[NHCOLL-L:5303] Re: question re: natural history loan support

[Adrain, Tiffany S]

Dear Mariko,

Some of our larger classes charge student lab fees that fund the acquisition of class materials. If any of your borrowers have this fund, you might be able to negotiate a fee for supplies, shipping etc. if these are acceptable charges. Other units on our campus loan school activity trunks for the cost of shipping. Development of the trunks is covered by grant funding. Staff time for organizing these materials is considered part of our service to the University, research community, or the public. We pay outgoing shipping costs for scientific loans, the borrower covers return shipping (reciprocal for material we borrow from other institutions).

Best wishes,

Tiffany


Tiffany Adrain
Collections Manager, Paleontology Repository
Instructor, Museum Studies
Department of Geoscience
The University of Iowa
121 Trowbridge Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242

phone: 319 335 1822
fax: 319 335 1821
website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/paleo



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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