An article on the Michigan State University Entomology Department's website is an example of the kind of work we do as Adjunct Curators in MSU's AJ Cook Arthropod Research Collection (ARC) and managers of the Michigan Odonata Survey (MOS).
The article describes our role in acquiring, verifying, processing, databasing, and integrating a donated insect collection into the ARC. In addition to making and confirming identifications of Odonata already in the ARC and making sure the data is correct in both the MOS and ARC databases, we acquire specimens from watershed groups, state and local agencies, and private collectors. The process outlined in the article is more or less same each time. However, most batches are fewer than 100 items, so this donation of over 750 adult Odonata from John Douglass was one of the larger groups we've worked on.
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