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BEST PRACTICES PROJECT
The first "best practices" documents about research
sampling of collections are posted on the SMMP website:
BEST PRACTICES REPORT NO. 1:
Research Sampling of Collections
BEST PRACTICES REPORT NO. 2: Moving
Specimens
We are looking for more in the series - please submit your idea to the
board at the Denver meeting or contact Virgil Lueth
(vwlueth@nmt.edu).
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SMMP GRANT PROGRAM
The SMMP Grant Program Awards are to support curatorial research and
methodologies that address one or more of the Society of Mineral Museum
Professionals (SMMP) mission statement goals: 1) foster recognition of
mineral science collections as essential scientific, educational and
cultural resources, 2) promote support for growth, maintenance and use
of collections and exhibits and, 3) advance museum practice through
cooperation in the development, review and dissemination of information.
Amounts vary up to a maximum of $1000 per grant. Grant awards determined
by SMMP Board of Directors. Grant applications are available on request.
Applications are due
August 1st and award notification on October 1st.
Guidelines are available on our website:
http://www.agiweb.org/smmp/support-SMMP.htm
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MINUTES OF THE
TUCSON MEETING
February 2012
Click on the link above to view the
minutes.
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SMMP Europe
2012 Meeting
NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION BELOW IS TENTATIVE PENDING CONFIRMATION
The Annual Joint meeting of SMMP Europe and the IMA-CM
will take place at 16:00 on Friday 26th
October, 2012
during the Munich
International Mineral Show.
As in previous years, the
venue will be
Room A51 on the First Floor of Hall A5
of the Neue Messe Riem,
Munich.
Access is from Hall A5.
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SMMP AFFILIATIONS
American Geological Institute (AGI)
Natural Science
Collections Alliance NSCA)
Although the Society of Mineral
Museum Professionals maintains no official ties with the
Commission on Museums
(CM) of the
International Mineralogical Association
(IMA), the Commission resolved at its December, 2000, meeting in Melbourne,
Australia, to support SMMP's efforts in uniting mineral museum professionals
worldwide.
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SMMP LIST SERVER
You
are encouraged to interact with your fellow SMMP members via our list server:
smmp@listserv.nhm.org
Please
remember that
when you reply to an email sent via our list server,
you will be replying to the sender, although you have the option of copying the
membership.
Tony Kampf processes additions to and
deletions from the list server. That way we limit
the list to our membership and if a member decides that they want to be dropped
from the list, Tony will know whether to send them the
SMMP Newsletter by snail mail. Note that you are only able to
send via the list server from your email address that is on the list server.
This should be the same one that is used in our on-line roster.
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PAYING DUES
SMMP dues
are $10.00 U.S., payable to Anna Domitrovic, treasurer,
6118 W. Lazy Heart Street,
Tucson, AZ 85713. Any directory changes or
additions should be sent to Tony Kampf. In Europe,
dues can be remitted to Peter Davidson, National Museums of Scotland,
Chambers Street,
Edinburgh EH1 1JF, SCOTLAND.
To
make paying your dues easier (especially for non-US members),
a PayPal account has been established and installed on our
website. You can use your credit card or your own personal PayPal
account. Just go to our
Dues webpage.
Note that you can check your dues
payment status on the SMMP on-line roster. The year shown in the last column indicates
the last year for which you have paid. If you are delinquent, please remit your
dues payment as soon as possible.
Remember to renew your membership.
If you are planning to pay dues at the Denver
meeting, help Anna by filling out a membership application with your dues
payment. Do it beforehand and save time at the meeting! |
