Taxacom: Old Association of Systematics Collections report available online via BHL

[Miller, Scott]

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) now hosts five key reports/plans from the natural history museum community in the 1970s and 1980s.
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In thinking about the proposed "Action Center" concept, we have noted that the natural history museum community has produced consensus plans around many of the same basic concepts going back at least to the 1950s.  In the 1970s and 1980s, the Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) produced a series of key reports on the status of the collections and human resources, and plans for the future.  Some of these were public online already, but five of them were not available online, so with permission of the Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly ASC), BHL has made them public.

Irwin, H. S., W. W. Payne, D. M. Bates, and P. S. Humphrey, editors. 1973. America's Systematics Collections: A National Plan. Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas. xiii + 63 pp.
Edwards, S. R., and L. D. Grotta, editors. 1976. Systematics '75 : a report on a workshop assessing the current status of systematics collections. Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas. x + 77 pp.
Stuessy, T. F., and K. S. Thomson, editors. 1981. Trends, priorities, and needs in systematic biology: A report to the Systematic Biology Program of the National Science Foundation (Second edition). Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas. vi + 52 pp.
Edwards, S. R., G. M. Davis, and L. I. Nevling. 1985. The systematics community: prepared for the National Science Foundation, Division of Biotic Systems and Resources. Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas. iv + 275 pp.
Kim, K. C., and L. Knutson, editors. 1986. Foundations for a national biological survey. Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas. xii + 215 pp.