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UID:pretalx-nss-convention-2026-QS9EQZ@talks.caving.dev
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DESCRIPTION:The National Cave Museum was founded in 2000 by Gordon Smith an
 d his partners at Diamond Caverns\, Kentucky. The Museum is dedicated to p
 reserving the history of caves and of the show cave industry\, and its col
 lection covers not just the United States\, but also English-language mate
 rial from the rest of the world. Smith's private acquisitions over the pas
 t 60 years have traditionally been the bulk of the Museum's collection\, b
 ut since the Museum completed a 5\,000 square-foot\, fireproof\, climate-c
 ontrolled facility in 2017\, it now attracts both donors to its collection
 s and scholars and researchers to use them.\n\nThe Museum has embarked upo
 n the monumental effort to catalog the hundreds of thousands of publicatio
 ns\, serials\, manuscripts\, photographs\, maps\, and artifacts that it ho
 uses. It is currently focusing on its collection of 8000 individual stereo
  views\, by far the most cave-related views ever assembled. Dating from 18
 65 until about 1910\, they are the earliest photographic record of hundred
 s of important caves\, and as such are being scanned and cataloged for use
  in both conservation and historical research. Similar efforts are underwa
 y to itemize the museum's huge collection of bound cave books\, to create 
 a searchable copy for nearly every grotto newsletter ever published\, and 
 to create finding aids for collections from every state and nation around 
 the world.\n\nThe Museum holds quarterly volunteer weeks when cavers and r
 esearchers join forces to learn and catalog the collection. The weekend af
 ter this convention\, the Museum will host an open house to show off its r
 emarkable collection.
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SUMMARY:Cataloging the National Cave Museum - 
URL:https://talks.caving.dev/nss-convention-2026/talk/QS9EQZ/
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