Laura Knutson Murray
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Herbarium and Preserved Material Roundtable | July Coffee Chat 2023
Herbarium and Preserved Material Roundtable A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. - Carl Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica, 1751 Thanks to all of you who jo...
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2023-06 | APGA 2023: New Horizons
IrisBG had the privilege to sponsor and attend the 2023 American Public Gardens Association Conference. It was an inspiring conference and also a great time connecting with the IrisBG Community. T...
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Meet Shanna T. Jones | Social Media & Community Outreach Assistant, IrisBG
We are taking a different approach with our monthly Community Spotlight. We want to know more about you! To get this series started, we've decided to share a bit about ourselves. For the month of ...
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Living Collections Policies | May Coffee Chat 2023
Grounded in Policy: Sowing the Seeds of Living Collection Management A botanical garden is "a permanent institution for the purpose of acquiring, preserving, researching, and interpreting to the pu...
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Garden Explorer | April Coffee Chat 2023
Garden Explorer: How Plant Records Enhance Visitor Engagement "Digital curation encompasses the selection, acquisition, preservation, maintenance, and delivery of digital data" - Smithsonian Ins...
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SLU's Journey to BGCI Accreditation | March Coffee Chat 2023
"Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education." - Botanic Gardens Conservation Int...
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Laura testing GoToMyPC: Virtualization software for using IrisBG remotely or on the go
We often are asked the question, what tablet do I need to run IrisBG? There are two answers to this question: You can use a tablet that runs Windows and install IrisBG onto it, (not Android or iO...
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From Plant Order to Plant Accession and Batch Accessioning | February Coffee Chat 2023
"Anybody with a good record collection will always be in love." - Anonymous The above quote was not likely written about plant records - rather the vinyl kind of record - but the statement rings tr...
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How to Create An Index Seminum | December Coffee Chat 2022
How to create your Index Seminum and manage incoming orders using IrisBG “The more you share the seeds, the more you grow, the more the system grows, the more a community grows.” -Edie Mukiib...
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Biodiversity & Conservation | Coffee Chat November 2022
Biodiversity & Conservation Benchmarking "It's essential that we understand what our progress is being made towards conservation issues... The only way you're ever going to understand how you're ma...