As part of our response to the museums, galleries and
archives guidelines on social inclusion, Derbyshire
Record Office is considering whether a review of our
charges might be in order (concerned that they might
be too high for those on lower incomes, and keen to
move towards standardisation if at all possible with
other similar organisations). The policy document and
our response to it is at this stage a "wish list"
without too much concern for the financial
implications (!), but it would be useful to find out
how much in or out of step with other repositories we
are.
We would be very interested to know what other
repositories (not only local authority offices) charge
for photocopying single A4 sheets (done by staff) and
for printing out single sheets from microform readers
(to be done by readers). Currently our charges are 45
pence per sheet for both kinds of reproduction. Our
charges for photocopying requests received by post are
the same, with a handling charge of £4.65 plus
postage.
We also wonder whether offices differentiate between
photocopies of original documents and photocopies of
common reference works on the reading room shelves
(which could probably be copied by the reader in
person up the road at the library for a much reduced
rate). We are also curious as to whether any sliding
scales are in operation, say for pensioners or
students who would be entitled to concessions for
other services.
I apologise for clogging up the (recently very busy!)
mailbase but hope that this is a useful topic for
discussion. I do promise to summarise if people wish
to contact me off list, but in the spirit of the
(serious aspects of the) list I hope that people are
prepared to share information for the benefit of all.
With thanks in advance
Kathryn
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Kathryn Summerwill
Archivist
Derbyshire Record Office
County Hall
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3AG
Tel: 01629 580000 ext. 35211
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