Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections September 2017 - 12

Society Reports
more of its departments/collections - the strengths, facilities,
operating procedures and regulations, and contact information. If you would like your department or institution featured, email editor@spnhc.org and follow the format in this
issue, keeping the word count to 1000 or less.
The anticipated publication date for the book Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage is late 2017. The estimated cost
of the 30 chapter book with over 60 contributing authors is
$95. To ensure this purchase price, you may pre-order a copy
at editor@spnhc.org or Collection-Storage@conservation-us.
org. For book content details, please visit http://resources.
conservation-us.org/collection-storage/.
As always, I thank the Associate Editors of Collection Forum
(Matt Brown, Yemisi Dare, Alana Gishlick, Janet Waddington), the SPNHC Connection team (Liath Appleton, Katie
McComas, Lori Schlenker, Lynn Jones, Ann Pinzl), Leaflets
Editor Mari Roberts and membership online access assistant Sarah Ketelson for their extraordinary efforts. It takes a
great deal of continued effort and dedication to produce these
publications and could not be done without the contribution
of everyone. I also thank the reviewers, who also take their
time to help us publish high-quality content. I am sad to see
Alana step down as AE but am happy to introduce Mariana
Di Giacomo to the Associate Editor team.
The email addresses for the various publications are:
Collection Forum editor@spnhc.org
SPNHC Connection newsletter@spnhc.org
Leaflets mroberts@nybg.org

Web Committee
Following the disappointment of having
our new website project cancelled last
spring, the Web Committee met June
20, 2017, in Denver, to discuss how to
make improvements and work with the
SPNHC website in its current configuration. The WordPress job opportunities
board has been doing well, and new
followers subscribe every month. We
will continue to use this site to post
job opportunities, as well as important
news and events information. If you
haven't seen it yet, check it out! https://
spnhcnews.wordpress.com/ or go to
http://www.spnhc.org/ and click the
News & Events tab. We also are looking
forward to working with Best Practices
to improve their web presence within the framework of the
SPNHC wiki (http://spnhc.biowikifarm.net/wiki).
After the committee meeting, an ad-hoc meeting took place
between Liath Appleton, Ann Molineux, Ruth O'Leary and
Linda Ford, concerning the possiblity of renewing our plans
to create a new SPNHC website in the future. The Web Committee will be looking into the possibility at some point next
year.
Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions, job postings and calendar events at webmaster@spnhc.org.

Respectfully submitted,
Christine Johnson, Chair

Respectfully submitted,
Liath Appleton and Ann Molineux, Co-chairs

Recognition and Grants Committee

Report of the Treasurer

The Recognition and Grants Committee
is charged with promoting and reviewing the various awards that the Society
can confer in recognition of a member's
service and our vendors, as well as the
Faber Research Grant.
See elsewhere in this newsletter for
a call for nominations for SPNHC
awards. I would encourage all to nominate deserving members of our community or vendors for recognition.
See elsewhere in this newsletter for a call for applications for
the Faber Research Grant. Members are encouraged to apply.
Respectfully submitted,
Andrew Bentley, Chair
12 * SPNHC Connection

In 2016, the Society's total net assets
increased to $261,121 from a total
of $246,600 the previous year. Liabilities and net assets for 2016 totaled
$288,875. Operating income was generated from three sources: membership
dues, publication sales, and advertising
in the newsletter. A total of $30,955 in
membership dues was received. Sales of our six publications
plus royalty payments brought in $8,582. Advertising in the
newsletter generated $4,020 in income. A total of $2,591 in
donations was received.
Fifty-five subscribers and 514 individuals, institutional,
corporate and student members were active for the year 2016.
Of the 602 SPNHC members in 2016, 108 joined for the first

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