| Abstract | The iDigBio Visiting Scholars Program provides early career
professionals an opportunity to explore a project and
produce deliverables advancing collections digitization
efforts. In her position as the 2012 Visiting Scholar, Anna
Monfils was able to address three proposed foci: 1)
advancing digitization efforts at the Central Michigan
University Herbarium (CMC), 2) conducting a workshop to
expand digitization efforts for regional collections in MI and
the Great Lakes, and 3) developing an Interactive web based
educational module integrating field, virtual and museum
experiences. Anna will discuss the unique challenges, marked
progress and lessons learned in the digitization of the CMC
regional collection. Highlights and deliverables from the Small
Collections Herbarium Workshop will be provided. Anna will
introduce an educational module utilizing digitized herbarium
records, place-based learning and TourGuide, an online tool
for creating interactive virtual tours. In addition to the
proposed foci, Anna will talk about “value added” items that
have developed out of her iDigBio Visiting Scholar
opportunity including significant institutional investment in
the CMC collection, a collaborative proposal submitted to the
Hanes Foundation to digitize 11 regional collections in
Michigan, a partnership with iDigBio to assess student
learning in collections digitization, participation in a writing
workshop to produce a manuscript on the value of regional
collections and iDigBio sponsorship of a BOTANY 2013
Symposium on broadening participation in the botanical
sciences.
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