[NHCOLL-L:353] RE: Further on the accession by committeequestion

[Arthur H. Harris]

I must admit to having problems with the voucher discarding, too.  I
think we're ethically bound to hold onto them once we've accepted
them.  Also, with the amount of man-caused and natural change going
on, I suspect vouchers will become more and more important through
time.  Although presumably vouchers documenting past presence or
conditions no longer extant would be held onto, we tend not to be
very good regarding prescience.

Art
"Panza, Robin" wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah A Lewis [mailto:dlewis at IASTATE.EDU]
> 
> ....  Should
> we instead be telling the researchers that their vouchers will be
> maintained "for at least period x" with some term set (10 years? 20 years?
> 50 years?)?  This wouldn't mean that we'll definitely "throw it out" at the
> end of the term, but that we could reevaluate it then to determine its
> relevance to the collection as a whole....
> 
> Boy, I have trouble with that one......
> 

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