Dear All,

Like many of you I'm sure, we receive a large number of emails, phone calls,
and walk-ins with questions for our curators that revolve around appraisals,
authentications, and generally doing free research.  Not only can these
requests eat up staff time, but they also pose ethical and legal issues.
I'm working on some standard language (and a standard policy) we can use in
handling these requests.  Our library - and our research center with files
on 20,000+ documented objects and 80,000+ craftsmen - is open to the public,
so that will be part of any standard language.  But does anyone out there
have suggestions, or experience, with creating these sort of documents?

All the best,

Daniel K. Ackermann 
Associate Curator 
MESDA and The Old Salem Toy Museum Collections 
Old Salem Museums & Gardens 
924 South Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27108 
(Tel) 336-721-7372 (Fax) 336-721-7367 
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www.oldsalem.org 
Please note our new mailing address: 924 South Main Street, Winston-Salem,
NC 27108

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