Entomology Collection Network meetings

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FINAL NOTICE AND PROGRAM - ECN'97

PLEASE - if you are coming, register with the hotel by NOVEMBER 20 (meeting
room rates are based on the number of rooms booked by participants. For a
fancy name tag, register with Gail Manning as soon as possible.

Thanks,

John Heraty

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ECN - Entomological Collections Network
1997 Meetings
Wyndam Garden Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee

December 13-14, 1997

Meeting Site: All ECN meetings will be held in the Wyndam Garden Hotel,
starting at 8:30 a.m.Saturday, December 13. Presentations are scheduled for
all day Saturday and will continue on Sunday morning for papers and the
annual business meeting.

Pre-registration: Fees will be $25 with an on-site registration of $35.
Please make your check payable to Gail Manning (NOT to ECN) at the address
provided below.

On-Site Registration and Check-in: Available Friday evening December 12
from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and again at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Please check-in on Friday evening if possible.

Accommodations: Rooms have been arranged with the Wyndam Garden Hotel (1112
Airport Center Drive, Nashville; [615] 889-9090, fax: 885-1564) at $79.50 /
night (sorry, best we could do!), single or double occupancy. Please
register before November 20 for the group rate. The hotel is located close
to the airport and about 2 miles from Opryland, site of the ESA meetings.
Full
services are available including pool, hot tub and exercise room.The hotel
is convenient for a number of local restaurants. Free shuttle service is
available to the airport, but unfortunately, not to Opryland.



For more information:

     John Heraty               or      Gail Manning
     Department of Entomology          Dallas Museum of Natural History
     University of California          P.O. Box 150349
     Riverside, CA 92521               Dallas, TX 75315-0349
     (909) 787-6351 fax: 787-3086      (214) 421-3466 x232
     john.heraty at ucr.edu               fax: 428-4356


PROGRAM

Entomological Collections Network
1997 Meetings
Wyndam Garden Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee
December 13-14, 1997


On-site Registration and Check-in:

Friday,   December 12, 1997     8-10 p.m.       Wyndam Hotel
Saturday, December 13, 1996     8-8:30 a.m.     Wyndam Hotel



PROGRAM

8:00-8:30 a.m.          Registration, Coffee, Tea

8:30-8:45 a.m.          Announcements, opening remarks


Session I  Museum Size, Growth and Collection Management

8:45-9:30  Keynote speaker:  Lubomir Masner - building a proctotrupoid legacy.
            [Collecting techniques and improvements to proctos at
              the CNCI, 30 years]

9:30-9:40       Short Break

9:40-9:55     Mike Fitton, Profile of BMNH collections. [Large collection]
9:55-10:10    Cheryl Barr, Profile of UC Berkeley collection. [Medium
                  Collection]
10:10-10:20   Steve Marshall, Profile of Univ. of Guelph Collection.
                 [Small Collection]
10:20-10:45  Panel Discussion:
              Proactive or reactive collections - museum growth
              in the next century.

10:45-11:00  Break

Session II  Taxing problems in taxonomy - donations and appraisals

11:00-11:20   R. Anderson - Appraisals in the Canadian system.
11:20-11:40   Mike Fitton - Appraisals in the British system.
11:40-12:00   J.E. Bothwell - Appraisals in the U.S. and the IRS.
12:00-12:30   Discussion

12:30-2:00 p.m.     Lunch

Session III  Image Management - Databases, Graphics and Websites

2:00-2:25     Graphics and the web (Peter Nasrecki, University of
                 Connecticut)
2:25-2:50     3-D image capture (Henri Goulet, CNCI)
2:50-3:00     A Java-based expert system on WWW (Mike Schauff, USDA).

3:00-3:30     Break

3:30-3:55     Searchable images and web technology?
                  (Steve Ashe, University of Kansas)
3:55-4:20     NSF, Web technology and standardization - how far behind are we?
                  (Norm Johnson, Ohio State University)
4:20-4:25     Videotaxonomy (John Heraty, University of California, Riverside)
4:25-5:00     Discussion and unsolicited demonstrations.


Reception

6:00-9:00     Wyndam Garden Hotel, Cash Bar and Hors d'ouevres

          IDEA EXCHANGE:Tables will be set up to display favorite items
          for collection (nets, traps, whatever), curation (pins, type
          label paper, etc.) or management (software, whips, etc.).
          Bring sample, cost & supplier.


Sunday, December 14

8:30-9:00  Coffee and Tea

9:00-9:30    Permitting issues (Sally Shelton)
9:30-10:00   Open discussion of permits - processes & success in
             various countries.

10:00-10:20   Coffee

10:20-12:00   Business Meeting
                 Minutes of the 1996 meeting in Louisville, KT.
                 Reports from Committees and Related Organizations.
                    Public Affairs
                    BIOTA/Checklist
                    Update on International Initiatives
                    Etc.
                 Election of New Members to ECN Steering Committee

12:00 p.m.    Adjourn