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Hello again Apologies - I didn't word my previous email as clearly as I might have done. The information I'm after is *specifically* about anyone's experience of setting up a more formal partnership with a family history society to help deliver day to day family history public services, and any issues that has raised. I'm not after more general experiences of working with volunteers - we already have an active volunteer programme with volunteers both carrying out time-limited collections management and exhibitions research projects, and also acting as supplementary meeters and greeters in our archive search room. These are all governed by a volunteer policy, and specific volunteer agreements and role descriptions for each activity. Thanks again Richard From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Taylor, Richard Sent: 21 March 2013 15:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Working with your local family history society? Hello list Once our new archive and local studies facilities have been constructed, I'm looking at a range of options for partnering with our local society (500-odd members) to deliver an enhanced family history service. Options range from an agreement with the society for their members to volunteer as expert meeters and greeters, and guides to new users in our family history room; through to handing over day to day operation of our family history service to the FHS. This latter option might involve a formal service level agreement whereby we rent our family history room to the society to be branded as "their space", housing their own family history reference collections, in return for an enforceable commitment to provide a defined added value public service in that room. The society currently runs its own family history public searchroom in a rented building for a couple of days a week, and they prize the separate identity that this gives them. Nonetheless, maintaining this service does cost them a lot of money. I wonder if anyone with experience of partnering with your local family history society to deliver family history services could get in touch to share their knowledge. I'd very much like to hear about the nature and extent of your partnership arrangements, what has worked and what hasn't, and who gets what out of the relationship. Confidentiality may make it more appropriate for you to speak rather than write, and to reply direct rather than to the list, so my contact details are below. I will post an anonymised summary of responses to the list. 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