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Databasing and Digitization of a Smaller Herbarium at a Smaller Institution
it CAN be done and funded, too
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Digitization of Butler University’s Friesner Herbarium Indiana Specimens
A joint project of Butler’s Friesner Herbarium and Irwin Library
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Ray C. Friesner (1894-1952) BUT
ca. 105,000 specimensca. 44,000 from Indiana
Butler - 1⁰ undergraduate 4,000 students
BUT staff = me
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Herbarium specimen sheet and label
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• Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act $56,282 over 4 years (1/2 of Indiana sheets)
• administered by the Indiana State Library and Butler University
• Indiana Memory digital library http://www.in.gov/memories/
• Subcontractor – IUPUI Library
Funding Source
10% match Max = 20k/yr
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Herbarium Digitization Project
• Goal: to increase access to, awareness of and use by all Indiana citizens of the valuable historical botanical information contained with the Friesner Herbarium.
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• IUPUI Library Digital Initiatives Technician Anna Proctor and her assistant, Lucy Grogg, capture an image of each Herbarium sheet and store the images on a portable hard drive which is returned to Butler for loading into CONTENT.dm
Imaging of Specimens
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Scientific Name Aster furcatus
Formal Name + Authority Aster furcatus Burgess
USDA Plants Database Name Eurybia furcata (Burgess) G.L. Nesom
Common Names Forked aster
Family Name Asteraceae
County where specimen was found
Warren
Locality Fall Creek Gorge Nature Preserve; Sections 21 & 22, T22N, R8W.
Habitat Description South stream bank at Fall Creek and the side creek junction
Collector Gayle Tonkovich
Collection Date 1991-08-22
Collection Number 276
Verified by Deam? no
Additional Info on Label No
Link to USDA Plants Database Info
http:/ /plants.usda.gov/ java/profile?symbol=EUFU3
Link to Butler University Botanical Studies J ournal
For more information on historical Indiana botany, see the Butler University Botanical Studies J ournal at http:/ /digitalcommons.butler.edu/botanical/
Link to Flora of Indiana by Charles Deam
http:/ /www.archive.org/details/floraofindiana00indi
Collection Name Butler University Friesner Herbarium Digital Collection
I dentification Number 150631
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Digital Collection Usage (Views)
• April - 7,185• March – 3,863• February – 1,684• January – 1,410• December – 452• November – 266• October – 1,263
Average use of physical collection over last 4 years:
Visitors – 4 Loans – 1Inquiries – 15
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Press release led to:
-Local NPR interview-Articles in newspapers statewide
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Strategies for Additional Funding
• Ca. 50% done – selected families
• Local philanthropic foundation – based on increased access for environmental ed.
• Donors to Herbarium
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1928 Plant Ecology class trip to Bacon’s Swamp