The Registrars Committee will be sponsoring a session on loan and research
fees at the AAM Annual Meeting in LA.  In the meantime, I am forwarding this
message to the RCAAM listserv (available to members of the RC-AAM, all
regional RC's, and all international registrars groups) for response.

Janice Klein
Chair, RC-AAM
Registrar, The Field Museum
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At 02:54 PM 2/19/1998 PST, you wrote:
>We are researching the charging of fees for outgoing loans, especially to
>private/commercial institutions.The Powerhouse Museum is a government funded
>museum  of science, technology and dec arts in  Sydney. Are  there any
>institutions who have an existing schedule of fees that they would be
>prepared to let us see?
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>We are aware that many libraries charge and that these are often fixed
>charges for specific types of objects eg posters, photographs, historical
>documents. These costs seem to be based on recovering a percentage of
>conservation and curatorial preparation time.
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>Any information gratefully received.
>
>Tiina
>Powerhouse Museum
>Sydney
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