Jean is coordinating our Denver display (again),
as well as her own. Please assist if possible. Jean has to do all the
labels for specimens before leaving San Francisco, so don't leave it to
the last minute please.
If you are not financial, this is a friendly
reminder to contact our treasurer Anna. The dues remain at just $10 per
year and European members can pay Peter Davidson at the Munich Show in
October.
The European sub-group will be meeting at the
Munich Show, as usual. If you are going to Munich in October and have
any queries, please contact Peter Davidson.
Two new mineral shows have been added to the
world calendar this year. The inaugural Hong Kong Show was held in the
last weekend of June, at the same time as the Ste. Marie aux Mines show.
I visited on the way home from the busy Ste. Marie show, and it was very
quiet for the few American dealers: most European dealers were in
France.
A fine mineral show will be held at Ausrox in
Melbourne 5th December. If you are thinking of coming to Australia, you
could combine the Australian Fine Mineral Show with Christmas on the
beach!
We welcome any new ideas. If you would like any
issues discussed at the Denver meeting, please contact me so we can
ensure there is time available. We usually manage to take up the entire
hour with lively discussion.
Looking forward to catching up with many
colleagues in Denver.
Penny Williamson
President
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MINUTES OF THE TUCSON MEETING
February 2015
Click on the link above to view the minutes.
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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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SMMP Europe 2014 Meeting
Dear Colleagues,
We will, as in previous years, be organising a meeting of the SMMP
(Europe) and IMA-CM during the Munich Mineral Show on
Friday, October
30th from 16:00 to 17:00 in
Room EO.02, East Entrance (Eingang Ost), Munich Messe.
Note: Room EO.02 is on the left hand side of the entrance hall to the
show, close to the Mineral Show Office (Messeb�ro).
Peter Davidson
P.Davidson@nms.ac.uk
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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!
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