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Following my advance warning notice of 7 February (repeated below), and its inevitable subsequent questions from both UK and from abroad (thankyou especially, California colleagues, for your interest and concern!), I have been informed within the last hour of the charges that our Council has decided will be introduced with effect from 11.00 hours on Monday 28 February 2000. These will be, per diem for non-members, GBP10.00 (wage earners) and GBP5.00 (persons un-waged or in full-time education). The very recently up-dated 'Collections' pages of the Society's Website, where the present figures of GBP15.00 and GBP5.00 respectively are cited, will be changed again soon. Hopefully... Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG) [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Francis Herbert > Sent: 07 February 2000 12:38 > To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; > [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] > Subject: RGS-IBG collections accessible to all for a fee > > The Bad News: - > > Since 1854 the Royal Geographical Society has tried to maintain a map > collection which, dependent upon a government annual grant, could also be > made freely available for consultation by the general public. The present > government department (that for Culture, Media and Sport) has terminated > this grant. Consequently this Society, which receives no other government > funding, will have to both institute an appointments system and to make a > daily access charge to non-members. > > The Good News: > > The daily charge will cover not only a continued public access to the Map > Room (cartographic materials from the fifteenth century to the present, > carto-bibliographies, gazetteers, directories to (re)sources, > RGS-sponsored expedition reports [NB: these are unpublished and hence not > available in the copyright libraries], large-format A0 photocopier, etc.) > but also access to all the Society's other collections : Library (books, > guide-books, sailing directions, and periodicals - including cartography > as a subject), Picture Library (sketches, water-colours, photographs, > prints), Archives (correspondence, submissions for publication in the > Society's journals, manuscript diaries, membership records), and Museum > (artefacts). Prior appointment with the department most likely to hold > the most amount of relevant research material is essential. This new > system will take effect from Monday 28 February 2000. > > Please visit our website for more information on the Collections : > http://www.rgs.org > > Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG) > [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%