Message-ID: <002801cad4d6$fcc773a0$0401a8c0@Jensen> From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: Scanning Documents Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 10:45:15 -0500
Speaking more as a researcher than a museum board member -- and I am
both -- I am
not sure how or why an institution would charge when there is no
additional service
being performed. Assuming you don't charged for admission to your
archives and let users read the documents and, perhaps, take handwritten
or typed-on-a-computer notes, all for free, what then is the added
service if they scan the documents. We charge if we make photocopies
because that is a cost to the institution. Self-scanning adds no
services or cost..
Having said that, though, there are some concerns about repeated light
scanning of printed materials. Some institutions don't permit scanning
or photocopying of rare books because of the possibility of the light
source fading the print. With something really rare, you might need
some sort of rules. Perhaps the institution can make a photo copy of
some much desired printed material for the archives and users can scan
or further photocopy the COPY rather than the original. Thus the
original is subjected to bright light only one or a few times.
Don Jensen
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Schuette
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:55 AM
Subject: Scanning Documents
How do others handle a situation like this:
We have researchers who bring their own laptops and flatbed scanners
along when doing research at our museum.
If they find documents in our files relating to their research, they
scan them into their computers. At this time we
are not charging anything as this practice is relatively new. How do
other museums accommodate this situation?
Do you charge per page? Or do you charge a flat fee?
Thanks for your help.
Bill Schuette
Sauk County Historical Society
Baraboo, WI