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[PADG:37] RE: Preservation of materials for the general publi c
At Sibley we do take on private work
from students and faculty, but the volume of requests has been much lower
- 1 or 2 requests in a year. When they do come in, depending on the
nature of the work required I usually pass the work on to students to
"moonlight," sometimes using the occasion to provide extra training that they
can use on our materials as well. Very occasionally (I remember twice in ten
years) I'll do a more complicated job myself, asking the patron to pay the
library. And 2-3 times a year we'll include personal copies in bindery
shipments, again having the patron pay the library. The money doesn't actually
go back to that budget line, but so far the financial effect is insignificant,
more than offset by the positive effect on the image of the library with faculty
members. As I say, the level of requests is much lower here than it sounds like
other preservation units get.
Alice Carli
Conservator
Sibley Music Library
Hi,
Yale also
does not do private work. We have more than enough of a challenge just
dealing with the library materials. We are happy to direct folks to
private conservators. I frequently encourage those enquiring about work to
go to the AIC directory if that seems appropriate for their needs. I
figure it does two things--gets them someone to do the work, but also gets more
folks to know about AIC and what it does.
Bobbie Pilette
At
11:49 AM 5/18/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Same here. As a rule, we do not
carry out any conservation or book repair on materials that are not owned by
the library or directly involved in a cooperative library preservation
project. However, we are happy to provide advice on care for personal
collections and information about conservators and commercial binders. In my
experience, most people are pretty sympathetic to the challenge of keeping up
with the library's internal needs. Also, for state universities (such as
ECU and UNC-Chapel Hill), I think there is a reasonable argument that it is a
misuse of public funds to spend staff time and materials on anything other
than state-owned collections.
Andy
Julian Stam wrote:
We
simply state that our resources are devoted fully to collections and that
staff and materials are not available for other services. As the
Preservation Librarian I do offer informal consultations and often direct
people to other services, vendors and products.
Julian
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Stefanie
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Subject: [PADG:31]
Preservation of materials for the general public
Hi
All,
How many academic
libraries offer preservation services for the general public? While in
theory I am not against such a service, we've received so many items that my
staff member doesn't have time to work on her materials. I'm proposed
a limit on what we accept to our administration, but am curious how other
conservation departments approach the matter. Currently we will work
on materials for members of our Friends group or donors, but we've not (as
yet) established a maximum number of items per person or maximum number of
items per semester/year. I have no wish to alienate our public, but
it's now a matter of preserving our collection or working on walk-in
materials.
Thanks for your
help!
Stefanie
Stefanie DuBose
Head,
Acquisitions
Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
27258-4353
(p)252-328-2598
(f)252-328-4834
duboses@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Andrew Hart, Preservation Librarian
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#3910, Davis Library
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
tel: (919) 962-8047
fax: (919) 962-4450
email: ashart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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