Workshops): Loan agreement, correspondence
2000 - Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Saving your family treasures preservation fair): Loan agreement, correspondence, Saving Your Family Treasures - Program of Events
2001 - California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections annual meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
2001 - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Albuquerque Conservation Center): Loan agreement, correspondence, Botany 2001 exhibit space application
2003 - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (Society for the Preservation of National History Collections and the American Society of Mammalogists joint meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
2003 - Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Midwest Museum Association Meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence - This request was cancelled
2004 - Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies and Museums, Elmsford, New York: ("Handling History" workshops in Hicksville and Westchester County, New York): Loan agreement, correspondence; workshop announcement
2004 - American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections annual meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
2004 - Western Association for Art Conservation, Santa Fe, New Mexico (annual meeting): Loan agreement, correspondence
2005 - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona (Management of Natural History Collections course): Loan agreement, correspondence
2005 - United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado (Curating Natural History Collections): Loan agreement
2006 - Smithsonian Institution - Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland (Natural History Curation Class): Loan agreement, correspondence
2006 - Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (Caring for your collections - Basics of Preventative Conservation seminar): Loan agreement, correspondence
2006 - National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Loan agreement, correspondence
2007 - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California (Natural History Curation Class): Loan agreement, correspondence
2007 - Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota: Loan agreement
2008 - Museum of the North University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska: Loan agreement, correspondence
2008 - SPNHC-NSCA joint meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Loan agreement, correspondence
2010 - Natural History Curation Class, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska: Loan agreement, correspondence
2011 - Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Loan agreement, correspondence, Preservation Fair schedule of events
2012 - Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: Loan agreement, correspondence
2012 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Loan agreement
2005 - Supplies and Material for Museum Collections: Notes, drafts, vendor list, correspondence
Resources display shipping information, 1998-2004
Supplies and Material for Museum Collections - Instructions for setting up the display with photos
Supplies and Material for Museum Collections - Instructions for packing up the display with photos
Supplies and Material for Museum Collections - Handout (2006 draft, with correspondence)
Supplies and Material for Museum Collections - List of Display Items (various dates, versions)
Supplies and Material for Museum Collections - 1998 draft versions of setting up and packing the display, list of suppliers, list of display items
"Ask me about SPNHC" pins
Resource Sub-Committee Records
Original Resource Sub-Committee questionnaire
1992-2001 - Resource Sub-Committee: Notes, correspondence
1996-1998 - Resource Sub-Committee: Notes, correspondence
1999-2006 - Resource Sub-Committee: Notes, correspondence
1993 - Ann Pinzl - Samples of the new 8.5 x 11-inch posters
1999 - Ann Pinzl - Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada: Information on various institutions, organizations, and other conversation societies, name of societies publication, addresses, etc.
2002 - Robert Fisher to Louise Duke, Import and Domestic Program, Seed Section about the packet of spinach seeds adopted as the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection "mascot" - seed packet included
2004-2008 - Cindy Ramotnick, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Correspondence related to the Traveling Display, copies of the handouts
2006 - Adrienne Raniszewski - notes and photos about the display
Photograph of three people - unknown
General Records
Preventive Conservation in Museum Video Handbook, 1995
SPNHC website files, 1998-2006 [includes digital records]
SPNHC Archive committee - Linda Hollenberg - Miscellaneous reports, notes, letter, etc., 1999-2011
SPNHC 20 year anniversary lapel pins from Ann Pinzl, 2005
Pest Management Tour, 2007 [includes digital records]
Safety Book, July 13, 2009 [includes digital records]
Storage Handbook, Vol. 1 and backup, 2009 [includes digital records]
2011 - White Paper: Developing a strategic plan for SPNHC
2013 - Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: Strategic Plan, January 2013: Deliverables and draft of questions for SPNHC planning questionnaire
2019 - Emails and correspondence from various sub-committees
Council Meeting via Zoom, November 29, 2022: Agenda, minutes, notes by Kelloff
Miscellaneous discussions about membership, evotes, etc.
