----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Why can't you base your fees on costs plus a reasonable profit instead of willy nilly doubling just to raise money for unrelated purposes? Want to pay 64-cents to mail a letter tomorrow, just because the Germans, French and English do it? That's the parallel. With a price spiral like that, fairly soon we'll have the dollar buying about what an Italian lira gets now. LNadybal Washington DC At 03:43 PM 27/11/1996 EST, you wrote: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >Dear Maps-l, > MAP Library staff at the UO Library have asked the Administration to >raise the research fees from $25.00 per hour to $50.00 per hour for in-state >requests and from $50.00 to $75.00 for out of state requests. These fees >are charged almost exculsively to environmental consultants searching for >aerial photography. Our AUL has asked me to find out what other libraries >charge in order to justify our increases. The largest private research firm >servicing environmental consultant's needs for aerial photography, charges >$49.00 for each search and $95.00 for prints of aerial photography >(quantity or whether laser or photographic prints is unknown). I have >passed this information along to her, but she wants some figures from >other academic libraries. > > Here at the University of Oregon, we charge $25.00 per hour for our >staff research time. Our aerial photography collection is closed. Upon >receiving a request for photography, we identify and retrieve photography, >most often, call the consulant back with the results of our search, mask >off the site on each photogrph for laser copy enlargements, send off and >receive back the photographs from the copy center, provide documentation >for each photo, wrap up and send off to the consultant a packet of laser >copies of the site in question. This takes about an hour of staff time, >thus, the cost comes to $25.00 per site/$50.00 per site for out of state >requests. > > We would be interested in hearing from other libraries who charge >research fees to off-campus users. Please respond to the list. Has >anyone else had problems convincing Library Administration to charge fees >in the first place? I think this is a real "blind-spot" for ULs and >AULs, especially at public colleges and universities. > >Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide. > >Peter Stark > >