Simon Moody wrote:
>Further to Caroline Sampson's recent post about falling visitor numbers, we
>too have seen a significant drop in recent years. There is also an
>increasing trend towards the "photocopy researcher", who seems incapable of
>writing with a pencil and wants anything and everything photocopied. Is
>transcription a a dying art?
>
To some extent, yes. From the reader's point of view, if the research
(academic, family history, whatever) is going onto a computer, it's
perverse to transcribe material longhand and then type it up. It's a
waste of time and a potential source of errors. The sensible approach is
to take the laptop to the record office, or to take photocopies to the
PC at home. And that's almost certainly what your readers are doing.
No doubt followed by rising expectations to be allowed to use digital
cameras and mobile phones to capture images.
>On that tack, can anyone who has time give me an idea of their photocopy and
>reader printer copy charges for A4 and A3 sizes (particularly in publicly
>funded archives). we are currently reviewing ours and some benchmark data
>would be useful. I will report back with the results.
>
NLW's photocopy prices are on the website at
<www.llgc.org.uk/gwas/gwas_s003.htm>. We don't have a reader printer.
Stephen Benham
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Stephen Benham
Archifydd Cynorthwyol / Assistant Archivist
Adran Casgliadau / Department of Collections
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
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