Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum

The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum will hire a collections manager to complete the processing, cataloguing, and web posting of 58,000 lots (50 percent) of its specialized natural history collection of mollusks, shells, and complementary materials. The collection holds representatives of recent and fossil mollusks with an emphasis on southwest Florida and provides materials for scientific research in biodiversity, taxonomy, environmental and earth sciences, anthropology, and archaeology. It forms the basis of interpretive and educational programs at the institution. Project activities will include gathering data, confirming or correcting taxonomic designations, cataloguing, entering data, and posting information to the museum’s searchable online catalogue. The project will improve intellectual stewardship of the collection and access to collection data by scholars, researchers, students, and collectors.