Hear, hear, Ruth! I think the key words in the earlier email were 'random times' and 'dropped in'. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> All the best, Barbara Barbara Vesey Archivist Society of the Sacred Heart | Barat House | University of Roehampton | 98 Roehampton Lane | London | SW15 5PH [log in to unmask] | Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 9880 *Please note that the Archives are open Thursdays and Fridays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.* On 26 January 2018 at 12:11, Macleod, Ruth 2 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Perhaps not, but if the archives don't have enough funding to have staff > available to produce stuff on the spot there isn't an awful lot they can do > about it. And most of them do their level best to let people know that > booking in advance is required. > > Criticising under-resourced services for a drop in visitor figures is a > bit like kicking them when they're down. > > Ruth > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Caroline > Sent: 26 January 2018 12:09 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: On-site user figures > > I travel at random times around the country, I have dropped into a number > of archives where the response is basically go away and book in advance. > this does not help the archive sector get and hold visitors. > > Dave Caroline > > Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] > AC.UK > > For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a > holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ > cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra > Copyright in this email and in any attachments belongs to London South > Bank University. This email, and its attachments if any, may be > confidential or legally privileged and is intended to be seen only by the > person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, > please note the following: (1) You should take immediate action to notify > the sender and delete the original email and all copies from your computer > systems; (2) You should not read copy or use the contents of the email nor > disclose it or its existence to anyone else. The views expressed herein are > those of the author(s) and should not be taken as those of London South > Bank University, unless this is specifically stated. London South Bank > University is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and > Wales. The following details apply to London South Bank University: Company > number - 00986761; Registered office and trading address - 103 Borough Road > London SE1 0AA; VAT number - 778 1116 17 Email address - > [log in to unmask] > > Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] > AC.UK > > For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a > holiday) see the list website at > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra > Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra