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Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium notebooks collection, C0333, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Donated to the Special Collections Research Center by Dr. Andrea Weeks, Associate Professor of Biology at George Mason University, in 2021.
This collection was rehoused by George Mason University Libraries Preservation Officer, Amy Sullivan. Finding aid completed by Amanda Menjivar in October 2022.
Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) herbarium was founded in 1974 by Professor Robert Simpson at the Middletown, Virginia campus of Lord Fairfax Community College and grew most rapidly during the Atlas of the Virginia Flora collection campaigns of the the 1970s and 1980s. In March 2019, the herbarium was transferred from LFCC to the herbarium of George Mason University following the retirement of Professor Simpson. Lord Fairfax Community College is now Laurel Ridge Community College.
Dr. Andrea Weeks of George Mason University was a 2020-2021 Fenwick Fellow. Dr. Weeks' created a digital resource site of the LFCC herbarium as her fellowship project, and subsequently donated the notebooks to the Special Collections Research Center.
16 notebooks rehoused in archival binders containing over 4000 pages of notes about the Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium specimen collection, collected from the 1970s - 2000s. The herbarium specimens mostly consist of vascular plants from the Blue Ridge physiographic province of northwest Virginia. The notebooks contain more detailed locality and habitat descriptions than reported by the labels of the herbarium specimens.
The Special Collections Research Center also holds the
Arranged in the order in which it was received.
The digitized collection (both herbarium specimens and notebooks) is available to view
Weeks, Andrea. "A New Life for Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium (LFCC)[.]" The Vasculum, The Society of Herbarium Curators Newsletter, Volume 15, Number 2: August 2020.