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<div>Ellen Paul wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>We received a response from the NPS
regarding the request to have the "custodianship" agreement
(aka the "Smithsonian" agreement) and while some of you may
yet succeed in getting a better agreement from the NPS, perhaps even
the custodianship agreement, working individually with the NPS, we
have reached the end of a 20-year effort to achieve a systemic
resolution.<br>
<br>
I encourage you all to consult with your legal counsel when approached
by the NPS to sign any agreement be it the loan agreements, the
repository agreements, or something else.<br>
<br>
Sorry, all.<br>
<br>
I was asked to advise the museum community as follows:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>After careful consideration of the
proposal to draft a common repository agreement with multiple
institutions, consultation with the NPS Director and legal counsel,
and review of NPS laws and policies, we have identified some key
principles that will guide our future relations with partner
institutions:</i><br>
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<ul>
<li><i>Working directly with individual institutions provides our best
options for addressing the unique opportunities presented by each
partnership.</i>
<li><i>Direct discussion between the principal representatives of both
parties -- partner institution's staff and NPS staff -- will be needed
to produce legally sound agreements that consider unique circumstances
of each proposed partnership.</i></ul>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i><br></i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>These principles will guide us as we
move forward. I would recommend that you advise the institutions,
share this email with them so they have an accurate understanding of
our working principles, and encourage the principal representatives of
each individual institution to work directly with the appropriate NPS
staff in developing and securing appropriate
agreements.</i></blockquote>
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<div>This is very good to know, but it lacks one essential
detail:</div>
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<div>Who, precisely (or what office within NPS, since the individuals
holding a given post can change) would be the first point of contact
for any of us seeking to initiate such a partnering process?</div>
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<div>Thanks very much for taking this proposal to them - clearly it
required a fair bit of effort to get that far. And wouldn't it be nice
if some of the relevant NPS people were on this mailing list, too?
;-)</div>
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<div>Peace,</div>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of
Entomology Entomology
Research Museum<br>
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
92521-0314 skype:
dyanega<br>
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not
UCR's)<br>
http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html<br>
"There are some enterprises in which a careful
disorderliness<br>
is the true method" -
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</div>
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