1. Academic Structure and Positioning

• Associated with a faculty members lab.
• Associated with an academic department: e.g., Agronomy, Botany, Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Forestry, Organismic and Ecological Biology.
• Associated with a library: e.g., UCMM.
• Associated with a museum.
• Associated with a botanical garden.
• Private. E.g., Institutes and Non-profit Organizations: e.g., AMO (Asociación Mexicana de Orquideología), BRIT (Botanical Research Institute of Texas), CAS (California Academy of Sciences).
• Part of a governmental agency: e.g., USDA, U.S. Park Service, miscellaneous parks, PIHG (Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture).
• Freestanding within a university or other agency.
• Monastery.
• Ecological preserves and ecological centers.

2. Administrative Structure within the Herbarium

• Director, Curator.
• Governing board.
• Accounting and secretarial staff.
• Collection Manager.
• Extension Botanist.
• Technical support staff (assistants to the Collection Manager).
• Taxonomic experts.
• Plant mounters (student, non-student, paid or volunteer).
• Data entry and imaging staff.
• Outreach staff.
• Computer support staff.
• Volunteers

3. Academic Appointment of Curators and Staff

• Tenure home.
• Non-tenured positions.
• Academic appointment.
• Considerations from the personal point of view: pay scale, academic freedom, negotiating for staff, such as a collection manager when being offered a position.

4. Personnel Matters

• Appointments and funding.
• Evaluations.
• Teaching Responsibilities.

5. Herbarium Funding

• Preparing a budget.
• Documenting use (visitors, loan activity, plant id.); annual report.
• Grants
• Contracts
• Endowments
• Gifts
• Fees (Estimated Cost of University of Florida Services and Supplies)