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The Build-a-Museum Team Newsletter
Number 06 - January 19, 2007
Activities and Outreach : Earth Day and Book Fair
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Preliminary Building and Site Study Meeting at LSU
On August 16, Build-a-MuseumTeam Members led by Ed Picou met with Chuck Wilson (LSU Vice Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor), Emmert David (Director, Facility Development), and Fred Sheldon (Director, Museum of Natural Science) to view a presentation by Jason Soileau (Assistant Director, Facility Development) on a "Preliminary Building and Site Study for the Louisiana Museum of Natural History on the campus of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge". Mr. David and Soileau had visited Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the University of Oklahoma campus in November 2005 to see how scattered collections and staff could be brought together in a new museum building to benefit university teaching and research and the economy of a state. The Plan included three possible museum sites on the LSU campus for consideration.
Outreach Events -- Table manning and lectures in 2006
Baton Rouge Earth Day
April 23rd, 2006
Build-a-Museum Team volunteers brought collection samples, posters, and handouts downtown to introduce visitors to our state's natural history.
A copy of the Age of Mammals mural from
Yale Peabody Museum shows many animals found as fossils in
Louisiana, including mastodon and mammoth, giant camel, rhino, and a
sabretooth tiger. Copies of the mural were given away to young visitors
via a drawing.
Visit the Yale Peabody Museum website to learn more about the mural.
American Association of University Women, Campus Study Group
July 27, 2006
Bill Lee, citizen scientist and member of the Build-a-Museum Team, presented a lecture at Juban's Restaurant entitled "A World Class Museum of Natural History". Mr. Lee described the Team's goal as "to encourage LSU to investigate building a great, accredited Museum of Natural History on theLSU Campus and then to support the museum's development." The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is being used as a model for this effort.
Baton Rouge Gem and Mineral Society
August 12 &13, 2006
For the second year in a row, Bill Lee and other volunteers manned information tables with natural history specimens and information about the possibility of building a great museum of natural history at LSU. This year's volunteers included Kathleen McDonald, Millicent Kopfinger, Jan Lee, and Fern Webb.
Babelcon: Baton Rouge's Science Fiction Convention
August 5, 2006
Bill Lee with Grant Boardman and Pat
Guillory manned a table in the exhibits room of the convention with
brochures, coloring posters, and a hunt for genuine fossils older than
the dinosaurs in Louisiana gravels. Mr. Bill Lee presented his lecture
on the potential for a great museum of natural history at LSU.
Louisiana Book Fair, downtown Baton Rouge
October 28, 2006
Mr. Bill Lee coordinated Build-A-Museum Team members manning tables displaying books and specimens relevant to Louisiana natural history and information on the potential for a natural history museum at LSU.
Books on display included:
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana
by Harold A. Dundee and Douglas A. Rossman
Louisiana State University Press,1989
Florida's Fossils - Guide to Location, Identification and Enjoyment (Revised Edition)
by Robin C. Brown
Pineapple Press,
Sarasota, Florida 2000
The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida
Edited by Richard C. Hulbert, Jr.
University Press of Florida, 2001
Freshwater Fishes of Louisiana
by Neil H. Douglas
Claitor's Publishing
Ice Age Giants of the South
by Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston
Pineapple Press,
Sarasota, Florida 2000
Louisiana Birds
by George H. Lowery, Jr.
Louisiana State University Press, 1955
Louisiana Trees and Shrubs
by Claire A. Brown
Louisiana Forestry Commission Bul. No.1
Baton Rouge, 1945
Reprinted in 1965 by Claitor's
The Mammals of Louisiana and It's Adjacent Waters
by George H. Lowery, Jr.
Louisiana State University Press, 1974
Roadside Geology of Louisiana
by Darwin Spearing
Mountain Press Publishing Company
Missoula, Montana 1995
A Study of the Geology of Baton Rouge and Surrounding Southeast Louisiana Area
by Ashley Sibley, Jr.
