Hi all,
please state to whom the letter should be addressed to.
Best, Hannelore.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Elena Kupriyanova <
lena.kupriyanova from gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>> We need your help now. Most of you came to the Australian Museum in 2013
> for the Polychaete Conference, many worked in our collections and some are
> familiar with our Microscopy and Microanalysis lab (aka SEM lab) and know
> Sue Lindsay who runs it. Below is the letter we sent to our visiting
> fellows, and I hope that many of you can also support us if you are
> considering visiting AM collections or even just believe that SEM is an
> essential facility for a modern museum.
>> Yours,
> Lena
>> Dear all,
>> As previous users of our SEM/microscopy facilities, we are writing to ask
> for your support to help retain this essential service at our Museum. You
> may or may not be aware that, last week, this lab was shut down and the
> operator, Sue Lindsay, made redundant. This means that much of the research
> work planned to include the use of these facilities and Sue's expertise is
> now on hold, and will have to be outsourced, at much greater cost to
> research in terms of time and money. Which will ultimately slow down
> productivity and results of research. It may also affect your decision to
> visit and do future work in the AM collections.
>> We are asking you if you would please send a letter (preferably on your
> institutional letterhead, or with your affiliation) stating that you find
> the action to be detrimental to the productivity of science and how
> essential the tools of SEM and other micrography is to the process of
> knowledge of marine invertebrate taxonomy, and of course, mentioning the
> invaluable assistance provided by Sue Lindsay in preparation of specimens
> and imaging under SEM. Without her, many of us would spend much greater
> time doing this work, and with poorer results. If you were considering any
> future work at the AM, please also mention this and that it may affect your
> decision to do so. We are also trying to prepare a business case, costing
> out internal vs external service, and also the importance of retaining such
> an experienced and skilled lab-operator (Sue), which will be signed as a
> petition from the users of the SEM/ microscopy unit.
>> I hope you can respond quickly, as we hope to get this issue raised at a
> meeting on Monday afternoon between the union and management, so please
> send your letters to Pat, as soon as possible.
>> Thanks to you all,
> Best wishes,
> Anna, Pat & Lena.
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