Help needed...?

[Connie Rinaldo]

Tom,  I don't have the museum's mission at hand but here is the mission for 
the MCZ Library:

LIBRARY MISSION

The mission of the Ernst Mayr Library is to provide and preserve 
information resources and services to support the research and teaching 
activities of the Harvard University community, especially the science 
community.   Particular attention is paid to users in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary 
Biology. The Library is committed to being a leading resource in the fields 
of natural history, zoology, paleontology, biodiversity, evolution and 
ecology.

LIBRARY USERS

The Library serves all members of the Harvard University community. In 
particular, the Library serves the graduate students, staff and faculty of 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Department of Organismic and 
Evolutionary Biology.  Additionally, the Library is a resource for scholars 
conducting research in the fields of natural history and zoology.  The 
general public may also use the Library with restrictions. Members of the 
Harvard Museum of Natural History are welcome to use resources on site.
At 03:04 PM 10/12/2004, you wrote:
>Lazy man's request (for a report currently in draft)...
>
>I would like to receive, from natural history institutions (including 
>museums, gardens, aquaria, zoos, arboreta...)
>
>1) copies of your original "mission statement" -- as perhaps occurring in 
>a charter or other founding document?
>
>2) copies of your most current mission statement
>
>3) any other formal institutional policies that may relate to 
>dissemination of scientific information as a part of the institutional mission
>
>Thanks for any assistance...
>
>Tom Moritz
>


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Connie Rinaldo
Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University,
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA  02138
voice: 617-495-4576; fax: 617-496-6838
email: crinaldo at oeb.harvard.edu
http://library.mcz.harvard.edu
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"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country
or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with
wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces
turned to the wall" Thomas Henry Huxley