In October of 1998 Bill Williams asked how herbarium curators print
herbarium labels. There were a number of suggestions but none of them
really made good use of computer technology (in my opinion) or they had
incomplete information. Check out the thread
athttp://bionet.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/hypermail/plant-ed/plant-ed.199810/0071.html I
wonder if technology has moved ahead in the intervening 6 years so that
now there is a better solution. Does anyone know of specialized
software that will do this or templates for Word? I'm teaching a Local
Flora course this quarter and the students are collecting and pressing
20 plants each. They need to make a standard herbarium label for each
specimen. I have labels (6) printed on 8.5 x 11 paper and a typewriter
in the lab. But the students had a "What's that?!" response when I
pointed them toward the typewriter! They will type them, of course, but
they think there must be a more modern way! So do I! Any
suggestions? Dave Kramer
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David W. Kramer, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Ohio State University at Mansfield
1680 University Drive
Mansfield, OH 44906-1547
Phone: (419) 755-4344 FAX: (419) 755-4367
e-mail: kramer.8 at osu.eduhttp://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~dkramer/
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