Awards and grants
Publications
1997 - Leaflet 1 (2): Adhesives and consolidants in geological and paleontological conservation: A wall chart
2017 - Collection Forum, volume 31
2018 - Collection Forum, volume 32
2019 - Collection Forum, volume 33
2020 - Collection Forum, volume 34
2019 - SPNHC Connection, volume 33 (1 & 2)
2020 - SPNHC Connection, volume 34 (1 & 2)
2021 - SPNHC Connection, volume 35 (1 & 2)
2019 - SPNHC Connection newsletter - Advertising with SPNHC
2020 - Advertising book sale - Huxley, R., C. Quaisser, C. R. Butler, R. W. R. J. Dekker. Managing Natural Science Collections
Books
Elkin, L., C. A. Norris (eds.). 2019. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage. New York: Society from the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Smithsonian Institution, The George Washington University Museum Studies Program
Meeting Files
2019 - Society from the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference, Chicago, Illinois: May 25-31, 2019 - Program and abstracts
2019 - Society from the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference, Chicago, Illinois: May 25-31, 2019 - Program Council and General meetings: Reports and minutes
2020 - SPNHC and International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History of the International Council of Museums (ICOM NATHIST) Joint Virtual Conference: June 8-12, 2020. [Virtual Host: American Institute for Conservation (AIC)] - Notes and emails
2020 - SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST Joint Virtual Conference: June 8-12, 2020. (Virtual Host: AIC) - Report of the 35th Annual Business Meeting
2020 - SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST Joint Virtual Conference: June 8-12, 2020. (Virtual Host: AIC) -Annual Business Meeting: Minutes, June 10, 2020 (virtual meeting)
2020 - SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST Joint Virtual Conference: June 8-12, 2020. (Virtual Host: AIC) - Council Meeting: Agendas, budgets, committee meeting schedule, minutes of the June 8, 2020 meeting (virtual meeting)
2020 - SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST Joint Virtual Conference: June 8-12, 2020. (Virtual Host: AIC) - Program and abstracts
2019-2020 Council and Committee Members contacts
2021 - American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and Society for the Preservation of Nature History Collections (SPNHC) Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - SPNHC Council Meeting: Agenda, budgets, minutes of the July 8, 2020 Council Meeting, letter to Julian Carter dated: April 29, 2021 about California Academy of Science hosting the meeting in 2023; SPNHC Inclusion Statement developed by the IDEA Committee
Box 2
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Guide for the 2021 Virtual Conference for SPNHC members
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Various SPNHC committee agenda/meetings: Long-range planning committee; Conservation Committee; International Relations; Biodiversity in Crisis; Awards and Grants; Conference Committee; Theft and Security Monitoring; (notes by Kelloff)
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) - Goals and duties; committee members
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Education Committee - Vote to change from seasonal to standing
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Vote - for SPNHC to join American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS) as a member organization
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - AIC/SPNHC Community Digest - Daily updates of presentations
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Various emails about the 2021 Virtual Meeting
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - Applications for SPNHC grants: Christine Allen and Fitzgerald grants
2021 - AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Conference: May 3-June 25, 2021 - The 36th Annual Business Meeting Report, May 27, 2021
2022 - International Partner - BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) and National Partner - NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - About the meeting - Online joint instructions outlining the events and times.
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - Email about the Committee Meetings and schedules
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - Council Meeting: agenda, minutes, MOU review, and FY 2021 and FY 2022 operating budgets
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - Proposal to hire Christy Classi as a business manager for SPNHC: Various emails, notes
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - SPNHC Management Agreement with Christy Classi, September 2, 2022
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - The 37th Annual Business Meeting Report, June 9, 2022
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - Long Range Planning Membership Survey, June 2022
2022 - International Partner - BHL and NatSCA Joint conference with SPNCH, Edinburgh, Scotland, Date: June 4-10, 2022 - COVID masks
Financial Reports
Independent Accountants' Review Report and Financial Statements, December 31, 2019 and 2018
Committees
Best Practices Committee: Contributors to Wiki topics for 2018-2019; 2019-2020
Correspondence/Statements
2017 - Letter dated August 28, 2017, opposing the proposal (RIN 0710-AA79) to repeal the 2015 Waters of the U.S., Clean Water Rule
2020 - Black Lives Matter movement: Formal statement from Paul Mayer, President, SPNHC, June 30, 2020
Statement from SPNHC on the invasion of Ukraine: Other emails
Photographs/Images
2015 - Contact sheets of images of speakers and events for the conference in Gainesville, Florida (with a guide to images)
2016 - Contact sheets of images of speakers and events for the conference in Berlin, Germany (with a guide to images)
2019 - Contact sheets of images of speakers and events for the conference in Chicago, Illinois (with a guide to images)
Miscellaneous prints and slides sent to Linda Hollenberg
Contact sheet of images taken during the 2004 SPNHC meeting - Photographer unknown
2007 photos, Jean-Marc G., Gretchen A., Rose K. [includes digital records]
LACCMTP slide show, 2010 [includes digital records]
2012 SPNHC from Kelly Sendah, Royal British Colombia Museum, Canada [includes digital records]
2012 SPNHC meeting: Presentation and banquet photos - from Susan to Linda [includes digital records]
2012 SPNHC meeting images by Carol L. Kelloff [includes digital records]
Museum Support Center (MSC) - Botany mounting images; tapa images, 2006-2007 [includes digital records]
- Finding Aid encoded on: 12-9-2025
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