- Apr 20, 2020
Award decisions for the IAPT Small Collections Grants
We are pleased to announce the awards for the new IAPT Small Collections Grant program. This program was initiated last year for the improvement and/or maintenance of collections (plants, fungi, algae) held by small herbaria worldwide. Collection improvements include projects involving digitization, processing a specimen backlog, shipping an endangered collection to another herbarium, or other similar tasks. We received 107 applications from 41 countries! The majority of appl
- Apr 2, 2020
Taxon print production and distribution problems
Dear fellow IAPT members, I hope you are doing well in this difficult time with the global pandemic. I am guessing that pretty much everyone is dealing with disruptions and new challenges. It will probably not be a surprise to learn that the pandemic is also causing disruptions to the publishing business. Printing houses are experiencing challenges and shipping companies and postal services are also under stress. Fewer passenger flights and the need to prioritize medical supp