Claitor's Publishing, 1972
Vanishing Louisiana
by Ferachi/S.Eakin
Beauregard Press
Wildflowers of Louisiana
by Claire A. Brown
Louisiana State University Press, 1972
Preliminary Building and Site Study Meeting at LSU
On August 16, Build-a-MuseumTeam Members led by Ed Picou met with Chuck Wilson (LSU Vice Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor), Emmert David (Director, Facility Development), and Fred Sheldon (Director, Museum of Natural Science) to view a presentation by Jason Soileau (Assistant Director, Facility Development) on a "Preliminary Building and Site Study for the Louisiana Museum of Natural History on the campus of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge". Mr. David and Soileau had visited Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the University of Oklahoma campus in November 2005 to see how scattered collections and staff could be brought together in a new museum building to benefit university teaching and research and the economy of a state. The Plan included three possible museum sites on the LSU campus for consideration.
Outreach Events -- Table manning and lectures in 2006
Baton Rouge Earth Day
April 23rd, 2006
Build-a-Museum Team volunteers brought collection samples, posters, and handouts downtown to introduce visitors to our state's natural history.
A copy of the Age of Mammals mural from
Yale Peabody Museum shows many animals found as fossils in
Louisiana, including mastodon and mammoth, giant camel, rhino, and a
sabretooth tiger. Copies of the mural were given away to young visitors
via a drawing.
Visit the Yale Peabody Museum website to learn more about the mural.
American Association of University Women, Campus Study Group
July 27, 2006
Bill Lee, citizen scientist and member of the Build-a-Museum Team, presented a lecture at Juban's Restaurant entitled "A World Class Museum of Natural History". Mr. Lee described the Team's goal as "to encourage LSU to investigate building a great, accredited Museum of Natural History on theLSU Campus and then to support the museum's development." The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is being used as a model for this effort.
Baton Rouge Gem and Mineral Society
August 12 &13, 2006
For the second year in a row, Bill Lee and other volunteers manned information tables with natural history specimens and information about the possibility of building a great museum of natural history at LSU. This year's volunteers included Kathleen McDonald, Millicent Kopfinger, Jan Lee, and Fern Webb.
Babelcon: Baton Rouge's Science Fiction Convention
August 5, 2006
Bill Lee with Grant Boardman and Pat
Guillory manned a table in the exhibits room of the convention with
brochures, coloring posters, and a hunt for genuine fossils older than
the dinosaurs in Louisiana gravels. Mr. Bill Lee presented his lecture
on the potential for a great museum of natural history at LSU.
Louisiana Book Fair, downtown Baton Rouge
October 28, 2006
Mr. Bill Lee coordinated Build-A-Museum Team members manning tables displaying books and specimens relevant to Louisiana natural history and information on the potential for a natural history museum at LSU.
Books on display included:
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana
by Harold A. Dundee and Douglas A. Rossman
Louisiana State University Press,1989
Florida's Fossils - Guide to Location, Identification and Enjoyment (Revised Edition)
by Robin C. Brown
Pineapple Press,
Sarasota, Florida 2000
The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida
Edited by Richard C. Hulbert, Jr.
University Press of Florida, 2001
Freshwater Fishes of Louisiana
by Neil H. Douglas
Claitor's Publishing
Ice Age Giants of the South
by Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston
Pineapple Press,
Sarasota, Florida 2000
Louisiana Birds
by George H. Lowery, Jr.
Louisiana State University Press, 1955
Louisiana Trees and Shrubs
by Claire A. Brown
Louisiana Forestry Commission Bul. No.1
Baton Rouge, 1945
Reprinted in 1965 by Claitor's
The Mammals of Louisiana and It's Adjacent Waters
by George H. Lowery, Jr.
Louisiana State University Press, 1974
Roadside Geology of Louisiana
by Darwin Spearing
Mountain Press Publishing Company
Missoula, Montana 1995
A Study of the Geology of Baton Rouge and Surrounding Southeast Louisiana Area
by Ashley Sibley, Jr.
Claitor's Publishing, 1972
Vanishing Louisiana
by Ferachi/S.Eakin
Beauregard Press
Wildflowers of Louisiana
by Claire A. Brown
Louisiana State University Press, 1972
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