In-coming
Loans
Researchers can request through NCU to borrow materials from other
herbaria. The borrowed material remains in the NCU herbarium until
the loan is returned.
The researcher will give in writing to the NCU Curator a list --
as detailed as possible-- of the specimens required. The NCU Curator
will contact the lending herbarium and arrange the loan.
NCU will contact the researcher when the loan arrives. All in-coming
material will be frozen for 1 week upon receipt. After freezing,
NCU will unpack the loan, confirm specimen count, acknowledge receipt
to the lending herbarium, and designate a space for its storage.
The Asst. Curator will enter the loan information (lending institution’s
loan number, NCU’s transaction number, borrower, due date,
specimen count) in HERBREC1.xls and file the paperwork (researcher’s
request, NCU’s request, lending institution’s documentation
enclosed with loan) by institution.
The researcher is expected to abide by the lending herbarium’s
rules on destructive sampling, loan period, affixing annotation
labels, citing specimens in publications, etc. Extension of loan
times should be requested to the loaning institution through the
NCU Curator.
When the researcher is finished with the loan, NCU will pack the
loan for return. At the Curator’s discretion, the researcher
may be expected to defray the cost of returning the specimens to
the lending herbarium.
