Re: The place of amateurs?

[libsdnhm <libsdnhm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane, I do not know if this is of interest to you or not, but the 
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology established the Outreach Committee in 
1992 for the specific purpose of encouraging productive working 
relationships between amateur and professional palaeontologists. The 
first issue of the Outreach newsletter is about to go out, and I would be 
delighted to send you a copy by e- or snail-mail. The only problems we 
have so far are (1) I gravely underestimated the level of interest this 
would appeal to, and am (pleasantly) swamped by the initial response, 
and (2) we have found that the terms "amateur" and "professional" have 
differing meanings and connotations in different countries, and may have 
to find other terms. We are interested in news about invertebrate 
palaeontology work as well, though we are bound by our mission to focus 
primarily on vertebrate palaeontology. Interested?
Sally Shelton, Outreach Committee chair
Director, Collections Care and Conservation
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