[NHCOLL-L:5302] Re: question re: natural history loan support

[malcolm McCallum]

ONe thing to consider is that when museums seek grants one of the critical
items of information is usership of the collections.  The more difficult you
make it for others to use your collections, the less likely they are to be
used.  this will lower the perception of the collections value.  Its a
librarian viewpoint, if the book isn't being read, throw it in the trash as
its value is gone....and yes that is what libraries are doing right now.
 Museums are not far behind.  Some museums charge for shipping, other only
make you pay for return shipping.

Malcolm McCallum


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Mariko Kageyama <aspeciosus at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Please pardon my cross-posting.
>
>
> Our university's natural history teaching collection of vertebrates are
> often loaned out to support university biology courses such as mammalogy
> taught at a research station off campus. It is not uncommon over a hundred
> specimens are requested and checked out at a time. To process such loans,
> staff labor time and supplies needed could be significant including cost for
> packing and boxing all the specimens. So far we have never charged for such
> services to support the university's undergraduate and graduate courses
> offered off campus, but we started wondering if there is any other
> institution in a similar scenario that charges a nominal or modest course
> support fee for this kind of collection service based on their policy, other
> than recouping loan shipping costs. If you do not mind sharing your
> experience or opinion with us, we would appreciate it.
>
>
> Mariko
>
>
> Mariko Kageyama
> Collections Manager, Vertebrate Zoology
> University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
> Boulder, CO
>
>


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