University of Arkansas (University of Arkansas Museum)

The University Museum of the University of Arkansas will rehouse its zoological mollusk collection in museum-quality cabinets with metal drawers, and place the mollusks in acid-free set-up trays and glass vials within the cabinets. Currently, the approximately 8,000 specimens are over-crowded within their cabinets and set-up trays. The project will include rearranging the mollusks in taxonomic order, labeling the specimen trays and any specimens not already numbered, and updating the collections records database. The updated catalog records will be shared with the community of researchers and other interested parties through uploading the catalog data to the iDigBio national research database. The project will ensure better preservation of the collection as well as improved access through updated and shared records.