Temporary Secondary Labels
On Exhibit
- Prior to 2013, Exhibit labels were filled out by hand.
- Indicated that a specimen has been borrowed for exhibit or other approved display purposes.
- Most, but not all, exhibit specimens are at the Texas Memorial Museum or Jackson School of Geo-sciences.
Label color: yellow
Loan
- Loan Labels are generated through the reports tab in Specify.
- The 'Purpose of Loan' determines the label color.
- Labels have 2 parts
- the in-house label that stays in the drawer to mark where the specimen is normally stored.
- specimen label that stays with the specimen, taking the place of the original label.
Label Color:
- Pink: Educational, Research, Destructive, and Other
- Yellow: Research on Campus, and Exhibit
Missing
- Over the 100+ years of active use, things in the collections occasionally get misplaced.
- Frequently its a matter of a specimen getting jostled out of its tray and landing in its neighbors or someone not putting a specimen moved label in the drawer.
- Not a cause for panic, but inform the Collection Manager.
Label Color: White
Permanent Secondary Labels