My concern with an individual paying for the filming is unfortunately
cynical: Does he or she have a profit motive behind their good intentions
that cold be detrimental in some way to your organization? Just because they
will have a copy of the film, will they also have the right to profit from
the film. The originals are in your collection. Are there other copies of
the same newspaper(s) elsewhere or are yours the only extant copies? Do you
want an individual producing and selling digital copies of the items in your
collection for a profit to themselves? It's not a difficult process now to
scan microfilm to a cd-rom or to web-based application.
The researcher may make a case that they will be helping make the
information in those papers more accessible. But how much of your collection
would you like to give away to others so they can make it accessible, even
if this means they profit off that accessibility and you don't.

That would be my pessimist's view of such an arrangement.

Scott D. Peters
Research Director/Archivist
Ocean County Historical Society
26 Hadley Ave., P.O. Box 2191
Toms River, NJ 08754-2191
(732) 341-1880
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"Telling the Stories of Ocean County"

Historically Speaking
ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany
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"The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just
pre-eminence: rank and titles are
adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are
frequently the baubles of imbecility, or
the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry"

William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for
promoting the gradual Abolition
of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy K. Marshall" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Microfilm Copying


> This is happening with the Kennecott Mill Town and Mines NHL archive.
> University of Alaska Fairbanks is paying to have a portion of the archive
> microfilmed.  They'll keep a copy and NPS will get a copy.  Luckily, the
> cost is helping us match a Save America's Treasures grant for the archive.
> I guess the difference is that I'm dealing with a university and you're
> dealing with an individual.  Is there a reason he shouldn't have access to
> the newspapers?
>
> Take Care,
> Amy.
>
> Amy K. Marshall, M.A.
> Curator
> Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve

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