Dear Hannelore and all,
A good point - please address the letters to Ms Kim McKay AO, Executive
Director & CEO
We hope that if KIm, a person with very global outlook, sees significant
international support for this AM facility and its wonderful manager
providig superb service to the research community not only at the museum
here, but world-wide, she may reconsider this decision.
Thank you
Lena
On 14/11/2015 10:27 PM, Hannelore Paxton wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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